After five delays, a North Dakota woman is finally facing trial, accused of conspiring to murder her husband in a swirling mess involving a love triangle, a botched cover-up, and an attempt to cash in on an insurance policy. Police found Chad Entzel, 42, dead from two gunshot wounds to the head inside his burning …
A Detroit mom has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 8-year-old daughter, who was shot to death by the girl’s 10-year-old brother. Officials said the boy found an unsecured and loaded handgun shortly before noon on Tuesday, while he and his sister were home alone. He fired the gun and shot …
Texas bull rider Ouncie Mitchell was shot and killed outside a Utah apartment complex. Mitchell, whose real name is Demetrius Omar Lateef Allen, was in town to compete at an event at the state fair. After the competition Mitchell and a female friend when to a downtown bar, where they argued. The friend, LaShawn Denise …
Alabama authorities are reportedly reviewing nearly 1,000 calls made between corrections officer Vicky White and a jailed capital murder suspect before she allegedly helped the inmate escape in April. Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton told AL.com that Vicky White, 57, and accused murderer Casey White, 38, who was housed at William Donaldson Correctional Facility in …
Federal prosecutors say that Sherri Papini, a California mother who staged her own kidnapping, should spend time in jail for her elaborate hoax. On Wednesday, prosecutors suggested Papini should serve a sentence consisting of a month behind bars, followed by seven months under house arrest. CBS reports that the sentence suggestion was provided in an …
Washington authorities are investigating the death of a man who was found dead on Monday in a tent full of improvised explosive devices. A driver called 911 and claimed they were flagged down by a woman who said her boyfriend was unresponsive in a tent near Chelatchie Prairie off US Forest Service Forest Road 54. …
On Wednesday, lawyers for jailed film producer Harvey Weinstein asked a California judge to allow him to see a private dentist for fake teeth before he stands trial in October for sex crimes. According to the New York Post, prison dentists will pull Weinstein’s decayed molars without replacing them. Weinstein’s attorney, Mark Werksman, said dentists …
An Ohio woman is behind bars after police found her infant son’s decomposing body inside a Columbus home. On Monday, officers were dispatched to a home off of Jefferson Avenue after someone called for help about an unresponsive infant. According to court records cited by The Columbus Dispatch, 4-month-old Aaron Thorpe was found inside the …
A teen boy is facing charges in adult court after he allegedly shot a recreation employee during a Friday afternoon shootout in Philadelphia. Fox 29 reports that the incident happened at the Mill Creek Recreation Center as Tiffany Fletcher, 40, was in the process of welcoming children to the park after school. Gunshots erupted between …
A Western Kentucky University student is facing a class C felony charge after police say she posted a bomb threat on social media. According to ABC 13, Hailee Reed, 20, was arrested at the school and charged with first-degree terroristic threatening. She was taken into custody Wednesday by campus police. Police initially found “suspicious material” …
The first of two Ohio family members accused of planning for months to slaughter members of another family went on trial this week, more than six years after the grotesque slayings in Pike County. George Wagner IV has pleaded not guilty to the murders of members of the Rhoden family, as has his father, George “Billy” …
Baltimore prosecutors have filed a motion to vacate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, whose case gained international prominence as a result of the podcast “Serial.” Syed, 42, was convicted in 2000 of killing his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, who was 18 at the time of her death in 1999, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The …
