A Utah man is in jail after he called police and confessed he’d just strangled his girlfriend to death. Daniel Padilla-Ang, 27, reportedly told police on Saturday he had gotten into an argument with his girlfriend over a broken vape cartridge. After she hit him, he said he strangled and punched her until she stopped …
A Utah man arrested this week for a violent attempted kidnapping in Logan reportedly told police he thought the victim was his wife and let her go when he realized it wasn’t her. Logan Police Capt. Curtis Hooley said that witnesses said they saw Carlos Cisneros-Diaz punch a woman in the face and try to …
A 26-year-old University of Utah student has been charged with injecting a lethal dose of heroin into his girlfriend at Salt Lake City hotel last week. Court records say Haoyu Wang emailed the university’s police department, telling them he’d injected both his girlfriend and himself with drugs and that they’d both be dead by the …
A Utah an was arrested this week for allegedly holding a woman captive for weeks while repeatedly assaulting her and telling her she “had six months love him or be killed.” Ramone Martinez, 39, has been charged with aggravated kidnapping, five counts of third-degree aggravated assault, and one misdemeanor assault charge, jail records say. On …
A Utah man is in custody charged with obstruction of justice after a missing college student was found alive Saturday night. Madelyn Allen, 19, was reported missing from Snow College in Ephraim on Monday night, sparking a search that eventually included the FBI. On Saturday night, school officials and Allen’s family announced that she had …
A Utah man has been charged with the fatal shooting of his wife after he called 911 to report the shooting. William Matthew Jonides, who turned 57 on Thursday, called police Friday night and “advised the dispatcher he had just killed his wife.” Sandy City Police said they found Jonides and took him into custody, …
A convicted Utah sex offender was nude when he opened the door of his Provo home for trick-or-treaters Saturday night and beckoned them inside. Provo Police said at least five children older than 14 and three under 14 saw 48-year-old Steven Kelley Little naked, and one of them shot video and gave it to investigators, …
A Utah teenager vanished from her home in the middle of the night two weeks ago and hasn’t been seen or heard from since. Morgan Sessions’ mom, Rebecca Davis, said she helped her daughter with her homework on the night of September 20, then later peeked into her bedroom while she slept, according to KUTV. …
New police body camera footage of the August 12 traffic stop of Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito shows a sobbing Petito telling an officer her boyfriend hit her “but I hit him first.” At least two witnesses called 911 that day, reporting that they’d seen what might be a domestic violence situation between Laundrie and …
A dispatcher told Moab, Utah, police officers that a 911 caller saw Brian Laundrie hitting Gabby Petito before the officers pulled over their van in mid-August. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the report filed by the officers and body cam footage both show that police believed Petito struck Laundrie during an argument, and ultimately classified the …
An hours-long standoff in Utah ended Saturday afternoon with three people dead, including possibly the suspect. Police were called to the home in Millcreek at about 6 p.m. when a man who had been visiting the home ran to a nearby police precinct to report a man was shooting inside the home and that people …
Detectives looking into the shooting deaths of a lesbian couple in the Utah mountains last week have called in federal and state investigators to aid in the investigation. Grand County Sheriff Steven White told Fox 13 that he has asked the FBI and the State Bureau of Investigation to provide extra resources as his department …
