An Illinois woman has been arrested after her 10-year-old son was found dead in a garbage can last week. Rock Island Police began the investigation on July 26 when 10-year-old Zion Staples was found dead in a garbage can in his mother’s garage, KAAL reported. The boy’s body had been there for seven months, investigators …
The suspect in the murder of a 10-year-old Illinois girl has been linked to a woman found dead in a hotel room earlier this month. Antonio Moore, 44, was jailed on murder, attempted murder, and kidnapping charges for the death of the 10-year-old Destiny Huggins and an attack on her 6-year-old sister on Sunday in …
A registered sex offender was arrested Sunday after a 10 year-old girl was found dead in Rockford, Illinois. Rockford Police Chief Carla Redd said that 44-year-old Antonio Moore allegedly took two sisters –ages 10 and 6 — from their front yard, where they were outside playing, according to the Rockford Register Star. The younger girl …
An Illinois family of four has been missing since mid-February, and extended family members are frustrated at the lack of progress in finding them — and worried. Stephen, 44, and Monica Lutz, 34, and their children, 11-year-old Aiden and 9-year-old Nicholas, haven’t been seen since February 10, although Stephen Lutz responded to a text from …
A months-long investigation into the death of a 3-month-old baby boy ended Tuesday after with the arrest of the child’s parents. Illinois State Police said that Logan Hutchings and Sophia Kelly, both 21, have been charged with first-degree murder with the June 14, 2022, death of their son, who was brought to a hospital in …
Authorities in Illinois have identified decomposed remains found in a locked storage unit last fall as a former small town police chief, but it is unclear what, if anything, will happen with the woman charged with concealing his death. Marcy Oglesby, 50, was charged in February with multiple counts relating to the death of Richard …
An Illinois man found dead in a closet in his home eight months after he was reported missing died by suicide, a coroner’s report says. Jennifer Maedge reported her husband missing on April 27, 2022, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Although police searched the home several times, his body wasn’t found until December 11, when Jennifer …
Three people, including a young girl, were shot to death and a fourth person wounded in their home Sunday night in suburban Chicago. Bolingbrook Police said they were alerted to the shooting shortly after 8 p.m. and found a man, a woman, and a girl dead at the scene. Another woman was taken to a …
An Illinois woman arrested last year for concealing a body in her storage unit has now been charged with murder. Marcy L. Oglesby was arrested on October 11, 2022, when investigators were called to a suspicious odor at a storage facility in Maquon. Knox County Sheriff’s deputies met with the facilities owner and manager and …
The former food service director of a suburban Chicago school district has ben charged with stealing more$1.5 million in chicken wings from the district over a 19-month period. Vera Liddell, 66, worked for Harvey School District 152 for more than a decade, the Chicago Sun-Times reported, and was responsible for placing orders with the district’s …
TWo Illinois paramedics have been charged with murder after they allegedly strapped a man suffering hallucinations from alcohol withdrawal face down on a stretcher. Earl L.Moore, 35, died at a hospital on December 18, said Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon, who classified Moore’s death as a homicide and said he died from asphyxia “due to …
A 9-year-old boy pointed a loaded gun at his own head and shot himself in a crowded Chicago home on New Year’s Day, according to a police report about the incidnet. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said Jarvis Watts died from multiple gunshot wounds and ruled his death a homicide, but police labeled …
