Four days after her husband allegedly beat her, a New York woman has passed away. On Monday morning, 49-year-old Maria Kelly was standing at a bus stop at Fort Washington Avenue and West 163rd Street when her estranged husband, Julio Aponte, 63, allegedly began hitting her in the head with a crowbar. According to the …
A decades-old cold case in connection with a young girl brutally raped and killed will be getting another look. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 14-year-old Nacole Smith took a wooded shortcut on Childress Drive in northwest Atlanta on June 7, 1995, which ultimately proved to be fatal. A killer lying in wait snatched the girl, then …
A New Jersey murderer, better known as the “Torso Killer,” has pleaded guilty to killing two victims. The Associated Press reports that Richard Cottingham, 74, admitted in court Tuesday that he murdered Mary Ann Pryor, 17, and Lorraine Marie Kelly, 16. Both girls were killed in August 1974, after Cottingham kidnapped, raped, then drowned them …
A former Oklahoma attorney and her boyfriend have been arrested for killing the boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend and her parents in 2019. The deaths of 65-year-old Jack Chandler, 69-year-old Evelyn Chandler, and their daughter, 43-year-old Tiffany Eichor, came just months after Keegan Harroz began defending Barry Rowland Titus II in a domestic violence case involving Eichor, who …
The brother of a California woman found dead is putting up a $25,000 reward for information about Jennifer Dillon’s apparent murder. Neighbors began checking on Dillon at the request of her wife after the IT specialist did not respond to call and texts. Her body was found in a bedroom. Responding detectives immediately suspected foul …
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 Pennsylvania judge Friday abruptly ordered all children at a county juvenile detention center transferred to another facility after receiving a startling letter detailing horrific physical, psychological, and sexual abuse at the facility. Delaware County Public Defender Christopher Welsh sent the letter to the county on Friday, the Philadelphia Inquirer said, and it contains affidavits …
A Georgia man was charged Saturday with shooting and killing his girlfriend after he called one of her family members and to say she may have been shot in her Roswell apartment, the Marietta Daily Journal reports. Jason Hall, 36, was arrested after a short, armed standoff outside Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, about …
A Florida woman handed her infant child to a stranger — but it turns out, the woman was not randomly chosen. As WESH reports, a Deltona resident called police last week to report that a woman had showed up on her doorstep, rang the doorbell, and handed her a 3-month-old baby boy. “Some girl just …
Ethan Kelly was 14 years old and weighed only 55 pounds when he was rescued. He had been locked in squalid room for 23 hours a day, while his adoptive parents pampered the family dog, even giving the pet a birthday party
A 12-year-old Georgia girl has died after a lice infestation that may have lasted as long as three years. Kaitlyn Yozviak lived with her parents in a bug-infested and rat-infested home. Coroners say the lice made the girl anemic, which resulted in a heart attack. Yozviak’s parents have been charged with second-degree murder and second-degree …
A former employee of Mississippi Child Protective Services was charged this week with multiple counts relating to alleged inappropriate conduct with juveniles under her care. A Tishomingo County grand jury indicted Lauren Rose Cavness, 26, after a months-long investigation by the Tishomingo County Sheriff’s Office, the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services, and the Mississippi …
