Police in New Mexico have apprehended an Albuquerque man suspected of murdering and partially dismembering his mother. Police booked Leroy Vallejos, 49, into the Metro Detention Center Wednesday. Vallejos allegedly confessed to strangling his mother, Ernestina Lucero, 69, approximately three …
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against the Royal Caribbean cruise line after an intoxicated New York mother fell overboard into the sea. On Tuesday, Aronfeld Trial Lawyers announced they filed a lawsuit on behalf of 66-year-old Dulcie White’s …
UPDATE The victim of a “domestic related” shooting in Georgia last week has been identified as 21-year-old Elaijia Whitley. The shooter has been identified as her ex, 23-year-old Caprice Hudson, who took his own life in Columbia County after a …
A South Carolina death row inmate who burned his victim’s eyes and wrote a message in the victim’s blood has chosen to die by firing squad. Atlanta’s 11 Alive News reported that on Friday, Stephen Bryant, 44, opted for execution …
Police in North Carolina arrested the mother of twin teens three weeks after finding one of the children dead from possible neglect at a High Point home. On Thursday, High Point police arrested Kymberli Bowden, 44. Bowden’s 13-year-old daughter was …
A beautiful and brilliant medical doctor, Dr. Teresa Sievers, takes her family on a vacation trip to visit extended relatives with her husband and her two little girls. Teresa comes home early, leaving family behind in Connecticut so she can …
A Florida woman has been charged with false imprisonment of a young child and burglary after she allegedly tried to kidnap a 5-year-old boy from his grandmother’s vehicle. An immigration hold was also placed on Ivanna Nobile, 38, Broward County …
A 21-year-old Minnesota man reportedly admitted raping a 51-year-old woman on a Vadnais Heights street earlier this week, telling detectives he did so because “F*** it, since I’m a virgin.” Tristen Alan Leritz is charged with criminal sexual conduct in …
Texas officials have ruled the recent deaths of four people found in a city’s bayous as undetermined. The five people, including University of Houston student Jade McKissic, 20, were all discovered deceased in Houston bayous in September. Harris County Institute …
A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after a missing Louisiana girl was found hidden in a box in the basement of a Pittsburgh home. A New Orleans man has also been arrested and charged in the case. The 13-year-old girl …
Four years after the disappearance of 5-year-old Michael Vaughan, police in Idaho have charged his former neighbor with murder and related charges. According to the Payette County Prosecutor’s Office, police charged Stacey Wondra Friday, with the disappearance and murder of …
A 2-year-old Missouri boy who died Monday had reportedly been strangled and sexually assaulted. Nicco Cotton, 21, turned himself in on Thursday, days after Bre’Yon Wells was hospitalized in St. Louis for asphyxial and abdominal injuries, in addition to injuries …
The mother of missing California girl Melodee Buzzard was removed from her Vandenberg Village home Thursday, as law enforcement carried out additional search warrants. In a Thursday afternoon press statement, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office stated that detectives and …
The father of an Oregon toddler found dead in the Siletz River after an 11-day search earlier this year has been charged with a misdemeanor neglect charge. Court documents say that Aaron Paulsen had “custody or control of Dane Paulsen, …
The parents and grandmother of a 7-year-old boy were arrested this week after the child was found dead inside a freezer in the family’s apartment. Police said they went to the Lynwood, California, apartment Tuesday night after they were called …
An active duty US Marine was arrested after he flew from North Carolina to Chicago to kidnap and sexually assault a 12-year-old girl. William Richard Roy, 24, was arrested on Sunday in Durham after his arrival there by bus with …
A Maine man who shot and killed his parents, their family dog, and another couple was found dead Tuesday in his prison cell in Massachusetts where he was serving a life sentence for the murders. After killing Cynthia and David …
An Atlanta father is charged with murder in the shooting death of his son outside an apartment complex in the city’s tony Buckhead neighborhood early Thursday morning. Atlanta Police said a woman at the complex called 911 about a domestic …
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A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after he allegedly shot a women in road rage incident in Bucks County early Monday evening. Cristopher Corbi, 41, was charged Tuesday with attempted murder, aggravated assault, propulsion of missiles into an occupied vehicle, …
Florida prosecutors upgraded charges on Monday against a woman who they said intentionally crashed her car in February — leading to her boyfriend’s death earlier this month. On February 9, Leigha Mumby, 24, and Daniel Waterman, 22, were arguing when …
The murder trial for a Kentucky man accused of killing a former Kentucky lawmaker’s daughter during a 2022 Richmond home invasion is set for next year. According to the Lexington Herald Leader, Madison County Circuit Court Judge Cole Adams Maier …
New Jersey prosecutors have released audio from multiple 911 calls which were placed last month after a 17-year-old boy allegedly ran over two girls. NJ.com reported that seven emergency calls were made after the teen struck and killed Maria Niotis …
