A Michigan father was bound over for trial last week after gunning down his teen son and wounding two of the boy’s siblings. Jeffrey Smerer, 44, slashed his wrist and took “multiple forms of medication” after shooting 17-year-old Kayleb Smerer, 13-year-old Bentley Smerer, and 12-year-old Kinzley Smerer on September 11, police said at a preliminary …
An Ohio woman was jailed on Wednesday for allegedly abusing her 4-month-old daughter on multiple occasions. The Division of Child and Family Services alerted Unified police on Tuesday, after Lizbeth Hurtado-Breton’s infant daughter was reportedly hospitalized with multiple injuries — including severe facial burns, several bone fractures, and a brain bleed. Though the baby’s father …
Two 17-year-old girls in New Jersey were killed on Monday when they were struck by a driver who was allegedly stalking them. Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas were driving electronic bicycles in Cranford when a Jeep SUV struck them. The 17-year-old male driver was apprehended after he drove for a short distance with one of …
Washington officials announced on Thursday that human remains discovered last week belong to a man who vanished after allegedly killing his three daughters. Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison said the decomposed remains — found on September 19 on Grindstone Mountain — are those of Travis Decker. The announcement comes two days after U.S. Marshals petitioned …
Police in California are searching for a missing 30-year-old woman who hasn’t been seen in days. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, Lavonta Brown was last seen September 8 in the 1000 block of West Carson Street in Torrance. Family members said Brown has a mental disorder; police labeled her as an “at-risk” missing person, …
The mother of a murdered New Mexico man is hoping this year will bring answers and her son’s killer to justice. While standing at her booth Friday in the Exhibit Hall at CrimeCon Denver, Vangie Randall-Shorty told CrimeOnline that it has been five years since the murder of her son, 23-year-old Zachariah Juwaun Shorty. She’s …
A female’s body has been found amid the search for missing Maryland teen, Dacara Thompson. According to the Prince George’s County Police Department, the body was found “in a grassy area off Route 50 in Anne Arundel County on Sunday.” Dacara, according to her parents, disappeared on August 22 after telling her father, Daniel Thompson, …
A Nebraska couple has been charged with child abuse resulting in death after their 4-month-old daughter died earlier this month. An autopsy indicated that the baby girl died from a traumatic brain injury consistent with shaken baby syndrome, police said in court documents, according to the Lincoln Journal Star. Ryan Greenwood, 36, called 911 at …
Notorious “Alphabet’’ serial killer Joseph Naso has reportedly claimed that he’s responsible for the deaths of 22 additional women. According to ABC 7, the 91-year-old murderer, currently in California’s San Quentin prison at being sentenced to death, was convicted of killing four women who had the same letters in their first and last names. Now, …
Police in Maryland are searching for a missing teen who hasn’t been seen in nearly two weeks. Dacara Thompson, 19, was last seen August 22 at her father, Daniel Thompson’s, home in Lanham. She reportedly left to get gas for her 2013 white Ford Edge, and never returned. Daniel Thompson said she sent him a …
An Arizona mother is speaking out for the first time after her toddler son died in a backyard pool earlier year, at the family home in Chandler. “Loss of this magnitude feels impossible to put into words,” social media influencer Emilie Kiser wrote, in part, in a post on TikTok. “I’ve spent days, weeks, months …
Testimony resumes Thursday morning in the murder trial of Donna Adelson, a Florida matriarch accused of orchestrating a hit on her daughter’s ex. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Adelson, 75, is on trial in Tallahassee, accused of planning the murder of her former son-in-law, Dan Markel. She’s facing first-degree murder, conspiracy and solicitation charges, for the …
