By COLLEEN LONG and TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A nanny convicted of brutally murdering two small children in her care has been sentenced in New York City to life in prison without parole. Yoselyn Ortega was convicted last month in the deaths of 6-year-old Lucia Krim and 2-year-old Leo Krim and was …
“He gave them to me and now he’s taken them away, if it had to happen, there is no better person than that,” the grieving father said of his estranged father-in-law
A review of the disciplinary procedures in Florida’s Broward District has found that the school district appears to favor maintaining a positive image than appropriately disciplining students, many of them repeat offenders. The Sun Sentinel performed a review of the school district’s disciplinary policies, examining records and interviewing school administrators, and found that misbehaving students …
Florida prosecutors charged four men under the state’s hate-crime enhancement law for allegedly attacking a gay couple during Miami Beach’s pride parade. From the Miami Herald, Juan Carlos Lopez, 21, Luis M. Alonso Piovet, 20, Adonis Diaz, 21, and Pablo Reinaldo Romo-Figueroa, 21, face up to 30 years in prison if found guilty of assaulting Rene Chalarca and …
Investigators believe a grandfather gunned down his wife, daughter, her four children and then himself in what authorities say is the deadliest mass shooting in Australia in 22 years. The New York Post reports that three guns recovered from the scene belong to 61-year-old Peter Miles, who owned the remote farmstead where the bodies were …
Four people are accused of killing and dismembering two men in Oklahoma, then chaining their bodies to concrete blocks in a pond, The Oklahoman reports. Prosecutors have charged a 16-year-old boy, his brother and mother, and the mother’s boyfriend in connection with the deaths. On April 18, authorities discovered the bodies of Alize Smith and …
A mother attempting to stop her daughter from killing herself died amid a struggle over a gun, the Caller Times reports. The victim, 45-year-old Esperanza Escamilla of Corpus Christi, Texas, was negotiating with her 26-year-old daughter Serena Escamilla on May 1 when the gun went off and a bullet struck her chest. Serena was reportedly …
The man who California authorities recently linked to the infamous unsolved Golden State Killer case was charged with an additional 4 counts of murder Thursday for a total of 12. According to the Los Angeles Times, Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., 72, is alleged to have killed Cheri Domingo and Gregory Sanchez on Oct. 27, 1981, …
UPDATED: Thursday, 4:13 ET Clothes and human remains have been found near the location where Jennifer Hart is believed to have driven her family over a cliff in late March. The Mendocino County Sheriff’s office announced in a press release on Thursday that a local resident found a pair of jeans and a shoe with …
Vermont State Police say a woman shot a man who was living in her home before stashing his body into a trash bin in early December, citing rape and manipulation involving drugs as a motive. Burlington Free Press reports that 31-year-old Erika Guttilla was arrested along with her mother, Carmen Guttilla; and boyfriend; Corey Cassani, …
The man who killed the granddaughter of actor Morgan Freeman while high on drugs was found guilty of manslaughter, not murder. TMZ reports that Lamar Davenport was acquitted of second-degree murder for the 2015 killing of E’Dena Hines outside the couple’s apartment in New York City. At the time of the slaughter, Davenport was reportedly high on …
The woman accused of killing her husband before murdering a look-a-like grandmother in Florida is being held without bail in a Florida jail as prosecutors continue to pursue a case against her for her husband’s presumed murder. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Lois Riess is accusing of killing her husband David Riess at the couple’s Blooming Prairie, …
