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 …
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. …
