A Kentucky prosecutor was indicted last week for the murder of his wife and tampering with evidence after the fact. Judith Dawn Deskins, 46, died from blunt force trauma on April 24, 2021. According to the indictment against Donald Kyle Deskins, a grand jury in that county determined that the former Pike County assistant prosecutor …
Louisville Metro Police officers climbed a ladder and rescued a woman who was chained to the floor after neighbors called when they heard her desperately calling out for help. The department released body camera footage showing officers arriving at the home on August 16 to find the windows and doors barricaded, leaving only the upstairs …
A Kentucky toddler found a loaded and unsecured gun and shot himself in the stomach. The 2-year-old boy was pronounced dead at a hospital, the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies were called to the scene shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday and performed first aid until emergency medical personnel arrived and took the boy to …
Police in Kentucky have arrested one person and are looking for a second suspect in a toddler abuse case that prosecutors and investigators say is the worst case they’ve seen in someone so young. Seventeen-month-old Elena was presented at Middlesboro ARH Hospital on July 28 with injuries so severe that she was almost immediately flown …
A missing Alabama girl has been located in Kentucky, and the 43-year-old man she was with has been charged with kidnapping and rape. The 14-year-old girl was reported missing from her home in Phenix City on Tuesday, police said, according to WTVM. She was believed to be with someone she’d been chatting with online named …
The boyfriend of a missing Kentucky woman who was found dead last week has been arrested for setting fire inside a car near where she disappeared. Timothy Winterholler, 37, reported 24-year-old Lynnden Bray missing on Thursday at about 10 p.m., according to WDRB. Bray was last seen walking her dogs near a trailhead in Louisville’s …
Kentucky State Police are investigating the death of a 38-year-old woman found stabbed 11 times in a Floyd County home earlier this month, but Amber Spradlin’s death has brought close scrutiny to the way 911 calls are handled in the county and the city of Prestonburg. Spradlin’s family says that someone called 911 from the …
A Kentucky man was jailed early Tuesday for the shooting death of his wife. Jordan Mykol Henning, 33, faces one count of murder-domestic violence for the incident, which took place around 9:30 p.m. on Monday, WAVE reported. Court documents say Hardin County deputies were called about a domestic dispute in which one person was armed …
An escaped double murderer from Ohio was found dead in the Ohio River Sunday in Kentucky. Authorities discovered Bradley Gillespie, 50, and James Lee, 47, gone from the Allen-Oakwood Correctional Institution near Lima during a prisoner count Tuesday morning, as CrimeOnline reported. They were spotted in a stolen vehicle on Wednesday 350 miles away in …
A Kentucky teacher’s aide was arrested this week and charged with third-degree rape for allegedly having sex with two 16-year-old boys. A criminal complaint filed in the case says that Ellen Shell, 38, had “sexual intercourse on three occasions” with the two boys between July 6 and August 15, 2022, according to WLEX. She was …
One of the callers was the suspected shooter’s mother, who told dispatchers her son “apparently left a note.”
Louisville police released multiple videos Tuesday showing the scene at Old National Bank on Monday, where a bank employee opened fire on his co-workers and then fired at police officers who responded to the scene. Five people were killed and eight wounded in the shooting, which began just after 8:30 a.m., as CrimeOnline previously reported. …
