Federal prosecutor kills new bride, then himself in shock murder-suicide: Report
Family Crime
The couple had only been married for four months
Podcast
March 9, 2020
Monday Crime Stories: Did pervs try to lure Little Leaguer at 7-Eleven for candy, then shoot boy dead? Who murdered little Chuckie Mauk?
Mom wants answers after teen son is shot and killed, riding his bike to get candy.
Jail
March 9, 2020
Inmate begs for help. Staff says it’s her ‘fault’ for using drugs. She dies of a heart infection days later: Lawsuit
The family of a Vermont woman who died in police custody in 2018 has sued two Massachusetts police departments, alleging the agencies failed to provide her proper medical care despite her repeated pleas for help. A wrongful death lawsuit filed …
Cold Cases
March 9, 2020
Chuckie Mauk: There was a knock at the door…and nothing was ever the same
Chuckie Mauk was gunned down on the way to the store to get bubble gum; his killer is still out there!
Court
March 9, 2020
Evelyn Boswell: Judge increases bond by over $100K after tot found dead in same clothes mother previously described
The mother of Tennessee toddler Evelyn Boswell appeared in Sullivan County court on Monday, where a judge increased her bond amount by over $100,000. News Channel 11 reports that Sullivan County Judge James Goodwin increased Megan “Maggie” Boswell’s bond from …
Family Crime
March 9, 2020
‘Doomsday’ mom Lori Vallow sits in jail as bail bondsmen refuse to work with her: Report
Days after a judge reduced her bail from $5 million to $1 million, Lori Vallow remains incarcerated in Madison County, Iowa, despite speculation that her husband would bail her out. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Friday’s bail reduction paved the way …
Celebrity Justice
March 9, 2020
Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein ‘miserable’ behind bars, possibly suffered concussion after fall: Report
Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein was reportedly injured in a fall this weekend while behind bars. Weinstein’s publicist, Juda Engelmayer, told CNN that the disgraced producer experienced dizziness before falling at Rikers Island in New York on Sunday. Englemayer claimed Weinstein, …
Juveniles
March 9, 2020
Evelyn Boswell: Neighbor calls police after memorial for deceased Tennessee tot girl expands to his property
After learning of a Tennessee toddler’s death, numerous community members brought dozens of stuffed animals, flowers, and balloons to a makeshift memorial around Muddy Creek Road over the weekend, which has since moved after a neighbor complaint. As CrimeOnline previously …
Manslaughter
March 8, 2020
City councilman leads police to body of wife he reported missing two weeks earlier; He’ll be charged in her death
An Alabama city councilman who reported his wife missing two weeks ago led police to her body on Saturday and now sits in jail awaiting charges. Robert Warren reported Lisa Warren, 51, missing on February 25, Carbon Hill Police Chief …
Murder
March 8, 2020
Florida couple killed over money, bodies dumped into swamp; They’re found when a suspect tried to sell their truck
Police in central Florida arrested three people on Saturday and charged them in the deaths of a married couple killed 2 1/2 weeks ago, their bodies dumped into “a swampy area” behind their home. Acting on a tip, deputies found …
Violent Crime
March 8, 2020
Murder-suicide leaves Texas family of four, including two teens, dead
Four people were found dead early Sunday morning in what Texas authorities are calling a murder-suicide, KPRC-TV reports. Around 4:15 a.m. Sunday, a woman asked police to conduct a welfare check on her son’s home because she hadn’t heard from him …
Murder
March 8, 2020
‘Go and die in the woods’: New details in brutal torture, murder of 12-year-old boy
