The murder trial continues in Barrow County against Colin Gray, a Georgia father accused of gifting a firearm to his teen son before the 2023 Apalachee High School massacre. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Gray is facing 29 charges, including, in part, second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, and cruelty to children. He has pleaded not guilty. The defendant’s …
A Pennsylvania woman and a conspirator are on trial for conspiring to have her mother killed. Melissa Fox-Beacom’s ex-boyfriend testified Wednesday that she often spoke about wanting to kill Alice Robson, her 71-year-old mother, and even fantasized about how she would do it. “I honestly didn’t know what to say,” Ace Vavrek told jurors, according …
A Virginia jury on Monday found Brendan Banfield guilty of aggravated murder in a convoluted plot hatched with his Brazilian au pair lover to kills his wife and pin it on a stranger lured from a fetish website. Banfield was convicted on two counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of Christine Banfield and Joseph …
The Brazilian au pair at the center of an elaborate plot to kill her boss’s wife continued her testimony on Wednesday in Brendan Banfield’s murder trial. “I thought of it as being the right thing to do,” Juliana Peres Magalhães said of her decision to take a plea deal and testify against Banfield, according to …
A California mother is on trial after allegedly throwing a party with minors, fueled with alcohol, resulting in alleged sexual abuse. According to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Shannon O’Connor, 51, is on trial in Santa Clara, facing 20 felony child endangerment-related charges, along with 20 misdemeanor charges of providing alcohol to children. As CrimeOnline previously …
A Florida jury on Wednesday found a former paramedic guilty of sexually battering an unconscious woman in the back of his ambulance as she was being transported to the hospital in 2021. The jury deliberated for five hours before returning the guilty verdict for James Melady, 38, but they acquitted him on a charge of …
A former Georgia beauty queen is on trial this week for the murder of her boyfriend’s 18-month-old son in her Georgia Southwestern State University dorm room nearly two years ago. Trinity Poague is charged with malice murder, two counts of felony murder, two counts of aggravated battery, and cruelty to children in the death of …
Investigators said they found a 2-year-old soaked in blood, crying and trying to cuddle his deceased parents.
A Florida jury on Friday found a Ukrainian man orphaned as a young boy guilty of first degree murder in the stabbing deaths of the couple who adopted him when he was 14. A judge sentenced Dima Tower to life in prison for the 2023 murders of Robbie and Jennifer Tower, WWSB reported. Tower, 24, …
