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A Georgia woman could face time in prison after allowing her teen daughter to watch her younger siblings during the pandemic lockdown in 2020. Melissa Henderson, of Blairsville, has been charged with criminal reckless conduct after she left her four youngest children with her oldest child, 14-year-o...
A California woman reported missing has been found dead, according to loved ones who have been desperately searching for her. CrimeOnline has learned that Sara Celeste Otero was found dead in her car Wednesday morning, according to a family member. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Otero was last....
A former American Idol contestant has been arrested after a crash in South Carolina that left a man dead. Caleb Kennedy, 17, is facing a felony DUI resulting in death charge, according to Master Trooper Mitchell Ridgeway from the South Carolina Highway Patrol. The incident happened Tuesday as Kenned...
A Colorado man is facing murder charges for allegedly killing his 8-month-old son and the baby’s mother last week. According to KCNC, David Weingarten, 29, fatally shot his infant son, George Weingarten, and his son’s mother, Lizet Salinas, 26, on February 1 in Colorado Springs. The couple’s 2...
Stanislaus County District Attorney Birgit Fladager announced Monday that a jury member who served during convicted killer Scott Peterson’s trial will be granted immunity in exchange for her testimony, which could determine if Peterson gets a new trial. Richelle Nice, who served on the jury during...
A traveling nurse who allegedly attacked and set a co-worker on fire at a New Jersey hospital on Monday was found dead on Tuesday of a suspected su***de. WPVI reported that Nicholas Pagano, 31, was found deceased in his vehicle in Waterford Township with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to t...
A Missouri man who pushed to ban LGBTQ books from school libraries in Kansas City because of s*xual images has been charged with molesting a young child. According to court documents, Ryan Utterback, 29, is accused of fondling the same child he had with him at an October 26, 2021 school board meetin...
The mother of a 4-year-old Kentucky girl who has not been seen in more than a year was arrested on Sunday with her boyfriend. According to WDRB, Catherine McKinney and Dakota Hill were arrested in Thomas County on a warrant out of Shelby County for custodial interference. The couple is allegedly not...
A California nun has been sentenced to serve time behind bars after she spent money that belonged to a Torrance elementary school. On Monday, Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper was sentenced to a year and one day for money laundering. She was also was ordered to pay over $825,000 in restitution for money....
A New Mexico man was arrested last week for allegedly breaking into a home and eating their food. On January 30, homeowners called Santa Fe County police after returning home and finding Teral Christesson, 34, in a back room. Before fleeing, Christesson retrieved his duffel bag and an AR-15 scoped r...
Authorities have arrested a man suspected of opening fire Monday at a Washington grocery store, where one person was killed and another critically injured, the Tri-City Herald reports. Police identified the suspect as 39-year-old Aaron Christopher Kelly (pictured right), who was detained on a highwa...
Kentucky authorities are searching for a missing 4-year-old girl who reportedly has not been seen in more than a year and is believed to be in danger. According to WDRB, relatives have not seen Serenity Ann McKinney since 2020, on Christmas Eve, prompting her grandfather to recently file a missing p...
A British man was sentenced this week for ra**ng an elderly woman while working as a care worker. According to DailyMail, 48-year-old Phillip Carey was caught s*xually assaulting the victim after her family installed a camera in her room at a Lancashire care center. Family members reportedly said th...
A New York man who allegedly tried to kill his parents on Christmas was indicted in court on Monday. Dino Tomassetti, 30, pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, second-degree assault, and endangering the w...
An 11-year-old Texas boy was killed on Thursday when he was shot multiple times outside his home, according to reports. Harris County police responded to an apartment complex where Darius Dugas was reportedly killed as he got his coat from his mother’s car. Dugas’ mother told KTRK that the schoo...
A Florida woman has died after falling around 50 feet off of a Florida bridge Sunday afternoon. The incident happened at around 1 p.m. as a female bicyclist was walking across the Royal Park Bridge in West Palm Beach. The Palm Beach Post reports that she was within 10 feet of the barrier arms when ....
A San Antonio couple was arrested over the weekend after a 12-year-old boy passed away from what appears to be child abuse. Derrick Coles, 32, and Kapri Cheatom, 27, are both facing murder charges in connection with the death of Danilo Coles. The defendants are also facing first-degree felony charge...
The uncle of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl s*xually assaulted and murdered four years ago was arrested in Louisiana on Friday. The Pender County Sheriff’s Office said that David Wesley Prevatte, 23, was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree statutory r**e, and first-degree statutory se...
A Michigan mother accused of murdering her 3-year-old daughter told authorities that the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants threatened to kill her if she did not take her daughter’s life, WJRT-TV reports. At the time, the woman, 22-year-old Justine Johnson, had been experiencing hallucination...
Nevada officials have released 911 calls from last month’s car wreck that killed nine people, including seven members of the same family. In one of the January 29 calls obtained by KLAS, a woman is heard telling a 911 dispatcher about a three-car pileup in North Las Vegas. The woman becomes franti...
