An Alabama judge accepted Joran van der Sloot’s plea deal, meaning today, after almost two decades, the Dutch national admitted that he killed Alabama teen Natalee Holloway. In his proffer, a document in which the defendant offers information about a crime, he reportedly told the court that Holloway rejected his sexual advances, so he hit …
Joran van der Sloot’s Alabama court appearance Wednesday could give Natalee Holloway’s family information they have been seeking since 2005. The main suspect in Holloway’s disappearance is expected to plead guilty to charges of extorting and defrauding the teen’s mother. It is not known what specific charges in the extortion case he will plead guilty to. …
Thomas Randolph describes to police how a handyman he knows, broke into his house, killing Randolph’s wife Sharon as the couple returned home from an evening out. He says he came in from the garage, after his wife entered the home, to find her dead. He saw a man wearing a ski mask in the …
A daring escape attempt by accused killer Kaitlin Armstrong, charged in the death of cyclist Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson. Armstrong was being transported by Travis County law enforcement to a doctor’s appointment. As the yoga instructor and two corrections officers exited the medical building, Armstrong ran. Officers chased Armstrong for about 10 minutes before taking …
A new report says two surviving housemates in the Moscow, Idaho rental home where 4 students were killed, were awake and texting each other while the murders were taking place. The new information comes from Air Mail.com, a weekly digital subscription service. The lengthy article attributes the information to someone on the grand jury that …
Serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as BTK, is serving a life sentence for 10 confessed murders, but his own writings have possibly connected him to more. In his journals, Rader made references to “projects,” murders he fantasized about. One of those projects was abducting a woman from a laundromat. Teen Cynthia Dawn Kinney disappeared …
More information coming out about kidnapping suspect Craig Ross, Jr., as neighbors come forward with their childhood memories and interactions. One grandmother details the time she found Ross talking to her grandson about a “weed wacker.” When the woman offered to get an adult to help him, Ross took off. Cold case investigators are also …
A ruling by a Pennsylvania appellate court upholding the finding in Ellen Greenberg’s death hasn’t stopped her parents’ search for the truth. The Philadelphia teacher was found dead in her apartment, stabbed more than 20 times. Some stabs were to the back and head, and somehow the death was ruled a suicide. It was initially …
A 13-year-old girl is abducted as she walks from her bus stop to her home. There, she is jumped by four men, dressed all in black. The men tape her eyes and mouth shut, throw her in the trunk of a car, and drive off. The teen is taken to a rural area 20 miles …
Former Tennessee Teacher Alissa McCommon, charged with raping a male student, says she’s pregnant. This case gained attention after the boy’s parents met with police, reporting the child had been sex assaulted by McCommon. The boy says he was 12 years old and in the seventh grade at the time of the assault, which reportedly …
Charlotte Sena, 9, has been found, alive. The break in the case came early yesterday morning when a car stopped at the mailbox at the Sena family home, leaving what was discovered to be a ransom note. Prints taken from the note were matched to Craig N. Ross, 46 who had been arrested in a …
Charlotte Sena, 9, disappears during a family camping trip at Moreau Lake State Park. The camping facility in upstate New York is now closed to the public as authorities continue their search. The 4th grader was riding her bicycle on a last trip for the day around the access of Loop A campsites. When she …
