A man was jailed this week for a string of arsons at three historic black Baptist churches located in one Louisiana parish. Holden Matthews, 21, was charged with three counts of simple arson of a religious building for a March 26 fire at St. Mary Baptist Church, an April 2 fire at Greater Union Baptist Church …
An Iowa man who took a plea deal that saved him from jail time after he abused a 1-year-old little girl could now be facing prison time, but only if a judge agrees. Ottumwa Courier reports that Kraigen Grooms was 19 in 2016 when he pleaded guilty to engaging in a lascivious act with a child. He …
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested on Thursday at the Ecuadorian Embassy in the UK after Ecuador reportedly withdrew asylum. As NBC News reports, Assange, 47, had been living at the embassy for nearly 7 years, and has been under investigation for alleged rape and sexual assault in Sweden since 2012, when he reportedly skipped …
A Florida woman was arrested Monday after a dementia patient at an assisted living facility claimed she “jumped on” him and raped him. FOX 35 reports that according to the Melbourne Police Department, 39-year-old Guettie Belizaire, who worked at the Brookshire Assisted Living Facility in Melbourne, has been charged with abuse of an elderly person and lewd and lascivious …
A California man will spend at least 26 years in prison for bludgeoning his married reality star girlfriend to death with a hammer in 2016 and burying her in a shallow grave in his backyard. Jackie Jerome Rogers, 36, was sentenced Monday to 26 years to life in prison for the first-degree murder of Lisa Marie Naegle, 35, …
Authorities in Iowa say a woman was arrested on suspicion of multiple counts of assault while displaying a weapon in connection with a bizarre car crash last year. According to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, police believe 36-year-old Iesha Mae Lynelle Sisk was driving in Waterloo on the evening of August 2 when she steered her …
Authorities in Arizona say the body of an elderly woman believed to be 77-year-old Sandra Aven was found this week — potentially two years after her death. According to ABC News, Sandra Aven’s daughter, 46-year-old Tara Aven, and granddaughter, 24-year-old Briar Aven, were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of multiple charges related to allegedly cashing …
A San Antonio teen and his friend are behind bars for the brutal murder of the teen’s mother, who apparently caught the pair trying to rob her, police say. FOX News reports that 18-year-old Matthew Dempsey allegedly attacked his mother, Mary Dempsey, when she walked in on her son burglarizing her home with an accomplice, Daniel …
An elderly man in New York City has been arrested for the 1973 slayings of two 19-year-old women who were vacationing in Virginia Beach at the time. The New York Times reports that DNA evidence recovered from the crime scene was matched this fall with Ernest Broadnax’s profile in a national database. Broadnax, 80, was …
A woman who vanished while on vacation in the Dominican Republic has been positively identified as an apparent victim of an accident who died in a hospital there late last week. Translating from the Dominican newspaper Diario Libre, the New York Post reports that a police spokesperson said that Portia Ravenelle, 32, of Mount Vernon, New York, …
AJ Armstrong is accused of killing his parents when he was just 16 years old. Ex-NFL star, Antonio and wife, Dawn, were shot while sleeping at home. There were no signs of a break-in. Nancy’s Expert Panel: John Lemley: Crimeonline.com reporter Dr. Brian Russell: Psychologist, lawyer, and Host of “Fatal Vows” on Investigation Discovery Kathleen …
An American couple that vanished in the Caribbean were likely discovered well over a week ago, though their families were desperately searching for answers until Tuesday, when authorities in the Dominican Republic announced that two recently deceased individuals matched the descriptions of Orlando Moore and Portia Ravenelle. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Dominican police told a …
