A college music student in upstate New York who was on the cusp of graduating is dead after being found shot near campus, WWNY-TV reports. Elizabeth Howell, 21, a music education student at the State University of New York at Potsdam, was found lying along College Park Road – just off campus – around 6 …
The sister of Wall Street fraudster Bernie Madoff is said to have died in a murder-suicide earlier this week in Florida, BocaNewsNow.com reports. The news outlet says 86-year-old Sondra Wiener and her husband, Marvin Wiener, were found dead Thursday evening at their home in Boynton Beach. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office has reportedly confirmed a …
A Texas couple was indicted this week in the death of an 8-year-old boy who investigators say was beaten, handcuffed, and bound with duct tape. Kayla Holzendorf, 25, and her boyfriend, 29-year-old Dominique Lewis, were arrested in March 2021 after they called 911 to report that Hozendorf’s son, Keyontae Holzendorf, drowned in the bathtub at …
A Pennsylvania man accused of shooting an Uber driver and dumping her body in a wooded area was ordered held without bail on Friday pending a preliminary hearing later this month. Christine Spicuzza’s dash cam video shows Calvin Crew pulling a gun on her 10 minutes into the ride and ignoring her pleas for her …
The body of a 4-year-old Kentucky girl last seen more than a year ago has been located. Authorities said Serenity McKinney was found in a wooded area in West Point, not from from the Jefferson-Bullitt County line, at about 2 p.m. on Friday, WHAS reported. Catherine McKinney, Serenity’s 21-year-old mother, and her boyfriend, 26-year-old Dakota …
A former Louisiana teacher pleaded guilty to “horrific crimes” against children and will testify against her now ex-husband — a former sheriff’s office SWAT team member — in his upcoming trial on child sex crime charges. Cynthia Perkins, 36, and 44-year-Dennis Perkins were arrested in 2019 on charges of rape, sexual battery, video voyeurism, mingling …
A man with a history of assaulting strangers was arrested this week for slugging a 4-year-old boy in the head, prompting the toddler’s mother and another women to take the assailant down themselves in busy Times Square. The incident took place at about 3:20 p.m., police said, when 34-year-old Babacar Mbaye cold-cocked the boy as …
The Texas Attorney General’s Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit will take another look at the case of a college student who disappeared while on his way home for winter break in 2020. Jason Landry, 21, left the Texas State University campus in San Marcos on December 13 to drive to his home in Missouri …
A French modeling agent awaiting trial for raping minors was found dead Saturday morning in his Paris jail cell, just days after Britain’s Prince Andrew settled a lawsuit charging him with sexual abuse. Jean-Luc Brunel, 74, was also under investigation for human trafficking and sexual exploitation in connection with a French investigation into potential crimes …
A Georgia woman convicted of killing her newborn baby in 2017 had her murder conviction tossed out by the state appeals court on Friday. According to court documents, the state Court of Appeals agreed in a ruling that the prosecution failed to provide sufficient evidence that Cortney Bell, who was convicted along with her boyfriend, …
Loved ones of a woman who was murdered at their Virginia vacation home is pleading for answers as the case continues to remain unsolved, PEOPLE reports. On July 11, 2017, the body of Peggy Lammers was found in the hallway of her family’s waterfront property in Deltaville on the Chesapeake Bay. Investigators determined that Lammers died …
Criminal proceedings against a man who allegedly kidnapped a young boy from his bed and stabbed him to death have been halted indefinitely after a judge’s ruling, the Dallas Morning News reports. On Friday, Magistrate Judge Farrel Chapman found Darriynn Brown incompetent to stand trial on a capital murder charge in connection with the death …
