An assistant coroner in a South Carolina county has been charged with the murder of man whose body was found last week after he’d been missing for more than a month, the Horry County Police Department said. Assistant Horry County Coroner Christopher Allen Dontell, 37, and Meagan Marie Jackson, 35, were arrested Wednesday in connectino …
Florida police are looking for two teenage brothers in connection with a body found in an orange grove earlier this week, WFLA reports. Danne Frazier, 21, was reported missing on November 4 when he didn’t come home from working at his job at a Publix warehouse in Lakeland. Six days later, his body was found …
Samuel Appling has been charged with stabbing his girlfriend’s father to death. He was carrying a backpacked containing ‘items that could be sued to subdue, kill, dismember, and bury a body,’ police said.
A woman accused of fatally beating a Texas baby in December 2018 has been convicted of capital murder and sent to prison for life without the possibility of parole. NBC KXAN reports that Shayla Boniello, 30, pleaded guilty to murder, the Milam County District Attorney said on Thursday morning. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Boniello admitted …
A Texas man arrested in September for the 1974 death of a teen girl has been indicted on a capital murder charge. NBC 5 reports that 77-year-old Glen Samuel McCurley was indicted this week in connection with the death of Carla Jan Walker, a 17-year-old Western Hills High School junior who was kidnapped and murdered …
A 32-year-old South Carolina man who called 911 in September to say he’d found his 16-year-old girlfriend dead was charged this week with killing her, the Island Packet reports. Cypress Noonan was found fatally shot in a room at the Forest Motel in Ridgeland on September 6 after Brian Jemal Redding called in tears to …
Prosecutors presented racist messages reportedly written by the youngest accused killer
Authorities arrested an Illinois man Tuesday for allegedly murdering a 14-year-old girl who was found fatally shot in Indiana last year. Lake County, Indiana, police told the Chicago Sun-Times that Deon Simmons, 35, is charged in connection with Takaylah Tribitt’s death. Simmons is awaiting extradition to Lake County, where he is expected to face murder …
An investigation is underway in California after a snowplow driver reportedly discovered the murdered bodies of a man and woman on Monday. The Mono County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the bodies were found off the shoulder of Highway 395, roughly 10 miles north of Bridgeport. The East Bay Times reported that a …
Over 1,000 advocates are apparently urging President Trump to spare the life of a woman on death row, convicted of murdering a woman and carving her baby from her womb. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 43-year-old Lisa Montgomery, an inmate at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana, is scheduled to be put to death by legal injection …
A former neonatal nurse appeared in court Thursday morning, where the names of eight deceased infants were released publicly for the first time. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Lucy Letby was -rearrested earlier this week in connection with the murders and attempted murders of infants she cared for while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital …
A Nevada woman accused of killing her two young daughters appeared in court Tuesday, for her first appearance since the children’s death. Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Las Vegas Metropolitan Police arrested Amanda Sharp-Jefferson, 26, on two counts of open murder on Friday, for the deaths of her daughters, Rose, 1, and 2-month-old Lily. The …