New details have been disclosed about how a Montana boy was tortured and killed by his own family, the Billings Gazette reports. James Hurley, 12, was found dead February 3 at his home in West Yellowstone, Montana, where authorities allege that he was …
Family Crime
March 7, 2020
Nancy Grace: ‘I was shocked’ Lori Vallow’s bail dropped from $5 million to $1 million
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace ripped “doomsday cult” mom Lori Vallow Saturday after watching the former Mrs Texas contestant — who refuses to tell authorities where her two missing children are — strut into an Idaho courtroom with bright red lipstick, blue …
Child Abuse
March 7, 2020
Parents WATERBOARDED 7-year-old boy in bathtub to exorcise demons: Cops
Oklahoma City police are investigating allegations of child abuse that include drugging, beatings, and waterboarding after witnesses received disturbing text messages from the parents about exorcising demons from a 7-year-old boy. Concerned friends went to police when they became concerned …
Juveniles
March 7, 2020
Special needs teen girl sexually assaulted, raped over 17 days on school bus: Lawsuit
A 14-year-old Georgia special needs student endured “hellish” sexual abuse aboard her school bus for two and a half weeks before the assaults turned to rape and the bus driver notified the school district that he’d “seen something,” according to …
Juveniles
March 7, 2020
9-year-old boy takes his own life after mother’s suicide: Report
A 9-year-old boy in Illinois is dead of an apparent suicide — two years after his mother reportedly took her own life. KMOV-4 reports that the boy was found dead of an apparent hanging suicide in Brooklyn, Illinois, on Thursday …
AMBER Alert
March 6, 2020
AMBER ALERT: 4-year-old boy, 35-year-old woman missing in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Police Department issued an AMBER Alert for 4-year-old Reynaldo Gonzalez and his mother, Christina Gonzalez, 35. Police believe they were last seen in a silver Toyota 4Runner with California license plate 7VGY615.
Sex Crimes
March 6, 2020
Plastic surgeon drugged, raped women and recorded it: FBI
A northern Ohio plastic surgeon was arrested on Friday and charged with drugging and raping women he had contacted through escort services. Manish Gupta, 49, owned and practiced at Artisan Cosmetic & Reconstructive Surgery in Toledo, according to WTVG. FBI …
Trials
March 6, 2020
Mom stabbed, beheaded daughter because ‘she asked for cereal’: Prosecutors
A Texas jury found Krystle Villaneuva guilty of capital murder Thursday in the 2017 stabbing death of her 5-year-old daughter Giovanna Hernandez and aggravated assault in the stabbing of her father-in-law, Eustorgio Arellano-Uresti. Villanueva, 27, was sentenced to life in …
Court
March 6, 2020
Gannon Stauch UPDATE: Dad files for divorce after stepmother is accused of killing 11-year-old boy
As the stepmother of a missing Colorado boy faces murder charges for his presumed death, her husband quietly filed for divorce. KDRO reports that Eugene Albert Stauch filed a petition for dissolution of marriage on Friday morning, days after his …
Court
March 6, 2020
Cops misidentify 2 teens killed in car crash, leading 1 to have organs harvested by mistake: Lawsuit
Three Florida agencies and a funeral home are facing a lawsuit for allegedly misidentifying two car crash victims — resulting in one of them having their organs harvested by mistake. The Pensacola News Journal reported that Deleigha Gibson, 18, and …
Family Crime
March 6, 2020
SEE IT: Lori Vallow appears in Idaho court as her two children remain missing
“The defendant has completely and utterly refused” to aid in the investigation into her children’s disappearance, a prosecutor said
March 6, 2020
Nancy Grace: After my fiancé’s murder, I wanted to help suffering families
“Crime Stories with Nancy Grace” will be available on Fox Nation on Monday, March 9.
