Police are searching a wooded area in Manorville, New York, in connection with the Gilgo Beach murders investigation. Newsday reports that police and a K-9 were spotted at Wading River Manor Road Wednesday morning before searching a wooded area off Ryerson Avenue shortly after noon. Customers at the nearby “The Maples bar” told the outlet …
A man believed to have been driving a green Acura involved in a fatal carjacking in Florida earlier this month has been arrested in Puerto Rico. Kevin Ocasio Justiniano, 27, was taken into custody on drug trafficking and weapons charges unrelated to the death of Katherine Aguasvivas on April 11. Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma …
Prosecutors wrote in a motion to hold Tifany Adams without bail that the 54-year-old grandmother, accused of killing Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley, allegedly admitted her involvement in the murders. Near the end of the motion, almost as an afterthought, Texas County District Attorney George H. Leach wrote that the “State would point out that …
A South Carolina man was arrested after a standoff in which he held a woman and three young children, one of them an infant, hostage for three hours Wednesday night. Gaffney Police said a woman called 911 at about 8:30 p.m. and put the phone down, WYFF reported. Dispatchers relayed the argument they heard over …
A 5-year-old girl died earlier this month, shortly after she was found obviously malnourished, weighing less than she did at 2, and covered in fecal matter with lice on her head. Prosecutors have now charged Kinsleigh Welty’s mother, the mother’s boyfriend, and her grandmother with her death, WXIN reported. “This happened over a long period …
Court documents reviewed by CrimeOnline reveal more details about the contentious custody battle between missing, now believed dead, Veronica Butler and her former mother-in-law Tifany Adams, who has been arrested and charged with murder. These documents provide insight into the custody battle that may have played a role in the alleged murders. The affidavit of …
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with assault, robbery, and grand larceny for an attack on a 68-year-old woman who was shoved down a flight of steps in front of Saint Demetrios Greek Orthdox Church last week. The vicious attack was captured on surveillance video, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The boy was seen following the …
A former assistant to Rex Heuermann is revealing new information about her interactions with the accused Gilgo Beach serial killer, WABC-TV reports. Heuermann faces charges of first- and second-degree murder for the deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Costello, Megan Waterman and Maureen Brainard-Barnes, whose bodies were found on the shoreline of Gilgo Beach not far …
A Texas mother is accused of leaving her two young kids home alone for days so she could take a cruise, KTRK-TV reports. Authorities allege that 29-year-old Lakesha Woods Williams left the children inside her luxury high-rise apartment in Houston for six days while she went on the getaway between April 4 and 10. The situation …
A terrifying abduction caught on camera has come to a tragic conclusion, authorities say. On Friday, Florida authorities said a burning vehicle found south of Orlando likely contained the remains of 31-year-old Katherine Altagracia Guerrero De Aguasvias, who had been carjacked a day earlier, NBC 6 reports. The brazen attack occurred in broad daylight at …
