Murder

9-year-old boy accused of murdering mother previously threatened to stab 8-year-old girl to death; victim feared she was ‘raising the next serial killer’

 9-year-old boy accused of murdering mother previously threatened to stab 8-year-old girl to death; victim feared she was ‘raising the next serial killer’
Juveniles

The 9-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting his adoptive mother this week had previously threatened to commit violent acts, and the woman he is now accused of killing reportedly feared he was not getting the help he needed. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Pauline Randol was fatally shot at her home in Fawn River Township, Michigan, on …

33 years later, husband arrested for staging newlywed bride’s 1985 murder
Cold Cases
May 9, 2019

33 years later, husband arrested for staging newlywed bride’s 1985 murder

A Maryland man was charged last week for the 1985 murder of his wife, who was stabbed to death in what authorities long believed was a home burglary gone wrong. From the Baltimore Sun, Karen Norton, 23, had come home from work at JCPenney at 6:45 p.m. on December 17, 1985, when she was fatally …

Second-grader charged with murdering his mother
Family Crime
May 9, 2019

Second-grader charged with murdering his mother

A 9-year-old boy in Michigan is suspected of fatally shooting his own mother. WWMT obtained court records showing that Pauline Randol was fatally shot with a rifle at her home in Fawn River Township on Monday. Her 9-year-old son, reportedly a second grader at Congress Elementary School in Sturgis, is facing multiple counts in relation …

Mother of Colorado school shooting suspect: ‘We just need a little time right now’
Juveniles
May 8, 2019

Mother of Colorado school shooting suspect: ‘We just need a little time right now’

The mother of the 18-year-old student accused of gunning down several people at a Colorado school on Tuesday, killing one, told a reporter she had no idea what prompted her son to commit the violent act. The New York Post reports that it reached Stephanie Erickson, the mother of shooting suspect Devon Erickson, by phone …

‘B**ch, you’re never going to see your daughter again’: Father suspected of burning daughter alive called toddler girl’s mother just before allegedly locking car door with chains and setting it on fire
Family Crime
May 7, 2019

‘B**ch, you’re never going to see your daughter again’: Father suspected of burning daughter alive called toddler girl’s mother just before allegedly locking car door with chains and setting it on fire

The father arrested after his 3-year-old daughter was burned alive in the backseat of his car reportedly threatened to hurt the little girl earlier the day she died. As CrimeOnline previously reported, police in New York City removed 3-year-old  Zoey Pereira from a smoldering car that had been left in the middle of a road …

‘I hope he dies’: Dad accused of burning daughter alive posted Facebook photos of doomed toddler girl hours before death; allegedly tried to hide from cops
Family Crime
May 6, 2019

‘I hope he dies’: Dad accused of burning daughter alive posted Facebook photos of doomed toddler girl hours before death; allegedly tried to hide from cops

Hours before she was pulled, dying from burns, from the backseat of her father’s car, the man now suspected of killing 3-year-old Zoey Pereira posted the last in a series of photos of his daughter on Facebook. According to the New York Daily News, relatives have identified Zoey’s father as Martin Pereira of Valley Stream, …