A 15-year-old girl is in jail in Rhode Island, charged with killing a 68-year-old grandmother whose family was reportedly trying to adopt her, the Providence Journal reports. Heavenly Arroyo, originally of Rochester, New York, was arrested on October 6 and charged with stabbing Ana Vazquez as many as 20 times in her Fall River home, …
A Los Angeles jury on Friday recommended the death sentence for Michael Gargiulo, who was convicted in August in the deaths of two women and the brutal stabbing of a third, who survived, KNX1070 reported. Prosecutors called Gargiulo, 43, the “Hollywood Ripper” for the Los Angeles-area killings of Ashley Ellerin, 22, on February 22, 2001, …
UPDATE Suspect caught on camera tossing dead woman into dumpster identified, arrested for murder: Reports Original Story Colorado authorities are asking for help in identifying a woman and suspect who dumped her body in a dumpster at a Pueblo car wash. CBS 11 reports that the incident happened at a dumpster behind a car wash …
An Indiana man who admitted to drugging a 5-year-old girl’s cereal before he filmed himself sexually assaulting her learned this week that he will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. Eric Weiler, 46, was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to production and possession of child pornography …
A former Florida nanny who gave birth to an 11-year-old boy’s baby was convicted of sexual battery on Wednesday. Tampa Bay Times reports that 28-year-old Marissa Mowry was a parents’ worst nightmare. She’s pictured above at the age of 22, when she sexually assaulted a young boy at least 15 times in 2014. Mowry was …
A $33,000 reward is being offered for information leading to Kamille McKinney’s safe return
The Arizona Court of Appeals is mulling over whether convicted killer Jodi Arias should have her murder conviction overturned due to alleged prosecutor misconduct and a “media circus” that surrounded the trial. On Thursday, Arias’ defense lawyers argued that Juan Martinez, the prosecutor in Arias’ 2013 trial, showed numerous instances of misconduct that they believe …
Reality television star Nathan Griffith was arrested Thursday afternoon in North Carolina after he was reportedly found unconscious in his car, which contained empty alcohol bottles. Cary police reportedly responded to the parking lot of a Harris Teeter after someone discovered Griffith, 32, sleeping in his car. Sergeant Mike Ring told Radar Online that the …
During opening statements inside a Pulaski County, Arkansas, courtroom on Wednesday, prosecutors laid out gruesome details in the deaths of two children and their mother. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that 26-year-old Michael Ivory Collins was on trial facing capital murder and robbery charges for the deaths of A’Laylaih Fisher, 5, Elijah Fisher, 3, and their mother, …
One of the three men charged in connection with the murder of Dr. Teresa Sievers is on trial for the beloved physician’s brutal death. The trial against Jimmy Ray Rodgers continues inside a Lee County, Florida, courtroom. According to police, Teresa’s husband, Mark Sievers, 51, was the mastermind behind his wife’s murder. Sievers is accused …
The suspect allegedly heard on a video that depicted the brutal killing of a 30-year-old Alaska woman has reportedly confessed to a second killing. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a pedestrian contacted police after she found a SD card with violent imagery while she was walking down the street in Fairview, Alaska, in late September. Video …
A Boston man in town to run the Chicago Marathon on Sunday disarmed a robber on the Blue Line train en route to the starting line and held him until police arrived. Another marathon runner video-taped Jean-Paul LaPierre, 54, as he told the would-be robber he’d have “no problem breaking your neck” and held him …
