The mother of a brother and sister killed in Saturday’s shooting spree in Louisiana reportedly posted about the news on social media before realizing her children were among the five victims. According to WAFB, Rhonda Champagne saw a post about the shooting and reposted it to her Facebook profile before learning her daughter and son, Summer …
A New York man was sentenced to eight years in a Japanese prison for killing and beheading a woman he met through a dating app and concealing her remains all around the country. Per the Tokyo Reporter, Yevgeniy Vasilievich Bayraktar, 27, was sent to prison Tuesday after confessing to strangling Saki Kondo, 27, at a rented …
Two Idaho sisters are accused of masterminding a murder-for-hire plot, the Lewiston Tribune reports. Authorities on Thursday arrested 50-year-old Debra Wensman and 46-year-old Doris Wensman, of Greencreek, Idaho, after they allegedly agreed to pay an undercover police officer to murder their neighbor during a sting operation. The sisters were in court Friday and charged with …
A 15-year-old Utah boy is accused of killing an elderly man and severely injuring the man’s wife and son in a violent home invasion last year, then boasting about the crime to friends. Prosecutors on Thursday filed criminal charges in connection with the Sept. 13 incident, accusing the boy of aggravated murder, aggravated burglary and …
The last of three men has been sent to prison for the March 2015 drive-by shooting death of a 3-year-old Missouri boy who was sleeping in bed. From The Kansas City Star, the driver, SirTerry L. Stevenson, 26, was sentenced to 15 years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon, and two counts …
Authorities in Florida say a 47-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of killing her boyfriend last year and dumping his body in a camper. According to WESH, 55-year-old Anthony Franklin Mitchell was last seen alive in August. Investigators believe his girlfriend, Penny Rebecca Pospisil, was responsible for killing Mitchell, dismembering his body and keeping …
A Michigan mother will spend the next 20 to 80 years in prison for the death of her 6-month-old son—who she left strapped in a car seat in a hot attic for 32 hours as she partied and did drugs with friends. On Thursday, Lovily Johnson, 23, apologized for the July 2017 death of her son, …
A Virginia student is behind bars after authorities found her roommate lying in a pool of blood inside a Radford apartment on Thursday morning. The Roanoke Times reports that 21-year-old Luisa Ines Tudela Harris Cutting is accused of killing 20-year-old Alexa Cannon in their shared apartment off of the 1200 block of Clement Street. The apartment complex is …
A gunman opened fire at a Florida bank on Wednesday, killing five people before contacting authorities himself to report the shooting. ABC News reports that police in Sebring responded to the gunman’s self-report of shots fired at SunTrust Bank at about 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The suspect, identified as Zephen Xaver, 21, reportedly contacted authorities to …
A Utah man was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly made threats on social media, promising indiscriminate violence against women because of his anger over being celibate, and claiming that he would be the “next mass shooter.” WGN-TV reports that Christopher Wayne Cleary, 27, was arrested after the Provo Police Department was alerted about threats …
A friend of missing Colorado mom Kelsey Berreth has come forward to reveal concerns she had about Berreth’s relationship with Patrick Frazee, the man currently being held on murder charges in connection to her disappearance and presumed death. Berreth, 29, had reportedly moved to Colorado from Washington state to be closer to Frazee after they …
Relatives of the 8-year-old girl who was the target of a crazed killer have provided details about the grisly family slaying that claimed the girl’s mother and infant sister, along with the killer’s parents. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Mark Gregory Gago was shot and killed by responding deputies Saturday night in Woodburn, Oregon, when they found Gago …
