A 39-year-old woman and her 16-year-old daughter were found dead in a Pennsylvania home by relatives late Thursday evening. Investigators have released little information, although Northampton County Coroner Zachary Lysek said the two suffered “sharp force injuries.” Police classified both deaths as homicides. Northampton County District Attorney Terry Houck said on Thursday that there was …
An escaped murderer is still on the run in Pennsylvania, where two school districts closed Wednesday for the second day after he was seen in their area. Danelo Cavalcante, 34, was sentenced to live in prison in August for killing his former girlfriend, Deborah Brandao, in 2021. He is also wanted in his native Brazil …
A Pennsylvania mother is dead and her 4-year-old daughter fighting for her life after a brutal attack by the girl’s father. “Daddy had a knife,” the girl told detectives. She suffered life-threatening injuries to vital organs, WFMZ reported. Richard Fantauzzi-Aviles, 38, has been charged with homicide, attempted homicide, aggraated assault, and endangering the welfare of …
A manhunt is under way for a convicted murderer who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison. Danelo Cavalcante, 34, was conviected earlier this month of stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death 38 times in front of her two young children in 2021, ABC News reported. At the time, Cavalcante was wanted in his native Brazil for a …
The incident began when deputies tried to serve a court-ordered eviction on 63-year-old William Hardison.
A lengthy investigation into the death of a 4-year-old Pennsylvania boy led to the arrest of the child’s parents on charges of involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of children, and recklessly endangering another person. An arrest affidavit says that the boy got into a baggie of fentanyl brought into the home the night before Jason …
A Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder after he killed his cousin with a semi-automatic rifle, dragged the body into a hole, and lit it on fire. Derek Louk, 30, agreed to the plea deal Thursday in Bedford County in connection with the death of Tyler Matthai last year. Louk also pleaded guilty …
Prosecutors say they won’t be seeking the death penalty for a Pennsylvania woman charged with killing and dismembering her elderly parents earlier this year. “The required legal factors are not present in this case,” Montgomery County assistant prosecutor Samantha Cauffman told the judge in a hearing on Thursday, according to The Associated Press. The son of …
A retired Georgia pastor has been charged with murder in the death of an 8-year-old girl nearly 50 years ago in Pennsylvania. Investigators say David Zandstra, now 83, confessed to killing Gretchen Harrington in Marple Township on August 15, 1975, KYW reported. Zandstra was a family friend of the Harringtons and pastor of Trinity Christian …
A murder suspect who escaped a Pennsylvania jail nine days ago has been captured, still in the same northwestern Pennsylvania area. Michael Burham escaped from the Warren County Jail by “elevating himself” atop exercise equipment in the jail’s recreation yard and then going through a metal-grated roof, as CrimeOnline previously reported. He lowered himself to …
Police are looking for two men they say tried to kidnap a teen girl from a suburban Philadelphia mall on Wednesday. The 14-year-old girl told investigators she was riding an escalator down from the second floor at Willow Grove Park Mall in Willow Grove and was met at the bottom by man who said his …
State troopers looking for an escaped Pennsylvania murder suspect say they have found stockpiles and campsites which appear to be connected to him, leading them to believe he has not left the area near the New York state line where the incident began. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 34-year-old Michael Burham slipped out of a recreation …
