A North Carolina man who won a $10 million lottery prize nearly three years ago was arrested Tuesday in connection with the death of a woman who was found in a hotel room a day earlier. A housekeeper at the Sure Stay Hotel reportedly discovered Keonna Graham, 23, dead in a third-floor room Monday morning. …
An Indiana man is behind bars after he reportedly admitted to killing his missing 10-year-old son. Indy Star reports that someone called 911 on Monday and said 37-year-old Anthony Dibiah claimed he killed his son, Nakota Kelly. “I just killed my son! I just killed my son!” Dibiah allegedly said to a cousin in Texas. Authorities …
One of the two men who helped raise Gabriel Fernández — the California boy murdered by his mother and her boyfriend in 2013 — has reportedly died from the novel coronavirus. Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami confirmed David Martinez’s death to Oxygen. Martinez (pictured back right) was reportedly laid to rest Thursday in …
A Nevada woman was sentenced late last month to life in prison without parole for beating her parents to death with a crowbar and lighting their house on fire after they caught her huffing paint in the garage. On June 26, Alexis Alegria, 31, was handed two consecutive life terms for murdering father and mother, …
An Oklahoma woman is behind bars after she reportedly tried to cut off of a man’s head in their McAlester home. McAlester News-Capital reports that Crystal Haworth, 30, showed up to the Pittsburg County Sheriff’s Office “covered in blood” on Wednesday and admitted “numerous” times that she tried to cut off 57-year-old Leonard Brokeshoulder’s head …
A Minnesota man admitted during a court hearing Tuesday to snapping her neck and suffocating her before reporting her missing. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 28-year-old Joshua Fury confessed earlier this year to strangling his wife, Maria, 28, and burying her under their Maple Grove home on April 30. The same day, Fury reported his wife missing …
A California court is expected to drop the case against four ex-social workers involved in the torture and murder of Gabriel Fernandez. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced in a statement that charges will be dismissed Thursday against former social workers Stefanie Rodriguez, 35 and Patricia Clement, 69, and supervisors Kevin Bom, 41, …
A former West Virginia night-shift assistant at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg killed at least seven patients and attempted to kill more. The Washington Post reports that Reta Mays was assigned to tend to ailing elderly patients at the medical center and did so for three years. Part of her job …
Police records indicate that authorities were called to the home of a slain Kansas toddler at least six times in 2020, including a call from her own grandparents who were worried about her safety. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 3-year-old Olivia Jansen was found dead on Friday evening, buried in a shallow grave only nine blocks …
An eyewitness is credited for leading authorities to a wooded walking trail in Kansas, where 3-year-old Olivia Jansen was found buried in a shallow grave on Friday. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Olivia’s father, Howard Jansen III, and his girlfriend, Jacqulyn Kirkpatrick, have both been arrested in connection with Olivia’s death. Authorities found Olivia’s deceased body …
Two people are behind bars in connection with the alleged murder of a 3-year-old Kansas girl, and family members say the child’s death could have been prevented if social services would have stepped in sooner. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Howard Jansen III, identified as the father of 3-year-old Olivia Jansen, was arrested on Friday night …
Two people are behind bars in connection with 3-year-old Olivia Jansen, the centerpiece of a Kansas AMBER Alert who was found deceased on Friday evening. According to Wyandotte County jail records, Olivia’s father, Howard Jansen III, was arrested on Friday night and charged with suspicion of first-degree murder and child abuse. On Saturday, police arrested …
