Adam Montgomery, the father accused of killing 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery, goes on trial on weapons charges beginning Wednesday. He is charged with being an armed career criminal and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Jury selection is ongoing, carried live by WMUR on their website. The weapons trial is not connected to Harmony’s 2019 …
On Wednesday, convicted double murderer Alex Murdaugh appeared in a South Carolina court and pleaded not guilty to a host of federal charges related to financial crimes he admitted to during his murder trial. Murdaugh was indicted last week for schemes to steal millions of dollars from clients, friends, and his family’s more than 100-year-old …
A Tennessee mom missing for nearly a month has been found safe and her boyfriend arrested on a failure to appear warrant stemming from a theft incident. Nikki Alcaraz, 33, and her 33-year-old boyfriend, Tyler Stratton, set off for Orange County, California, early this month to visit her uncle, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Within days, …
A California appeals court panel has reinstated a parole grant for former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten after Gov. Gavin Newsom blocked her release earlier this year. The 2-1 ruling by the panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal does not mean Van Houten, 73, will be released from prison, Deadline reported. The …
A 33-year-old mom from Tennessee who hadn’t been seen or heard from since May 6 turned up on video at a California Walmart where she was selling her cellphone. CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace says that’s alarming. “What woman in her right mind would sell her cell phone?” Grace asked on Fox News, noting that was Nikki …
A 1-year-old in Washington reportedly died on Wednesday after being left in a car for nine hours. KING reported that the foster mother was working at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup and had left the baby in the car. Police said the mother somehow became distracted, which led to the baby being left in the …
New Jersey officials announced an arrest Tuesday in the shooting death of a Sayreville borough councilwoman outside her home in February. Eunice Dwumfour, 30, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in her white Nissan SUV just before 7:30 p.m. on February 1, CrimeOnline reported at the time. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Rashid …
No word yet on whether prosecutors will seek the death penalty in Bryan Kohberger’s quadruple murder case. Attorneys for the state have 60 days from Kohberger’s plea to make a determination. Some of the victims’ family members have been vocal in their support of the death penalty. In Idaho, the death penalty can be carried …
An investigation is underway in North Carolina after a 3-year-old boy’s body was discovered in his family’s pool on Sunday. The child, who was not publicly identified, was found deceased in an above-ground pool in Caldwell County. WSOC-TV reported that the mother found the boy after he somehow got out of the house in the …
Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance, has been beaten in a Peruvian prison, according to his lawyer. According to ABC News, van der Sloot was involved in a fight between rival gangs on Saturday inside Challapalca Prison, where he’s currently serving a 28-year murder sentence, according to what his …
A North Carolina gas station store owner was charged with murder for Sunday’s shooting which killed a 14-year-old boy. Rick Chow, 58, and his son allegedly chased Cyrus Carmack-Belton from his Shell gas station in Columbia before Chow opened fire down the road. WIS reported that Carmack-Belton suffered a gunshot wound to the low back …
Relatives of a Connecticut woman who vanished in Japan last month say they now believe she might have been a crime victim. According to The Messenger, Patricia “Pattie” Wu-Murad, of Storrs, vanished while supposedly hiking along the Kohechi route of the Kumano Kodo trail in Japan on April 10. She ate breakfast at Tsuji’s, a …
