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State Orders NC ‘Wilderness Therapy’ Program to Stop Admitting New Children After 12-Year-Old Boy’s Death
Death investigation

North Carolina authorities have clamped down on a “wilderness therapy” program for troubled children after a 12-year-old boy died in their care less than 24 hours after his arrival. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the Transylvania County Sheriff’s Office said Trails Carolina had “not completely” cooperated with the investigation, although the organization angrily denied that. In …

Shooting
February 13, 2024

6 Shot on New York Subway Platform; 1 Dead as Police Search for Suspect

Six people were shot on a Bronx subway platform Monday — one fatally — in what police say involved a dispute between two groups of teenagers. A 34-year-old man was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital. The other five — a 14-year-old girl, 15-year-old boy, 28-year-old man, 29-year-old woman, and 71-year-old man — are not …

collage of Adam and Harmony Montgomery
Trials
February 12, 2024

Adam Montgomery Trial: Stepmom Continues Testimony on 5-year-old Harmony’s Last Moments, Says She Was Scared to Help

Testimony continued Monday morning in the New Hampshire trial of accused child killer Adam Montgomery, with his former wife taking the stand for the second day. Defense attorneys at the Hillsborough Couty Superior Court began Monday morning by scrutinizing Kayla Montgomery’s account of what happened to her stepchild, 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery. They, questioned, specifically, the …

Murder-Suicide
February 12, 2024

Mom Texts ‘Take Care of Our Son’ Before Killing Her Youngest Baby & Herself

A woman and her 1-year-old son were found dead on Saturday in what Texas police are investigating as a murder-suicide. Briana Monroe, 26, and Giavon August were reported missing after a man called the police claiming Monroe had sent him a text message about killing her son and herself. Police and Monroe’s family had tracked …

Kiyunii Myers
Missing
February 12, 2024

BOLO: Purple Alert Issued for Florida Woman, Police Find Vehicle Abandoned

Tampa police issued a Purple Alert for a missing Florida woman who hasn’t been seen since Sunday. Kiyunii Myers, 26, reportedly made statements that concerned her family before disappearing, the Tampa Free Press reported. Police located her car Monday morning, abandoned in Ballast Point Park. A Florida Purple was subsequently issued, following information from family …

Unsolved
February 12, 2024

Do You Know Him? Sketches Released of Rachel Morin’s Suspected Killer

On Monday, Maryland police released composite sketches of the man they believed killed a woman on a hiking trail last year. According to WBFF, Hartford County investigators believe Rachel Morin’s killer was in the area days before the slaying. The sketch was finalized after detectives conducted more than 100 interviews and looked into more than …

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Drug Crime
February 12, 2024

Connecticut Reverend Busted for Selling Both ‘Rock and liquefied’ Meth: Police

Woodbury police in Connecticut arrested a reverend Friday on charges of dealing crystal meth, along with other criminal offenses. According to Connecticut State Police, Herbert Irving Miller, 63, was arrested on February 9 after police pulled him over while he drove with a suspended registration and without the minimum state-required vehicle insurance. Police then discovered …

Shooting
February 12, 2024

Manhunt on for 18-Year-Old Gunman for Fatal Shooting in School Parking Lot

An Idaho school is closed and a manhunt under way after a fatal shooting in the school’s parking lot early Monday morning. Idaho Falls Police are looking for 18-year-old Taylor Aughenbaugh, who they say is considered armed and dangerous. The shooting took place in the parking lot of Compass Academy, a public magnet school in …