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Hania Aguilar Update: Police overlooked evidence in 2016 rape that would have put suspected killer behind bars before he raped, killed teen girl [Prosecutor]

 Hania Aguilar Update: Police overlooked evidence in 2016 rape that would have put suspected killer behind bars before he raped, killed teen girl [Prosecutor]
Murder

North Carolina authorities apparently didn’t follow up with evidence left behind after a woman was raped in 2016, which could have put the man accused of killing teen girl Hania Aguilar behind bars, a prosecutor said on Tuesday. The News & Observer reports that Robeson County District Attorney Johnson Britt said authorities let evidence “slip through …

SEE IT: Police release surveillance footage showing missing Colorado mom just before she vanished on Thanksgiving
Family Crime
December 12, 2018

SEE IT: Police release surveillance footage showing missing Colorado mom just before she vanished on Thanksgiving

Authorities in Colorado have released video footage of a now-missing young woman, taken at a grocery store the day she was last seen. Kelsey Berreth, 29, of Woodland Park vanished on November 22, Thanksgiving Day, after being spotted in a Safeway supermarket with her 1-year-old daughter. Berreth then reportedly met with her fiancé Patrick Frazee, who …

[UPDATE] Nanny tries to kill 2-month-old baby by stuffing baby wipe down his throat
Child Abuse
December 11, 2018

[UPDATE] Nanny tries to kill 2-month-old baby by stuffing baby wipe down his throat

A jury deliberated for about a day this week before finding a former nanny guilty of charges including attempted murder and assault. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 47-year-old Marianne Benjamin-Williams was accused of stuffing a baby wipe deep into the throat of a 2-month-old baby in her care last year. According to the New York Post, …

UPDATE: High school football player pleads NOT GUILTY to killing pregnant cheerleader girlfriend
Murder
December 11, 2018

UPDATE: High school football player pleads NOT GUILTY to killing pregnant cheerleader girlfriend

A 16-year-old Indiana boy pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder and feticide charges despite allegedly admitting to stabbing his ex-cheerleader girlfriend to death and dumping her body in a dumpster. Charged as an adult, NBC News reported that Aaron Trejo entered his pleas during his arraignment and was ordered to be held without bail. The Mishawaka High School …

Babysitters jailed for toddler’s beating death claimed he fell down stairs; boy’s mom charged for failing to protect him: Prosecutor
Murder
December 11, 2018

Babysitters jailed for toddler’s beating death claimed he fell down stairs; boy’s mom charged for failing to protect him: Prosecutor

An Ohio mother and two babysitters are facing criminal charges after authorities said a 3-year-old boy died from multiple traumatic injuries while in the sitters’ care—a place a pediatrician reportedly told the mother to stop taking him to after discovering concerning wounds. WICU and WSEE reported that mother and daughter Valorie D. Olah and Samantha M. Olah …

Anti-Semitic pamphlets with Ku Klux Klan logos found around Pittsburgh neighborhoods: Report
Discrimination
December 11, 2018

Anti-Semitic pamphlets with Ku Klux Klan logos found around Pittsburgh neighborhoods: Report

Authorities in Pennsylvania are investigating after anti-Semitic and racist pamphlets were reportedly found around Pittsburgh neighborhoods. Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh’s CEO, Jeff Finklestein, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that he reviewed the fliers on Facebook and that they contained “recruitment information for the Ku Klux Klan.” Though it’s unclear where exactly the fliers were found, …

Developing: Newborn baby found in trash bag on residential front porch
Unsolved
December 11, 2018

Developing: Newborn baby found in trash bag on residential front porch

Authorities are investigating the death of an infant in Kentucky after someone spotted the baby early Tuesday morning, left in a trash bag outside of a home. CBS reports that the Kentucky State Police responded to a caller who noticed the baby outside of a home in Clay County, off of Ham Hollow Road. Troopers arrived …

School staff accused of restraining autistic teen boy face-down & accidentally killing him, violated rules: Officials
School Crimes
December 11, 2018

School staff accused of restraining autistic teen boy face-down & accidentally killing him, violated rules: Officials

A private California school where staff reportedly restrained a 13-year-old autistic boy who stopped breathing and died late last month violated state restraint rules, education officials have determined. Per The Sacramento Bee, California Department of Education said Guiding Hands School in El Dorado Hills broke state rules when they restrained Max Benson in a face-down position for …