Authorities in Maryland say a fellow law enforcement officer raped a woman as part of a traffic stop last week. According to Fox News, Ryan Macklin was arrested on Monday, four days after stopping the alleged victim. The Prince George’s County Police Department indicated the suspect has been an officer employed with the agency for …
Authorities in New York say an Uber driver was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a passenger during late-night ride earlier this year. According to WNBC, 24-year-old Harbir Parmar appeared earlier this week at a federal court in White Plains to faces criminal charges related to the February 21 incident. According to investigators, Parmar picked up …
Following her parents’ deaths at their home in Wisconsin and her disappearance, police issued an Amber alert for 13-year-old Jayme Closs on Monday and leads began to pour in. Her parents apparently died from gunshot wounds and authorities are treating her as missing and endangered. As CrimeOnline previously reported, one reported sighting suggested she was …
Authorities have found human remains “consistent” with a missing one-year-old boy five months after his mother’s dead body was discovered in the same area. According to NYUp.com, Wayne County Sheriff Barry Virts confirmed that scattered human remains had been found in a 12-inch-grave on the same Sodus, New York, farm where Owen Hidalgo-Calderon’s mother Selena Hidalgo-Calderon …
A Texas man was convicted Monday for fatally beating his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter and leaving her in a locked closet to die. The Dallas Morning News reported that the victim’s mother, Jeri Quezada, 33, testified that Charles Wayne Phifer, 36, tied Leiliana Wright’s arms behind her back and strung her up in a closet. Prosecutors said …
Authorities have identified the family members killed in an apparent murder-suicide on Monday evening but are still searching for a motive. As reported by the Tennessean, the Maury County Sheriff’s Office held a press conference on Tuesday in which Sheriff Bucky Rowland identified the five people found dead of gunshot wounds in a Columbia, Tennessee, home …
The former president of a fraternity at Baylor University who was indicted for allegedly sexually assaulting a female student in 2015 will likely avoid jail after pleading guilty to a lesser charge. Initially charged with four counts of sexual assault, Jacob Walter Anderson, 24, pleaded guilty Monday to unlawful restraint. The plea deal means Anderson will serve three years …
The grandmother of a 20-month-old girl is in custody after Mississippi deputies reportedly found the toddler’s body in an oven, with stab wounds. The Clarion Ledger reported that the toddler girl’s body was taken to a crime lab to undergo an autopsy. The grandmother’s identity is unknown at this point in time as she hasn’t …
The man suspected of murdering a standout golfer in broad daylight last month reportedly appeared at a home not far from where the body was found covered in sand and blood, and took a shower there. The Des Moines Register reports that authorities are continuing to build a case against Collin Richards for the the September …
A California man was found guilty of murder after he stabbed a teen to death following a road rage confrontation in a store parking lot last year—and videotaped the victim dying, according to prosecutors. A jury found 41-year-old James Beckham Fortney, of Temecula, guilty of “second-degree murder—with an enhancement of using a knife—and one count of …
A Maryland man has been missing for nearly a week after reportedly vanishing in Idaho while filming a documentary with a British production company. The Washington Post reported that Terrence Woods Jr., 26, was reported missing on October 5 and was last seen in the mountainous region of Idaho County. The film production company Woods was …
The rescue of dozens of children during a sweep by law enforcement in Michigan this month highlights how many of America’s missing children are victims of human trafficking. Nancy Grace assembles a team of experts to discuss the problem, including Melody Miller, director of the documentary “California’s Forgotten Children” and victims’ advocate Marc Klass, founder …
