By ANGIE WANG and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press WAVERLY, Ohio (AP) — Authorities arrested a family of four Tuesday in the gruesome 2016 slayings of eight people from another family in rural Ohio, a crime that prosecutors suggested stemmed from a custody dispute. The announcement marked the culmination of a massive investigative effort that began after …
The parents of Chris Watts, who pleaded guilty last week to murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters, have said they believe the late Shannan Watts was “more capable” of killing her daughters Bella and Celeste than their son was. Doubling down on claims she made in an earlier interview with local Denver news station, …
A California woman is wanted by police for allegedly assaulting a store manager when denied ketchup last month at a Santa Ana McDonald’s restaurant. According to a Santa Ana Police Department news release, the altercation occurred at approximately 11 p.m. at a McDonald’s located in the 1500 block of North Bristol Street, on October 27. The …
Parkland school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz is accused of violently lashing out at a jail guard who simply asked him to stop dragging his feet. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Cruz has had additional charges added to his arrest record after he allegedly assaulted an officer guarding him at Broward County Jail Tuesday evening. The Sun …
The new charges include “using an electrical or chemical weapon against a law enforcement officer.”
A highly-regarded reporter and her uncle were discovered shot to death in Ohio on Monday, and their deaths are being investigated as a homicide, according to authorities. Cleveland.com reports that a culture reporter who worked for the company, 30-year-old Nikki Delamotte, and her uncle, 67-year-old Robert J. Delamotte, were found dead in the man’s Perrysburg …
A Pennsylvania mother is accused of killing her 5-year-old daughter on Halloween by pushing her down a flight of basement stairs. Ciara Robinson, 25, was charged with third-degree murder in addition to voluntary and involuntary manslaughter for the October 31 death of Amatulah McLaughlin. According to WCAU, Robinson admitted to beating and punching McLaughlin while threatening to put her …
The mother of the Colorado man who pleaded guilty earlier this month to killing his pregnant wife and two daughters says she believes he was coerced into taking a plea deal and did not commit all three murders. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Chris Watts pleaded guilty last Tuesday to murdering his pregnant wife Shannan Watts …
A North Carolina mother is facing multiple charges after her 5-month-old baby died while she was purportedly taking a nap. ABC 13 reports that police responded to the home of Myechia Avery, 30, in Cary on September 18 to find her 5-month-old boy unresponsive. Avery reportedly told emergency responders that she had placed the baby …
A Texas man behind bars for allegedly molesting more than a dozen children was beaten to death last Wednesday. Star Telegram reports Don Simpson, 76, was beaten to death inside the Tarrant County Jail, allegedly at the hands of 42-year-old David Faustino Flores. Flores was behind bars on charges of injuring an elderly person when the …
By JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — An autopsy determined that the gunman who killed 12 people at a Southern California bar died from a self-inflicted gunshot, police said Saturday. Ian David Long, a 28-year-old ex-Marine machine-gunner, fatally shot 11 people at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks and a …
A 77-year-old Georgia grandfather beloved by his friends and family was allegedly murdered and then gruesomely dismembered by a neighbor, WXIA-TV reports. Authorities this week located parts of Robert Page’s body in a cooler inside his next-door neighbor’s residence and found other body parts under tarps in the yard. The macabre discoveries came after Page’s …
