The family of an 18-year-old Dutch model who died mysteriously nearly two years ago has successfully argued for a murder probe. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Dutch model Ivana Smit, 18, was found dead in November 2017 after she purportedly fell from an apartment in a high-rise luxury building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, landing naked on …
At least five people are injured, some seriously, after a suspect armed with a knife attacked pedestrians on or near London Bridge on Friday. According to the Guardian, Metropolitan Police responded to emergency calls around 2 p.m. Friday afternoon about a suspect with a knife. “We believe a number of people have been injured,” the …
Newly released video footage shows the mistress of convicted murderer Patrick Frazee telling investigators that the killer’s mother, Sheila Frazee, watched as her son burned what is believed to be Kelsey Berreth’s remains at his Colorado ranch. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Frazee was convicted last week on all counts related to the murder of Kelsey …
Confessed family annihilator Chris Watts has been ordered to pay $6 million to the family of his late wife Shanann Watts, who was murdered along with her two daughter Bella and Celeste in August 2018. The Denver Post reports that Watts agreed to the terms of a civil lawsuit brought by Shannan’s parents Frank and …
The man who confessed to murdering a 19-year-old University of Illinois-Chicago student reportedly told police that he became violent when Ruth George didn’t respond to his advances. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Donald Thurman, 26, was taken into custody and later confessed to sexually assaulting and murdering George on Saturday morning in a UIC parking garage. …
Authorities made separate grisly discoveries in the search for a missing pregnant woman and her boyfriend. As WBNS reports, Kyla Hayton, 20, and her boyfriend Todd Burkhart, 28, went missing last week from Mansfield, Ohio. Hayton was five months pregnant. On Friday, authorities reportedly Burkhart dead in a home in Dayton. He had suffered multiple …
A shooting investigation is underway in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles that appears to involve a male suspect who was seen holding a machete at a Chick-fil-a restaurant. Citing LAPD sources, KTLA reports that a man was shot near the intersection Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue in Hollywood on Monday, in what appears to …
A 19-year-old student at the University of Illinois-Chicago was found dead in this weekend in a Chicago parking garage, and authorities believe she was murdered. WMAQ-TV reports that a young woman found in a parked car on Saturday morning has been identified as a UIC student Ruth George. According to WLS, George’s family reported her missing, …
A father accused of abusing his son, who became suicidal, allegedly forced a gun into his hands and told him to shoot himself. Court documents obtained by Baltimore ABC affiliate WJMAR allege that Maryland father Anthony Lewis, 46, put a gun into his suicidal son’s hands and said “Just do it.” The 14-year-old boy reportedly …
A 70-year-old man was arrested Friday in connection with the brutal murder of a Virginia woman decades ago, Mlive.com reports. Authorities in Hamilton, Michigan, detained Dennis Lee Bowman on suspicion of killing Kathleen O’Brien Doyle in 1980 in Norfolk, Virginia. Investigators from local, state, and federal agencies descended on Bowman’s rural Michigan property, where they …
The two doctors brutally murdered in their luxury Boston penthouse were ambushed by their killer hours before they were both found dead, a court heard this week. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Dr. Lina Bolanos and Dr. Richard Field, anesthesiologists who were engaged to be married, were both found murdered in their South Boston penthouse apartment …
Police arrested an Ohio woman who allegedly stabbed another woman several times. Detectives said the suspect likely attacked the victim for wearing fur. FOX8 reports that at a little after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 35-year-old Meredith Lowell stabbed a babysitter three times at the Fairmount Presbyterian Church in Cleveland Heights. The victim, a babysitter, was …
