A North Carolina jury convicted a repeat sex offender on numerous charges on Wednesday, after he tied a little girl up to a tree in 2016, sexually assaulted her, and left her chained by her neck while he fled the scene. CBS reports that on Sept. 14, 2016, 47-year-old Douglas Nelson Edwards rode his moped down River …
Oxygen has released photos of bone fragments that may belong to missing Natalee Hollway, who disappeared on a high school graduation trip to Aruba in 2005. The Oxygen docuseries The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway has chronicled the search for her possible remains and the difficult process of identifying them. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a tipster …
She also allegedly sent photos of herself in a thong
A Pennsylvania man who sexually assaulted six juvenile sisters he took in as “wives” was sentenced Wednesday to 30 to 87 years in prison. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Bucks County Judge Jeffrey L. Finley called Lee Kaplan’s abuse “corrupt, perverted, [and] atrocious” before handing down the lengthy sentence. In June, a court convicted Kaplan, 52, on 17 counts of child sexual …
Autopsy results performed on a baby’s remains found sealed in containers in an apartment determined that the infant had been dead for close to a year. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a Lawrence County deputy made a gruesome discovery in a Fountain Inn, South Carolina, apartment on Monday, while serving eviction papers to a female tenant. …
The latest installment in Oxygen’s docuseries, The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway, features an interrogation of John Ludwick, the man who claims he helped suspected killer, Joran van Der Sloot, re-bury the Alabama woman’s remains after burning and crushing her skull. Investigative reporter Art Harris and forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan join Nancy Grace in a …
A South Carolina landlord fled an apartment crying on Monday after a Lawrence County deputy made a gruesome discovery in a tenant’s Fountain Inn apartment while serving eviction papers. Remains of a deceased infant were found in sealed containers, inside the apartment. WSPA reports that Fountain Inn authorities arrived at the Fountain Hills Apartments on Chapman …
Police in Columbus, Ohio, are asking the public’s help in locating a high risk missing girl. The police department reported in a Facebook post that 11-year-old Emily Jeans has gone missing from her home on 3223 Morse Road. The girl’s mother told police that her daughter disappeared late Wednesday afternoon. Investigators launched a search effort …
By JOHN O’CONNOR, Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The use of hearsay testimony to convict former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson in the death of his third wife was proper, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday in upholding the conviction. The high court, in a unanimous decision , found that hearsay testimony from Peterson’s dead …
Missouri prosecutors charged a daughter and father on Wednesday with assault after they allegedly beat a high school boy so badly that he was left in critical condition. New York Daily News reports that Josiah Wright, 39, and his daughter, Jonay Wright, 17, reportedly went to Ruskin High School in Kansas City to pick up Jonay’s class …
A Hooks, Texas, couple allegedly locked a 7-year-old boy out of the family home last month and told him to never return. Now they face child endangerment charges. Texarkana Gazette reports that Ronald “Keith” Wright, 56, and Rendy Jo Wright, 39, allegedly kicked a 7-year-old boy out of their Hooks home, off of 400 block of County Road …
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