A lawyer in Brazil was reportedly executed a point-blank just seconds after he handed off a little girl believed to be his daughter. The Daily Mail obtained CCTV footage of the moments leading up to a cold-blooded execution in Brazilian state of Permambuco, where a man can be seen calmly handing off a little girl in …
A missing Alabama girl who was found dead last month was beheaded after witnessing her grandmother’s fatal stabbing, an investigator testified during a preliminary hearing this week. According to AL.com, Madison County investigator Stacy Rutherford said Israel Palomino, 34, and Yoni Aguilar, 26, murdered Oralia Mendoza, 49, and her granddaughter, Maria Lopez, days after doing a drug …
A Georgia man who held his 10-year-old autistic son under water until he died could now spend the rest of his life behind bars, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Jurors on Friday convicted 44-year-old Leon Williams of murder in connection with the drowning death of his child last year in their Decatur apartment. Williams was reportedly …
Nearly two years after a 10-year-old boy died in a horrific waterslide accident in Kansas City, the park is closing down the tallest waterslide in the world. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Caleb Thomas Schwab, the son of a Kansas City lawmaker, died in August 2016 on the Verruckt waterslide at the Schlitterbahn waterpark when a raft …
A Texas murder-for-hire case added another suspect recently more than a month after 19-year-old Nicolas Shaughnessy and his wife Jaclyn Edison were arrested on suspicion of solicitation to commit capital murder. According to People, Johnny Roman Leon III was arrested in Austin this week on suspicion of one count of soliciting to commit capital murder. …
Another suspect has been arrested in connection with the violent rape and murder of a teen boy last month. According to People, the 20-year-old girlfriend of one of the two brothers already in custody surrendered to authorities this week on an arrest warrant. Lewis County, Washington, Prosecutor Jonathan Meyer said Emma L. Brown is expected …
A Louisiana woman was arrested on Wednesday after a month-long investigation into the death of her husband, who authorities say she killed. NOLA.com reports that Shantel Wagner, 35, called 911 at around 11:25 p.m. on June 17 to report that her husband, Troy Smith, 44, a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Sergeant, shot himself in the head. Wagner reportedly claimed her …
An Arkansas teen is facing capital murder charges after last month’s smothering death of his infant daughter—who he reportedly tried to shock with an extension cord after she lost consciousness. Police were reportedly called to a Van Buren home on June 12 following reports of an unresponsive baby. The 2-month-old at the home was transported to …
A sadistic serial killer who may have murdered over 100 victims charmed his way onto a TV dating game show — right in the middle of his killing spree. Rodney Alcala was Bachelor Number One on a 1978 episode of “The Dating Game,” a campy game show in which three men compete for the attention …
A family was committed to commemorating a murdered New Orleans teen at his wake—so much so, that they reportedly propped him up in front of a television screen and posed him to play video games. WGNO reported that Renard Matthews, 18, was laid to rest Tuesday in a traditional jazz funeral in his Upper Ninth Ward …
A Washington man confessed to a 32-year-old unsolved murder, claiming that he wanted to “right the wrong.” Fox News reports that Glenn Adams, 58, walked into Cowlitz County Hall of Justice in Kelso, Washington, on Friday and confessed to killing Russell Haines in a hotel room in Longview in 1986. Adams, who has lived itinerantly and is …
Police have arrested the mother of two Oregon brothers who allegedly lured a 16-year-old boy to the woods and beat him to death. The Olympian reports that Kindra Rose Adamson, 43, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with first-degree rendering criminal assistance. In a statement, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said her arrest was based …