Melissa Molinari is last seen at her home on November 21. A friend reports the 38-year-old missing December 2nd. Her car is left at home. Neighbors say that is unusual as the mom of four is seen going in and out of the house multiple times in the day. According to the husband, Marcello, the …
An Amber Alert has been issued for a 5-year-old Georgia boy after his father was shot Friday morning, police said. According to a spokesperson from the Haralson County Sheriff’s Office, Brayden Lee Dobbs was abducted from his father’s home near Buchanan, off of Bethlehem Church Road, at around 6...
An Indiana teen will spend the next 100 years behind bars for the brutal murders of his younger brother and sister. Nickalas Kedrowitz was convicted last year of killing his younger siblings inside their Ripley County home. Although 13 at the time of the incident, his case was tried in adult court d...
An Ohio family has filed a lawsuit against a fertility doctor who they claim used a stranger’s s***m for the birth of a couple’s daughter. On Wednesday, Jeanine and John Harvey filed a lawsuit against Dr. Nicholas Spirtos and Summa Health System. The pair alleged that they learned about their da...
A former University of Texas tennis coach who spent six months in prison for a college admission scandal that implicated others — including “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin — revealed on Thursday that he was placed on su***de watch while incarcerated. Michael Center told “Good Morning Am...
A Canadian teen was found deceased in England on Tuesday, and police say the victim’s boyfriend is responsible for her death. According to CBC News, 19-year-old Ashley Wadsworth, of Vernon, British Columbia, was found dead in Chelmsford, Ess*x, England at around 4 p.m. Neighbors contacted police a...
A Pennyslvania man fatally shot in his car this fall was not the intended target of the bullets that killed him, an investigation has found. As Fox 29 reports, Raymond Lighty, 42, was shot multiple times while in his minivan in Philadelphia in November. The gunman or gunmen reportedly fired over a d...
Additional charges could be brought against the parents of a missing 5-year-old Washington child who hasn’t been seen in nearly a year. Oakley Carlson’s parents, Jordan Bowers and Andrew Carlson, have both pleaded not guilty to neglect charges in connection with Oakley’s 6-year-old sister. The...
The father of a missing Tennessee baby reportedly admitted he threw the newborn into the Mississippi River after shooting and killing her mother. According to NBC 5, Brandon Isabelle was arrested Wednesday and charged with murder and related offenses. Isabelle allegedly told investigators that he ki...
The Georgia police officer who determined last week that there was no evidence of a coverup in Kendrick Johnson’s 2013 death announced on Monday that he is offering $500,000 of his own money for anyone who can prove otherwise. In a statement issued to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Lowndes Coun...
The Memphis Police Department announced Wednesday afternoon they detained a man who knew a Tennessee mother found shot dead and her newborn daughter, who is now missing. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Kennedy Hoyle was last seen Tuesday with her mother, 27-year-old Danielle Hoyle. Police found....
A Texas man who was given a lowered bond on a capital murder charge has been arrested again for causing another person’s death, police say. According to Houston police, 20-year-old Jonathan Vera and two other suspects invaded a home in the Greenpoint area of Houston on October 19, 2019. They shot ...
A Georgia man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the 2021 murders of his co-worker and a teen girl. Dennis Lane, 42, has been sentenced to serve consecutive life sentences without parole for the murder of 19-year-old Conteshia McCoy (pictured left) and the murder of his co-worker, 23-ye...
A former Missouri teacher who was charged with having s*x with a student will no longer face prosecution since she married the student. According to the Joplin Globe, 26-year-old Baylee A. Turner was 23 when she was charged with having s*x with a male student who attended Sarcoxie High School in Jop...
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued an AMBER Alert Wednesday morning for a 2-day old girl who vanished after her mother was killed. Kennedy Hoyle was last seen Tuesday with her mother, 27-year-old Danielle Hoyle. Police found Hoyle shot to death near her car, which was found abandoned near....
Police say the story given to them regarding a missing Virginia boy does not match what they’ve uncovered so far about his disappearance. “I think that’s self-explanatory. The evidence doesn’t match what we’ve been told. So we need to investigate further,” Hampton Police Chief Mark Talbo...
“Walking Dead” actor Moses J. Moseley, known for playing a zombie on the show, has died at age 31, in Georgia. TMZ reports that Moseley was found in Stockbridge, in the Hudson Bridge area on Wednesday. Family members told the outlet he was found with a gunshot wound. Police are currently investi...
A Texas teen was arrested on Monday on murder charges for allegedly shooting his mother’s fiancé on New Year’s Day, resulting in his death days later. KSET reported that an altercation occurred after Austin Markowski’s brother tore up the new wood flooring in their mother’s bedroom. Markows...
An Indiana woman has been identified after police found her deceased in her car this week. According to the Fort Wayne Police Department, Maria Del Scorro Maldonado Ambriz, 39, was pronounced dead at the scene on January 29 from gunshot wounds. Newsweek reports that the incident happened near Fairfa...
Virginia police say they’re searching for a 4-year-old boy who reportedly disappeared overnight. According to the Daily Press, Codi Bigsby was last seen at a home in the 100 block of Ranalet Drive, in Hampton, in the Buckroe Beach neighborhood. The child’s father, Cory Bigbsy, told police that w...
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