An Alabama grand jury this week indicted a 50-year-old man for the death of a 37-year-old woman shot to death in front of her children a year and a half ago. Emell Odell Peavy was arrested and charged with the death of April Marie Britton in 2023, but the case had not moved forward until …
The remains of a Missouri mom who was reported missing in April have been found in a wooded area on private property. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said the remains were found by the property owner on Saturday and confirmed to be Emily Strite, 34, by the Regional Medical Examiner’s Office. The sheriff’s office said …
Colorado authorities have arrested three men and are looking for a fourth for their part in kidnapping and torturing their housemate for 14 hours. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said it first learned of the incident at about 10 a.m. Monday when a staffer at a hospital reported a patient who claimed he had been …
A graveside argument turned deadly last weekend when a Colorado man shot and killed a member of a group of friends who had gathered to remember a dead man on his birthday. The group of family and friends arrived at Crown Hill Cemetery in Jefferson County at about 8 p.m. on August 17 at the …
A 36-year-old mother walked into a Missouri police department Tuesday morning and told officers there “that she had shot one of her children and drowned another.” Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak told reporters that the first victim, a 9-year-old girl, was outside in the woman’s car. Officers found the second victim, a 2-year-old boy, in …
Police in Missouri are looking for a retired officer who has been charged with multiple child sex crimes. Prosecutors have charged Jordan C. Fowle, 57, with two counts of first degree child molestation, five counts of second degree child molestation, second degree sodomy, and second degree sexual abuse, according to KMOV. A no-bond warrant has …
An Alabama man has been charged with the murder of his father after investigators found the man’s bones scattered in an area “made to look like a garden” in his son’s backyard. Donald Cash, 52, was last seen on September 26 working on a truck at his home in Wylam, Alabama, Law&Crime reported. The truck …
Human remains found earlier this month in rural Arkansas have been positively identified as belongong to a Jefferson County woman who disappeared last May. Maranda Neal was last seen on May 22, 2022, when she left her home on an ATV to visit her mother’s grave at a local cemetery, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Police …
The searcher for a missing woman who disappeared last May has been suspended after human remains were found near where her ATV was found last November. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Maranda Merrell Neal, 38, disappeared on May 22 after taking an ATV from her home to visit her mother’s grave at a nearby cemetery. Police …
Three Colorado teens have been arrested for a string of rock-throwing incidents on Jefferson and Boulder County streets and highways — including one that killed a 20-year-old driver. Alexa Bartell was on the phone with a friend at about 10:45 p.m. Wednesday night when her phone suddenly went dead, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The friend …
Alabama authorities are looking for a 36-year-old woman with autism who was last seen in Tuesday. Courtney Michele Williams is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall and about 125 pounds with brown eyes and hair. She was last seen wearing a green hoodie with black and white stars and dark jeans. The Jefferson County …
An Alabama mother found shot to death in her home over the weekend was unintentionally killed by her 12-year-old son. Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputy Chief David Agee said the boy initially told the investigators that a man fled the home, but investigators debunked the story, AL.com reported. “The child eventually gave a true account of …
