A Mexican couple has confessed to killing up to 10 women and selling off one of the victim’s babies, the Associated Press reports. Authorities on Friday announced that the couple was arrested outside of Mexico City in connection with the slayings. Investigators surveilling the couple on Thursday reportedly saw them emerge from a house with …
ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) — A man accused in the strangulation death of a model said that he went to her apartment in an affluent Philadelphia suburb to sell her cocaine but that she refused to pay, and that a violent fight ensued, according to a statement read in court Friday. “I panicked and was scared. …
CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on the murder trial of white Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke in the shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald (all times local): 2 p.m. A jury has convicted white Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald. Van Dyke …
Authorities searching for a missing Maine elementary school teacher have reportedly found a body not far from her North Yarmouth home. The Portland Press Herald reports that police found a body in a wooded area behind Kirstin Westra’s home, but they have not yet identified it or said if they believe it is the missing …
A reputed mobster was gunned down at a New York City McDonald’s on Thursday, just months after his son was shot in a possible targeted attack. The New York Post reports that Sylvester Zottola, 71, was fatally shot at a McDonald’s drive-thru in the Bronx on Thursday. Zottola is reportedly a Bonanno crime family associate, and was …
The man who had been charged with the burning death of 19-year-old Jessica Chambers is headed to Louisiana to face charges of murdering a different woman in 2015. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a Mississippi judge declared a mistrial in the Chambers this week after a jury could not agree to a verdict. This was the …
A California mother and her boyfriend are facing numerous criminal charges for the alleged torture and murder of the woman’s 10-year-old son. The Los Angeles Times reports that Heather Barron, 29, and Kareem Leiva, 32, pleaded not guilty to multiple charges in the death of Barron’s 10-year-old son Anthony Avalos. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Anthony died …
A coroner has completed the autopsy reports for Shannan Watts and her daughters Bella and Celeste, who were found dead last month on the property of a petroleum company where Shanann’s husband Chris Watts worked. Watts has been charged with numerous felony counts, including three counts of first-degree murder. The Denver Channel obtained a court notice …
The District Attorney who led the prosecution of Jessica Chambers murder suspect Quinton Tellis reportedly spoke to Inside Edition about the hung jury, which led to a mistrial, and plans to try Tellis for a third time. Tellis has been accused of burning 19-year-old Jessica Chambers alive in December 2014, and faced his second murder …
A Texas mother known for creating “Anger Room,” a Dallas-based business where people could relieve stress by breaking things, has died days after her ex-boyfriend allegedly broke into her home and battered her. Donald Alexander told the Dallas Morning News that his slain daughter, Donna Alexander, 34, was 14 when she started advocating against domestic violence …
A killer is still on the loose after a neighbor and family member found a beloved elderly couple dead inside their Florida home on Saturday, according to police. ABC reports that accountant, David Swan, 88, and his wife, 80-year-old Mina, a retired art teacher, were found murdered inside their Clearwater home off of Flushing Ave. in an …
After a judge declared a mistrial in the proceedings against Jessica Chambers murder suspect Quinton Tellis for the second time, CrimeOnline’s own Nancy Grace, a former prosecutor, has weighed in. Quinton Tellis was accused of burning 19-year-old former cheerleader Jessica Chambers alive in December 2014. Last year, proceedings against him ended in a mistrial after …
