An American man allegedly stabbed his estranged wife to death in the lobby of a divorce court in Japan this week. According to the Kyodo News, the 32-year-old suspect was not named in initial reports. The victim was identified as 31-year-old Kyoko Wilson. Police reported that the man also allegedly slit his own wrists and …
An Illinois couple is facing criminal charges for the beating death of the woman’s 2-year-old son—which reportedly occurred two days after a caseworker visited the home amid neglect and abuse allegations. According to the Chicago Tribune, the contracted Illinois Department of Children and Family Services caseworker found that Ja’hir Gibbons and his 5-year-old brother were safe …
A jury at the trial for Bo Dukes, the Georgia man who helped conceal the murder of teacher and beauty queen Tara Grinstead, took less than an hour to deliberate before handing down a guilty verdict on Thursday. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Dukes was found guilty of hindering the apprehension of a criminal, concealing …
Two JetBlue pilots are accused of drugging and raping female airline workers during a layover in San Juan, according to a new lawsuit. The New York Post obtained court documents showing that three women are suing JetBlue after two pilots with the airline, Eric Johnson and Dan Watson, allegedly drugged all three women before Johnson raped …
The mother who pleaded guilty a rape-murder plot that killed her 14-year-old adopted daughter testified in court Wednesday that the plan had not been to kill Grace Packer right away — but to keep her imprisoned, essentially as a sex slave, so that her boyfriend could repeatedly rape the girl. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Sara …
The creator of a popular YouTube channel is facing numerous charges after her biological daughter alerted authorities about alleged abuse in her home. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Machelle Hackney, the creator of the “Fantastic Adventures” YouTube channel, was arrested on charges of abuse and false imprisonment following allegations that she confined, starved, and tortured seven …
The mother of a 14-year-old girl who was brutally raped, tortured, and killed at the hands of her mother’s boyfriend testified against the confessed murderer at his sentencing hearing on Wednesday. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Jacob Sullivan’s sentencing hearing is ongoing this week in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In early 2017, Sullivan confessed to raping and …
A Mississippi Army veteran who allegedly decapitated his mother last summer with a butter knife, his teeth, and hands had bitten off part of an inmate’s face three years earlier, according to a lawsuit filed by the inmate. The Mississippi Clarion Ledger reported that Jaron Stubbs claimed he sustained the facial injuries in June 2015 while jailed …
The man who admitted to brutally raping and killing 14-year-old Grace Packer, his girlfriend’s adopted daughter, is awaiting his fate, and jurors at his sentencing hearing heard the confession he gave investigators in January 2017 as he was recovering from a suicide attempt. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Packer was raped, drugged, and left for dead …
The trial for Bo Dukes, one of the men accused in the 2005 murder of Georgia high school teacher Tara Grinstead, is underway in Wilcox County, with a key witness testifying that Dukes admitted to burning Grinstead’s body the year after she disappeared — and a decade before any arrests were made in the missing …
Authorities are investigating the apparent murder of a California psychiatrist was found beaten to death in the trunk of his car parked in Nevada earlier this month. The Clark County coroner’s office announced last week that the death of Thomas Burchard, 71, was a homicide. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Burchard was found March 7 inside …
The family of a teenager who committed suicide after becoming victimized by a teacher characterized as a “known sexual predator” has sued a school district for allegedly concealing the behavior of the married teacher who had sex with minor students. The Reno Gazette Journal reports that Tennille Whitaker, 41, is serving a maximum of 20 years …
