California police on Wednesday arrested a 39-year-old man accused of stabbing a woman to death and posting a video of her dying moments to Facebook. Mark Mechikoff has been charged with first degree murder and is being held without bond, according to jail records. San Mateo Police said the investigation began when deputies in Nye …
California authorities are taking another look at the case of a missing 4-year-old girl after a former pastor was arrested for killing an 8-year-old girl in Pennsylvania. David Zandstra, 83, was arrested in Georgia and charged with the murder of Gretchen Harrington in Delaware County in 1975. Zandstra was a pastor at the time and …
A Texas man was indicted this week by a federal grand jury for allegedly kidnapping a 13-year-old girl, driving her to California, and raping her multiple times. Steven Robert Sablan, 61, is charged with one count of kidnapping and one count of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, the …
An elderly ice cream vendor was robbed on Monday for the third time in a week — and the eighth time in the past decade — leaving him unable to pay his own living expenses or send money back to Peru where his son lives with autism. KNTV reported that the latest armed robbery was …
California Governor Gavin Newsom said Friday that he will not ask his state’s Supreme Court to block parole for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten. An appeals court reinstated parole in May for the 73-year-old inmate, who has served 53 years in prison for the 1969 murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, after Newsom rejected …
A 5-year-old boy and his grandmother were killed last week when a driver crossed the center line and hit their car. Investigators said the driver, who was identified only as a man in his 30s, was allegedly driving under the influence. Aura de la Cruz Calderon de Tobar, 74, and Yeshua Elijah Cordova Tobar were …
A California woman has been arrested for the death of a toddler she was babysitting earlier this year, and police suspect more possible victims after identifying another child who suffered serious injuries while in her care. Heather Greenman, 37, was arrested on charges of child abuse and abuse resulting in death, the Beaumont Police Department …
Two elderly California women were found dead at the assisted living facility where they lived Saturday morning, and a live-in caretaker has been charged with their deaths. Early reports indicated the two women were shot and killed, but KABC said the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department specifically said they were not shot. They were pronounced dead …
California investigators found an elderly woman and her niece dead in the home they shared in Kerman this week and consider the deaths homicides. Kerman Police Department officers were called to the home for a welfare check Thursday morning and forced their way inside when no one answered the door. They found Linda Thrash, 74, …
A married couple found dead in their home in San Diego County this week by their teen daughter died in a murder-suicide. One of the children of 42-year-old Eric Orpinela and 39-year-old Denise Orpinela called 911 shortly before 10 a.m. on Thursday to report that she’d found the bodies, as CrimeOnline previously reported. San Diego …
A 37-year-old California father has been charged with murder in the death of his weeks-old baby daughter. The little girl was 5 1/2 weeks old when she died on Sunday after she was hospitalized for “numerous injuries,” according to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office. Kevin Van Streefkerk faces five charges, including intentional murder and …
A 19-year-old San Francisco man has been charged in the death of a beloved Oakland baker and activist who was critically injured in a purse snatching in a bank parking lot in February. Investigators say Ishmael Burch was the driver of a stolen vehicle that the purse snatcher jumped into after grabbing Jen Angel’s purse …
