A Massachusetts couple has been charge with kidnapping after a man was found dead in a chest freezer in the basement of their home in Lowell. Michael Burke and Samantha Perry, both 38, entered not guilty pleas at their arraignment on Monday, WCVB reported. Neither court paperwork nor police identified the victim, said to be …
A man accused of killing an elderly couple in Massachusetts last month has been arrested in Florida. Christopher Keeley, 27, was taken into custody in Miami Beach Friday night and booked into jail at about 6 a.m. on Saturday, MassLive.com reported. Police had been looking for him since Tuesday night when Carl and Vicki Mattson, …
Authorities on Friday found a woman’s body ablaze at a home on the Massachusetts peninsula of Cape Cod, where they later arrested her son for murder, WCVB-TV reports. Around 9:30 p.m. Friday, emergency crews responded to a home in the town of Truro after they received a welfare check request and a report of a …
Massachusetts prosecutors announced Wednesday that they had secured an indictment charging a 63-year-old inmate with the murder of a 20-year-old woman in Beverly in 1986. Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said that John Carey is currently serving a sentence for the attempted murder of a woman in Hamilton in 2007, The Salem Times reported. Claire …
A Massachusetts woman allegedly shot to death her father, brother-in-law, and his father before killing her self this week and left a chilling Facebook post blaming domestic abuse for her actions. Khosay Sharifi, 31, wrote in the post that her brother-in-law physically abused her sister for 14 years and that both sets of parents were …
The body of a 3-year-old boy who vanished from his babysitter’s yard Tuesday was found Wednesday in a pond about 300 yards from where he was last seen. The babysitter reported Harry Kkonde missing at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday. A neighbor reported seeing the boy in the yard about 15 minutes earlier, as CrimeOnline previously …
Police in Massachusetts are asking for help finding a 3-year-old boy we went missing from his babysitter’s home Tuesday morning. Lowell Police said the boy’s parents dropped him off at his babysitter’s home at about 7 a.m. The babysitter reported him missing at 9:30 a.m. “We suspect nothing more than a missing or lost child, …
Police in five Massachusetts cities are warning about a man who is vandalizing vehicles and then offering to help women who’ve been left stranded by the vandalization. WFXT reports that incidents have taken place in Franklin, Holliston, Milford, Medway, and Bellingham, all southwest of Boston. Bellingham and Milford police described a suspect as an Asian …
A Massachusetts man has been charged in the stabbing death of his father and an attack on his mother Monday night. Thomas Tully, 22, was arraigned Tuesday on charges of murder, assault and batter with a deadly weapon, and assault and battery, according to WFXT. Emergency workers rushed Michael Tully, 58, to Salem Hospital after …
Massachusetts police arrested a woman on Wednesday for allegedly striking her boyfriend with her vehicle during a snowstorm on Saturday, resulting in his death. The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said they believe Karen Read, 41, backed into her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, 46, after dropping him off at a gathering in Canton. Before …
Julia Enright’s defense attorney says the 24-year-old phlebotomist was defending herself from sexual assault when she killed Brandon Chicklis in 2018.
