A man and woman in Pennsylvania are facing murder charges after a boy in their custody was found unresponsive at their home in January and later died. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 19-year-old Lisa Smith was eight months pregnant when she and her boyfriend, 26-year-old Keiff King beat the 4-year-old child to death. Smith reportedly told …
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has cited the Euclid day care facility attended by slain girl Aniya Day-Garrett, finding that the business failed to report suspected incidents of abuse involving the 4-year-old. Per Cleveland.com, ODJFS determined that Harbor Crest Child Care failed to notify Cuyahoga County Children and Family Services about each incident …
Prosecutors have accused a Queens, New York, man of beating his 3-year-old stepdaughter so barbarically that her stomach was shred to pieces during the fatal attack. Marc Jenkins, 32, appeared in court Wednesday on charges that he beat Bella Edwards to death on Monday afternoon. According to the New York Daily News, authorities believe Jenkins …
The agencies investigating the fatal SUV plunge that killed at least five family members have corrected a key detail of the investigation’s findings — saying now that Jennifer and Sarah Hart were not wearing their seatbelts when their vehicle went over a cliff from the Pacific Coast Highway into the Pacific Ocean late last month. …
A New Jersey talk radio host is dead after her husband hired a hitman to kill her before she informed authorities about his involvement — along with a biker gang — in operating a drug trafficking ring, according to prosecutors. As the New York Post reported, a total of seven suspects were indicted on charges …
Adam Shacknai found legally responsible for brother’s girlfriend’s death; ordered to pay over $5 million in damages
A Pennsylvania man reportedly shot his pregnant girlfriend dead then turned the gun on himself in an apparent murder-suicide Wednesday night. According to the Observer-Reporter, Naader E. Rizk, 38, is believed to have fatally shot Michelle Krek, 35, inside their second-floor Cecil apartment. Krek was reportedly seven months pregnant and was due in May; her unborn son also died …
New York City police arrested a Queens man Tuesday in connection with the beating death of his 3-year-old stepdaughter, prosecutors announced Tuesday. According to the New York Daily News, Marc Jenkins, 32, was charged with murder and assault charges after an autopsy determined that Bella Edwards died Monday from blunt force trauma to her abdomen. Law enforcement sources told …
A Kuwaiti court sentenced a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife to death by hanging for the murder of a Filipina maid whose body was found in a freezer earlier this year. Al Jazeera reported that Nader Essam Assaf, 40, and wife Mona Hassoun were detained in February in connection with the death of Joanna Demafelis, 29. Demafelis had vanished in …
The California Highway Patrol has uncovered surveillance footage appearing to show Jen Hart, the mother found dead with her partner and three of her children last week, the day before the family’s SUV went over a cliff from the Pacific Coast Highway. Authorities are now examining the footage to determine which of Jen Hart’s six …
A North Carolina man accused of stabbing his wife to death after he took cough medicine was apparently obsessed with a movie about a serial killer and often talked to friends about killing, according to police. The Charlotte Observer reports that 29-year-old Matthew Phelps is accused of stabbing his wife, Lauren Hugelmaier Phelps, 126 times …
The family killed in a fatal SUV plunge off the Pacific Coast Highway last week was visited by police in response to a Department of Human Services inquiry in Oregon, a year before Devonte Hart was photographed in a tearful embrace with a Portland police officer at an anti-police brutality demonstration in 2014. Sarah and …
