A new witness came forward at the retrial of Quinton Tellis to testify that she picked up a young, black male hitching a ride near the scene of Jessica Chambers’s horrific burning death on the night of the 19-year-old’s murder. The New York Post reports that Courtland, Mississippi, resident Sheryl Flowers took the stand at …
Police released the 911 call yesterday made by an employee of a North Carolina state park employee after Maddox Ritch disappeared, and the workers says he never saw the boy at the park. “I’ve worked there almost three years and we see everybody come in and out of that park pretty much. I didn’t see …
“She was a very insecure young lady,” Shanann Watts’s former teacher said
An heiress accused of attacking a New York attorney following an antisemitic rant appeared in court this week on related charges. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Jackqueline Kent Cooke, the daughter of former Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke, was arrested following a New Year’s Eve incident at a restaurant in New York City. She allegedly …
Authorities in Oregon say a 58-year-old Portland man is facing criminal charges after he was stopped by police earlier this week. According to Oregon Live, authorities initiated a traffic stop on Monday and a subsequent search of driver Thomas J. Mackley’s trunk revealed a dead human body. An autopsy report indicated that the female victim …
A Florida deputy reportedly shot and killed his wife before turning the gun on himself at their Land O’ Lakes home early Monday. “Kirk has lost his mind Kristin,” Samantha Keithley, 33, text a friend late Sunday, according to the Tampa Bay Times. “He’s literally losing it. He’s been harassing me for the last 6 hours …
A Louisiana woman behind bars for the death of her 6-month-old allegedly told her girlfriend to burn the boy to death, according to prosecutors. Town Talk of Alexandria reports that Hannah Barker is being held without bond after a judge rules there is probable cause to charge her with “principal to first-degree murder” in connection with …
A 5-month-old Alabama boy reportedly drowned in a bathtub Saturday as his father played video games in another room and forgot about him. Jefferson County police announced that Cordarius Cotton, 23, was charged with reckless manslaughter for leaving his son, Dezmend Cotton, alone in a tub for more than an hour. Medics who arrived at the …
CrimeOnline’s own Nancy Grace has weighed in on the retrial of the man accused of burning 19-year-old Jessica Chambers alive in Courtland, Mississippi, in 2014. Quinton Tellis is facing a jury for the second time this week after last year’s proceedings ended in a mistrial after a jury couldn’t agree on a decision. At this …
Authorities have dropped criminal charges against a North Carolina woman who reportedly took in 27 dogs and cats for their owners during Hurricane Florence. Tammie Hedges, the owner of animal rescue center Crazy’s Claws N Paws, was charged with 12 counts of practicing medicine without a veterinary license for allegedly administering antibiotics and ointments to the …
Virginia authorities have executed search warrants for a family member of a man behind bars in connection with a missing 3-month-old baby. Virginia First reports that investigators are in the process of the searching the phone of Sidney Terry, cousin of Andrew Terry. Roanoke police previously arrested Andrew Terry in connection with his missing infant …
Following his sentencing on Tuesday, convicted sex offender has been transferred to a maximum security state prison. TMZ reports that Cosby was moved Tuesday to the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution in Schwenksville, PA. The former TV sitcom star is reportedly being held in a single cell near the prison’s infirmary. Cosby is 81 years old and …
