Authorities in South Carolina say a man who had recently escaped from jail was fatally shot in the head by a woman inside the home he invaded. According to Fox News, 30-year-old Bruce McLaughlin Jr. physically assaulted a guard at a Pickens County correctional facility this week and was able to make it out of …
A Nevada father was arrested Saturday in connection with the disappearance of his 3-year-old daughter who was last seen in late August. North Las Vegas police arrested Ricky Beasley, 27, after receiving a tip that he and the missing girl’s mother, Lakeia Walker, 27, were at a casino. Police said Monday that Beasley was charged with first-degree kidnapping, …
Maryland woman Jacquelyn Smith asked her husband to pull over last week in a Baltimore neighborhood, after she saw a young woman holding what appeared to be a baby in her arms, and a sign asking for help. Her generosity and offer of $10 cost her her life, and her husband is desperate to find …
A woman who had a brief affair with convicted family-killer Chris Watts spoke with Inside Edition about her tryst, as newly released interview footage shows her speaking to police about dating the man who would later kill his pregnant wife and two daughters. Amanda McMahon told Inside Edition that she met Watts on Tinder in …
A Louisiana mother accused in the burning death of her 6-month-old son will await her 2020 murder trial behind bars as her probation was revoked on Monday. Hanna Nicole Barker, 23, was arraigned on first-degree murder charges in connection with the July 18 death of her son, Levi Cole Ellerbe. The Alexandria Town Talk reported …
A body found in Costa Rica on Monday has been identified as 36-year-old Florida woman, Carla Stefaniak, who was overseas vacationing for her birthday. NBC2 reports that according to the head of the Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department, Walter Espinoza, Carla died from trauma. Authorities found her body wrapped in plastic and partially buried behind the Airbnb …
The Weld County Coroner released the complete autopsy reports of Bella, Celeste, and Shanann Watts, who were murdered by Chris Watts on August 13. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Chris Watts tried to pin the murders of 3-year-old Celeste and 4-year-old Bella on his wife when he first confessed to murdering Shanann, who was 15 weeks …
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Monday that the names of 11 priests accused in the grand jury’s scathing report regarding rampant child sex abuse in the church will remain permanently redacted. As reported by the Philadelphia Enquirer, August’s grand jury report included testimony from more than 1,000 children who alleged abuse at the hands of 301 priests in …
Every winter, actor Scott Schwartz hears stories of how children, in an attempt to emulate his character from the classic hit movie, “A Christmas Story,” stick their tongues to frozen poles. As Christmas approaches and the temperatures begin to drop, the actor wants to warn kids that not only are they putting themselves in danger, …
Chelsea Cook, a health teacher at a Salt Lake City high school, allegedly fatally shot her ex-husband’s girlfriend while visiting her children to deliver cough medicine. The girlfriend was reportedly helping the kids decorate their father’s Christmas tree when the attack happened in the apartment. Nancy Grace looks at the shocking case with former detective …
Autopsy reports released by the Weld County District Attorney’s office show that murdered mom Shanann Watts’s unborn baby was found just outside of her body after Chris Watts buried his pregnant wife in an oil field. The documents obtained by CrimeOnline came with a warning about the graphic nature of the autopsy reports, which explain …
A New Mexico court is deciding whether a man who was 15 when fatally shot his parents, brother, and two sisters will walk free nearly six years after the grisly quintuple slaying. Per the Albuquerque Journal, Children’s Court Judge John Romero is tasked with determining if convicted murderer Nehemiah Griego, now 21, is rehabilitated and can be reintroduced …
