A Pennsylvania man accused of kidnapping and killing Linda Stolzfoos, the 18-year-old Amish woman who disappeared walking home from church last year, will plead guilty Friday, but it’s not clear what charges are involved in the deal. Justo Smoker, 35, has been charged with homicide, kidnapping, and false imprisonment and is on the Lancaster County …
A 10-year-old Philadelphia boy is dead after he found a loaded gun and shot himself in the head. Police say the boy had been left home alone Saturday with his 8-year-0ld sister in the Tioga-Nicetown section of north Philadelphia, WPVI reported. “Supposedly there was a gun inside a cabinet that the children located and, at …
Police in Pennsylvania arrested two brothers on Thursday after they were allegedly caught dumping the body of a man they are believed to have fatally stabbed. The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement that a Pennsylvania State trooper saw what appeared to be a disabled vehicle with its hazard lights on in …
A 6-year-old girl was rushed to a Pittsburgh hospital in critical condition Thursday after she was shot in the abdomen. The Pittsburgh Public Safety Department said that officers were initially alerted by ShotSpotter to gunfire on Lawndale Street at about 6:20 p.m. and then a 911 call about a child shot a few blocks away …
Pennsylvania police have charged a family member in connection with the disappearance of a 10-year-old boy over the weekend. The boy, who has a learning disability, vanished form his grandmother’s home at about 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. After an exhaustive search, police found the boy unharmed in the basement of the relative’s home early Sunday …
A Pennsylvania coroner confirmed Friday that remains found earlier this week were those of missing Amish woman Linda Stoltzfoos and said she had been strangled and stabbed in the neck. Lancaster County Coroner Stephen Diamantoni ruled the death a homicide following an autopsy on Friday and said the stab wound contributed to Stoltzfoos’s death, the …
Police searching for an Amish teen who went missing 10 months ago have found human remains in a rural area of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Linda Stoltzfoos, 18, disappeared on June 21, 2020, while walking home from church in Bird-in-Hand, in Lancaster County, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Justo Smoker, 35, was arrested and charged with kidnapping …
Police outside Philadelphia have arrested a woman on charges connected with the death of a 21-year-old pregnant woman who was found dead in a pile of debris earlier this week. Tylydiah Garnett was seen on video helping dispose of Dianna Brice’s body, police sources told CBS3, and officers recovered clothing with burn marks. Garnett has …
Three children locked in an attic for years used an old peanut butter jar to collect rainwater to drink and suffered almost daily beatings, police in Minersville, Pennsylvania, say. Wendy Yost, Jennifer Yost, and Todd Richter have been arrested on child abuse charges, according to WFMZ, which said the brutality went on for three years …
A 54-year-old Pennsylvania woman is dead and a 26-year-old man charged with her murder after a Facebook Marketplace sale went sideways. Denise Williams’s family reported her missing on Monday when she didn’t return from checking out a refrigerator she hoped to buy for her boyfriend as a gift, WJAC reported. Geistown Borough police found her …
Detectives looking into the murder of a 21-year-old pregnant woman found shot to death nearly a week after she disappeared are now considering whether two people may have been involved. CBS Philly also reported that a source close to the investigation said that Dianna Brice was shot multiple times, her body dumped into a wooded …
Pennsylvania police are looking for a 16-year-old girl who hasn’t been seen since Thursday night. Helen Diehl has been missing since about 7:30 p.m. from South Whitehall Township, near Allentown in eastern Pennsylvania, police there said. She was wearing an orange beanie with Coca-Cola written on the side and a white Nickolodeon hoodie with images …
