An Arkansas woman arrested after a young child was thrown from a moving vehicle and died has a history of traffic and alcohol violations, according to court records, KATV reports. On Tuesday, 30-year-old Whitney Turner-Tyson of Little Rock was arrested for capital murder after a child was found with severe injuries on an interstate in Benton, Arkansas. The …
A man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for murdering his ex-wife on a cruise nearly 15 years ago, a crime that prosecutors said he almost got away with, the Associated Press reports. Lonnie Loren Kocontes, 62, was sentenced on Friday to life without the possibility of parole in connection with the …
A body found Thursday in a rural Virginia field has been positively identified as Andy Banks, a North Carolina man who disappeared last week while trying to sell his 2011 Range Rover on Craigslist, the Raleigh Police Department reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Banks vanished on September 12 from Raleigh, after arranging to meet someone …
The body of a missing middle Georgia woman was found in “a little hangout area” near a creek Wednesday, and her boyfriend has been arrested for her murder. LaTorra “Torra” Michelle Tillman’s mother, Lillian Cole, reported her missing earlier this month, but nearly two-weeks of searching turned up nothing until friends went down by the …
A New York woman was allegedly beaten and stabbed to death by her boyfriend shortly after he was released from jail, the New York Daily News reports. Now that man is on the lam. Carol Nystrom, 44, was found dead Thursday inside her apartment bedroom in the Manhattan neighborhood of Inwood. Authorities believe her boyfriend, …
Montgomery, Alabama, police arrested a 20-year-old man for the shooting death of an Alabama State University student whose body was found Monday after he was reported missing on September 8, Alabama News reported. Adam “Belle” Dowdell, 22, was a second year student at the historically black university who was reported missing when he failed to …
An hours-long search and chase in Middle Tennessee on Sunday ended with three people shot dead — including a husband who was executed in front of his pregnant wife. The suspect, Dangelo Dorsey, was among the dead, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said. He shot and killed himself after leading police along Interstate 24 at …
A Florida woman who allegedly killed her 6-year-old son Wednesday reportedly has mental health issues that have affected her since she was a child. Elandia Green told WESH that she found her grandson, Avion Borner, lifeless in a bathtub at the Key Suites, an extended stay hotel where her daughter, Labreaunne Wilson, 26, had been …
A pregnant Texas teen is dead and police believe her own boyfriend killed her. The incident happened on September 11 at the Executive Inn on Highway 16 South in Graham. Texomas reports that 19-year-old Klowie Moore was staying at the hotel with her 18-year-old boyfriend, Gage Gillentine. Graham police and Texas Rangers are investigating the …
The case of an Ohio man who randomly admitted to killing his pregnant wife decades after her presumed suicide will be featured on an upcoming episode of “Dateline NBC.” In a “Dateline NBC” episode airing Friday at 10 p.m. (EST), Stow police Lieutenant Ken Mifflin recalled the moment Scott Purk mentioned the 1985 death of …
The wife of a man found dead in 2018 has been charged with his murder, following years of false claims that Michael Shaver had abandoned his family. As WKMG-TV reports, Lake County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Laurie Shaver, 37, has been arrested for the suspected murder of her husband Michael Shaver, who has not been …
A Virginia man is facing murder charges after police found the body of a man they believe is Andy Banks. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Banks vanished on September 12 from Raleigh, after arranging to meet someone outside the now-closed K&W Cafeteria, to sell his 2011 Range Rover. Earlier this week, authorities arrested Justin Merritt, 34, …
