Suspect jailed on child sex charges is linked to 2003 murder of mom found strangled on road
The victim’s roommate was reportedly killed in a similar manner a year later
The victim’s roommate was reportedly killed in a similar manner a year later
The former head pastor of Texas church was arrested Thursday for allegedly producing and transporting child pornography. The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Texas announced in a statement that a grand jury indicted David Pettigrew, 48, and Chad Michael Rider, 46, on charges of conspiring to sexually exploit children. Pettigrew was also …
A Fort Worth mother told a 911 dispatcher that she was “advised” to slit her 4-year-old daughter’s throat after first reporting that the little girl was missing. Krystal Lewandowski, 34, made the phone call at about 11:30 a.m. Monday, saying she’d last seen the girl in the backyard, NBC DFW reports. As the operator asked …
A 4-year-old Texas girl was found stabbed to death Monday afternoon shortly after she was reported missing. Fort Worth police responded to the Near Southside neighborhood at around 11:40 a.m. amid reports of a missing child. Police said they swiftly determined a homicide had occurred upon arriving at the scene, according to KXAS. The news …
A Texas man believed to shot his girlfriend to death, leaving her body alone with her two young children, was arrested Saturday in California, KEYT reported. San Antonio police announced the arrest of Jorge Izquierdo, 29, on Saturday but did not say where he was arrested, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Cora Nickle’s 8- and 5-year-old …
San Antonio police have arrested the boyfriend of a 27-year-old woman whose lifeless body was found by her young children on Thursday, KSAT reports. Two children, ages 8 and 5, were at the home in northwest San Antonio when the eldest child texted their grandmother that their mother was on floor not responding, as CrimeOnline …
Residents near Garrison Park in Austin, Texas, were shocked and a little dismayed this week to learn that a body had been buried beneath concrete and cinder blocks in a neighbor’s backyard. Austin Police launched an investigation after they received a call from a witness who visited the home and said the occupants told her …
As temperatures crept into the lower 90s last Monday afternoon, a Duncanville, Texas, resident noticed a baby, strapped into a car seat in a Ford Explorer, alone, with the windows tightly closed. The resident called Duncanville police, and Officer Christian Pinilla jumped into action, breaking into the vehicle and getting the crying baby to the …
Police in two jurisdictions 1,700 miles apart are looking at whether a dispute during an online game prompted a California man to drive to Texas to kill an 18-year-old man and then drive back home, where he killed himself, over a 72-hour period, the Flower Mound Police Department said. Flower Mound police found Matthew Thane …
* UPDATE: 10 P.M.* Three police officers were in stable condition Sunday afternoon after they were shot responding to a call in Cedar Park, Texas, where a suspect is barricaded inside a home. Cedar Park Interim Police Chief Mike Harmon told reporters Sunday night that officers responded to the residence shortly after 3 p.m. when …
Authorities in Texas are still looking for an elderly woman who reportedly vanished last month after winning a large cash prize at a bingo hall. Carolyn Riggins, 69, reportedly has partial dementia and was possibly last seen on July 11 at Watauga Road Bingo in Watauga. Her family told WFAA that Riggins won a sizable …
A Texas police officer who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing her neighbor in his own apartment filed an appeal Tuesday to have her 2019 murder conviction overturned. Lawyers representing Amber Guyger requested the former Dallas police officer be convicted of negligent homicide instead of murder. The defense team also asked for …