A 4-year-old Texas girl’s drowning death possibly played a role in Monday’s apparent murder-suicide that claimed the lives of her parents and two brothers. Farman and Layla Sherwani, and their sons Mateen Sherwani, 2, and Shaheen Sherwani, 12, were found …
A Washington mother is facing charges after police found her missing child last week, beaten and bruised in what investigators are calling an “absolutely horrific” child abuse case. Tri-City Herald reports that police arrested Adriana Rivas in Frankin County on …
An Alabama has pleaded guilty in connection with the 2019 death of 29-year-old Paighton Houston, of Trussville. According to Al.com, Frederick Hampton pleaded guilty “before Jefferson County Circuit Judge Thomas Thrash” Monday, the day his trial was scheduled to take …
A California store clerk who was brutally beaten into a coma during a robbery last week has died, CBS Bay Area reports. Loved ones of Yowhannes Tewelde say he succumbed to his injuries Tuesday afternoon after multiple surgeries, having never …
A Virginia mother has been found deceased following her disappearance last week, according to police. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Avriel Hooks, 20, was reported missing August 23, after her family hadn’t heard from her the day prior. The following day, …
New Jersey police are investigating after a 5-year-old child was found dead in a bathtub in a Newark apartment. The child was found unresponsive just after 7 p.m., the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said. The child was taken to University …
The judge overseeing Bryan Kohberger’s murder trial agreed to more time for the prosecution to respond to the defense’s 109-page motion to dismiss the indictment against him. A hearing on the motion had been scheduled for Friday, but Judge John …
CrimeOnline says motion after motion filed by college murders suspect Bryan Kohberger’s defense is “all just a big game right now” aimed at nothing more than “delay, delay, delay.” “The longer you wait, the less the memories are sharp,” she …
A Maryland dentist was found guilty Friday of murdering his girlfriend after he deliberately delivered a lethal amount of drugs to her in their Montgomery County home. The conviction comes after Sarah Harris overdosed on anesthetics delivered via an IV …
A college student convicted of stabbing a blind date says that thought she was Selma Hayek’s character in “From Dusk Till Dawn” at the time and bbelieved she was in an episode of Claire Danes’ “Homeland” when she told authorities …
A dispute over dipping sauces reportedly led to Sunday’s slaying of a 16-year-old girl near a McDonald’s in Washington, D.C. Naima Liggon and the 16-year-old female suspect ordered food at the fast-food restaurant before getting into a car together. WUSA …
The father and stepmom of a New York man killed during a vacation watched via Zoom as the man who confessed to the murder was released from jail to get a haircut. Gregory Moore, a father of four, and friends …
On Monday, a Georgia judge ordered the release of the grand jury report that details the evidence against former President Donald Trump and 18 defendants who allegedly tried to overturn results in the 2020 election. Fulton County Superior Court Judge …
A University of North Carolina graduate student allegedly shot and killed an associate professor on Monday, prompting a lockdown at the college and other area schools. Doctoral student Tailei Qi, 34, was arrested in a residential area not far from …
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A family of four — including two boys, ages 1 and 3 — were found fatally stabbed in a New York apartment in a suspected case of murder-suicide. Sources told the New York Post that a 41-year-old man, his 40-year-old …
Massachusetts authorities believe they have solved a nearly 50-year-old cold case involving a woman whose body was found on a beach with her hands cut off. The suspected killer: Her newlywed husband. On Monday, prosecutors announced the somber and disturbing …
Thousands of signatures have been amassed in an online petition pushing for a New Mexico teen accused of throwing her newborn away to be prevented from from attending college. Last week, a judge amended a pre-trial order for Alexee Trevizo, …
Utah police in Mill Creek are searching for a missing 27-year-old woman considered endangered after no sightings of her since Sunday. According to the Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake, Vanessa Cooper failed to return home Sunday night and …
On Friday, Florida police arrested a man for killing his 2-month-old daughter in 2021. Joseph Napier allegedly claimed he found Iris Noelle unresponsive and turning blue after leaving her alone with his 18-month-old daughter for 10 minutes. Napier claimed Noelle …
Months following the publication of a true-crime book detailing the death of an 8-year-old Pennsylvania girl, police made an arrest in the case, nearly 50 years later. As CrimeOnline previously reported, David Zandstra, 83, was arrested in Georgia last month …
Two women go missing within six miles of each other in Winter Park, Colorado. Melissa Whitsitt moved from Tennessee to Colorado in May to start a job at Winter Park Resort, almost 70 miles outside Denver. Mom Cindy Whitsett says …
A 16-month-old girl died on Friday after she was reportedly found in a car parked outside a South Carolina high school. WCIV reported that the toddler was found deceased at Bishop England High School after passersby spotted the baby alone …
Two women who left their home states to chase new opportunities in Colorado are missing, and family members are desperate for answers. According to police, Melissa Whitsitt (pictured left), 34, disappeared on on August 13 after failing to arrive at …
