Authorities in Maine arrested a man and his two adult sons on suspicion of engaging in a “family shootout” at their home earlier this month. According to Fox News, police believe the altercation was likely linked to alcohol consumption by the three men. York County sheriff’s deputies responded to the residence of 64-year-old Walter Sellick …
A drug store manager in Illinois is under fire this week for allegations that he called police on a customer because he did not recognize the coupon she had attempted to redeem. According to a now-deleted social media post from Camilla Hudson, the black woman had attempted to use the coupon on Friday night at …
The estranged husband of a New York City woman who was found dead at the bottom of a garbage chute in a luxury Manhattan building was facing multimillion-dollar lawsuits and had filed for bankruptcy. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Lara Prychodko was found dead late Tuesday afternoon at the bottom of a garbage chute in a Union Square apartment …
A wealthy Florida man likely copied a “CSI” episode to stage an elaborate suicide as a murder, the Palm Beach Post reports. Last year, 71-year-old Alan Jay Abrahamson was found dead in a field. He had been shot to death. As investigators examined the scene, they noticed something unusual: a blood trail across his jacket to …
A lawyer in Brazil was reportedly executed a point-blank just seconds after he handed off a little girl believed to be his daughter. The Daily Mail obtained CCTV footage of the moments leading up to a cold-blooded execution in Brazilian state of Permambuco, where a man can be seen calmly handing off a little girl in …
One of the waitresses working at a Tennessee Waffle House in April when a gunman opened fire and left four people dead has received a touching gift of gratitude from a woman whose life she indirectly — but immeasurably — touched that fateful day. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 29-year-old Travis Reinking, who had exhibited a …
A missing Alabama girl who was found dead last month was beheaded after witnessing her grandmother’s fatal stabbing, an investigator testified during a preliminary hearing this week. According to AL.com, Madison County investigator Stacy Rutherford said Israel Palomino, 34, and Yoni Aguilar, 26, murdered Oralia Mendoza, 49, and her granddaughter, Maria Lopez, days after doing a drug …
A Florida lawman is accused of instructing officers under his command to arrest local African-Americans for crimes they did not commit in an attempt to artificially improve the city’s crime statistics. According to New York magazine, former Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano allegedly told officers to falsify records showing burglaries and other crimes had …
An Ohio man is in jail awaiting a hearing next week related to charges that he fatally beat his fiancee’s infant child just days before the two wed last year. According to the Akron Beacon Journal, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force officers arrested 21-year-old Justin T. Layne on Thursday in connection with felony warrants …
Authorities in Georgia are looking for a group of women they say robbed and violently attacked an Applebee’s waitress following the victim’s shift earlier this week. According to the New York Post, the unidentified employee had exited the restaurant, located in the 800 block of Industrial Road in McDonough, Tuesday evening before encountering the suspects. …
A Texas mother is facing decades behind bars for attempting to sell her toddler into prostitution. As Fox News reported, 25-year-old Sarah Marie Peters pleaded guilty to three felony counts in connection with a child exploitation investigation conducted by Montgomery County authorities. According to KTRK, the county’s Precinct 1 Constable’s Office launched the probe in …
A Los Angeles-area man allegedly shot to death his wife and their son before killing himself in a murder-suicide that has devastated relatives and friends, KNBC-TV reports. Authorities were called to the family’s condo in Redondo Beach late Wednesday night for a report of gunshots being fired. Investigators identified the dead as Marc and Ivana …
