A 3-year-old boy was found Tuesday night in a bathtub at his home with his throat slit. One of the toddler’s relatives called a family friend to the house in Lancaster, California, a source not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation told the Los Angeles Times. That friend found the boy in the tub …
A California mother was arrested Friday for the murder of her 4-year-old daughter. Mia Gonzalez died from the “combined effects of strangulation and sharp force,” according to an autopsy report. Gonzalez was found unresponsive inside a vehicle in a business parking lot late Thursday and was taken to a local hospital, where she was later …
An elderly Los Angeles man shot and killed his wife and two adult children Saturday night before turning the gun on himself. A fifth person survived the shooting by barricading themselves in a room and calling 911, WABC reported. Police were called to the home in Granada Hills just before 7 p.m. Officers forced their …
A California mother has been charged with murder in the death of her 4-month-old daughter. Jazmin Laci Johnson, 30, was arrested shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday morning after a neighbor called police and reported hearing screams from the apartment, KCRA reported. Responding officers found the infant unresponsive, and she was pronounced dead on the scene. …
A Google engineer charged with the death of his fellow engineer wife last week allegedly admitted punching her. As CrimeOnline previously reported, police found Liren Chen, 27, “spattered in blood” next to his wife’s body in their Santa Clara home on January 16. Chen’s wife, who has not been publicly identified but was listed in …
The family of a man beaten to death in 1979 is fighting the release of his killer under California’s Elderly Parole Law. Walter Joseph Lewis, now 76, was convicted of two murders after stabbing a man to death in 1965, when he was 18, and then beating Robert Chartier to death with a hammer in …
A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for a quadruple murder in California, and the boy’s mother and her boyfriend have been charged as accessories to the homicide. Reedley Police Chief Joe Garza said that investigators don’t believe the teen acted alone in killing 81-year-old Billy Bonds, 44-year-old Guadalupe Bonds, 61-year-old Darrell Bonds, and 43-year-old Matthew …
A toddler is fighting for her life after a suspected drunk driver slammed into her family’s vehicle on New Year’s Eve, killing her mother, father, and 5-year-old sister. The speeding driver, fleeing from an earlier hit-and-run crash, blew through a stop sign in an SUV at about 11:30 p.m. and drove the family’s sedan across …
California prosecutors have charged a woman with intentionally hitting a 60-year-old woman with her car after accusing her of stealing a package from her home. The incident took place on December 8, and the unidentified victim, who suffered major injuries, died on December 23. Dene Blakely, 39, was initially charged with assault with a deadly …
A San Diego man strangled his estranged wife and then shot himself to death in a casino parking lot last week, leaving the couple’s three adult children with a desperate search for their parents just before the holiday. Melissa, 45, and Johnny Soto, 52, were reported missing by their children after Johnny Soto sent the …
The bodies of a California couple who vanished five days before Christmas were found Tuesday in a vehicle at a casino parking lot in Campo, dead from an apparent murder-suicide. The San Diego Police Department said that officers from US Customs and Border Patrol found “a vehicle that was associated with a missing persons case …
