A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after he stabbed his girlfriend to death, allegedly over a new haircut he didn’t like. Benjamin Garcia Gual, 49, has been charged with homicide, attempted homicide, aggravated assault, and recklessly endangering another person after he killed Carmen Martinez-Silva, 50, and severely injured her brother. Police said they found Gual …
A woman found dead in a car last week in Washington state was likely murdered, police said Thursday. Courtney Clinton, 31, was found dead in a car in Vancouver early in the morning on November 1. Investigators also found a “small child” who was not physically injured in the car. Detectives announced Thursday they were …
The husband of a Texas realtor who disappeared on October 6 has now been charged with her murder. An arrest affidavit for Brad Simpson was sealed for 30 days by the judge, so no information is available, KATV reported. Simpson, who was already behind bars on domestic violence and gun charges, was transported to a …
Accused Delphi killer Richard Allen’s fate is in the hands of an Indiana jury as deliberations into his double murder trial begins. “I think we all want justice,” Piper Hanan, of Noblesville, told NBC 13. “I think that would be the ideal endpoint.” As CrineOnline previously reported, the bodies of teen girls Abby Williams and …
The wife of an Illinois criminal court judge who was found dead on Tuesday has been charged with his murder. Edwards County Circuit Judge Michael J. Valentine was found deceased with a gunshot wound at his Albion home. Though details are scarce, WEHT reported that Megan Valentine has been charged in connection with his death. …
Closing arguments and deliberations started in accused child killer Richard Allen’s murder trial in Delphi Thursday morning. As CrineOnline previously reported, the bodies of teen girls Abby Williams and Libby German were found near the Monon High Bridge in 2017, in Delphi. Richard Allen, accused of their murders. After 17 days of testimony, the prosecution …
A Iowa man has been jailed for shooting the parents of his ex-girlfriend as they were helping their daughter move out of the home she shared with him. Ruth Robison, 45, was killed in the shooting, and Tony Robison, 52, is in critical condition, KCCI reported. Polk County deputies were called to the Des Moines …
The defense wrapped up its case Wednesday, after calling over 20 witnesses in six days, during accuse Delphi killer Richard Allen’s murder trial. Special Judge Francis Gull and the attorneys reviewed jury instructions, including information regarding the defendant’s choice not to testify and how to address prior statements. It was confirmed Wednesday that Allen would …
An Alaska woman was charged with murder on Monday, weeks after she allegedly killed her 5-year-old son with a kettlebell. On October 14, Cedar Sarten, 43, called Fairbanks police and allegedly told them that someone hurt her child and he “he was definitely dead.” Officers who responded to the home found her son on the …
A new report from the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner details the death of one of two women murdered over a child custody issue in Texas County earlier this year. Jilian Kelley, 39, was accompanying 27-year-old Veronica Butler on March 30 to pick up her children from their grandmother’s house in March when …
A Colorado man released from jail on a $250 bond after he threatened a woman and put a police officer in a chokehold is now in jail on a significantly higher bond after he allegedly murdered his mother. Michael Fuller, 30, has been charged with murder in the death of his mother, 71-year-old Toni Fuller …
A Maryland woman has been charged with first degree murder after she apparently called police Monday morning and told them she’d killed her mother. The Montgomery County Department of Police said the 911 call came in just before 10 a.m. on Monday from Tiffany Zhang, 29. Zhang told dispatchers that she’d killed her mother, 63-year-old …
