A Texas couple could face upgraded charges after allegedly admitting to causing the head injuries that led to the death of the woman’s 2-year-old daughter. The toddler’s aunt confirmed to the Times Record-News that Scarlette Olivia Newsom was declared brain dead Friday, a day after being taken off life support. Newsom was reportedly rushed to the …
SNELLVILLE, Ga. (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shooting of a Georgia police officer (all times local): 1:44 a.m. Authorities say two teen-aged suspects from Snellville, including one still being sought by police, were both in a vehicle during a shooting that left one George police officer dead. Gwinnett County Police said in a …
A person of interest has been detained after authorities say a young California mother was murdered, KOVR-TV reports. The body of the victim, 26-year-old Candice De Anda, was discovered Friday in her vehicle near her home. Police arrested someone on an unrelated charge and described this individual as a person of interest in De Anda’s death, …
Two California men are facing significant prison time after they were convicted Friday of killing three people in a 2016 home invasion, the Sacramento Bee reports. After two weeks of deliberations, jurors found David Nguyen, 26, and Elijah Johnson, 24, guilty of robbery and murder. Authorities alleged that Nguyen was a drug dealer who intended …
The grandparents of Victoria Martens, the 10-year-old girl brutally murdered in her mother’s home in August 2016, will move ahead with their civil case against the city of Albuquerque and its police department. The grandparents of the murdered girl first filed a lawsuit against the city in August 2017, a year after Victoria’s partially dismembered …
A Pennsylvania man with a history of violent behavior could be tied to as many as 16 murders, WPXI-TV reports. Authorities say Regis Andrew Brown, currently serving prison time because he killed his wife and stepdaughter, is a suspect in at least seven other killings and may have knowledge of up to eight additional homicides. …
BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — The man who gunned down three people in a suburban Denver Walmart last year was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole. But more than 11 months after the crime, his motive remains a mystery. Scott Ostrem, 48, received three consecutive life terms plus 48 years as part of a …
The mother of a toddler girl who was allegedly murdered by her own grandmother has reportedly spoken out on Facebook, expressing her grief and apparent disbelief that her mother could have committed such a brutal act. As CrimeOnline previously reported, police found 20-month-old Royalty Floyd dead in her grandmother’s Shaw, Mississippi, home on Monday evening. …
The final installment of the Boston Globe‘s investigative series on the violent life and death of Aaron Hernandez explores a possible connection between the head trauma he suffered as a professional football player and the impulsive acts of aggression that found him on trial for murder twice in his short life. As CrimeOnline reported last …
A Vermont native who resided in Costa Rica was found dead after going missing in August, and authorities are calling his death a murder—with a younger woman reportedly being called a person of interest in the case. The body of Tom Cook, 62, who had been living in Vermont his entire life before recently retiring …
Prosecutors in Idaho say they will seek the death penalty against a man charged with stabbing multiple attendees of a toddler’s birthday party, killing the young girl on her third birthday. According to Fox News, the announcement came Thursday in a statement by Ada County Prosecutor Jan Bennetts. “After careful consideration, we have concluded that …
As part of an ongoing series about the NFL star’s fall from grace, the Boston Globe published new information about Aaron Hernandez’s time in jail and the events leading up to his shocking suicide, just days after he was acquitted of double murder in April 2017. The Boston Globe report cited hundreds of records of …
