California man pleads guilty to murdering 5-year-old son after Disneyland
Family Crime
Search for the boy lasted for 2 months before his body was found near a lake
Violent Crime
July 31, 2017
Little boy among 35 shooting victims in violent Chicago weekend
Thirty-five people were shot, including a 4-year-old boy, over a violent weekend in Chicago. Between Friday evening and Monday morning, 35 people ranging from 4 to 89-years-old, were shot in the city, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. Four of the shooting victims died, bringing the total number of people fatally shot in Chicago this year to …
Violent Crime
July 30, 2017
Two dead in nightclub shooting
VIENNA (AP) — A shooting in a German discotheque claimed two lives Sunday, including that of the gunman, and wounded four people, three of them seriously, police said. A tweet by police in the town of Konstanz in Germany’s southwestern Baden-Wurttemberg state said one person was killed and three were seriously wounded in the early-morning …
Juveniles
July 29, 2017
Police say the gunman was aiming at a nearby van, shoots girl on scooter dead
The gunman who shot and killed a 12-year-old girl while she was riding her scooter has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for charges related to her death, and an additional 15 years for another killing. Genesis Rincon of Paterson, New Jersey, was shot in the head by a stray bullet while riding her …
Murder
July 28, 2017
Police officer shot and killed while trying to aid car crash victims
A Southport, Indiana police officer was shot and killed Thursday as he tried to help at the scene of a car crash. Lt. Aaron Allen, an officer from the Homecroft Police Department, responded to the report of a car accident at approximately 2:30 p.m. As the officers approached the flipped over vehicle, one of …
Murder
July 28, 2017
Prison escapee kidnaps teen daughter of warden, stabs her to death and dumps body in woods in unhinged rampage
An 18-year-old girl murdered by an escaped convict from a Louisiana prison this week was the step-daughter of an assistant warden at the correctional facility. KTBS reports that Deltra Henderson, an inmate at the David Wade Correctional Center in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Amanda Leigh Carney, 18, as he stole her car in an attempt to …
Family Crime
July 27, 2017
Father restrains son and his mother with zip ties, stabs 4-year-old boy to death before killing himself
A four-year-old boy and his father are dead, and the mother critically injured, in an apparent murder-suicide in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the suspect, a man in his twenties, forced his way into his ex-girlfriend’s home on Wednesday evening and restrained her and their four-year-old son with zip ties before …
Family Crime
July 27, 2017
Teen boy brutally murders mother with hammer, knife — and texts photos of her corpse to a friend before drinking bleach
The suspect texted his friend to say that his life was over
Family Crime
July 26, 2017
Teen pleads not guilty in fatal crash of younger sister streamed on Instagram
By SCOTT SMITH, Associated Press LOS BANOS, Calif. (AP) — A California teenager pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony charges of vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving after she lost control of her car while livestreaming on Instagram and recording a crash that killed her younger sister. Obdulia Sanchez, 18, appeared via remote camera in Merced County …
Police
July 26, 2017
A woman ‘slapped’ police cruiser just before officer shot unarmed Justine Damond: Report
The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Justine Damond may have been startled by the sound of someone “slapping” the police cruiser that arrived to the scene last Saturday night after Damond called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home. According to a search warrant obtained by Minneapolis news …
Family Crime
July 26, 2017
It’s a Family Affair: Mom and son attack, pour acid on husband’s face
A mother and her adult son are facing prison time the murder of the woman’s estranged husband and the man’s father. Craig Rideout’s body was discovered last July in a wooded area in Yates County, New York. On the same day, his sister found Laura Rideout, Craig’s estranged wife, cleaning the home where Craig lived. …
Family Crime
July 25, 2017
Mom kills mistress and her own children to make husband suffer ‘everlasting consequences’ for cheating: Police
The mother of two who killed her husband’s mistress, her own two children, and herself earlier this month was intent on punishing her cheating husband. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Jessica Edens, 36, shot and killed Meredith Rahme, 28, in a parking garage in Greenville, South Carolina, on July 13 before shooting her children and then herself in …