A California man was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly kidnapped his sister’s 4- and 6-year-old children and led officers on a short chase. The man, who has not been named, “spontaneously” told officers “that he wanted to take the children to heaven” after he was taken into custody. Upland Police said they made the stop …
A woman was arrested last week after she tried to kidnap an 8-year-old girl, telling an adult who was with the girl that she was Russian police and was taking the child. Courtney Perrone, 40, has been charged with one count of attempted kidnapping/victim under 14 years old, one count of false imprisonment by violence, …
Convicted wife killer Scott Peterson lays out details of what he and his new lawyers think happened on the day Laci Peterson disappeared in a three-part streaming series on NBC’s Peacock. As CrimeOnline has reported, a jury unanimously found Peterson guilty of murdering his wife and their unborn son and sentenced him to death. The …
A California man charged with killing a 16-year-old classmate because she ratted him out as having a gun while they were cutting class in 2017 was convicted Wednesday of first degree murder. Both Aranda Briones and Owen Skyler Shover, now 23, were expelled after the incident, and Shover plotted for two years for his revenge, …
A California toddler died Sunday night after he was found unresponsive in a vehicle near a home in Folsom. The cause of 2-year-old Theo Patterson’s death is still “undetermined” pending an autopsy, the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office said. The boy was found unresponsive and was pronounced dead shortly just before 7 p.m. on Sunday, the …
California investigators cracked a 51-year-old rape and murder last week after DNA led them to a suspect in Idaho. Michael Eugene Mullen, 75, was arrested in Lemhi County on Wednesday and charged with the death of Nina “Nadine” Fischer in November 1973. Fischer, 31, lived with her husband and their toddler daughter in unincorporated San …
Detectives in California cracked the 37-year-old murder of a newborn baby found in a dumpster in Riverside and arrested the infants mother in North Carolina. Riverside Police said the infants body was found by a man rummaging for recyclables on October 13, 1987, and the baby girl’s death was ruled a homicide, although police did …
California investigators announced Friday they had charged a former US Marine electrician with the murders of three women in Ventura County in 1977. Warren Luther Alexander, 73, was already in jail in North Carolina, where he was awaiting trial for the 1992 strangulation murder of 29-year-old Nona Cobb, Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko said. …
A former student at El Camino College in California was found dead after apparently jumping from the fifth Floor of a parking garage at the school — and this after he apparently tried to stab his mother to death. Torrence Police and campus officers responded to the scene just before 5:30 p.m. on Friday and …
A California woman was found dead Sunday morning after her partner was shot and injured by police outside a station when he threatened to hurt the couple’s toddler daughter on Saturday. Lizbeth Arceo Sedano, 25, was found dead in a heavily forested area north of Watsonville after police said they had “serious concerns” for her …
Los Angeles County’s district attorney announced charges against a man who reported his 15-year-old daughter missing only to have her turn up a week later outside a television station. Jeffery Chao was arrested last week by Monterey Park Police and charged with conspiracy, child abduction, and falsifying a police report in the “disappearance of Alison …
A California jury this week convicted a 31-year-old man of shooting his 23-year-old girlfriend in the head while she was driving with four small children in the car, causing the car to crash into the Sacramento River. Mandiko Kwadzo then got out of the partially submerged car and stood aside without making any move to …
