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 …
Police in New York and Pennsylvania are looking for the suspect in a May murder who escaped jail Thursday night. Investigators said Michael Burham, 34, was last seen in Pennsylvania just before 11:30 p.m., according to the Post-Journal. He was wearing orange and white striped, jail-issue pants, a white t-shirt, and a blue denim jacket …
The parents of a 19-month-old Pennsylvania baby found dead late last year from dehydration and neglect appeared in court Friday to face multiple charges against them. James Kasisky, 26, and Valentina-Varela Luis, 25, are each charged with involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a child, and reckless endangerment in the death of their daughter, Phoenix …
More than two weeks after arresting her husband for death of her mother, Pennsylvania police have charged Johana Ramos with criminal homicide and conspiracy in the gruesome death. The Northern York County Regional Police Department said it responded to a call about a disturbance in Dover Borough on June 6. and found 42-year-old William Emilio …
A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with aiding a suicide after prosecutors say her “heinous and graphic messages” led her ex-boyfriend to take his own life. Pennsylvania state troopers, who helped conduct the two-year-investigation, say social media messages and letters from 35-year-old Mandie Reusch to the ex-boyfriend were some of the worst they’d ever seen. …
Sources say the Kohbergers are testifying about the disappearance in May 2022 of Dana Smithers, who was found dead earlier this month.
Police in Pennsylvania have charged two people with first degree murder in the death of school teacher and mother Rachel King, who was shot dead in her car in a Dunkin’ drive thru line on April 11 with her 11-year-old son in the back seat. King, 35, was taking her son to violin practice that …
