A former classmate of accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann says he’s a “mama’s boy” who was uncomfortably close with his “controlling” mother. The classmate, who attended Alfred Berner High School in Massapequa, said Heuermann would tell people “things like, ‘I have to get home to my mother,’” the New York Post reports. “I …
High-profile forensic scientist Henry Lee has been found liable for allegedly fabricating evidence in a murder case that led to the convictions being overturned, the Associated Press reports. On Friday, a federal judge ruled that a lawsuit brought by two men who were initially convicted of the murder – Ralph “Ricky” Birch and Shawn Henning …
Former students of Bryan Kohberger are speaking out about a confrontation they had with him weeks before he allegedly murdered four people, Inside Edition reports. One of the students told “The King Road Killings” podcast that after a midterm exam, students debated Kohberger about whether he was grading them too harshly. The confrontation happened in …
Carlee Russell has lost her job at the Alabama spa where she worked before her purported disappearance earlier this month, the New York Post reports. The 25-year-old nursing student has come under intense scrutiny after investigators said they uncovered suspicious activity and internet searches casting doubt on her claims of being kidnapped. Russell’s former boss, …
A Nebraska woman was sentenced on Thursday to three months in jail for disposing of a fetus after an illegal abortion. As CrimeOnline previously reported, police began investigating Celeste Burgess, 19, in June 2022 — before the Supreme Court ruled that abortion is a state issue. At that time, Burgess lived in a state where …
A 39-year-old Minnesota man has been charged with his 72-year-old father’s death. According to court documents, Frederick Schech was found dead in the kitchen of the upstairs level of a home in Minnetonka on Wednesday after officers were called there by the woman who lives in the lower level, KARE reported. The woman told police …
Rashad Maleek Trice now faces 20 state charges. Two federal charges also remain in effect.
A Florida couple has been charged with human trafficking after they allegedly bonded three women out of jail in Marion County and forced them into prostitution. The Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation, a multi-agency organization in central Florida, said it believe Joselito Martinez, 34, and Tanya Wurster, 30, may have more victims, WSVN reported. Martinez and …
North Carolina police obtained surveillance photos of a man and a girl resembling missing 12-year-old Madalina Cojocari, taken after she hadn’t been seen in weeks, according to recently unsealed court documents. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Madalina was last seen at Bailey Middle School in Cornelius, in late November 2022. Her mother, Diana Cojocari, didn’t report …
