Illinois State University grad student Jelani Day died from drowning, the LaSalle County coroner said Monday, but he did not determine a manner of death. Coroner Richard Ploch said he saw no evidence of injuries “such as manual strangulation, assault or altercation, sharp, blunt, or gunshot injury, infection, tumor, natural disease, congenital abnormality, or significant …
More questions than answers remain after the body of Illinois State University graduate student, Jelani Day, was found last month in the Illinois River. As CrimeOnline previously reported, family members told Dateline in August that not hearing from Day, 25, was “very unlike him.” After contact with him on August 23, the family didn’t hear …
Last week, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children publicized new images of an unidentified girl who was found deceased in Alabama in 2012. The organization said an anthropologist from the Smithsonian Institution was brought in to create the new pictures, which may show what “Opelika Baby Jane Doe” looked like before her death. …
German prosecutors say they are “100 percent sure” convicted pedophile Christian Brueckner kidnapped and killed Madeleine McCann, but they admit they do not have proof the toddler is dead. Madeleine, 3 years old at the time, was vacationing with her family in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007 when she vanished from her hotel …
Despite a new suspect put forward by a group calling themselves the Case Breakers, the detectives actively investigating the Zodiac Killer case say it’s still “open and unsolved.” As CrimeOnline previously reported, a team of more than 40 former law enforcement investigators, military intelligence officers, and journalists said on Wednesday that they had identified the …
A body that was found in a suitcase last fall was identified as a Wisconsin woman who had vanished months earlier, police announced on Monday. The Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that DNA was used to identify the deceased person as Rosaly Cindy Chavarria Rodriguez, 25, who was last seen on July …
A Florida college student drove to South Carolina to visit her father earlier this month, but she never made it and was later found dead, WHNS-TV reports. Police thus far have been tight-lipped about the death of 21-year-old Sheridan Wahl, which is now being investigated by state authorities, according to The Sun News. CrimeOnline has pieced together a timeline based …
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California police are investigating a death after a woman’s family arrived home to find her deceased inside their Los Angeles home on Tuesday night. Virginia “Gina” Cantero, 36, was found dead at a residence in the 14500 block of Lyle Street at about 11:30 p.m. NBC 4 reports that the victim’s brother, Sean Soto, said …
Alex Murdaugh’s law firm, PMPED, said Monday that it had pushed out the prominent South Carolina lawyer the day before he called 911 and said he had been shot in the head. The firm said it had learned Murdaugh misappropriated millions of dollars from the law firm and told him of the allegations on Friday, …
Police in New Jersey are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who was reportedly found dead last month near a shoreline. New Jersey State Police said in a statement that New Jersey State Police Marine Services discovered the unidentified man a mile from the shoreline of Sea Bright in Monmouth County on …
Authorities have launched an investigation after hiker Jennifer Coleman was found dead Sunday afternoon at Glacier National Park in Montana. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Coleman, of Richmond, Virginia, went hiking around August 30 or 31, and never returned home. According to Glacier National Park spokesperson Gina Kerzman, park rangers found Coleman’s vehicle in the Logan …