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Florida authorities are looking for a 10-year-old girl who reportedly vanished on Tuesday. WSVN reported that Gabrielle Terrelonge was last seen in Margate, though specifics regarding her disappearance were not provided. However, police believe she is still in the area. …
A Michigan woman was sentenced Wednesday, following the 2024 death of her toddler daughter. According to ABC 13, a Grand Rapids judge sentenced Angelica Arechiga, 27, to 45 days in jail, along with 24 months of probation, following a no …
Police in New Mexico are searching for a Rio Arriba County man who hasn’t been seen in over a month. According to police, 36-year-old Joel “Deano” Valdez, a journeyman lineman, was last seen September 18 while traveling back from Silver …
Police in eastern North Carolina are hunting for a man they say killed his grandmother in her home and later assaulted a deputy inside a fast food restaurant bathroom. The Craven County Sheriff’s Office identified Dominic Liam Connelly, 24, as …
The trial is under way for a Tennessee mother accused of neglecting her 13-year-old son to death, more than three years after she was indicted. Kadaris Maddox had cerebral palsy and weighed just 38 pounds when he died on July …
A Missouri woman has been charged with with domestic assault after a violent fight with her boyfriend ended when she hit him with garden shears and tried to run him over with his truck. Cheri Newark, 48, denied trying to …
Andrew Olson and the boy were watching a movie when Michelle Yeagher, apparently drunk, opened fire.
A Tennessee couple pleaded guilty this week to aggravated child abuse and neglect, a year and a half after one of their four adopted daughters collapsed and was subsequently discovered to be severely malnourished. Another adopted daughter, the biological sibling …
An Illinois jury on Wednesday convicted a sheriff’s deputy of second degree murder in the shooting death last year of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 to report a suspected prowler and ended up dead when the deputy …
A Florida woman is in jail, charged with stabbing her teen sister about 10 times after the girl tried to stop her from looking through her phone. The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office says the incident took place mid-afternoon on Sunday in …
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A registered sex offender was arrested on Tuesday in Pennsylvania, where he allegedly attacked a woman during a burglary. Louis Sophie, 45, reportedly entered a Bensalem home through an unlocked door before grabbing a female resident. Sophie began to take …
A Georgia woman is behind bars after police say they found the remains of a 4-year-old child, Sunday, inside her Nissan sedan. According to police, Jessica Motes is facing a felony concealing a death charge in connection with the death …
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An investigation is underway in California after a newborn baby was discovered at a college apartment building on Monday. KABC reported that a full-term infant girl was found at the Cardinal Gardens Apartments — located near the University of Southern …
An Illinois woman will spend decades behind bars for the murder of a former Maquon Police Department chief, a judge ruled Monday. According to KWQC, Knox County Circuit Judge Andrew Doyle sentenced Marcy L. Oglesby, 53, to 50 years in …
A Wisconsin man has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly shot his wife multiple times after she returned home from a meeting with a lawyer about their pending divorce. Guy Jerome Paider, 53, shot victim after police entered …
A Michigan nanny has been charged with stabbing stabbing to death the grandfather of the 3-year-old girl she was caring for and injuring the child and her uncle in a subsequent attack. Samantha Rae Booth, 35, is charged with first …
A North Carolina man was arrested after he called 911 Monday night and said he had killed his children. The Johnston County Sheriff’s Office said it responded to the home in Zebulon and met with Wellington Delano Dickens III, who …
An Alabama man was arrested Monday night after law enforcement was notified he made “credible threats of violence against multiple synagogues throughout Alabama and surrounding states.” A search warrant was conducted on the home of Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker in Needham, …
A double murder-suicide on Ohio’s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base over the weekend left three employees of the base dead and friends of stunned. The base identified the dead as 1st Lt. Jaime Gustitus, Jaymee Prichard, and Jacob Prichard, WDTN reported. …
An independent autopsy is pending in the case of a Mississippi man who was found hanging from a tree at his college in September. On September 15, Delta State University student Demartravion Reed, 21, was discovered hanging from a tree in …
An HIV-positive man who allegedly fled the country after sexually assaulting multiple men was extradited to California on Friday. KGO reported that Franklin Enrique Sarceño Orla, 35, victimized between 19 and 60 men in Santa Clara County, starting in 2018. …
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The search continues for Melodee Buzzard, a 9-year-old California girl who has not been seen in weeks. As CrimeOnline previously reported, police say Melodee was last seen with her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, who lives with her daughter in Lompoc, on …
