A family of six likely drowned in their van Sunday afternoon while trying to escape floods caused by Hurricane Harvey. Relatives told KHOU that four children, Daisy Saldivar, 6, Xavier Saldivar, 8, Dominic Saldivar, 14, Devy Saldivar, 16, and their great-grandparents, Manuel Saldivar, 84, and wife Belia Saldivar, 81, perished Sunday. Witnesses told the local station that the van …
A man was charged Thursday after authorities said he pulled his car into a group of demonstrators protesting a police shooting in St. Louis, injuring three people.
The six-month search for two Tulsa, Oklahoma, children has reportedly ended with the children’s safe return and their parents’ arrest. Christopher Smith and Shaquelle Cantrell are accused of taking off with their children during a supervised visit in February. According to KOKI, Department of Human Services (DHS) removed the couple’s 5-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter from …
Stephanie Cadena thought she would finally get closure after three excruciating years when authorities found the remains of her son, Chase Massner. Although in all likelihood it was indeed Chase that detectives found in the backyard of a Kennesaw, Georgia home, but the Cobb County Medical Examiner’s Office in Marietta still hasn’t officially confirmed it. …
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A headless torso found on a beach off Copenhagen has been identified as that of missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who is believed to have died on an amateur-built submarine earlier this month, Danish police said Wednesday. Wall, 30, was last seen alive on Aug. 10 on Danish inventor Peter Madsen’s …
A Palmdale, California, couple was sentenced to life in prison Monday for the beating death of the woman’s toddler son. A judge sentenced Brandon Jerel Williams, 27, to 25 years to life after being convicted of first-degree murder, torture, and assault on a child causing death. The victim’s mother, Rosie Lee Wilson, 23, was sentenced to 15 years …
By ANNABELLE LIANG, Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Navy divers searching a flooded compartment of the USS John S. McCain found remains of some of the 10 sailors missing in a collision between the warship and an oil tanker, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander said Tuesday as he promised a full investigation. Adm. Scott Swift also …
A Catholic school teacher jailed on child rape charges was released from prison a decade early after a court threw out the conviction amid questions about the accuser’s credibility. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Bernard Shero, 54, a former teacher at St. Jerome school, pleaded no contest Monday to child rape and assault charges. In turn, …
Indiana police have arrested a man and accused him of shooting his wife after recording her begging for her life, according to PEOPLE. The Journal & Courier reported that Patrick Elliott, 50, allegedly shot his wife, Donita Elliott, 47, in their Lafayette home on August 8. According to an affidavit, Patrick originally told officers that he …
Authorities found Anna Racine safe in Minnesota on Friday evening. According to her cousin, Sarah House, the teen was found with her former high school janitor, 21-year-old Morgan Burcham. House said that both Anna and Burcham are currently in custody. No other information is available at this time. Check back with CrimeOnline as additional details become …
A judge presiding over the case of a New York City doctor who died of a cocaine overdose has released surveillance video of the night a New York City dermatologist the mother of three lost her life while partying with an HBO producer. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Dr. Kiersten Cerveny died in October 2015 after …
The young woman’s attorney called the invasive cavity search “rape by cop”
