The head of a New York crime family was fatally shot in a gangland-style murder in front of his Staten Island home. The New York Post reports that Francesco “Franky Boy” Cali, believed to be the boss of the Gambino crime family, was shot and killed Wednesday night in front of his mansion in the Staten …
Rod Covlin was found guilty in a Manhattan courthouse for the murder of his wife Shele Danishefsky — nearly ten years after she was found dead. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Danishefsky was found by her 9-year-old daughter in their Upper West Side apartment on New Year’s Eve in 2009. Danishefsky was a multimillionaire with assets upward of …
Aaron Hernandez is a convicted murdered once again after a Massachusetts court reversed a decision to vacate the former NFL’s conviction after his 2017 prison-cell suicide. Deadspin reports that a Massachusetts court has reinstated Hernandez’s 2015 murder conviction for the death of Odin Lloyd, after determining that the legal principle that vacated the conviction was …
The man accused of murdering missing mother Kelsey Berreth spoke to a woman in Idaho who lives near the location where Berreth’s phone last pinged, three days after she was last seen alive. Patrick Frazee was arrested for Berreth’s murder in December, and another Idaho woman, Krystal Lee Kenney, pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence. …
A California man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a little girl found dead last Tuesday on a Hacienda Heights hiking trail, stuffed inside a duffel bag. ABC 7 reports that 38-year-old Emiel Hunt, the boyfriend of the 9-year-old Trinity Love Jones’ mother, was charged with one count of murder on Tuesday. …
Authorities in Pennsylvania say a 43-year-old woman murdered two elderly women at a home in Montgomery County last week. According to the New York Post, Naseema Sami is accused pf bringing her 6-year-old son along with her when she approached the home on West Indian Lane in West Norriton Township. Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin …
Police in Delaware are investigating a shooting on Monday in which the suspects fatally shot two teens while holding one of the victim’s mothers and other children in the home at gunpoint. WPVI reported that Janiya Henry, 17, and Christian Coffield, 17, were found dead in Coffield’s mother’s Wilmington home after neighbors claimed they heard about …
A New York court viewed surveillance footage which apparently showed a jailed Rod Covlin demonstrating a chokehold on another inmate before he was to stand trial for his wife’s strangulation death. The footage was reportedly shot in November at the Brooklyn Detention Center’s law library. According to the New York Daily News, prosecutors accused Covlin of bragging …
The little girl is believed to be with man accused of killing her mother — and he is considered armed and dangerous
Family members of a little girl found found deceased and dumped at a hiking trail in California say police arrested the child’s mother and the woman’s boyfriend in connection with the child’s death. KTLA 5 reports that loved ones of Trinity Love Jones, 9, want to know why the girl was in the custody of her …
The Florida mother who drove her 11-year-old daughter’s dead body to a hospital before allegedly pulling a knife on medical staff confessed to fatally stabbing the girl to keep her from having sex. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Rose Alcides Rivera, 28, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder on Sunday after she drove to a hospital …
The family of murdered Colorado mother Shanann Watts appeared on “Dr. Phil” on Monday and revealed even more about the August 13 killings at the hands of Shanann’s husband Chris Watts. Last week, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation released audio and a written transcript of an interview Watts gave investigators from the Wisconsin prison where …
