Prosecutors painted a grim picture Wednesday of the lives led by two special needs children whose father now stands trial for the murder of one of them — 8-year-old Thomas Valva, who died after spending a frigid winter night locked in the unheated garage of his father’s Long Island home. Forty-three-year-old Michael Valva, a former …
Las Vegas police have arrested Porfirio Duarte-Herrera, a 42-year-old convicted bombmaker serving a life sentence for a deadly 2007 explosion on the Las Vegas strip after his escape from Southern Desert Correctional Center in Nevada.
A judge in Wisconsin has ruled that Darrell Brooks, charged with intentionally driving into the Waukesha Christmas parade in 2021, is competent to represent himself when his trial begin with jury selection on Monday.
In lengthy motions filed with an Idaho court on Tuesday, Chad Daybell’s attorney asked for a delay in the start of his murder and conspiracy to commit murder trial and asked that his trial be severed from that of his co-defendant — wife Lori Vallow Daybell. Daybell and Vallow Daybell have been charged in the …
A 14-year-old Maine boy who disappeared after walking away from home last week was found dead in Maquoit Bay Tuesday morning. Theo Ferrara’s body was located near Bunganuc Point by the Maine Marine Patrol shortly after 11 a.m. Staff at the Office of the Maine Medical Examiner identified the body, the Portland Press-Herald reported. Freeport …
An Indiana woman who was arrested in February for abandoning her 5-year-old son in Ohio was sentenced on Tuesday to six months of mental health and substance abuse treatment. Heather Adkins, 33, was also ordered to complete three years of probation. She is still barred from contacting her son, who is nonverbal and autistic, according …
A 21-year-old man visiting a patient at an Arkansas hospital was shot dead Wednesday afternoon. As CrimeOnline previously reported, police responding to the shooting found the victim on the fourth floor of CHI St. Vincent North in Sherwood. The suspect was located by Little Rock Police at a gas station about 15 miles from the …
A 12-year-old Texas girl died on last week, days after she reportedly shot herself and her father as part of a planned murder-suicide involving another girl. On September 20, Parker County police found the girl lying in the street with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Her 38-year-old father was discovered in their home …
A judge has been asked to set aside his ruling that an Iowa teen must pay restitution to her rapist’s family after she stabbed him dead. Pieper Lewis, 15, was reportedly being sex trafficked when she killed Zachary Brooks. According to Lewis, her boyfriend pulled a knife on her and forced her to go to …
Prosecutors said Monday that the child abuse case against a New York woman who allegedly abused her adopted son for years is headed to the grand jury. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 44-year-old Susan Orendorf, of Syracuse, was arrested and charged on September 20, 10 months after daycare director Karen Sweeney was reportedly assured by child …
An unfired round was located near the scene where murdered Georgia mother, Debbie Collier, was found naked and charred after her mysterious disappearance. According to Fox News Digital, investigators collected the unfired round in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, close to where 59-year-old Collier’s remains were found. An investigator told the outlet that it’s unclear at …
