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A Princeton, Massachusetts, man has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a Google executive who vanished during a jog last summer. Angelo Colon-Ortiz, 31, entered the plea in Worcester Superior Court on Wednesday afternoon. According to the Worcester Telegram, Colon-Ortiz is accused of strangling Vanessa Marcotte, 27, who was visiting her mother and disappeared during a run on …
A Pennsylvania appeals court upheld the maximum 10- to 20-year prison sentence for an attempted rapist who bragged in his diary that he “truly enjoy[s] the hunt.” A court rejected that Frank Yeager’s attorney was not effective at challenging his confession to police, according to WCAU. This comes after a judge in a Superior Court in Lehigh …
Police in central Illinois are confronting a new reality that Robert Bee, Jr., will most likely not be found safely, and appear resigned to the strong possibility that it was the missing 13-year-old boy’s remains found on a property near a wooded area in Pekin earlier this week. Peking Police Detective Seth Ranney told the …
A Minneapolis man convicted of raping a vulnerable 14-year-old girl was sentenced to 180 days and has less than 100 days left to serve. Nineteen-year-old Demarlo R. Crawford pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct and received a 180-day sentence in the rape of a 14 year-old-girl with an IQ of 57. The average score …
Twin three-year-old boys drowned in their family’s backyard pool in Long Island, New York, Wednesday morning. The Daily News reports that firefighters responded to a home in Melville where the boys’ mother was administering CPR to one of the twins. She reportedly told first responders she did not know where the second twin was. “Four …
A Michigan woman is facing felony child abuse and murder charges after she allegedly killed her own baby earlier this month. Detroit Free Press reports that on Monday, authorities charged Lovily Johnson, 22, with first-degree murder and felony child abuse. Prosecutors alleged that on July 17, Johnson put her 6-month-old baby boy, Noah Johnson, into his carseat …
The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Justine Damond may have been startled by the sound of someone “slapping” the police cruiser that arrived to the scene last Saturday night after Damond called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home. According to a search warrant obtained by Minneapolis news …
A Bay City, Michigan, man has been charged with two felonies following sexual encounters with underage girls. Twenty-one-year-old Spencer C. Wells is accused of having sex with two 15-year-old girls that he reportedly met through his little brother, reports MLive. Court records show Wells has been charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct and was …
The case against Ryan Duke for the 2004 murder of Ocilla, Georgia, teacher Tara Grinstead is built largely on what his roommate Bo Dukes told investigators. Bo Dukes, no relation to Duke, was charged with concealing a death, tampering with evidence, and hindering apprehension of a criminal after he told detectives he helped his roommate …
Authorities arrested an Arizona man on Saturday for allegedly using the identity of an infant who died 35 years ago. According to the Arizona Department of Transportation Inspector General, 34-year-old Jeremiah Elton Ash attempted to get a duplicate social security card that belonged to a baby, Michael Anthony Lewis II, who was murdered in 1982, when he was a …
A mother and her adult son are facing prison time the murder of the woman’s estranged husband and the man’s father. Craig Rideout’s body was discovered last July in a wooded area in Yates County, New York. On the same day, his sister found Laura Rideout, Craig’s estranged wife, cleaning the home where Craig lived. …
Authorities arrested an Arizona man after he reportedly bit his little girl and left her stranded in a desert area on Saturday with no shoes or water. Rare reports that Christopher Charles Watson, 28, allegedly forced his 10-year-old daughter out of his truck after getting into an argument with her. He reportedly left her in a …
