Authorities in Georgia say a family practice doctor threatened physical violence against members of her staff in an incident that resulted in her arrest last week. According to Newsweek, Dr. Marian Antoinette Patterson allegedly told employees at her Valdosta practice earlier this year that she would “slit their throats” in addition to assorted personal threats. …
NEW YORK (AP) — Three people have been killed and eight others injured in a house fire in New York City. The blaze broke out late Saturday night at a two-story home in Queens. An 82-year-old woman, an 87-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman all were killed in the fire. Eight other people were taken …
Louise Turpin’s sister recently recounted her bizarre relationship with Louise in the years leading up to her arrest for allegedly abusing her 13 children. Teresa Robinette decided to speak with the Oxygen network for “The Turpin 13: Family Secrets Exposed,” a documentary focusing on the child abuse case that grabbed international headlines. In it, Robinette explained …
An off-duty Arkansas police officer was shot and killed inside his home on Saturday as a burst of gunshots struck an apartment complex, WREG-TV reports. Around 3:30 p.m. Saturday, someone in a vehicle began firing a gun toward the Meadow Apartments in West Memphis, striking 25-year-old Forrest City officer Oliver Johnson, Jr. “We just heard …
Authorities may have a break in the grisly case of a woman whose dismembered body was found scattered around a Brooklyn park earlier this month. The New York Daily News reports that investigators have arrested and interrogated a man they suspect murdered and mutilated 26-year-old Brandy Odom three weeks ago. The suspect is reportedly a …
NORRIDGEWOCK, Maine (AP) — A man accused of killing a sheriff’s deputy was arrested Saturday outside a remote cabin, ending an intense manhunt in its fourth day in the woods of central Maine. A law enforcement team used the slain deputy’s handcuffs to arrest 29-year-old John Williams in a symbolic gesture, Sheriff Dale Lancaster said. …
Authorities in New York say they are looking for a suspect caught on surveillance footage throwing a tantrum and damaging property at a Popeye’s Chicken restaurant on Staten Island. According to the New York Post, the woman became irate after learning that a value meal she ordered did not come with a drink. She reportedly …
An Illinois man is facing 135 criminal counts in connection with his alleged role in a fatal shooting aboard a charter bus earlier this month. As CrimeOnline previously reported, police initially identified 22-year-old Raheem King as a suspect who had been among the “adult-themed” party bus passengers when he opened fire with a rifle he …
A semi trailer traveling through Washington state this week was stopped by police who found a large quantity of narcotics on board, including roughly 126 pounds of methamphetamine. According to The Olympian, the truck was also transporting products destined for Starbucks locations in Spokane when it was pulled over along Interstate 5 a short distance …
The stepmother of a 5-year-old missing Kansas boy Lucas Hernandez officially lost custody of her toddler daughter on Friday. The Wichita Eagle reports that Sedgwick County Juvenile Court Judge Kevin Smith revoked the parental rights of 26-year-old Emily Glass after evidence showed that her 1-year-old daughter is a “child in need of care.” Under Kansas state law, …
A Kansas man is facing a possible death sentence if convicted of capital murder charges connected to his pregnant girlfriend’s death earlier this year. Prosecutors accuse 26-year-old Devonte Dominique Wash of killing 23-year-old Ashley Harlan and their unborn child in January. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Harlan was killed on the day she was to learn …
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Investigators hunting down the so-called Golden State Killer used information from genetic websites last year that led to the wrong man, court records obtained Friday by The Associated Press showed. An Oregon police officer working at the request of California investigators persuaded a judge in March 2017 to order a 73-year-old …
