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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
