Texas sheriff’s deputies responded to a desperate 911 call in Liberty County early Saturday evening and found a woman in chains inside the house and another woman dead inside a burning car outside, KPRC reports. A suspect identified as Jose Marin Soriano, 59, is on the run, the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office said. Both victims …
A former sheriff’s deputy from Texas was sentenced Tuesday to more than 18 years in prison for sexually exploiting young girls from Massachusetts after he met them online. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said in a statement that Pasquale Salas, then 20, met a 12-year-old girl through an online game in …
Authorities have identified the 23-year-old California man they believe made a 3,400-mile round trip over 72 hours last month to kill another man he met via an online game, the Flower Mound, Texas, Police Department announced Friday. Flower Mound police found Matthew Thane, 18, dead from a gunshot wound outside his home early on August …
The suspect allegedly claimed he was only kissing the girl
A Texas family has received an outpouring of support days after they were filmed being evicted from their home. Last week, CNN aired a story showing Harris County police serving eviction notices to several families. During the broadcast, Israel Rodriguez, 24, his girlfriend, and two children, ages 4 and 20 months, were seen being removed …
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 …
