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 …
Nearly two years after a 10-year-old boy died in a horrific waterslide accident in Kansas City, the park is closing down the tallest waterslide in the world. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Caleb Thomas Schwab, the son of a Kansas City lawmaker, died in August 2016 on the Verruckt waterslide at the Schlitterbahn waterpark when a raft …
An Idaho woman and her two daughters are under investigation for conspiracy to commit theft and murder after a coroner determined that the woman’s husband may have been killed, despite her claims that he likely drowned while on a boating trip. KXLY reports that Laurcene ‘Lori” Isenberg reported her husband, 68-year-old Larry Isenberg, missing on February 13 …
A Missouri circuit court ordered Johnson & Johnson on Thursday to pay $4.69 billion to 22 women and their families after they made claims that asbestos in the company’s talcum powder products, including its baby powder, led them to develop ovarian cancer, The New York Times reports. A St. Louis jury awarded the women, who …
Police and family members are asking for the public’s help in the desperate search for a 22-year-old PhD student at the University of Southern California. ABC 7 reports that Bo John Jones disappeared after leaving his Los Angeles apartment late Sunday afternoon, presumably for walk in nearby MacArthur Park. Jones reportedly took his cell phone with …
