Murder

‘It’s like he didn’t care if I died’: Court docs reveal Mom found dead with four adopted children in murder-suicide was sexually abused; father abandoned family for a decade before trying to regain custody
Family Crime

Court filings and testimony related to the incomplete divorce of a Tennessee mom who was found dead with her four adopted children in an apparent murder-suicide this week shed more light on her relationship with her estranged husband, but many questions remain unanswered. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Cynthia Collier, 55, was found dead in her …

Baby burned in oven pictured: Grandmother indicted for murder after allegedly stabbing toddler, stuffing her in heated oven [Police]
Murder
October 17, 2018

Baby burned in oven pictured: Grandmother indicted for murder after allegedly stabbing toddler, stuffing her in heated oven [Police]

New details have emerged in the case of a Mississippi toddler found on Monday inside a heated oven at her grandmother’s home. CBS Memphis reports that on Monday evening, Bolivar County officers arrived at a small, tan home in Shaw, off of Martin Luther King Drive, after a family member discovered a 20-month-old deceased toddler girl, Royalty Floyd, in the …

Mom in Tennessee murder-suicide was in process of divorcing her husband, children said dad was a ‘stranger’ and asked to live with her: Report
Family Crime
October 17, 2018

Mom in Tennessee murder-suicide was in process of divorcing her husband, children said dad was a ‘stranger’ and asked to live with her: Report

The mother found dead with four of her adopted children in an apparent murder-suicide this week was involved in ongoing divorce proceedings from her husband, who moved out of their home nearly a decade ago. The Tennessean obtained court records showing that Cynthia Collier’s four teenage adopted children had requested earlier this year to continue …

Remains found in search for 1-year-old boy whose mother was found dead on upstate New York farm
Juveniles
October 16, 2018

Remains found in search for 1-year-old boy whose mother was found dead on upstate New York farm

Authorities have found human remains “consistent” with a missing one-year-old boy five months after his mother’s dead body was discovered in the same area. According to NYUp.com, Wayne County Sheriff Barry Virts confirmed that scattered human remains had been found in a 12-inch-grave on the same Sodus, New York, farm where Owen Hidalgo-Calderon’s mother Selena Hidalgo-Calderon …

Little girl, 4, beaten and left to die in locked closet by mom’s boyfriend
Murder
October 16, 2018

Little girl, 4, beaten and left to die in locked closet by mom’s boyfriend

A Texas man was convicted Monday for fatally beating his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter and leaving her in a locked closet to die. The Dallas Morning News reported that the victim’s mother, Jeri Quezada, 33, testified that Charles Wayne Phifer, 36, tied Leiliana Wright’s arms behind her back and strung her up in a closet. Prosecutors said …

Murder-suicide family ID’d as ‘loving’ stay-at-home mom and four adopted children
Family Crime
October 16, 2018

Murder-suicide family ID’d as ‘loving’ stay-at-home mom and four adopted children

Authorities have identified the family members killed in an apparent murder-suicide on Monday evening but are still searching for a motive. As reported by the Tennessean, the Maury County Sheriff’s Office held a press conference on Tuesday in which Sheriff Bucky Rowland identified the five people found dead of gunshot wounds in a Columbia, Tennessee, home …

Grandmother in custody after toddler girl is stabbed, baked in oven: Police
Murder
October 16, 2018

Grandmother in custody after toddler girl is stabbed, baked in oven: Police

The grandmother of a 20-month-old girl is in custody after Mississippi deputies reportedly found the toddler’s body in an oven, with stab wounds. The Clarion Ledger reported that the toddler girl’s body was taken to a crime lab to undergo an autopsy. The grandmother’s identity is unknown at this point in time as she hasn’t …

‘Let’s go commit a murder’: Suspect accused of stabbing star golfer to death posted chilling Facebook message; was covered in blood and sand when he rode bike to a residence the day of murder
Murder
October 16, 2018

‘Let’s go commit a murder’: Suspect accused of stabbing star golfer to death posted chilling Facebook message; was covered in blood and sand when he rode bike to a residence the day of murder

The man suspected of murdering a standout golfer in broad daylight last month reportedly appeared at a home not far from where the body was found covered in sand and blood, and took a shower there. The Des Moines Register reports that authorities are continuing to build a case against Collin Richards for the the September …

Aaron Hernandez was physically and sexually abused; hid romantic relationship with high school football teammate: Report
Celebrity Justice
October 15, 2018

Aaron Hernandez was physically and sexually abused; hid romantic relationship with high school football teammate: Report

A Boston Globe investigative series has found that former NFL standout Aaron Hernandez, who died of suicide in prison last in 2017, was abused as a youth and hid a “sexual relationship” with his male teammate in high school. The investigative series was based on previously undisclosed communications Hernandez had while in prison, court and …