A Georgia man who held his 10-year-old autistic son under water until he died could now spend the rest of his life behind bars, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Jurors on Friday convicted 44-year-old Leon Williams of murder in connection with the drowning death of his child last year in their Decatur apartment. Williams was reportedly …
The father of a woman who was found dead in a what initially appeared to be an accidental death insists that she was murdered. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Lara Prychodko fell 27 floors to her death when she somehow fell into a trash chute in Zeckendorf Towers, a luxury Manhattan apartment building, late Tuesday afternoon. …
A man who was still in his teens when he and his 41-year-old girlfriend brutally tortured three children will serve two life sentences for the 2015 crime that left two young victims dead. According to Fox News, 20-year-old Gonzalo Curiel, of Salinas, California, moved in with Joy Huntsman and three children under the age of …
An article billed as disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s first interview since last year’s serious claims of sexual abuse has been retracted by its author after the producer’s attorney got involved. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Taki Theodoracopulos of The Spectator has walked back the quotes attributed to Weinstein in a piece published on Friday. …
A 12-year-old Kentucky girl was arrested after allegedly trying to poison her 4-year-old stepbrother because she believed their mother loved him more. WSMV reported that the mother discovered Skype messages between her daughter and a man in Texas where she wrote that she wanted to “get rid of him,” referring to her stepbrother. A police …
A Tennessee grand jury has indicted a former pastor who allegedly attempted to rape a 12-year-old girl who police found together in a truck last month. According to WRCB, deputies were searching for a possibly stolen vehicle on Ross Creek Road when they found Grand County pastor William E. “Tim” Smith, Jr., 48, with the underage girl. …
*Correction appended The grieving family of a woman who killed herself just after posting a photo of herself on Facebook is upset that the social media network allowed the unsettling image to remain on the woman’s Facebook page for days after her death. MarketWatch reports that Pamela Elarabi, a 49-year-old yoga teacher and golf enthusiast who …
At least 19 students in Colorado were injured Thursday afternoon when a flatbed driver reportedly fell asleep behind the wheel and collided with a school bus. According to The Denver Post, state troopers said William Carroll, 36, was cited for careless driving causing injuries in connection with the crash near the intersection of County Roads …
Although it’s debatable when notorious serial killer Ted Bundy began his murderous spree, it’s widely-known that he raped and killed numerous women throughout the 1970s. Bundy admitted to killing 36 women, but experts think the numbers reach into the hundreds. During the mid-1970s’, when Bundy lived in Seattle, numerous young women in the area began …
A Minnesota man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly fleeing the scene after a boulder fell from the dump truck he was driving, killing two women in a car nearby. According to the Pioneer Press, Joseph Paul Czeck, 33, was driving the commercial truck south Monday afternoon when a boulder he was hauling—three feet wide and 800 pounds—broke …
TMZ is reporting that police swarmed Bill Cosby’s Pennsylvania mansion as he hosted a party for his 81st birthday, but the disgraced comedian’s reps say it simply isn’t true. According to TMZ, police sources said authorities in Cheltenham received a call complaining of loud music on Cosby’s street, adding that “about four units responded…a couple in …
Ted Bundy, one of America’s most notorious serial killers, was also a kidnapper, rapist, burglar, and necrophile who carried out crimes against dozens of young women and girls across the United States in the 1970s. Bundy’s killing spree was interrupted in 1977 when he was arrested and charged with a Colorado murder, but he escaped …
