Las Vegas mass shooting suspect Stephen Paddock was forceful and aggressive in his demands for hotel rooms overlooking Chicago’s Lalapalooza music festival in August. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Paddock booked two rooms at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago on the weekend of Lollapalooza. TMZ has since reported that Paddock was determined to secure a room …
A woman seen with Stephen Paddock days before the alleged gunman killed 58 people in a shooting massacre on Sunday night was a prostitute, ABC News has revealed. Authorities did not release the name of woman they had been seeking but officials have told the news station that she is a sex worker. It is …
A Macomb Township, Michigan, couple is accused of holding a woman with special needs captive and forcing her to sell sex. The Detroit Free Press reported that Michael Welch, 38, and Misty George, 30, allegedly kept the 29-year-old woman—who has physical and mental disabilities—in an outside shed, took her support money, and created online ads to sell …
After he was convicted in August of several charges related to the torture and death of his then-girlfriend’s disabled son, Matt Christenson learned his fate Friday at his sentencing hearing. Christenson, a 45-year-old from Auburn, Washington, was charged with brutally beating and abusing Otto Smith in 2014, ultimately causing his death in April of that …
The former property manager says she believes something must have gone horribly wrong for her former employer to commit mass violence
A Dekalb County, Georgia, mother was indicted on murder charges Tuesday for allegedly leaving her toddler daughter in a hot car while she got her hair done. The Dekalb Neighbor reported that a grand jury indicted Dijanelle Fowler, 25, on charges of second-degree murder, second-degree cruelty to children, and concealing the death of another in connection with …
The trial started recently against an HIV-positive man accused of tampering with condoms prior to multiple sexual interactions. Prosecutors argued 26-year-old hairdresser Daryll Rowe of Edinburgh, Scotland, infected at least four men in an deliberate attempt to spread the potentially deadly virus. One victim reported finding a used condom in the sink after he had …
A 16-year-old Oklahoma boy is accused of shooting a father in cold blood as he protected his wife and daughters from a home invasion. KOTV reported that police believe Deonte Green committed four armed robberies, a sexual assault, and a murder—all on Sunday. Tulsa Police Homicide Sergeant Dave Walker said Green fatally shot school teacher Shane …
Capital murder charges against a Watauga, Texas, father accused of smothering his 2-year-old daughter were dropped after the man’s young son reportedly admitted to causing the toddler’s death. Investigators believed Anthony Michael Sanders, 33, suffocated Ellie Mae Sanders on December 12, 2015, because she had interrupted his computer games. However, a capital murder trial set for September 11 never …
The gunman believed to be behind Sunday’s Las Vegas gun massacre that killed dozens was in contact with hotel security the night before he allegedly opened fire on a crowd of thousands attending a country music festival. Stephen Paddock checked in to a suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino …
Stephen Paddock, the man who sprayed bullets upon a crowd of concertgoers in Las Vegas on Sunday, apparently purchased tracer ammo at a Phoenix-area gun show prior to the mass shooting that killed 59 people and injured over 500 others. CNN reports that tracer ammunitions are types of bullets that provide an illuminated trace once …
Crime Stories’ call for help in identifying the hero driver who plucked Jason and Beri Adams from the chaos of the Las Vegas massacre was answered. Listeners pointed us to Eric Gomez, who joins Nancy Grace for a reunion with the woman he rescued. Nancy also discusses the latest on investigation into what motivated shooter …
