A Massachusetts elementary school teacher was found dead in her home this weekend under suspicious circumstances. MassLive reports that Vanessa MacCormick was discovered unresponsive in her Revere home on Saturday afternoon. Police have reportedly characterized the sudden death as suspicious but have not yet ruled it a homicide. MacCormick, who reportedly gave birth to a …
A suspect has been arrested in the brutal murder of a 12-year-old girl in Nashville last month. East Nashville Patch reports that Roy Coons, 45, has been arrested on multiple murder charges in the August 10 death of Yhoana Arteaga, a 12-year-old girl who was found dead in her home on August 10. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Arteaga …
The mother of a 13-year-old boy who was confirmed dead this weekend has spoken out in response to the news that DNA tests were a positive match for Robert Bee, Jr. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Bee went missing in November from his home in Pekin, Illinois. He reportedly ran away when truancy officers approached him …
A Texas man is facing manslaughter charges for reportedly fatally sucker punching an Air Force veteran over a slice of pizza, as reported by the Austin American-Statesman. Nathan Marshall, 28, (pictured left) is said to have admitted to assaulting Marques Johnson, 33, (pictured right) at 2 a.m. on September 17 near the Driskill Hotel. Johnson, who was …
A five-year-old boy who was found murdered earlier this month was killed because he witnessed his alleged murderer throw his mother from a cliff — because the suspect thought she owed him $200. As CrimeOnline previously reported, James Spoonamore was found dead earlier this month in Jackson County, Kentucky. Two days prior, hikers found his mother, …
A 22-year-old church usher is being celebrated as a hero in the wake of Sunday’s shooting at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee. CBS News reports that Robert Caleb Engle confronted suspect Emanuel Kidega Samson, 25, who shot and killed Melanie Smith, 39, in the parking lot before walking into the church …
A ten-year-old girl who was allegedly raped and murdered while her mother watched suffered additional horrors before her unspeakably brutal death. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Victoria Martens of Albuquerque, New Mexico, died the day after her tenth birthday, allegedly at the hands of her mother Michelle Martens, her mother’s boyfriend Fabian Gonzales, and the man’s …
A librarian’s close observation of a Utah man’s reading habits helped detectives pin a murder charge on him. Curtis Nichols, 35, allegedly researched legal defenses before strangling his wife to death. Nichols told police he found his wife dead on their kitchen floor after leaving the home for just a few minutes. His DNA was …
A Virginia man is behind bars after authorities found a deceased woman on the side of the road in a residential neighborhood on Friday. Investigators said the victim was hit by a moving car driven by her boyfriend. NBC12 reports that a resident first found the body of Dawn Marie Meade, 40, lying off of the 1100 …
The mother of a nine-month-old baby is outraged and heartbroken after finding that the child’s nine-year-old nanny has been horrifically abusing her. The Daily Mail reports that Annemarie Theron installed a nanny cam at her home in a remote corner of Namibia, Africa, after seeing some suspicious bruising on her daughter, Laila. They had also noticed …
Colorado police have arrested a man and accused him of beating his adult nephew and locking him in a shipping container for hours, as reported by KDVR. CBS Denver reports that the victim, Adonis Gomez, 21, claims that Wynn Sichting, 58, also stole his clothes during the September 11 incident. Gomez, who had recently moved out of the …
Three teenagers in Chantilly, Virginia, face criminal charges after one of them allegedly displayed a gun and threatened to kill fast-food workers when their order wasn’t ready in time, WJLA-TV reports. Police say the incident occurred at a McDonald’s in the Chantilly Shopping Center around 9 p.m. Thursday. When their food order wasn’t ready, the men began to argue, prompting …
