Infamous grandmother Lois Riess, who is charged with murdering her look-alike in Florida in order to evade police after being wanted for her husband’s shooting death in Minnesota, is due in the state’s court Wednesday. Prosecutors announced earlier this month …
Haleigh Cummings disappeared from her Satsuma, Florida, bed after being put there by her father’s girlfriend nearly a decade ago. Nancy Grace re-examines the mystery with Klaas Kids Foundation founder and victims’ advocate Marc Klaas, Atlanta juvenile judge and founder of …
A Virginia man has died after accidentally stabbing himself in the groin with his sword. The New York Daily News reports that a 28-year-old man in Newport News was walking down stairs in an apartment building on Sunday while carrying …
Jennifer Kesse disappeared a decade ago and her family is still searching for answers about what happened to the 24-year-old Florida woman. Jennifer’s family knew something was wrong when she did not show up for her job on the morning …
A suspect has been arrested in the cold-case murder of 8-year-old April Tinsley after investigators obtained new DNA evidence that led them to the killer — who immediately confessed to the brutal murder. The Indy Star reports that law enforcement …
Although it’s debatable when notorious serial killer Ted Bundy began his murderous spree, it’s widely-known that he raped and killed numerous women throughout the 1970s. Bundy admitted to killing 36 women, but experts think the numbers reach into the hundreds. …
The Sedgwick County, Kansas, district attorney announced on Wednesday that the father of Lucas Hernandez pleaded guilty to a battery charge, stemming from an incident with his former girlfriend’s son. According to DA Marc Bennett, of the 18th Judicial District …
North Carolina authorities are asking for the public’s help in identifying two children whose remains were found in Orange County in the ’90s. In 1998, a boy was found under brush near a billboard sign near the westbound lanes of Interstate 85 …
The man who terrorized New York with a series of “Son of Sam” street shootings insists he’s a changed man and ready to be freed from prison. David Berkowitz killed 6 people and wounded 7 others in 1976 and 1977, …
A woman was found dead in a trash compactor at a luxury apartment building in Manhattan’s Union Square neighborhood. The New York Post reports that a 48-year-old woman was found unresponsive inside a trash compactor at Zeckendorf Towers at 1 …
Although she stabbed her former boyfriend around 29 times before shooting him in the head, convicted felon Jodi Arias apparently thinks Nancy Grace, in part, was the reason for her murder conviction. Not so, said Grace, who explained that the …
The appeal arguments that Jodi Arias wanted to keep secret are out — and now we know why Arias didn’t want Nancy Grace to see them. She accuses our favorite prosecutor host of costing her a fair trial because of …
The Arizona Court of Appeals rejected Jodi Arias’ bid to keep the public from seeing the opening brief in her murder appeal on Monday. The appeal indicated Arias blamed several news analysts, including Nancy Grace, for her conviction. The denial, issued …
Is there anything left that hasn’t been said about the notorious cult leader Charles Manson and the crimes he orchestrated that shocked the world? Prosecutor, legal analyst, and investigative crime reporter Liz Wiehl, who digs into the infamous case of …
A group of documentary filmmakers who also work as cold-case investigators believe they’ve decoded a 1972 message purportedly from D.B. Cooper, and they say it contains a confession from Robert Rackstraw, the New York Daily News reports. Rackstraw is a Vietnam …
The grandmother accused of murdering her lookalike and stealing her identify while on the run from killing her husband may have been planning another killing. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Lois Riess, 56, was arrested in Texas after a multi-state manhunt …
A Florida agriculture teacher who allegedly drowned two raccoons and an opossum during class earlier this month won’t face criminal charges—as authorities determined the killings weren’t cruel or inhumane. In a four-page “decline to file” letter obtained by the Ocala …
Three decades have passed since 13-year-old Chuckie Mauk was shot dead during a bike ride to a Georgia candy store. But the search for the killer has not ended. Nancy Grace visits with Chuckie’s mom to discuss the case and …
Paddock allegedly told hairstylist: “I wonder what she’s worried about? She’ll be out of the country.”
