A Chicago woman surrendered to police this week, the day after she allegedly shot a woman in a violent crime broadcast live on Facebook. As CrimeOnline previously reported, authorities say the 27-year-old victim was recording a Facebook Live video Tuesday afternoon in the Parkway Gardens neighborhood when she became involved in a verbal argument with …
A medical examination of two pitbulls who mauled their young owner to death last month revealed that the dogs had swallowed what appears to be human hair. CBS News 6 reports that a necropsy on Tonka and Pac-Man, who were both euthanized after the fatal attack on their owner Bethany Lynn Stephens, found strands of long, …
Two attackers are on the run after allegedly slashing a Texas man’s throat as he thwarted a potential kidnapping. Othon Maldonado and his wife, Sandra Martinez, pulled into a Houston Whataburger on December 18. They were reportedly exiting their car when two men armed with knives approached them. Martinez told KSAT that the suspects took her …
A South Carolina woman is accused of murdering her boyfriend’s toddler daughter, after the three-year-old was found dead of blunt force trauma. The Herald Online reports that Kayla Cook, 25, was arrested Dec. 29 and charged with homicide by child abuse. Lillian Schroeder, 3, was pronounced dead earlier in December after police responded to a call about …
Kidnapper wanted $1 million he wrongly believed the victim buried in the desert
New information was revealed in regards to the Virginia teenager who allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend’s parents, before turning the gun on himself in a failed suicide attempt. HuffPost reports that 17-year-old Nicholas Giampa, of Norton, has been named as the person responsible for taking the lives of his girlfriend’s parents, Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, 43, and Scott …
Police investigating a husband’s alleged knife attack on his wife discovered that the had been having an ongoing affair with a teen student at the school where he was a math teacher. WZZM 13 reports that James Philip Chelekis, 32, of Wyoming, Michigan, pleaded guilty to three felony charges, including assault with intent to murder. Chelekis …
More than two month after a passerby saw the tiny body of a toddler in a beach in Galveston, Texas, authorities there are no closer to understand who the little boy is or what happened to him. The mystery of the boy, now called “Little Jacob,” has gripped the resort town on the Gulf Coast …
Police have said Andrew Finch, 28, was shot after a prankster called 911 last week with a fake story about a shooting and kidnapping at Finch’s Wichita home.
The teen suspect claimed self-defense, but witnesses claim she stole the victim’s wallet after he was shot
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore has set a new per-capita homicide record as gunmen killed for drugs, cash, payback – or no apparent reason at all. A surge of homicides in the starkly divided city resulted in 343 killings in 2017, bringing the annual homicide rate to its highest ever – roughly 56 killings per 100,000 …
The suspect in a deadly ambush that killed a sheriff’s deputy in Colorado on Sunday had previously escaped from a mental health ward, and his own mother had warned local authorties that he was off his medication and likely suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Matthew Riehl, 37, was killed by SWAT team gunfire on Sunday …