Homicide
March 6, 2020
Bond DENIED: ‘Baby Horry’ mother, accused of tossing live baby boy in woods & leaving him to die, will remain in jail
A woman accused of dumping her newborn in South Carolina woods over a decade ago will remain behind bars without bond, a judge ruled. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Jennifer Sahr, 32, will be charged with one count of homicide by child …
Not a crime
March 6, 2020
HORROR: Worker decapitated while cleaning machine at chicken processing plant, officials say
Officials in Alabama confirmed that an employee who died at a chicken process plant on Tuesday afternoon was decapitated while cleaning a piece of equipment. According to WRBL, Carlos Lynn, 39, died while cleaning a piece of machinery called a …
Murder
March 6, 2020
Death penalty sought for parents of toddler girl who died weighing 7 POUNDS with ribs showing through her skin: Docs
The couple had nine other children and a dog in the home, and hardly any food
AMBER Alert
March 6, 2020
Evelyn Boswell: Grandfather says ex-boyfriend of missing Tennessee tot’s mother gave ‘stolen’ BMW as a gift
The great grandfather of a missing Tennessee toddler is disputing car theft charges against his daughter, Angela Boswell, who was arrested last month while in a BMW that was being sought in connection with the child’s disappearance. As CrimeOnline previously …
Missing
March 6, 2020
MISSING: Teen girl vanishes from Long Island middle school
A 14-year-old girl has been missing since Thursday afternoon when she was last seen at a Long Island middle school. The Suffolk Daily Voice reports that Marbely Flores Funez, 14, was last seen leaving Roosevelt Middle School in Roosevelt, New …
Murder
March 6, 2020
Florida ‘cannibal killer’ who bit random stranger’s face off declared legally insane when attack occurred: Reports
A Florida man who attacked a random couple in 2016 has been declared clinically insane, according to a prosecution psychiatrist. ABC reports that Dr. Gregory C. Landrum found that 23-year-old Austin Harrouff suffered an “acute psychotic episode” when he attacked …
Murder
March 5, 2020
Mom & boyfriend arrested after boy’s body is found in car trunk: Reports
A couple was arrested in Nevada on Saturday, after the woman’s 11-year-old son was reportedly found dead in the trunk of a car in Texas. Corey Trumbull, 31, was charged with capital murder, and both he and Stormy Johnson, 37, …
Trials
March 5, 2020
Real estate heir Robert Durst killed friend who helped him with alibi for wife’s disappearance: Court
Real estate heir Robert Durst went on trial in Los Angeles this week for the murder of his long time friend Susan Berman, who was found dead in her home on December 24, 2000, shot once in the back of …
Violent Crime
March 5, 2020
BREAKING: Stepmother accused of killing stepson Gannon Stauch slips out of handcuffs, ATTACKS deputy [Reports]
Leticia “Tecia” Stauch, the stepmother of missing boy, Gannon Stauch, reportedly slipped out of handcuffs and attacked a deputy on her way back to Colorado. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Stauch was arrested in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on first-degree murder …
Celebrity Justice
March 5, 2020
Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein finally goes to prison after having stent placed in his heart
Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein was finally moved to Rikers Island prison on Thursday, more than a week after he was convicted of rape and criminal sexual acts in a Manhattan court, the New York Post reported. Weinstein, 67, had heart …
Sex Crimes
March 5, 2020
Grandmom & fiancée film themselves sexually abusing 1-year-old granddaughter: Report
A West Virginia man learned on Wednesday that he will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars for filming himself molesting his fiancée’s 1-year-old granddaughter in 2015. Richard Smith II, 41, was sentenced to 205 to 775 years …
Family Crime
March 5, 2020
FBI desperate bid to find missing Idaho kids, release last photo of Tylee and J.J.
