On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to reinstate the death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted of killing three people and injuring more than 260 others in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The court ruled 6-3 in favor of re-sentencing Tsarnaev, 28, to death. Tsarnaev previously received the death penalty after being convicted …
A Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, jury took around 90 minutes Thursday to render a guilty verdict against Austin Stevens, a former youth football coach who sexually assaulted and killed his own child. Stevens, 31, has been convicted of first-degree murder, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, and endangering the welfare of a child. Stevens will spend the rest …
A woman may be paralyzed after she was shot in the back on Thursday, according to Texas police. The victim, who has not been publicly identified, said she was driving in Houston when a man standing on the side of her car randomly started shooting into her vehicle. The woman claimed she did not know …
Sherri Papini, a California mother and wife whose disappearance more than five years ago prompted a massive search, was arrested Thursday for allegedly lying to the feds about her disappearance. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Sherri Papini disappeared on November 2, 2016, while jogging in her Shasta Lake neighborhood. Authorities later found her on Thanksgiving Day …
Sherri Papini, a California mother and wife whose disappearance more than five years ago prompted a massive search, was arrested Thursday and a DNA test reportedly helped police crack the case. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Sherri Papini disappeared on November 2, 2016, while jogging in her Shasta Lake neighborhood. Authorities later found her on Thanksgiving …
Police in New York City are investigating the apparent homicide of a woman whose dismembered torso was found stuffed in a bag in a shopping cart. According to NBC News, a witness made the horrific discovery early Thursday morning. The man began pushing the shopping cart, found near a collection of businesses at the intersection …
Authorities in Tennessee have issued an urgent AMBER Alert for a 13-year-old girl who reportedly left home with a adult male now wanted for kidnapping. According to Knox News, 13-year-old Alexis Smiley is believed to have left her home Lenoir City with a man nearly a decade her senior: William Tyler Nicholson, 22. Tennessee Burea …
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A California woman whose disappearance more than five years ago prompted a desperate three-week search was arrested on Thursday and charged with lying to federal agents about being kidnapping and defrauding California’s victim compensation board. Sherri Papini, 39, was reported missing on November 2, 2016, and found 22 days later just off Interstate 5 near …
A south Florida Lyft driver has been charged with raping an intoxicated passenger over the weekend and ordered held on a $500,000 bond. The Miami Beach police report says that Kevyn Rojas, 26, is charged with sexual battery on a physically helpless victim, according to the Miami Herald. He was ordered to give up his …
A Philadelphia grand jury has indicted a veteran homicide detective for his part in a violent interrogation of a man who spent 11 years in prison for murder before he was exonerated. James Pitts has been accused of assaulting Obina Onyiah during his interrogation for the 2010 murder of a jewelry store owner. Onyiah confessed …
An Ohio man set to go on trial on abduction charges was arraigned Thursday for a 2019 rape in which he allegedly took a woman’s prosthetic leg and kicked her unconscious before the sexual assault. Prosecutors said Yoder was identified as the suspect in the July 2019 rape via DNA testing, WKRC reports. At Thursday’s …
