A 48-year-old Kentucky woman was arrested Friday after she shot her Uber driver on a Texas highway. Phoebe Copas allegedly told police she shot 52-year-old Daniel Piedra Garcia because she believed he was taking her to Mexico instead of her …
A Tennessee woman was arrested this week in an alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill a witness in the murder of her son in November 2022. Ashley Brown, 42, was charged with soliciting first degree murder after she allegedly tried to …
Prosecutors say a man charged with killing the husband of a California Highway Patrol captain last year did so as part of a murder-for-hire plot involving the captain and that they intend to seek the death penalty. Cumberland County, Kentucky, …
A Texas judge this week rejected a plea deal offered to a Waco man who admitted killing his estranged wife’s dog and laying their bodies out in her parking space at the church where she worked. The McLennan County District …
A prominent Penn State professor is facing criminal charges after he was allegedly caught on camera having sex with his dog in a public forest, prompting him to ask police to kill him when he was confronted with evidence of …
A New York father was allegedly murdered by his former wife and her husband in what authorities called a “sophisticated” killing that took years to investigate, the Poughkeepsie Journal reports. On Thursday, federal prosecutors charged 36-year-old Jamie Orsini and her …
Grand jurors are reviewing the mysterious death of a South Carolina teenager whose case has received renewed attention after Alex Murdaugh murdered his wife and son, Law&Crime reports. Eric Bland, an attorney for the mother of 19-year-old Stephen Smith, told …
A Florida mother charged last month with child abuse has now been charged with her 2-ear-old son’s murder. Rebecca Louise Gussage-Johnston, 24, was initially arrested on May 19 after the toddler died from injuries he suffered a day before, when …
A Texas woman reported being kidnapped, raped, and held for ransom during Galveston County’s annual Go Topless Jeep Weekend last month. The woman said she was forced into a pickup truck on May 21 and taken into Humble, where one …
A newborn baby girl was found dead in the back of an Ohio garbage truck on Thursday, the umbilical cord still attached. Plain City Police said the the city’s contracted waste management company found the infant in the back of …
A Pennsylvania truck driver was found guilty Friday of gunning down 11 Jewish worshippers in Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 and wounding seven more people — five of them police officers — before police shot him and ended the rampage. The …
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The mother of a 4-year-old Tennessee girl whose remains were discovered late Thursday night allegedly told police that her daughter had been dead for weeks before she reported her missing. According to WREG, Brittany Jackson originally told Memphis police that …
Nathan Carman, a 26-year-old Vermont man accused of murdering his mother, died in jail this week, likely from suicide, sources say. According to the Boston Globe, a New Hampshire Department of Justice spokesperson issued a statement indicating the state medical …
An Ohio man has been arrested for killing his three sons on Thursday and shooting the children’s mother. Clermont County chief prosecutor David Gast said Chad Doerman, 32, lined up the three boys, ages 3, 4, and 7, and fatally …
On July 7, 2013, 17-year-old Molly Miller and 22-year-old Colt Haynes disappear in Love County after a car chase with police. The car was driven by a friend, James Con Nipp. Police lost the vehicle somewhere in the area of …
Pamela Conyers spent the night of Oct 16, in typical teenager fashion. She went to the Friday night homecoming bonfire and pep rally at Glen Burnie High School. Afterward, her mother gave her 5 dollars and the keys to the …
Police in Georgia say a man is behind bars after a 14-year-old Gwinnett County girl was found inside his home a little over three weeks after she vanished. According to Fox 5 Atlanta, a lead detective in the case obtained …
On Thursday, six people in Tennessee were reportedly found dead in a burning home in a suspected case of murder-suicide. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said three children were found dead at a home in Sequatchie. The Daily Mail reported that …
In Chicago federal court Friday, Heather Mack, accused of participating in killing her mother and stuffing her in a suitcase during a luxurious vacation to Bali, changed her plea to guilty. AP News reports that Mack, who appeared in front …
On Thursday, a defense attorney representing New York woman Lauren Pazienza argued that she was heavily under the influence of drugs and alcohol when she attacked an 87-year-old singing coach in Manhattan last year. According to the New York Post, …
A family friend has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after she was caught on camera beating and slamming a toddler onto a sofa. Kristla Holmes told WCBS that she was at work when she took a …
A Manhattan attorney charged with a series of rapes in Boston 15 years ago was released on bail on Thursday. Court records said that Matthew Nilo’s fiancee paid the $500,000 bail after he agreed to conditions set by the court, …
Nathan Carman was also suspected of killing his wealthy grandfather.
An Oklahoma toddler whose body was found stuffed in a dresser drawer in an abandoned Indiana house died of “unspecified means,” a county coroner said this week. The Morgan County Coroner’s Office classified the death of Oaklee Snow, who died …
New York police have arrested a woman accused of stabbing a mother on a Brooklyn street as she was pushing her 3-year-old daughter in a stroller. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the stranger first threatened the toddler, then stabbed the 34-year-old …
Bryan Kohberger’s defense attorneys want to see all the material presented to the grand jury that indicted him last month for the murders of four University of Idaho students and have asked a judge to pause the proceedings against him …
Four other children were also found with serious injuries from abuse; Las Vegas couple arrested.
