Organizers cancelled the rest of the weekend performances at Houston’s Astroworld Festival at NRG Park after a chaotic opening night in which eight people died and hundreds more were injured. Investigators are still trying to to determine what caused the casualties. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said the dead victims ranged in age from 14- to …
North Carolina authorities announced Thursday that the body of a St. Pauls woman who disappeared on September 26 has been located. The North Carolina Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that a body found off of Tom M Road near NC710 is that of 42-year-old Jessica Lawrence. According to the News & Observer, police called the case …
A 27-year-old Alabama woman last seen getting into a rideshare in June was found dead over the weekend in Birmingham. Jefferson County Coroner Bill Yates, who identified the skeletal remains using dental records, said that Angela Michelle Roberts’s cause of death may never be known. “When you have skeletal remains, it hampers our ability to …
A medical examiner confirmed the identity of 5-year-old Elijah Lewis, found dead last week in a Massachusetts state park, but autopsy results for a cause or manner of death were inconclusive. Elijah’s remains were found buried on Friday at Ames Norrell State Park in Abington, about 90 minutes from his home in Merrimack, New Hampshire, …
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 …
“There is only one person to blame and that’s Brian Laundrie.”
