Authorities in Virginia plan to charge a man in connection with the January 2011 disappearance of his girlfriend, who was five months pregnant when she vanished. Speaking with WTOP, Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj said police notified them that they obtained a warrant for Ronald Roldan for the abduction of Bethany Decker. Shortly after …
A Virginia surgical technician shot and killed his wife and then himself Halloween night, just days after she had handed him separation papers, Now, the couple’s 24-year-old daughter and her husband have two high school students to look after while coming to terms with the tragic deaths. “My father took my mom’s life simply because …
US Marshals in Virginia completed a 5-day “Operation Find Our Children” this week, recovering 27 previously missing kids as well as confirming six others were actually with their legal guardians. The marshals were assisted in the operation by the Virginia Department of Social Services, medical professionals and experts from the National Center for Missing and …
A Virginia man was arrested in south Florida on Sunday when state troopers found a dead body in his trunk after a crash. Robert Avery Coltrain, 25, has been charged with second degree murder and illegally transporting human remains, WSVN reported. The man in the trunk, 26-year-old Brian Trotter, was last seen alive on October …
A Virginia man convicted of raping two women lifeguards at pools in Alexandria and Fairfax was sentenced to 65 years in prison on Friday, WTOP reports. Jesse Bjerke, 39, pleaded guilty in October 2019 to the 2016 rape and abduction of a then-24-year-old woman and pleaded no contest and was convicted earlier this year in …
A Virginia woman has been charged with child abuse, neglect, and aggravated malicious wounding for the injuries her ex-boyfriend’s child received while in her care last month, WSET reports. The 3-year-old boy had life-threatening injuries when he was airlifted from the tiny community of Gladys to Roanoke-Carillon Hospital on September 16. Campbell County deputies learned …
A body found Thursday in a rural Virginia field has been positively identified as Andy Banks, a North Carolina man who disappeared last week while trying to sell his 2011 Range Rover on Craigslist, the Raleigh Police Department reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Banks vanished on September 12 from Raleigh, after arranging to meet someone …
A North Carolina mother is alive this weekend after a terrifying ordeal earlier this week when her ex-boyfriend kidnapped her, drove her to Virginia, shot her in the face, and then killed himself. Crystal Lashawn Clay, 34, was taken from her Burlington home early Tuesday morning by Renaldo Lemar Tate, 34, the Carroll County, Virginia, …
Virginia State Police are investigating after a woman shot and killed herself this week in the backseat of a Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s patrol vehicle. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that the incident happened on Monday when deputies were transporting the 30-year-old woman from Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg to Western State Hospital for an mental health …
On Thursday, a trial date was set for a Virginia woman who, along with her boyfriend, allegedly sexually abused her 2-year-old son before his murder in January 2019. WDBJ reports that Kayla Thomas’ three-day trial is scheduled to begin on January 20, 2021. Thomas, 26, is not charged with Steven Meek II’s murder, but she …
The “victim” of a kidnapping is behind bars in Mississippi after investigators determined there had been no abduction — just an attempt to extort money from the alleged victim’s father. The story began late Thursday night when a Virginia man contacted the Lee County Sheriff’s Department and said he had received a Facetime call showing …
Harry Rogers is also charged with 3 felonies that will go before a grand jury next month.