Cats of belonging Rex Heuermann’s family were reportedly taken to a kill shelter, following investigators’ weeks-long search of the suspect’s New York home. Heuermann’s wife, Asa Ellerup, and her two adult children, Christopher and Victoria, were banned from their home …
An Oklahoma woman was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl in videos discovered by the victim’s father. According to KOCO, the father went to Stillwater police after finding the illicit videos and photos of his daughter …
A Florida boy and his teen sister lost his life over the weekend after his mother killed him before taking her own life, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. During a Sunday afternoon press conference, Sheriff Judd Grady announced …
An Ohio man was found dead on Sunday after he confessed to police that he killed his wife. Union Township police said that William Pratt, 55, reported on Thursday that he’d found Katrina Pratt, 55, covered in blood with a …
A Florida softball coach was arrested last week on several counts of sex crime with a minor. The Pasco Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation into 40-year-old Matthew Galhouse on August 17 when the victim reported him to police. Investigators say …
A Virginia woman has been charged indecency with a minor for allegedly have sexual relations with 15-year-old teen brothers. Court documents say Ashleigh Watts, 37, is accused of having sex with the boys, who lived across the street, for nearly …
A former contract worker with the FBI has been charged with sexually exploiting about a dozen young boys he met over Discord and Snapchat. Brett Janes, 26, told the minors he worked for a U.S. intelligence agency and threatened suicide …
A 16-year-old girl was arrested early Sunday for the stabbing death of another 16-year-old girl at a northwest Washington, D.C., McDonalds. Police said the stabbing took place both inside and outside the fast food restaurant on 14th Street NW shortly …
Five New Mexico teens have been charged with murder for the death of a 5-year-old girl who was struck in the head while she slept during a drive by shooting last week. Sencheray Renee Hernandez, 19, is the only adult …
Jacksonville authorities identified 21-year-old Ryan Palmeter as the man who gun downed three Black people at a Dollar General store on Saturday after he was turned away from the historically Black Edward Waters University (EWU) nearby. Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters …
A California mother who faked her own kidnapping is out of prison after spending more than a year behind bars, the Sacramento Bee reports. Sherri Papini, 41, was released from prison last week and is said to be residing in …
A suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of a popular Georgia social media influencer who was found dead earlier this week after her vehicle was set on fire. On Saturday, Louisiana police said they took 21-year-old Eugene …
A South Carolina college student is dead after he apparently tried going into the wrong house and was shot this weekend, The State newspaper reports. Shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday, police in Columbia were called to a home for a …
A 37-year-old Florida man was arrested this week after he shot and killed his sister during a row over a power bill. Rowby Severe, 37, has been charged with first degree murder in the death of 41-year-old Magael Brown and …
A Kansas man was charged with murder on Saturday after his 19-year-old girlfriend was found dead in the trunk of his car. Wichita Police said officers were dispatched to Alexander Lewis’s apartment when a 911 operator in North Carolina got …
A gunman wearing a mask and a tactical vest killed three people at a Florida Dollar General store on Saturday in the Jacksonville sheriff said was a “racially motivated” shooting. Two men and a woman were killed, police said, all …
Public defender Anne Taylor also filed a motion to remove cameras from the courtroom entirely.
Gunfire erupted at an Oklahoma high school football game Friday night, sending players and spectators alike scattering and leaving a 16-year-old boy dead. Officials said the dead boy was not a student at either of the schools involved in the …
A Pennsylvania mom was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver early Saturday morning in southwest Phildaelphia’s Eastwick neighborhood. Police say Ashley McLean-Gaylor, 27, was exiting another vehicle at about 2:30 a.m. when she stepped in front of a passing …
An Indiana teenager accused of stabbing his mother Friday morning told police he did it to kill the demon in her. The 16-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery, and two counts of battery. He’s also charged …
Joran van der Sloot’s appearance in an American federal courtroom was short. It took the convicted killer less than five minutes to enter a not-guilty plea on charges that he extorted money from Natalee Holliway’s mother. The Dutch national was one …
A young Indiana boy was brutally beaten to death by his cousin because the child put his shoes on the wrong feet, the Journal & Courier reports. The older cousin was also reportedly enraged that the child sat down to …
An Indiana mother will spend the rest of her life behind bars for starving, torturing and beating to death her young son, the Commercial Review reports. On Thursday, 28-year-old Chelsea Crossland was sentenced to life in prison for the death …
A California man who allegedly strangled his girlfriend to death because he believed she was pregnant and wanted to keep the children has been convicted of murdering her and discarding her body in a dumpster, KTLA-TV reports. On Friday, jurors …
An Arizona woman was abducted earlier this week from a car dealership in Phoenix and then aided her own rescue when she slipped a note to a fellow customer at a Chevron station in Seligman, more than 160 miles away. …
