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SEE IT: Suspect accused of killing grandmother of 5 in street-racing crash says victim ‘did it to her ************* self’
Murder

A 22-year-old Alabama woman, charged with hitting a another car head-on while street racing and killing the driver, released a livestreamed a profanity-laced video on Facebook denying responsibility for the crash and instead blaming the 52-year-old grandmother who was behind the wheel of the other vehicle. Carmesia Flannigan has been charged with murder, leaving the …

Murder
January 23, 2021

Angry police detective shoots ‘love triangle’ rival 15 times

An Alabama grand jury has indicted a former Birmingham detective in a “love triangle” shooting last April that left another woman dead. Alfreda Fluker, 40, has been charged with capitol murder for the death of 43-year-old Kanisha Nicole Fuller and the attempted murder of Mario Theodore White, Fluker’s partner on the Birmingham Police Department’s Crime …

Child Abuse
October 5, 2020

Former Sunday school teacher convicted of child rape seeks pardon from state

A convicted child rapist is seeking a pardon from the state of Alabama, almost 50 years after he molested and assaulted a 7-year-old girl who was a student in his Sunday school class. Leon Albert Prince, 79, served 15 years of a 30 years sentence after his 1991 conviction for carnal knowledge of a child, …

Terror
October 3, 2020

Olympic park bomber seeks release from prison: Reports

The man who pleaded guilty to bombings at women’s clinics in Alabama and Georgia, a lesbian bar in Atlanta, and the 1996 Olympic Games is pushing to have his sentences vacated, WBMA reports. Eric Robert Rudolph, now 54, filed a hand-written motion in federal court in Alabama claiming that his conviction for the 1998 bombing …

Juveniles
September 11, 2020

Alabama father charged with murder of 2-month-old son

An Alabama man has been charged with the murder of his 2-month-old son in July after an autopsy revealed the boy died from blunt force trauma to the head, WIAT reports. Jefferson County deputies responded to a call about an unresponsive child on July 29 and found Amari Ruffin not breathing. The boy was taken …

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Missing
August 15, 2020

Beautiful pastor’s wife, missing 2 weeks, originally planned to fly from Kansas to Alabama

A Kansas pastor’s wife who disappeared earlier this month while driving to visit family in Alabama originally planned to make the trip by airplane, Overland Park police say, but changed her mind and set off for Birmingham by car, AL.com reported. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Marilane Carter, 36, was last seen leaving her home at …

Murder
July 30, 2020

‘Pose’ star’s sister killed in Alabama shooting

A 24-year-old Alabama woman found shot to death in her vehicle in a Birmingham park was the sister of “Pose” star Ryan Jamaal Swain. Birmingham police found Raven Lynette Swain dead of multiple gunshot wounds in Underwood Park on the city’s southside at about 7 p.m. Tuesday, AL.com reported. Her vehicle was lodged in the …

Impaired mom caused crash with 18-wheeler that killed her 4-year-old daughter, cops say
Drug Crime
April 25, 2019

Impaired mom caused crash with 18-wheeler that killed her 4-year-old daughter, cops say

Authorities in Alabama say a 4-year-old girl is dead after a crash police say was caused by her mother driving while under the influence. According to WSFA, 44-year-old Tresia Lynn Chrystler was driving on Eufaula Avenue in Eufaula on January 11 when she crashed into a big rig near the intersection of Meadow Drive. Police …