A former employee of a Virginia Chinese restaurant has been charged with killing the owner and seriously wounding the man’s son. Emporia Police Chief Ricky Pinksaw said officers responded to the China Garden restaurant at about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday and …
Mississippi officials recently issued a missing child alert for two babies who vanished in March and may be in danger. WTOK reported that Miracle Brown, 8 months, and Willie Love, 2, were last seen in Scott County with Symone Brown, …
Indiana authorities said on Thursday that a suspect confessed multiple times to killing two 14-year-old girls in 2017. Caroll County Prosecutor Nick McLeland said Richard Allen admitted “five or six times” to killing friends Abby Williams and Libby German, 14, …
A New Hampshire woman was reportedly found dead behind a home in Massachusetts on Tuesday, prompting an investigation. WCVB reported that an Everett resident discovered the body of Kya Donovan, 18, behind their home. Donovan reportedly went to Everett on …
A Chicago woman has been found after vanishing during a trip to Japan earlier this month. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Kandace Schipper, 29, traveled to Japan on May 8 and last contacted her family on June 4, which was unusual …
Last Thursday, an Idaho judge presiding over Lori Vallow Daybell’s triple murder trial decided that three relatives can provide victim impact statements before July’s sentencing hearing. KTVB reported that Kay Woodcock, Summer Shiflet, and Colby Ryan are allowed to give …
On Tuesday, the Cajun Coast Search and Rescue Team arrived in southern Kentucky to help with search efforts for Ricky Griffis, a Wayne County man who hasn’t been seen in nearly a year. Griffis’s last conversation, who was reported missing …
An Iowa woman has pleaded guilty to a cancer scam that led to her arrest earlier this year for theft, after swindling unsuspecting donors out of over $37,000. According to Quad Cities, Madison Russo pleaded guilty Wednesday at the Scott …
Nine women filed suit in Nevada on Wednesday accusing Bill Cosby of using his “enormous power, fame, and prestige” to lure them in and sexually assault them. The lawsuit, filed in federal court, says the women were drugged and assaulted …
Geoffrey Kim was found guilty on counts of attempted reckless manslaughter and obstructing a telephone.
An 18-year-old University of Connecticut student was shot and killed this week in what police said appeared to be a botched marijuana robbery. Hartford police were called to the scene at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night for a vehicle crash. …
The suspect accused of opening fire in a Colorado gay nightclub last year is expected to agree to a plea deal on murder and hate crime charges that come with a life sentence. The news comes from survivors of the …
A psychological evaluation of the Long Island socialite accused of fatally shoving a beloved voice coach to the ground in Manhattan is delaying a possible plea deal in the case. Lauren Pazienza, 26, has twice rejected a plea deal in …
Two Americans were found dead in a luxury hotel room in Baja this week, dead from “intoxication by substance to be determined,” the Baja California Sur Attorney General’s Office said. The AG’s office identified the man and woman as John …
The former manager of the morgue at Harvard Medical School has been indicted for the theft and sale of human body parts. Cedric Lodge, 55; his wife, Denise Lodge, 63; and three other people — Katrina Maclean, 44; Joshua Taylor, …
The Utah mom and children’s book author accused of giving her husband a fatal dose of fentanyl last year emailed investigators before her arrest to “clarify” questions about vacations she took after her husband’s death, his alleged affair, and other …
An Indiana man was arrested last month for sexually abusing his dog and physically threatening his mother, who allegedly caught him carrying out the act. In March 2022, an Elkhart woman reportedly witnessed her son, Blake Reffett, 20, with his …
An Ohio man has been charged in the death of his mother, who was found in a car in a grocery store parking lot with severe injuries from an apparent assault. Portsmouth Police responded to a call early Saturday morning …
A 28-year-old Louisiana woman was arrested on Tuesday for posing as a 17-year-old student during the 2022-2023 school year. The St. Charles Parish School System contacted police in late May, after receiving a tip that a student may have been …
Marine Daniel Penny is facing an indictment for the killing of New York street performer, Jordan Neely, following a confrontation last month on a Manhattan subway. A grand jury in Manhattan handed down the indictment on Wednesday, but the actual …
Tiffany Valiante, 18, has graduated high school and is on her way to Mercy College in New York. Standing 6 feet 2 inches tall, Valiante is a star athlete, earning a volleyball scholarship. On July 12, 2015, Valiante left her cousin’s …
A Florida couple was arrested for abusing the woman’s son, who reportedly drowned in their care in April. On April 22, Anthony Rouse, 6, apparently drowned in a bathtub at his mother and stepfather’s Winter Haven home. While Tre and …
