A former attorney for North Dakota’s attorney general has been jailed for allegedly beating his ex-wife to death in front of three of their young children. Anders Odegaard, 31, was charged Thursday with second degree murder in the death of Carissa Odegaard on Tuesday. A criminal complaint filed in Marshall County, Minnesota, said that 31-year-old …
A federal judge in Minnesota on Wednesday sentenced two former police officers, convicted of violating George Floyd’s civil rights, to lighter sentences than recommended in federal sentencing guidelines. Describing Tou Thao as “a good police officer, father and husband,” US District Judge Paul Magnuson sentenced him to 3 1/2 years for standing by as former …
Minnesota authorities say a toddler’s death they had been investigating as “suspicious” was in fact a homicide. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victim Sunday as One’Je Jackson Jones, the 2-year-old son of Navonna West, who died after being taken to a hospital on May 4, WCCO reported. The ME’s report said the …
A Minnesota woman has been charged with murder and arson after she allegedly stabbed and man to death and set fire to his camper, telling investigators she thought she was “burning a witch.” Court documents say that Crystal Wilson used methamphetamine and alcohol Sunday morning and went to the Mii Gwitch Mahnomen Days pow wow …
Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane was sentenced Thursday to 2 1/2 years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights on May 25, 2020, the day fellow officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes until he died, aided by Lane and two other officers. Lane, J. Alexander Keung, and Tou …
A Minnesota murder suspect slammed into a car carrying a mother and her four children while fleeing police Friday afternoon, killing a 6-year-old girl. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office said a 15-year-old girl is still hospitalized while the mother and her other two children had been treated and released. The suspect, who has not been …
Minnesota police are searching for a 6-year-old girl missing after her mother’s apparent suicide. Northfield police officers were called to an apartment on Saturday and found the body of Lisa Wade, 39. Her daughter, Elle Ragin, is missing, and investigators say they believe Wade may have been involved in her disappearance. Ragin is describe as …
Two people are in custody in Minnesota on suspicion of murder after police found the body of 6-year-old kindergartener Eli Hart in the trunk of his mother’s car during a traffic stop on Friday. The mother, 28-year-old Julissa Thaler, is one of those two people, jail records show. The other is believed to be Robert …
Police in Minnesota have arrested the 28-year-old mother of a 6-year-old boy found dead in the trunk of her car during a traffic stop on Friday. Julissa Thaler has not yet been formally charged, but she was jailed early Saturday morning on a probable cause warrant for murder, jail records show. Details of the death …
A Minnesota man “experiencing a mental health crisis” shot and killed his aunt, uncle, and two young cousins in their sleep before turning the gun on himself. Duluth Police say that Brandon Taylor Cole-Skogstad, 29, also killed the Barry family’s dog. Officials identified the family members as 44-year-old Riana Lou Barry, 47-year-old Sean Christopher Barry, …
Five people and a dog were found dead in a home in Duluth, Minnesota, on Wednesday in what began as a call about someone having a mental health crisis. Officials said they believe all those found in the home are related, and neighbors indicated some may be children. Police are withholding names until next of …
A 2-year-old Minnesota boy reported missing on Thursday has been found safe and the man believed to have abducted him is in jail. Officials issued an AMBER Alert for Robert Ramirez, who was believed to have been taken from Pope County early Thursday, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Victor Ramirez, AKA Benigno Alvarrez, was arrested outside …