The FBI has released new photos of Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow taken on the last day Tylee was seen
Sex Crimes
March 5, 2020
‘Women helping women’: Wellness Now 101 founder fights sex trafficking with natural, homemade products
On any given day, over 68,000 people are “are trafficked right in front of our eyes” according to a Washington Post investigation. Sex trafficking is particularly high in Atlanta, largely due to it bring home to the nation’s busiest airport. Now, …
Child Abuse
March 5, 2020
Alicia Kozakiewicz: K9 Kozak named in honor of survivor lured from Internet chat room and brutally sex assaulted as child
Alicia Kozakiewicz, who survived a horrific abduction as a child in 2002, met K9 Kozak on Tuesday. Kozak is “an electronic detection canine named in Alicia’s honor,” according to the Wisconsin Department of Justice. On January 1, 2002, Scott Tyree, …
Murder
March 5, 2020
Police not ready to release more information on Faye Swetlik murder case, as questions remain
A law enforcement official has said that authorities will not be releasing any new information about the Faye Swetlik murder investigation until the case file is closed. Swetlik, 6, was found dead on February 13 in a wooded area in …
Murder
March 5, 2020
Gannon Stauch: Stepmother accused of killing stepson arrives in Colorado. Court hearing scheduled TODAY
UPDATE Leticia “Tecia” Stauch appeared in court in El Paso County, Colorado, on Thursday afternoon. A judge informed her of the charges she was arrested on and ordered to remain in jail without bond. She’s due back in court on …
Unsolved
March 5, 2020
DNA identifies charred head found in trash can as man missing since 2018: Police
Authorities in Missouri revealed on Wednesday that they have identified a human head that was found in a garbage bin in 2018. St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that DNA testing confirmed the burned remains were that of Demarko Sanders. St. Louis …
Podcast
March 5, 2020
Horrific stories of children, teens sold into sex slavery in their own words. LISTEN Now: Thursday Crime Stories
The numbers are staggering. Nearly half a million children are being sold into the sex trade each year in the US. Young girls and boys are being groomed by predators online or being force-ably taken, and forced into performing sex …
Family Crime
March 5, 2020
SEE IT: ‘Cult’ mom Lori Vallow sporting big smile and blue toenail polish in court [VIDEO]
Lori Vallow appeared in a Hawaii court on Wednesday to finalize her extradition to Idaho where she will face child abandonment charges connected to the disappearance of her two children who have not been seen since September. As CrimeOnline previously …
Murder
March 4, 2020
Gannon Stauch: Stepmother accused of killing 11-year-old stepson booked in Kansas for ‘courtesy hold’ [BREAKING]
A stepmother accused of killing her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon Stauch, has apparently been taken to a jail in Kansas. According to Saline County, Kansas, online jail records, authorities booked Letecia “Tecia” Stauch into the Saline County jail on Wednesday. Stauch’s …
Family Crime
March 4, 2020
As Tammy Daybell’s autopsy report is released to police, questions remain about ‘essay’ Chad Daybell wrote 12 days after her death:
Chad Daybell told his children he met widow Lori Vallow on a business trip to Hawaii shortly after his wife died
Homicide
March 4, 2020
Malnourished 6-year-old boy dies after family stashes him in closet, withholds food: Cops
Three people have been arrested in connection with Monday’s death of a 6-year-old Arizona boy. Flagstaff police said in a press release they responded to a residence at 12:39 p.m. after receiving a call regarding an unresponsive boy. Firefighters pronounced …
Celebrity Justice
March 4, 2020
‘He could go die’: Britney Spears’ son slams grandfather, previously accused of child abuse [Report]
One of Britney Spears’ sons slammed his maternal grandfather on social media Tuesday, Page Six reports. Pop singer Britney Spears’ father, Jamie Spears, previously had had conservatorship rights over her financial and personal affairs. He was also the centerpiece of …
Unsolved
March 4, 2020
Hit-and-run victim’s severed arm found 9 MILES from crash scene [Reports]
Multiple vehicles reportedly failed to stop after striking and killing a Pennsylvania woman on Monday morning. WCAU reported that Alexandra Ridgway, 29, was fatally hit at around 3:30 a.m. while walking on or trying to cross Route 1 between Interstate …
Family Crime
March 4, 2020
‘My life is over’: 4-year-old girl suffocates to death at hands of mom’s abusive boyfriend; found with burned skin, human bite mark [Police]
The suspect’s sister said that Autumn was afraid to take a bath because he would allegedly hold her head underwater, and threatened to cut out her tongue if she lied.
AMBER Alert
March 4, 2020
Evelyn Boswell: Grandmother of missing Tennessee tot says her arrest was ‘nothing more than a civil matter’
Angela Boswell, the grandmother of missing Tennessee toddler, Evelyn Boswell, appeared in court Wednesday morning on theft charges, following her arrest last month. News 5 reports that Boswell declared that her arrest was “nothing more than a civil matter” while …
child endangerment
March 4, 2020
Florida woman leaves little boy home alone for NINE days without water, electricity: Police
A Florida woman is behind bars after police say she left a 9-year-old boy alone at a Cantonment home for over a week without water or electricity. Pensacola News Journal reports that Autumn Lee Beede, 39, is facing child neglect …