An off-duty police officer held a murder suspect at gunpoint Friday night after a deadly shooting at an Indianapolis steakhouse. The officer and restaurant employees broke up the initial brawl between Randy Godfrey, 34, and Robert “Blaine” Smith, 32, in a Texas Roadhouse aisle, giving Smith time to escape outside, WISH reported. But Godfrey broke …
The boyfriend of a 22-year-old Florida woman found naked and dead along Interstate 95 in December has been charged with her murder. Lorent Junior Pion, 29, was initially charged with failing to stop and aggravated fleeing after telling police that Nahomi Cittadini jumped out of his moving vehicle and was hit by a passing car, …
A 24-year-old California man was arrested last week after a police chase and charged with the murder of his mother, whose body was found in the trunk of the car. The El Cajon Police Department said it was called to a Motel 6 last week by Richard Leyva’s brother, who told them he’d gone to …
A 9-year-old boy found dead and buried in a shallow grave behind his former home in Detroit earlier this year told Child Protective Services 10 months earlier that his mom regularly choked him and “wants to kill him.” Zemar King’s mother, 41-year-old Brandee Katrice Pierce, heard the words of her son Friday during her formal …
An Ohio woman pleaded guilty this week to killing her father-in-law with her daughter’s prescription narcotic pain pills and ZZZQuil, then keeping the man’s body hidden away in her home for weeks before a 911 call to Zanesville Police reported a dead body in a shed behind the house. According to the Muskingum County Prosecutor’s …
A suspected teenage serial killer has been charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder. On Tuesday, the Chicago Police Department charged Antonio Reyes, now 21, with five additional counts of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder. These charges stem from random assaults that occurred on Chicago’s Southwest Side in 2020, when …
Donna Adelson appeared in Leon County court Wednesday, where she disclosed that she and her husband intended to escape to Vietnam for “peace” before deciding to turn themselves in. The admission came as she sought release from jail in connection with allegations of a for-hire plot against her former son-in-law. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Adelson …
A Washington state man has been charged with killing his estranged wife hours after a restraining order was filed against him and while the couple’s three children were inside the home. Kitsap County deputies found the suspect, whose name has not been released, a short distance away from the crime scene after he crashed his …
A Princeton, New Jersey, man accused of killing his brother and a family cat made his first court appearance Thursday. Prosecutors charged 31-year-old Matthew Hertgen with first-degree murder in the death of his brother, 26-year-old Joseph Hertgen. He also faces third- and fourth-degree weapons charges for possessing a golf club and knife, along with animal …
An Alabama man called police over the weekend and told them his wife was missing, but it turned out he had strangled her to death and dumped her body into a creek bed miles away from their home. Stephen Miller Sr. played the part of the worried husband, including begging local media to run Gloria …
Texas police have arrested a man they say drove a teenager and her boyfriend from Galveston County to Laredo earlier this month after the two teens killed her grandmother. Tara King, 17, and her 18-year-old boyfriend, Uriah Urick, were arrested in Laredo on February 9, four days after King’s grandmother, Tammy King, was found dead …
A Michigan mother who is charged with killing her son last week allegedly told authorities that his death was part of a suicide pact she had with him. Katie Austin Lee, 39, killed Austin Pikaart on Friday — a day before his 18th birthday — at their apartment in Holland. Lee claimed she tried to …
