JoAnn Cunningham, who pleaded guilty to killing her 5-year-old son in April 2019, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the crime on Friday, after two days of emotional testimony, the North West Herald reports. Cunningham, 37, pleaded guilty on December 5, 2019, to a single count of first degree murder, after denying she …
A Nevada woman was sentenced late last month to life in prison without parole for beating her parents to death with a crowbar and lighting their house on fire after they caught her huffing paint in the garage. On June 26, Alexis Alegria, 31, was handed two consecutive life terms for murdering father and mother, …
Breonna Taylor, the young EMT who was fatally shot in Kentucky in March, was left without medical attention for 20 minutes after she was hit by police gunfire inside her Louisville home. According to the Courier-Journal, Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker claimed that Taylor, 26, was alive for a period of time after undercover officers raided …
The Colorado woman accused of killing her stepson, Gannon Stauch, will transfer shortly to the Pueblo State Hospital for a mental evaluation, which was ordered by a judge over a month ago. During a court hearing Friday at the El Paso County courthouse, prosecutors and defense attorneys discussed the mental health status of Letecia Stauch, …
The teen reportedly has oppositional defiant disorder, which experts say isn’t typically treated with hormone therapy
An Oklahoma woman is behind bars after she reportedly tried to cut off of a man’s head in their McAlester home. McAlester News-Capital reports that Crystal Haworth, 30, showed up to the Pittsburg County Sheriff’s Office “covered in blood” on Wednesday and admitted “numerous” times that she tried to cut off 57-year-old Leonard Brokeshoulder’s head …
The sentencing hearing for an Illinois woman who pleaded guilty to killing her 5-year-old son in April 2019 began Thursday with testimony from neighbors, audio tapes of the boy arguing with his mother, and the mother’s own testimony that she would do anything to have him back, the North West Herald reported. JoAnn Cunningham changed …
Twisted killers Chris Watts and Jake Patterson are apparently friends behind bars, according to a report from MailOnline. According to a book entitled, “The Perfect Father,” Colorado killer Chris Watts, who’s in prison for killing his wife and two daughters, met Wisconsin killer Jake Patterson at the Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin. Patterson is …
A New Hampshire man who reportedly admitted to sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl is out of jail and a police captain is infuriated. Boston’s 7 News reports that 31-year-old Russell Debreceni faced arraignment on Tuesday at the Hillsborough Superior Court, on a charge of aggravated felonious sexual assault. Police arrested Debrecini on July 1 after …
A former police officer in Hawaii who forced a homeless man to lick a urinal in 2018 was sentenced Wednesday to four years in federal prison. KHON reported that ex-Honolulu police officer John Rabago, 44, pleaded guilty to conspiring to deprive a person of his civil rights and acting under the color of law to deprive …
A Minnesota man admitted during a court hearing Tuesday to snapping her neck and suffocating her before reporting her missing. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 28-year-old Joshua Fury confessed earlier this year to strangling his wife, Maria, 28, and burying her under their Maple Grove home on April 30. The same day, Fury reported his wife missing …
A California court is expected to drop the case against four ex-social workers involved in the torture and murder of Gabriel Fernandez. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced in a statement that charges will be dismissed Thursday against former social workers Stefanie Rodriguez, 35 and Patricia Clement, 69, and supervisors Kevin Bom, 41, …
