UPDATE: Missing 12-year-old NC girl seen in Florida with 15-year-old boy
Missing
Ashlan Earley’s mother says her daughter is a loving and compassionate child and shouldn’t ‘fear she can’t come home.’
Murder
March 7, 2021
‘Take me away,’ Connecticut mom tells cops, who find 4-year-old son dead inside apartment
Police in Connecticut arrested a 33-year-old woman for murder after she told them “take me away ” because she “hurt her son.” WTNH reported that police were called to a parking lot just before 6:30 a.m. for a report of a woman damaging a car with a bat. The woman fled the scene, but the …
Murder
March 7, 2021
2 arrested after teen girl’s dead body found wrapped in plastic in abandoned Manhattan fish market
New York police have arrested two men and charged them with killing a 19-year-old woman whose body was found wrapped in plastic in an abandoned fish market, ABC7 reported. Authorities have identified the woman as Rosalee Sanchez. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Sanchez’s boyfriend and another person found her body early Saturday morning and called 911. …
Unsolved
March 7, 2021
Police find dead body inside burning dumpster near popular Nashville neighborhood
Nashville homicide detectives are investigating a body found burnt beyond recognition in a dumpster fire in the city’s historic Cannery Row. Police said firefighters first responded when a sanitation worker reported the dumpster on fire at about 4 a.m. on Thursday. They called police after extinguishing the blaze and finding the body inside. Employees of …
School Crimes
March 7, 2021
20-year-old college sophomore clinging to life after alleged alcohol-fueled hazing incident
A 20-year-old college sophomore is in critical condition after an alleged alcohol-involved fraternity hazing incident on Thursday at Bowling Green State University in northwestern Ohio, WTOL reports. Stone Foltz is reportedly on life support, an attorney speaking on behalf of his family told the station, while they work out details of donating his organs after …
Animal Crimes
March 7, 2021
Drug investigation finds alligator in ‘poorly secure tank in rancid water’
Oxnard Police knew what they might find when they conducted a search of Donny Askar’s waterfront home earlier this month, and it wasn’t just the drugs they were investigating. After taking the 44-year-old Askar into custody in Port Hueneme, they headed to his home in Oxnard’s Channel Islands neighborhood. Sure enough, along with heroin, methamphetamines, …
Missing
March 7, 2021
MISSING: North Carolina girl went for a walk Friday, did not return
A 12-year-old girl was reported missing Friday from rural Davidson County, North Carolina, deputies say. Ashlan Kaye Earley is described as about 5 feet 3 inches tall, 120 pounds, with brown hair, blue eyes, and fair skin. She wears circular glasses and has a light pink birthmark on the back of her neck, the Davidson …
Missing
March 7, 2021
MISSING: Boy-girl sibs with pet dog vanish in DeKalb County. Boy found, girl still missing.
Authorities in DeKalb County, Georgia, are looking for 17-year-old Sajidah Phillips, who was last seen on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. near their home in Decatur. DeKalb County police initially said that Sajidah and her 11-year-old brother, Sameem Ibn-Phillips Jr, were both missing, but they announced Sunday afternoon that Sameem had been found and returned home. …
Unsolved
March 7, 2021
Teen girl’s dead body found wrapped in plastic in abandoned Manhattan fish market
The dead body of a teenager wrapped in plastic was found over the weekend in a New York building, WABC-TV reports. The teen, who has been described as homeless, was discovered Saturday morning around 9:20 a.m. inside the old Fulton Fish Market building, the New York Daily News reports. The abandoned facility is located in lower Manhattan. Investigators …
Murder
March 6, 2021
Husband tried to make murder of his wife look like she interrupted a robbery: Cops
An Idaho man was charged this week with the 2014 murder of his wife after Cassia County authorities brought in the FBI to help with the case, the Idaho State Journal reports. Jimmy Lee Murphy, 32, was arrested on Wednesday at his home in Minidoka County scuffling with officers when he tried to flee. He’s …
Murder
March 6, 2021
10-year-old calls 911 after dad allegedly kills stepmother, dog
A Kentucky police dispatcher answered a desperate call to 911 Thursday night: A 10-year-old boy reported a deadly shooting at his home in Brandenburg, WLKY reports. “A 10-year-old was on the telephone saying that his stepmother and stepmother’s dog had been shot,” said Brandenburg Police Chief Brian Haag. Brandenburg police and Meade County sheriff’s deputies …
Kidnapping
March 6, 2021
Bio mom who kidnapped sons in Louisiana and fled to Florida surrenders to deputies
A Louisiana mother wanted for kidnapping her two sons in Louisiana and abandoning them in Florida has turned herself in, WGNO reports. Shawntel Heck, 38, contacted the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office in Florida on Friday and told them she was tired of running and wanted surrender, the station reported. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Heck …