The brother of a California woman found dead of a presumed homicide has put up a $25,000 reward for information about Jennifer Dillon’s apparent murder. As the Desert Sun reports, Dillon, 59, was discovered dead in her Palm Springs home on January 25. Responding detectives immediately suspected foul play, and a subsequent investigation led Palms …
Tuesday marks the second day of Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, after a dramatic first day of opening statements from the prosecution and the former Minneapolis police officer’s defense attorneys. Chauvin is facing third-degree murder, second-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in connection with the death of George Floyd, the unarmed man who died in May 2020 …
Miami-Dade police are searching for a man who forced a 12-year-old boy into a car, then sexually assaulted and shot him. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Miami-Dade police said the incident took place between 2 a.m. and 3:30 am Saturday in northwestern Miami. The suspect is described as a tall Hispanic man with long, curly hair. …
Attorneys will give their opening statements to jurors Monday in the murder trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd. Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter for the death of the unarmed man, who died in May 2020 after Chauvin knelt on his neck for several …
Minnesota’s highest court ruled this week that someone who is sexually assaulted while intoxicated is not “mentally incapacitated” if he or she had consumed alcohol or drugs on their own volition, a decision that could make it more difficult to get justice for victims, KSTP-TV reports. The case stems from an alleged sexual assault in May …
A suspect or suspects opened fire in a popular tourist area in Virginia Beach on Friday night. Two victims have been confirmed dead, and several others are hospitalized with injuries. As CNN reports, one man and one woman died after they were shot on Friday night. Police appear to have identified up to three crime …
Investigators may have found the body of a Missouri woman who vanished in 2019, and whose husband was previously charged with her presumed murder. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Menngqi Ji Elledge’s husband Joseph Elledge reported her missing from her Columbia home in October 2019. The 28-year-old woman had a toddler daughter at the time of …
The woman who helped convicted killer Patrick Frazee cover up the murder of his fiancée Kelsey Berreth is out of prison.’ Citing Colorado Department of Corrections records, Fox 31 News reports that Krystal Kenney has been released on parole, after she was re-sentenced in a court decision that cut her initial sentence in half, and …
The police report from Ryan Bane’s 2011 domestic violence arrest shows a chaotic scene and a description of a violent assault against Bane’s ex-wife. Bane is the boyfriend of Sarm Heslop, a British woman who went missing in the U.S. Virgin Islands on March 8. Bane told police that he and Heslop had gone to …
Authorities in Texas are investigating the suspicious death of an 8-year-old boy who may have drowned in a bathtub at a Houston hotel. According to KPRC, police responded to a reported drowning Tuesday night at the Quality Inn & Suites in the Westchase district of Houston. The boy’s parents reportedly told police that he drowned …
The defendants accused of killing 6-year-old James Hutchinson allegedly hog-tied the boy and his two half-siblings, stuffing cloth in their mouths, in the days leading up to the killing. According to court documents obtained by the Journal-News, 29-year-old Brittany Gosney and her boyfriend James Hamilton put the three children a “hog tie” position, tying or …
A Pennsylvania man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly attacking and stabbing a 12-year-old boy in the neck at a McDonald’s.
