A Los Angeles-area socialite has been convicted of second-degree murder and other crimes for running over and killing two young boys in 2020 while speeding through an intersection, ABC7 reports. Jurors on Friday handed down the verdict against 60-year-old Rebecca Grossman following two days of deliberations and a six-week trial in Van Nuys Superior Court. …
Jurors could decide as early as next week the fate of the woman accused of helping cover up the murder of Connecticut mom Jennifer Dulos, the Stamford Advocate reports. On Friday, 49-year-old Michelle Troconis chose not to testify in her trial on charges of murder conspiracy, evidence tampering and hindering prosecution. The defense subsequently rested …
Adam Montgomery has been convicted in the death of his 5-year-old daughter, Harmony. Her body has never been recovered. It only took the jury six hours of deliberation spread over two days, to hand down the verdict. Police said that “on or about Dec. 7, 2019,” Montgomery repeatedly struck 5-year-old Harmony “in the head with a …
The mother of a 3-year-old boy who is the subject of a Wisconsin AMBER Alert told investigators she left the boy with a man in Two Rivers for a week “for disciplinary reasons.” Katrina Baur, mother of Elijah Vue, and Jesse Vang were in court Friday, where police are recommending Vang be charged with child …
A Maryland man is in custody after he allegedly stabbed a 73-year-old woman to death and assaulted her teenage granddaughter. Bel Air police said they were called to a home in the Homestead Village neighborhood shortly before 3 p.m. on Thursday and found Mary Catherine Bland with multiple stab wounds, WBAL reported. Bland’s 17-year-old granddaughter …
An audio recording leaked to KPRC reveals Texas Sheriff Byron Lyons suggesting that his department “dropped the ball” in not arresting Don Steven McDougal last fall on an assault charge before he allegedly kidnapped and killed 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham this week. McDougal, who lived in a trailer behind Cunningham’s father’s house, was arrested in the …
University of Georgia police have arrested a 26-year-old Athens resident for the murder of Augusta University nursing student Laken Hope Riley. Riley was found dead with “visible injuries” near the UGA intramural fields on Thursday after a friend reported that she’d gone for a run and not returned, as CrimeOnline reported. UGA Police Chief Jeff …
A Los Angeles jury has begun deliberations in the case, but prosecutors say she violated a protective order and provided reporters with evidence that was not presented to the jury.
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
A Texas woman says that the man accused of killing 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham attacked her, too, when she was 10 years old. Cassidy Davis, now 20, said that murder suspect Don Steven McDougal attacked her in 2007, during a sleepover at her uncle’s house in Brazoria County. McDougal is currently behind bars, charged with murder …
A South Carolina couple was arrested on Wednesday, days after their 4-year-old daughter reportedly died from being put in scalding hot water. On February 16, hospital staff contacted Richland County police about Hope Fields being treated for severe burns and a fractured femur. WJBF reported that Fields was on life support for two days before …
An Ohio woman who allegedly killed a 5-year-old boy in her care last week had her first court appearance on Thursday. Pammy Maye, 48, allegedly suffocated Darnell Taylor six hours before an AMBER Alert was issued on February 14. Maye, who was apprehended in Brooklyn, Ohio, on February 15, admitted to killing Taylor and leaving …
