On Tuesday, police in Louisiana issued an arrest warrant for a man who allegedly fatally beat his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter earlier this month. A law enforcement source told the Times-Picayune that Anfernee Steele, 21, was entrusted to watch Jo’nyri Hawkins at a New Orleans hotel room on October 3. The mother reportedly returned to the …
A Montana man was booked into jail Thursday for allegedly murdering his stepsister, who was found dead in a car in Iowa in 1999. Matt Kennedy, 52, was charged with the first-degree murder of Kimberly Ratliff, 22. Ratliff was found dead in her car in a parking lot in Council Bluffs; her body was mutilated …
The suspect in the brutal killing of a pregnant woman and her unborn child may have been faking a pregnancy before the brutal murders. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Reagan Hancock died on Friday when the suspect, identified as Taylor Parker, allegedly cut Reagan’s unborn baby from her womb. Parker reportedly took the baby with her …
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a Florida man accused of beating and killing three men out on a July night fishing trip. The State Attorney’s Office filed an intent to seek the death penalty for 26-year-old Tony ‘TJ’ Wiggins Jr. on Tuesday at the Polk County, Florida, circuit court. As CrimeOnline previously reported, …
An investigation is underway after an Oklahoma woman incarcerated for allegedly killing a toddler girl in 2015 died Sunday while awaiting trial. According to KFOR, Lesley Hendrix, 37, was pronounced dead at a hospital after collapsing in a shower at Canadian County Jail. Her cause of death remains under investigation. Incarcerated since 2016, Hendrix was …
An Indiana man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend in 2014 was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Joseph Oberhansley was convicted of murder and burglary in the death of Tammy Jo Blanton, 46. WLKY reported that Blanton’s mutilated body was found under a tarp in the bathroom of her Clark …
A former Idaho government Republican candidate is behind bars facing kidnapping and murder charges in connection with the death of a Colorado girl, in a case that law enforcement has dedicated decades trying to solve. HEAR NANCY GRACE’S PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE CRIME STORIES ANALYSIS ON THE CASE! As CrimeOnline previously reported, 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews disappeared on …
Authorities in Oklahoma have released a mugshot of the suspect accused of killing a pregnant mother and her unborn baby. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 21-year-old Reagan Hancock died on Friday after a suspect, believed to be a friend of the victim, cut her unborn child from her womb. Hancock’s mother told Fox News that her …
A Texas couple has been arrested on suspicion of murder charges, months after an 8-year-old girl reportedly died of dehydration while in their care. The Odessa Police Department said in a statement Monday that Daniel Schwarz, 44, and Ashley Schwarz, 34, were charged with capital murder. WLTX reported that the pair are accused of killing a …
An Indiana boy has passed away after he was reportedly stabbed by his own father during a domestic dispute. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the incident happened at around 7 a.m. on Friday, at a residence at 294 East Maple Street Wabash. When officers arrived, a man who lives in the home, identified as William Sendelbach, 32, allegedly …
A white Texas man may have disguised himself as a Black man to ambush his ex-girlfriend at her workplace, where he shot her in the head and repeatedly stabbed her, according to the Dallas Morning News. Alyssa Burkett, 24, died at the scene from her injuries, an affidavit says. Andrew Charles Beard, 33, turned himself …
A Missouri mother’s boyfriend shot her and her 6-year-old daughter to death Saturday and wounded the woman’s two other children, police said, according to the St Louis Post-Dispatch. Joseph Jones, 40, has been charged with two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of Bernadetta Cooper, 40, and Doryan Bryant, 6, the paper said. …
