The father of Florida fugitive Brian Laundrie has been sued. Plaintiff Andra Griffin filed a lawsuit against Christopher Laundrie at the North Port Florida, Court, after he allegedly removed a sign that was placed near his home on October 15. Court documents indicate that Laundrie walked out of his home, took the sign down, and …
A homicide team has joined the search for a 4-year-old Australian girl who’s been missing for several days. According to the New Zealand Herald, family members reported Cleo Smith missing on Saturday morning. The child was last seen with her family at the Blowholes Campground in Macleod, where they were staying in a tent. Cleo’s …
A South Carolina teacher was arrested on Friday, weeks after a student reportedly received a pack of cannabis candy from a reward box in her class. Lexington County police said in a statement a Rocky Creek Elementary student picked the edibles out of a prize box in Victoria Weiss’ class on September 23. Though Weiss, 27, …
The boy’s mother was found murdered in a yard on Thursday. When police apprehended the suspect, he shot himself. There is still no sign of missing 3-year-old Major P. Harris.
A private investigator thinks a closer look should be taken to see if there is a connection between Gabby Petito’s death and the deaths of a couple camping in August in Moab, Utah. As CrimeOnline previously reported, investigators found the bodies of Crystal Turner, 38, and Kylen Schulte, 24, who were found fatally shot at …
A Texas man is accused of so violently abusing his son – including holding him underwater, hitting him with a baseball bat, and slamming him against a wall – that the child now has post-traumatic stress disorder, KPRC-TV reports. Authorities allege that James Walker, 40, harmed his 10-year-old son multiple times between September and December …
More questions than answers remain after the body of Illinois State University graduate student, Jelani Day, was found last month in the Illinois River. His family is now pleading for federal authorities to take over. As CrimeOnline previously reported, family members told Dateline in August that not hearing from Day, 25, was “very unlike him.” …
A man with an apparent resemblance to fugitive Brian Laundrie says that U.S. Marshals ambushed him with guns while he was sleeping during a break in a hiking trip with his girlfriend. Severin Beckwith told the New Yorker that he and his girlfriend had been hiking in upstate New York and had decided to get …
As law enforcement continues to hunt for Brian Laundrie, some social media users have posted images of themselves in Halloween costumes making light of the situation, The Sun reports. Laundrie is a person of interest in the murder of his fiancé, Gabby Petito, whose death has been the subject of worldwide attention. One man posted a …
The parents of a murdered 22-year-old woman say they once trusted the man they now believe is responsible for her death. As the New York Post reports, Nicole Schmidt and Joseph Petito appeared on the Australian news program “60 Minutes,” revealing that they believed their daughter would be safe with Laundrie on the couple cross-country …
Jury selection begins Monday for the trial of three men accused of following and killing a Black jogger who ran through their coastal Georgia neighborhood in February 2020. Some 600 people are expected at the Selden Park Recreation Center in Brunswick — where jury selection has been moved to accommodate social distancing — as attorneys …
An Indiana couple has been arrested after a hospital called police and reported a 3-year-old with critical injuries inconsistent with the story told by the child’s father and girlfriend. Derek Pierce, 31, and Dakota McHenry, 25, have been charged with neglect of an infant causing serious bodily injury and obstruction of justice; Pierce also faces …