A mother and her seven-year-old son are dead after the woman jumped from a hotel building in midtown Manhattan during rush hour Friday morning, bringing the boy with her. ABC 7 reports that the woman, 46, and the boy jumped …
New allegations have emerged against a couple accused of abusing 10 children removed from a California residence earlier this year. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the children were removed in March and details about the alleged abuse were first released earlier …
A Florida high school teacher was placed on administrative leave Tuesday amid accusations that he drowned at least two raccoons during class. Officials said Forest High School agriculture teacher Dewie Brewton was removed from class “pending the outcome of a district investigation,” …
CrimeCon 2018 kicked off in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 4 for a three-day event, where true crime fans across the globe gathered for an immersive weekend filled with expert discussions, workshops, book signings by some of the best in the …
The woman killed with her four children and her parents in an apparent murder-suicide in Australia last week had written a poem about domestic violence four years ago that suggested she may have been a victim. As CrimeOnline previously reported, …
“It literally breaks your heart, and you’re outraged by how a parent or anyone could commit those acts”
More than 30 years after a Texas college student was shot, stabbed, run over, and mutilated, law enforcement is still working to find her killer. KTRK reported that a worker was unloading items behind a sporting goods store on April 8, …
A California woman who called police on a black family having a barbecue in Oakland last month has sparked national outrage during a time when racial tensions have made national headlines across the country. The alleged crime? According to the …
“He gave them to me and now he’s taken them away, if it had to happen, there is no better person than that,” the grieving father said of his estranged father-in-law
Florida prosecutors charged four men under the state’s hate-crime enhancement law for allegedly attacking a gay couple during Miami Beach’s pride parade. From the Miami Herald, Juan Carlos Lopez, 21, Luis M. Alonso Piovet, 20, Adonis Diaz, 21, and Pablo Reinaldo Romo-Figueroa, …
Investigators believe a grandfather gunned down his wife, daughter, her four children and then himself in what authorities say is the deadliest mass shooting in Australia in 22 years. The New York Post reports that three guns recovered from the …
Authorities in Arkansas are investigating the deadly beating and potential rape of a young girl in her own home, WTXL-TV reports. The 3-year-old child was found with bruising from the waist up and what appeared to be a cord tied …
A North Carolina police officer was reportedly caught on tape slamming a man into a window at a Waffle House before putting him in a chokehold. WTVD reported that Warsaw police are investigating after a video captured an officer in …
Grays Harbor County Sheriff Rick Scott announced on Thursday that detectives discovered a DNA match on human remains belonging to missing Washington state girl, Lindsey Baum. Sheriff Scott couldn’t give many details about the discovery, including the exact location where …
The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a South Carolina mother who went missing with her 6 children ages one to 11 after failing to hand them over to state custody Wednesday. According to Greenville News, Jennafer Machelle Price, …
A group of black women leaving an Airbnb rental were mistaken for burglars in an alleged racial profiling incident in Southern California. And now they are planning to sue the local police who responded to the 911 call. One of …
They stayed up all night painting, giggling, and talking. They got up at 10 a.m. and had pancakes for breakfast. Later, they wanted something to do in the small town of Delphi, population 2,843. Their family allowed them to go …
The man who killed 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German on a hiking trail in Delphi, Indiana, in February 2017 is still unknown and free despite a grainy photo of him approaching the girls. Nancy Grace talked to Libby’s …
With the arrest of Joseph DeAngelo, who allegedly murdered at least a dozen people and rape more than 50 women between 1976 and 1986, the survivors and the families of the dead are telling their stories. Four of them talked …
It’s been 13 years since convicted murderer Scott Peterson was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son, Conner. He’s currently appealing his sentence, but does the Modesto, California, man connected to the …
While there are numerous ways authorities can obtain DNA evidence in an attempt to solve crimes, one of the most common methods used in crime scene investigations and serology laboratories is sterile swabbing. Sterile swabbing, especially on porous surfaces like …
The woman accused of killing her husband before murdering a look-a-like grandmother in Florida is being held without bail in a Florida jail as prosecutors continue to pursue a case against her for her husband’s presumed murder. As CrimeOnline previously …
Surveillance cameras reportedly captured the moment an off-duty cop drew his gun on a man he wrongly believed was stealing a pack of mints from a California service station. Per The Orange County Register, Jose Arreola, 49, had actually purchased …
An India man made the mistake of trying to take a selfie with a wounded bear on Wednesday after pulling over during a group wedding trip in Odisha. New York Post reports that the victim, identified as Prabhu Bhatara, stopped to …
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The son of a Minnesota woman suspected of fatally shooting her husband then killing a Florida woman and stealing her identity says she is a “good lady” but “had her own demons” including a gambling addiction, according …
“It felt like a bomb went off”
Seven years ago, “tot mom” Casey Anthony walked out of a Florida courtroom after a jury acquitted her of the murder of her daughter, Caylee. Is Casey Anthony guilty? Did the jury get it wrong? Today on “The Dr. Oz …
Adnan Syed’s first-degree murder and kidnapping conviction received nationwide attention after the release of the blockbuster “Serial” podcast and now, he may get out of prison. But should he? Top legal analysts Nancy Grace and Dan Abrams discuss the high-profile Syed …
The man who killed a teenager in Manchester, England with cocaine in his system revealed in a court hearing Monday that he initially mistook her for a piece of trash in the street. According to the Manchester Evening News, Liam …
Detective Sgt. James Bogner says the girl “had no idea what she had done and she was very scared.”
A junior assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, New York, is accused carried on a romantic relationship with a disgraced police detective—while her office was investigating him for allegedly sexually assaulting a teen on duty. According to the New York Post, …
