A South Carolina man is facing homicide charges after he allegedly fled his burning car amid a police chase, leaving his 1-year-old daughter to burn to death in the back seat. According to The State, a state trooper attempted to pull over Imhotep Osiris Norman, 26, for speeding at 10:20 p.m. Friday on State 14 in Greenville …
A warrant made public last week offers new details about the allegations surrounding a former Playboy model’s involvement in the murder of a 71-year-old psychologist earlier this year. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 25-year-old Kelsey Turner was arrested in California after the body of Thomas Kirk Burchard was found dead in the trunk of a car …
A former NFL player and his girlfriend are accused of murdering the woman’s 5-year-old daughter, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. Authorities allege that 28-year-old Cierre Wood and 25-year-old Amy Taylor abused the girl, La’Rayah Davis, before she died earlier this week at a Las Vegas-area hospital. Wood played football for the University of Notre Dame …
An Arizona man who suspected his wife was cheating on him is accused of murdering her, their two children and a family friend — all because he says God told him to, ABC15 reports. Austin Smith was arrested Thursday while driving away from an apartment complex where emergency crews responded to a report of a …
Five people have been criminally charged after an Indiana woman was allegedly tortured and killed last month, the Journal & Courier reports. The body of the victim, 30-year-old Nicole Bowen of West Lafayette, was discovered March 30 in a hunting cabin near the Iroquois River. Newton County Prosecutor Jeff Drinski has not released specific details …
Authorities in Texas say a man sought deadly revenge against an employee he believed had been having a sexual affair with his wife. According to the New York Post, 23-year-old Edwin Figueroa was arrested this week in connection with a fatal shooting at an apartment in southwest Houston late Wednesday evening. Police believe he drank …
An Alabama woman who killed her alleged rapist was initially found unfit to stand trial, but she still faces life in prison and reportedly isn’t getting adequate psychiatric care. According to The Appeal, Brittany Smith was indicted in March 2018 for the murder of Joshua Todd Smith. Months earlier, in January, Brittany, who had recently …
Nearly 7,000 people have signed a petition to have photos of murder victims removed from the prison cell of the man who killed them all. CNN reports that a new Change.org petition is appealing to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections to remove photos of Shanann, Bella, and Celeste Watts from the prison cell of Chris …
The father of a 4-year-old Ohio girl who was killed last year by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county’s Department of Children and Families, accusing the agency of ignoring evidence of abuse before his daughter’s murder. According to WJW, Mickhal Garrett filed the lawsuit against the Cuyahoga County …
A California man will spend at least 26 years in prison for bludgeoning his married reality star girlfriend to death with a hammer in 2016 and burying her in a shallow grave in his backyard. Jackie Jerome Rogers, 36, was sentenced Monday to 26 years to life in prison for the first-degree murder of Lisa Marie Naegle, 35, …
A San Antonio teen and his friend are behind bars for the brutal murder of the teen’s mother, who apparently caught the pair trying to rob her, police say. FOX News reports that 18-year-old Matthew Dempsey allegedly attacked his mother, Mary Dempsey, when she walked in on her son burglarizing her home with an accomplice, Daniel …
An elderly man in New York City has been arrested for the 1973 slayings of two 19-year-old women who were vacationing in Virginia Beach at the time. The New York Times reports that DNA evidence recovered from the crime scene was matched this fall with Ernest Broadnax’s profile in a national database. Broadnax, 80, was …
