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A Kansas man admitted to making the prank emergency call that resulted in police shooting an innocent man in front of his home last year. Per The Wichita Eagle, Tyler Barriss, 26, pleaded guilty to 51 federal charges not only related to the December 2017 death of Andrew Finch, 28, but for reporting fake bomb threats, …
A controversial business planning its first U.S. location has hit a roadblock, according to recent reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Canada-based Kinky Dolls had planned to expand to a location in Houston, Texas. The robot brothel offers clients the option to rent or buy a sex doll. Ahead of its first location in the states, …
A sinister messaging game appears to have claimed the lives of a 16-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl who were each found dead of an apparent suicide, about 48 hours apart. Citing local news sources in Columbia, the Daily Mail reports that the two children, who reportedly knew each other, are believed to have taken …
A popular “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive” player reportedly died Thursday in the wrong-way crash that also claimed the lives of a mother and her 12-year-old daughter. According to The Los Angeles Times, the fatal crash occurred northbound on Interstate 805 in San Diego County, California. A witness told police that a driver, later identified as Trevor Heitmann, …
A 12-year-old Michigan girl is hospitalized with severe burns after attempting a disturbing trend dubbed the “fire challenge” on Friday, Fox 2 Detroit reports. The girl’s mother, Brandi Owens, reportedly told the media outlet that the injury happened after she was making pancakes for her daughter, 12-year-old Timiyah Landers, and two of the girl’s friends …
UPDATE: A YouTube spokesperson issued the following statement to CrimeOnline: “Content that endangers minors is unacceptable to us and we have strict policies prohibiting child endangerment and harmful and dangerous content. We remove content that violates our policies as soon as we’re made aware of it.” ORIGINAL Story: YouTube has reportedly temporarily suspended the …
*Correction appended The grieving family of a woman who killed herself just after posting a photo of herself on Facebook is upset that the social media network allowed the unsettling image to remain on the woman’s Facebook page for days after her death. MarketWatch reports that Pamela Elarabi, a 49-year-old yoga teacher and golf enthusiast who …
A Florida widow says she lost her life savings to a con artist she met on the dating website Match.com. Diane Amanda Standish told News 6 that she met a man who called himself Jerry Michael on the website, believing it was a match made in heaven. But the man she believed to be a …
New video footage and transcripts of the moments leading up to a fatal YouTube stunt last summer show Pedro Ruiz talking about the possibility that he may die, while his fearful girlfriend nearly refuses to participate in a daredevil experiment that called for her to shoot a gun at Ruiz while he held a book …
A married couple in Cambodia are in legal hot water after they posted popular YouTube videos of themselves skinning, cooking and eating wild animals — some that were protected species. Business Insider reports that Ah Lin Tuch and her husband Phoun Raty have apologized for the videos on their YouTube channel “Natural Life TV” that depict …
YouTube has reportedly removed a staunch pedophilia supporter from their platform for violating sitewide community guidelines. Amos Yee, 19, took to Facebook to announce that Youtube had taken his channel down—something he believes was due to his pro-pedophilia stance. Yee’s termination comes weeks after The Sun reported that the US Toy Association had yanked their ads …
The hacker who stole Paris Hilton’s nude photos and more than $120,000 from her bank account learned her fate on Monday. The New York Daily News reported that convicted hacker Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan was sentenced to five years in prison in a Los Angeles court. Hilton, 37, said she made space in her busy schedule to appear …
