A 15-year-old New York boy reportedly died by suicide last week after an extortion attempt by someone the boy had met online. Riley Basford reportedly took his own life on March 30. Basford’s family told the Watertown Daily News the investigators who examined his cellphone uncovered Facebook messages which suggested the teen had developed a …
Six family members were found dead in what investigators believe is a murder-suicide perpetrated by two brothers. According to Fox News 4, police in Allen, Texas, responded to a home on Pine Bluff for a requested welfare check early Monday morning. Inside, they found two parents, three adult children, and their grandmother shot to death. …
A Missouri man suspected of killing and decapitating his mother last year has been found dead in Arkansas, the Vernon County Sheriff’s Office says The Sheriff’s Office named Aaron Goodwin, 38, the sole suspect in the death of 63-year-old Connie Goodwin, who was found dead in her southwestern Missouri home on October 28, as CrimeOnline …
Authorities in southwest Missouri have asked for help identifying a woman who ran into oncoming traffic on Interstate 44 last week and was struck and killed, the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office says. The woman was seen walking around a rest area near Mile Marker 52 east bound on March 6 before taking off headlong into …
A jealous ex-boyfriend crept into a Florida house on Thursday and shot his former girlfriend and her new lover to death while they slept before turning the gun on himself, WESH reports. Police were already looking for Joseph McGuirl, 47, because someone reported that he’d sent suicidal texts early that morning, and they’d gotten close, …
The father who died in a jailhouse suicide after allegedly killing his son’s mother during a kidnapping earlier this month posted warnings on his Facebook account more than a week before the fatal incident on February 9. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Eric Maes showed up at a home in Peoria, Arizona, on that Tuesday and …
The Arizona man who reportedly told police he intentionally hit his child’s mother with his car during a violent kidnapping has died after a suicide attempt left him hospitalized. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Eric Maes was arrested for the murder of Brittany Walker-Martie, who was mortally injured after trying to save her son from being …
A man who murdered a teacher he met on a dating app is dead after apparently slashing his throat in prison, The Sun reports. Carl Langdell, 30, died last week after guards found him on the floor of his cell with severe injuries to his neck, which investigators believe were self-inflicted. The prison cell was reportedly covered …
Three people — one of them a 5-month-old infant — were found shot to death Wednesday in southeastern Arizona in an apparent double-murder suicide, the Cochise County Herald/Review reports. Sierra Vista police identified the adult victims as Gerardo De La Torre, 47, and Raquel De La Santos De La Torre, 30, and said all three …
An ongoing dispute between neighbors over snow removal ended with three people dead Monday morning in northeastern Pennsylvania in an apparent murder-suicide, The Citizens Voice reports. James Goy, 50, and his wife Lisa Goy, 48, were outside clearing snow when they were shot and killed by 47-year-old Jeffrey Spaide, who lived across the street, police …
An Oklahoma couple and their two young children were found dead in their home Saturday in a western Tulsa suburb, the apparent victims of a murder suicide. Sand Springs police have not yet identified the victims but said the woman was 41, the man 31, and the children 2- and 4-years-old, both girls, the Sand …
A family of four was found dead in Pennsylvania in what police suspect was a murder-suicide. According to the Pennsylvania-based news outlet Daily Local News, police responded to a welfare check at a home in Chester County after out-of-state relatives reported that they had been unable to contact the family for several days. The report …
