A Tennessee family is dead after the father allegedly murdered his wife and two children before committing suicide, the Tennessean reports. On Friday, 32-year-old James Travis Pitts reportedly called 911 and said he shot his wife, 32-year-old Barbara Pitts, and two children, 13-year-old MaKayla Kleinert and 6-year-old Riley Pitts. James told a dispatcher that he …
A 25-year-old Alabama woman was found dead in her Hoover apartment Saturday morning after a family member checked on her when she failed to show for work on Friday. Police later arrested a suspect in Fultondale after a brief chase that also included an auto accident involving a police vehicle and an unrelated motorist, AL.com …
A grand jury in Louisiana has indicted a woman who allegedly threw her two young children into a lake, killing one of them and severely injuring the other. Prosecutors in the Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that 33-year-old Ureka Rochelle Black has been charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder, KSLA-TV reports. …
The accused killers of a young Chicago girl allegedly got sandwiches and drinks after gunning down the child, what a judge described as an “absolute disregard for human life,” the Chicago Sun-Times reports.On Thursday, 16-year-old Emilio Corripio and 27-year-old Xavier Guzman were in court for a bond hearing in connection with last Saturday’s murder of 8-year-old Melissa …
Four family members are dead in Tennessee after a father reportedly shot his wife and two daughters before turning the gun on himself. According to the New York Post and The Tennessean, an unidentified man called 911 early Friday from his home in Goodlettsville and told the dispatcher that he had shot his wife, 32, …
A Chicago man who lived close to 20 years behind bars for murder has been released after his twin brother confessed to the crime. NBC News reports that Kevin Dugar walked out of the Cook County jail on Tuesday night as loved ones surrounded and supported him. Dugar was convicted of the 2003 murder of …
An online petition has received more than 240,000 signatures in support of two Texas brothers and a friend who are accused of killing the brothers’ stepfather. The Change.org petition asks Governor Greg Abbott to release Alejandro Trevino, 18; Christian Trevino, 17; and Juan Eduardo Melendez, 18, who are facing various charges for killing the Trevinos’ …
Authorities in California are urging the public to come forward with tips about the murder of a 16-year-old girl whose body was tossed from the Los Angeles 110 freeway earlier this month. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Tioni Theus of Compton was found dead near a freeway on-ramp on January 8. She had left her home …
An Arkansas man has been charged with the murder of a 1-year-old baby earlier this month, along with several other charges. Sebastian County Prosecuting Attorney Daniel Shue said that Jared Lee Ball, 32, also faces charges of domestic battery, aggravated assault on a family or household member, drug possession, possession of drug paraphernalia, and being …
On Wednesday, a 14-year-old Utah boy was charged with murder for a shooting earlier this month that killed two classmates and left a third seriously injured. The Hunter High School student, who has not been publicly identified, was charged in juvenile court for the January 13 shooting that killed Paul Tahi, 15, and Tivani Lopati, …
An off-duty Illinois state trooper reportedly shot his wife before turning the gun on himself, killing them both in what police believe is a murder-suicide. CBS 2 Chicago reports that Amanda Calo, 31, and her husband Antonio Alvarez, 30, were found fatally shot in a parked car in Chicago on Monday afternoon. A witnesss first …
The husband of a former Miss America contestant has died after being shot outside of his Alabama home on Monday afternoon. According to police, Thomas Hand Jr., 37, was shot and killed at around 4:30 p.m., while his 2-year-old son witnessed the incident. His wife, identified as former Miss Mississippi Christine Kozlowski Hand, posted on …
