True Crime Story Magazine

16/07/2025

A 9-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by his own father at a California park on Sunday afternoon in what police are calling one of the city’s most horrific crimes of the year.

San José Police Department patrol officers responded to the scene at Cataldi Park at approximately 3:23 p.m. on July 13 after receiving a report of a stabbing. They arrived to find an adult man armed with a large kitchen knife, hunched over the bleeding child.

A 9-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by his own father at a California park on Sunday afternoon in what police are calling one of the city’s most horrific

16/07/2025

A South Carolina mother and her teen son pleaded guilty to killing 29-year-old Corey Soles, who used a wheelchair and lived in the same household

15/07/2025

The 30 rookie NYPD cops the department wants to fire after determining they were never qualified to join the force in the first place have checkered histories that include arrests, drug abuse, hiring prostitutes and “serious disregard for rules and consequences,” recently released court documents reveal.

One probationary officer, who was told he was disqualified but was hired anyway, “freely admitted to a history of arrests and violations of law,” the NYPD said in court papers filed Monday demanding a judge dismiss a court order obtained by the Police Benevolent Association union blocking the department from proceeding with the terminations.

A hearing on the court order temporarily stopping the cops from being fired is scheduled in Manhattan Supreme Court this afternoon.

15/07/2025

A man dozing aboard a Manhattan subway train early Monday morning woke up to a nightmare — a belligerent straphanger who ended up stabbing him in the head.

15/07/2025

The search for a baby missing since 2019 continued on in Connecticut, the day after her father was sentenced to 65 years behind bars for the beating death of his girlfriend, Christine Holloway.

Jose Morales in April was convicted of murder and evidence tampering in connection with Holloway’s slaying, which occurred at her home in Ansonia, just west of New Haven, some five years ago. Her bruised and naked body was found in the bathtub on Dec. 12, 2019 — and the couple’s 14-month-old daughter, Vanessa, has been missing ever since.

The search for a baby missing for years continued on in Connecticut, the day after her father was sentenced to 65 years behind bars for the beating death of his girlfriend, Christine Holloway.

14/07/2025

A man with a 'significant' criminal history has been arrested after being accused of murdering his teenage nephew and leaving his body on the side of a road.

Victor 'Jerry' Carver III was arrested in Tennessee on a manslaughter charge on Monday, two days after checking 17-year-old Caden Cantrelle out of the Tennessee Department of Children's Services (DCS) on July 5 with permission.

Victor Carver III (not pictured) was arrested on Monday, two days after checking 17-year-old Caden Cantrelle (pictured) out of the Tennessee Department of

11/07/2025

A man is accused of striking two pedestrians with his truck – killing one of them – and then driving off, just to allegedly admit to his family that he had "killed" someone close to a nearby casino.

Vicente Vasquez, 61, faces charges of homicide by vehicle, knowingly leaving the scene of an accident with great bodily harm or death, failure to give information and render aid, failure to give immediate notice of an accident, and tampering with evidence, the New Mexico State Police announced.

A man is accused of striking two pedestrians with his truck – killing one of them – and then driving off, just to allegedly admit to his family that he had

11/07/2025

A Queens driver has been busted for the r**e of a teenager he lured into the car, cops said Wednesday.

Virgilio Taveras, 63, was charged with r**e, luring a child, endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse for the disturbing July 1 incident.

Virgilio Taveras, 63, was charged with r**e, luring a child, endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse for the disturbing July 1 incident.

11/07/2025

Two men who were sent to prison for decades at 17 years old after NYPD officers pushed them to serve up false murder confessions saw their names cleared in Manhattan on Thursday.

Brian Boles and Charles Collins spent a combined 52 years behind bars for the murder of James Reid, an 85-year-old neighbor of Boles who was strangled to death in his Harlem apartment on Feb. 8, 1994.

Brian Boles and Charles Collins spent a combined 52 years behind bars for the murder of James Reid, an 85-year-old neighbor of Boles who was strangled to death inside his Harlem apartment on Feb. 8…

10/07/2025

A homeless man convicted of ambushing a city worker with a hammer at a Queens subway station was given the maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison Thursday after being confronted by his victim in court.

William Blount, 61, received the longest sentence allowable by law for the unprovoked 2022 attack on Nina Rothschild, who was left with a cracked skull after she was struck with the hammer more than a dozen times.

William Blount got the longest sentence allowable by law for the unprovoked attack on Nina Rothschild, who was left with a cracked skull.

10/07/2025

NEED TO KNOW:

A Connecticut jury has acquitted a 20-year-old man on murder and manslaughter charges in connection with the death of a 17-year-old high school athlete

Raul Valle was 16 at the time of the May 2022 stabbing which claimed the life of 17-year-old James “Jimmy” McGrath

Valle was also found not guilty of lesser assault charges related to three other teenagers who were injured in the stabbing

Prosecutors argued that Raul Valle stabbed 17-year-old James “Jimmy” McGrath, a junior at Fairfield College Preparatory School, multiple times during a 2022 house party

10/07/2025

Authorities allege Journee McGrew killed Waduta Woodley with a metal hammer and left a white sheet of paper on his chest that read “PEDO Touches Children” in green highlighter