A Virginia mother and her boyfriend are facing criminal charges after her 2-year-old daughter was reportedly found unresponsive and with burns on several parts of her body. WAVY reported that the child was pronounced dead at a hospital after police and fire crews were called to the Norfolk home. Since then, the deceased girl’s mother, …
A Virginia man who hid his girlfriend’s dead body in the woods and killed her two cats last year was sentenced this week. Dayshaun Keith Kent, 23, received the maximum sentence of 15 years with five years suspended after pleading guilty to improper disposal of a body and two counts of felony animal cruelty with …
Authorities in Virginia have arrested a South Carolina man accused of killing his brother this week following a dispute. According to WTVR, the body of 33-year-old Christopher Andrew Veronee was found Tuesday evening in Stafford County. His younger brother, 21-year-old William Jackson Veronee, of Aiken, South Carolina, was arrested hundreds of miles away by police …
A Virginia man is set to stand trial beginning next week on charges that he fatally stabbed a 13-year-old girl in 2016. As CrimeOnline previously reported, David Eisenhauer was 18 when he allegedly murdered Nicole Lovell. The girl’s nude body was found in January 2016 with a slit throat and covered in stab wounds. The …
A Virginia teen is critically injured and facing murder charges after authorities say he fatally shot a husband and wife in their home on Friday before turning the gun on himself. According to WRC-TV, the unnamed 17-year-old boy knew the victims, 48-year-old Scott Fricker and 43-year-old Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, prior to the shooting. Reports suggest he …
A Virginia mother is facing felony charges for allegedly placing a recorder in her 9-year-old daughter’s backpack to capture bullying. Speaking with WAVY, Sarah Sims claimed that her daughter was being relentlessly tormented at Ocean View Elementary—and emails and phone calls about the issue were going unanswered. Fed up, the mother said she wanted to prove …
Authorities in Chester, Virginia, say a local youth pastor murdered three members of his family on Thanksgiving. According to WTVR, 58-year-old Christopher Gattis was arrested at the home where he and the three victims had lived. He is accused of shooting Jeanett Gattis, 58, Candice Kunze, 30, Andrew Buthorn, 36, identified as his wife, her …
A judge had harsh words—and a prison sentence—for a Virginia man who confessed to performing sex acts on his Rottweilers. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that Stephen Matthew Taylor, 31, was convicted of two counts of animal cruelty. The charges stemmed from an investigation of his roommate, Craig Knox, 36, on multiple charges, including rape of a child. Police …
Recently-uncovered surveillance footage reportedly shows someone exiting from a slain Virginia Beach teen’s car the same day of her disappearance. WVEC reported that the video captured someone exiting Ashanti Billie’s Mini Cooper at around 5:40 a.m. on September 18 and head east toward Azalea Garden Road in Norfolk, Virginia. The person is then seen throwing objects …
An elderly Virginia woman is recovering and her suspected attacker is facing attempted murder charges following an investigation into a residential fire Friday morning. According to WAVY, police responded to the Highland Springs home just before 6 a.m. and found the victim, identified by neighbors as a 78-year-old woman, inside. When a rescue crew transported …
The husband of a woman accused of dressing up as a clown and fatally shooting his first wife now says his second wife is innocent. Michael Warren told ABC that Sheila Keen Warren, 54, is “falsely accused” of killing his first wife, Marlene Warren, 27 years earlier. Sheila is facing charges for allegedly pretending to be a clown …
The FBI is asking for the public’s help in locating footage believed to show Ashanti Billie’s Mini Cooper traveling from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to Charlotte, North Carolina. According to an October 12 FBI statement, Billie, 19, was driving a white or cream-colored 2014 with Maryland tag 2CX-0575. The agency is urging` anyone who might’ve seen the …
