The trial of Alex Christopher Ewing is scheduled to begin Monday in Colorado, over 37 years after his alleged victims were brutally murdered. Ewing, 60, is facing first-degree murder charges in connection with the 1984 deaths of Bruce and Debra Bennett, and their daughter, 7-year-old Melissa. The couple’s 3-year-old daughter, Vanessa, was left with critical …
Day four of the murder trial against a South Carolina man accused of killing a college student Samantha Josephson, who accidentally got into his car, thinking it was an Uber, resumes Friday. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Columbia Police arrested Nathaniel David Rowland, 24, in March 2019, for the murder of University of South Carolina student, …
Authorities in South Carolina have released the recording of a 911 call made the night Alex Murdaugh reportedly discovered the bodies of his wife and son, who had been fatally shot. FITS News obtained the recording via a FOIA request amid scarce updates on the investigation into the June 7 killings of Maggie Murdaugh, 52; …
Two Florida sisters pleaded guilty earlier this year to killing their 85-year-old father after one of them confessed to man that both sisters had slept with. Linda Roberts, 64, called 911 on the morning of March 6, 2015, to say she and her 65-year-old sister, Mary Beth Tomaselli, had found Anthony Tomaselli dead on his …
A University of Virginia economics lecturer has disappeared in Shenandoah National Park, prompting an extensive search. Fifty-five-year-old Julia Christine Devlin was last seen in Charlottesville on July 14; security footage showed her white Lexus sedan entering the park late on that day. On Saturday, investigators found her car wrecked and abandoned in the southern portion …
Iowa police are looking for a 13-year-old girl they say has PTSD and occasionally has psychotic episodes. Callista Ryan was last seen at about 7 a.m. Thursday morning in south Cedar Rapids, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported. Ryan is described as 4 feet 11 inches tall and about 107 pounds. She has a Ying Yang …
A California mother and her 14-year-old son have been arrested after the son “accidentally” shot his toddler half-sister. Thirty-seven-year-old Veronica Pyatt, the teen, and Pyatt’s 20-month-old daughter were in a vehicle in San Bernardino Tuesday afternoon, San Bernardino police said. The teen was “manipulating a loaded firearm in the back seat” of the vehicle, police …
Police in the western Detroit suburbs are looking for 86-year-old woman who disappeared while on her way to visit a friend. Livonia police said that Helen Kaneris was driving a black, 2011 Chevy Malibu with Michigan plates ELS1149. Kaneris never arrived at her friend’s home and never returned to her own, they said. Anyone who …
An Oklahoma woman has been charged with murder for allegedly running over her husband with an ATV. The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office was called to the scene at Soggy Bottoms ATV Trails at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday night after a 911 caller said a “girl was screaming saying her dad was dead.” “Somebody ran her …
The Nevada mother accused of intentionally drowning her young son and daughter before failed suicide attempts works for a social services agency. As CrimeOnline previously reported, siblings Christopher Fox III, 4; and Gihanna Fox, 1; were pronounced dead at their home in Henderson after police responded to the residence Monday evening. The children’s mother, 33-year-old …
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon says that a man arrested for trying to sexually assault a child had at least four additional victims. Alejandro Negrete was arrested last Friday after he allegedly tried to sexually assault a 9-year-old Aloha girl. At the time of the attempted assault, according to police, Negrete was driving …
The mother of a Tennessee girl who has been missing for over a month shared more details about the day Summer Wells went missing, and denied an apparent claim that Summer went underwater and had to be rescued by a teenage friend of the family. Summer, 5, was reported missing on June 15, when her …
