The FBI is reportedly investigating the mysterious death of a Westchester pair believed to have died in some type of vehicular accident on the final day of a brief Caribbean vacation. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Orlando Moore and Portia Ravenelle of Mount Vernon went missing on March 27 when they were scheduled to depart from the …
A woman who vanished while on vacation in the Dominican Republic has been positively identified as an apparent victim of an accident who died in a hospital there late last week. Translating from the Dominican newspaper Diario Libre, the New York Post reports that a police spokesperson said that Portia Ravenelle, 32, of Mount Vernon, New York, …
An American couple that vanished in the Caribbean were likely discovered well over a week ago, though their families were desperately searching for answers until Tuesday, when authorities in the Dominican Republic announced that two recently deceased individuals matched the descriptions of Orlando Moore and Portia Ravenelle. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Dominican police told a …
Authorities in the Dominican Republic may have found the bodies of a New York couple that went missing the day they were set to return from a short Caribbean vacation. Citing the Dominican newspaper Diario Libre, the New York Post reports that authorities have found two bodies and a vehicle that may be the rental …
The American couple missing two weeks after they were expected to return from a Caribbean vacation had underestimated the distance from the resort to the airport, according to a couple who befriended them on their trip to the Dominican Republic. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Orlando Moore and his girlfriend Portia Ravenelle of Mount Vernon, New York, …
The couple checked out of their hotel, but their rental car is missing – and they never made their flight back to the U.S.
A family is demanding answers days after New York mother who traveled to the Dominican Republic reportedly died moments before undergoing liposuction. According to the Daily Mail, Johana Gonzalez, 25, died Tuesday while being prepped for the elective surgery at the Center for Plastic Surgery and Liposculpture (El Centro de Cirucia Plastica y and Lipoescultura, CECILIP) …
By COLLEEN LONG and TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A nanny convicted of brutally murdering two small children in her care has been sentenced in New York City to life in prison without parole. Yoselyn Ortega was convicted last month in the deaths of 6-year-old Lucia Krim and 2-year-old Leo Krim and was …
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A nanny who argued she was too mentally ill to be held responsible for stabbing two children to death at their home has been convicted. Jurors on Wednesday found that Yoselyn Ortega killed 6-year-old Lucia Krim and 2-year-old Leo Krim in October 2012 and understood the consequences …
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Manhattan apartment was eerily quiet, unusual for a home with three little kids. All the lights were off, except for the glow of a bathroom light. That’s where Marina Krim found her two children — covered in blood, slaughtered by the family’s trusted nanny. “It’s like …
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A defense lawyer says it was an act of madness. Prosecutors will begin trying to prove Thursday that it was murder. Five years ago, Yoselyn Ortega, a trusted nanny to a well-to-do family, took two young children in her care into a bathroom at their Manhattan apartment, …
A Russian woman lost her life while playfully hanging out of the passenger side window of a car while topless in the Dominican Republic. The Mirror reports that Moscow native, Natalia Borodina, 35, was riding in a car with her friend, Ivanna Boirachuk, 32, on October 11, when she decided to take her bikini top off and go …
