An attorney representing one of five suspects accused of fatally stabbing a 15-year-old New York boy last summer insinuated in court that the slain teen was possibly a gang member—leading to outrage inside and outside of court. From WPIX, the comments came Thursday while Jose Muniz’s lawyer cross-examined detective Oscar Rosa of the Bronx Homicide …
A Pennsylvania mother confessed Wednesday to killing her 3-year-old daughter while under the influence of a combination of illegal drugs and prescribed medications. Regina Lester, 33, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to the June 2016 third-degree murder of Isabel Godfrey, who died of multiple blunt force trauma, had various bite wounds, and showed signs of asphyxia. …
The father of Junior Guzman-Feliz—the 15-year-old New York boy whose mistaken-identity murder was caught on tape—reportedly screamed and cursed at one of his son’s accused killers during a Thursday court hearing which included testimony of what transpired after the teen’s stabbing death. According to WPIX, Lisandro Guzman told Jonaiki Martinez Estrella, 24, that he’s a “f**king piece …
A 14-year-old Virginia teen is facing murder charges in connection with the death of a 4-year-old boy, according to Norfolk authorities. CBS 3 reports that court documents provided disturbing details in the case of Larkin Carr, a little boy who passed away after reportedly enduring months of brutal beatings and torture. On Thursday, the Norfolk …
A Kansas woman learned this week that she will spend a quarter of a century behind bars in connection with the death of her 3-year-old son, whose body was found submerged in concrete at a home in Wichita in 2017. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 37-year-old Miranda Miller was convicted last year after confessing that she …
Authorities in California are now investigating the disappearance of a Corona boy as homicide, and the boy’s father had been charged with torture and murder. Fox 11 reports that Noah McIntosh, 8, is now considered a likely murder victim, and that authorities have charged his father Bryce McIntosh, 32, with first-degree murder and special circumstance murder of …
A judge formally delivered a sentence of death to Jacob Sullivan, the Pennsylvania man who admitted to raping, torturing, and murdering his girlfriend’s daughter Grace Packer in July 2016. After three days of deliberation following a week of testimony at Sullivan’s sentencing hearing in Bucks County, a jury delivered a verdict of a death sentence. …
Authorities in Pennsylvania say a woman was arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting her boyfriend in a homicide she later reportedly blamed on cult members. According to the New York Post, 42-year-old Barbara Rogers allegedly shot Stephen Mineo at their residence in Tobyhanna in July 2017. She has since claimed that members of a cult …
A Georgia man behind bars for reportedly shooting two men working on his home earlier this month, apparently accused them of killing his pets ducks, a detective testified during a Tuesday morning probable cause hearing. The Cobb County District Attorney’s Office confirmed that a magistrate court judge found enough probable cause for felony murder, battery, …
Victim Tamara LaFramboise’s head, hands, and feet remain unaccounted for
A 15-year-old California girl who was found dead three days after her disappearance had suffered a traumatic injury to her upper torso, authorities said while announcing that a homicide investigation is underway. KABC reported that the body of Samantha Bustos was found in Compton early Monday. The Gardenia teen had reportedly attended a party Friday with …
A Florida father accused of killing his 5-year-old daughter in 2015 by hurling her off a 430-foot bridge has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity as at the onset of his murder trial on Monday. The Tampa Bay Times reported that John Jonchuck stopped on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in St. Petersburg amid a …
