The five-year-old boy found dead on Monday after his mother was thrown off a cliff was brutally murdered by the same man who nearly killed his mother. WKYT reports that Lonnie Belt has been charged with the murder of James Spoonamore, 5, who was found dead Monday in Jackson County, Kentucky, after a three-day search. …
More victims have been identified in what Plano police are saying is the deadliest shooting the north Texas city has ever seen. Although authorities have not released the identities of the victims or the suspects, family members and friends have confirmed to the media the names of several of those who died in Sunday’s shooting …
A Michigan teenager has been charged with murdering his mother because she wouldn’t let him keep a puppy. The New York Post reports that Andrew Wilson, 19, was arrested on charges that he fatally shot his mother, 51-year-old Lisa Marie Willson, in her Wheatfield Township home. According to the Lansing State Journal, Wilson called police early …
The suspect is a recent graduate of the prestigious Oberlin college
The boyfriend of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind has posted the first pictures of their presumed newborn daughter. Though Ashton Matheny said he wouldn’t release any pictures of Haisley Jo until she’s in his care, WDAY reports that the slain woman’s boyfriend recently posted photos of the infant girl to his personal Facebook page. Haisley Jo remains in protective custody until DNA …
A serial killer who authorities say gruesomely murdered seven people in Connecticut, some of whom he raped and dismembered in a van he called the “Murder Mobile,” will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. William Devin Howell, 47, pleaded guilty Friday to six of the killings, the Associated Press reports. Howell was …
Four people are dead in what authorities are describing a tragic case of family violence. WCVB reports that four adults were found dead of blunt force trauma in the remote town of Groton, Massachusetts. The victims have not yet been identified, but police said two of the victims are an elderly man and woman, and …
The unborn child did not survive
A Reynoldsburg, Ohio, babysitter who gave an 8-month-old baby boy a fatal dose of Benadryl last year was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday. The Columbus Dispatch reports that Lori A. Conley, 45, was sentenced to 11 years for involuntary manslaughter, three years for child endangering, and one year for tampering with evidence. In …
The man who admitted to involvement in the presumed murder of Georgia beauty queen and high school teacher Tara Grinstead is facing new charges in a different county. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Bo Dukes, who was once a student at the high school where Grinstead taught, confessed to helping his friend Ryan Alexander Duke (no …
Police believe the suspect may have been inspired by serial killer John Wayne Gacy
By JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press CHINO, Calif. (AP) — Leslie Van Houten, the youngest of Charles Manson’s murderous followers, was granted parole by a California board Wednesday. Van Houten, who was 19 when she killed for Manson during a series of murders that terrorized Los Angeles over the summer of 1969, appeared before a parole panel …
