A Michigan woman failed to seek medical treatment for her newborn daughter, leading to the baby’s death, a police chief testified in court last week. Lansing State Journal reports that Rachel Piland, of Lansing, refused to take her infant to the hospital, even after the baby couldn’t breathe properly and had blood running out of her …
Authorities reportedly discovered a dead man’s body in a trash can near a Patton Village, Texas, home that was on fire a day prior. The Houston Chronicle reported that a fire broke out at the home early Wednesday. Investigators recovered the remains inside a residential-sized trash can on the same street as the residence. Montgomery County …
A Queens, New York, woman allegedly helped conduct an illegal back-alley butt injection procedure that killed a Harlem mother over the summer. The New York Daily News reports that Allison Spence, 44, was charged Thursday with manslaughter and unauthorized practice of a profession in connection with the death of Latesha Bynum, 37. Bynum died two weeks after getting the injections …
Notorious child killer Susan Smith has been misbehaving in a South Carolina prison, where she is serving a life sentence for the deaths of her two sons, according to People magazine’s Steve Helling. Helling joins Nancy Grace, Crime Stories contributing reporter Mary Ellen Hopkins, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan from Jacksonville State University, and co-host …
A Texas woman sentenced to 15 years in prison in January for stabbing a nurse 21 times is already up for parole, court documents confirm. As CrimeOnline previously reported, on November 14, 2015, Pearl Moen, 17 at the time, attempted to kill a 23-year-old nurse. Moen targeted the victime, a random stranger, and stabbed her 21 …
The City of Albuquerque has responded to a lawsuit brought by the parents of a 10-year-old girl who was brutally assaulted and murdered, while her mother looked on, in August 2016. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Victoria Martens died last year after her mother’s boyfriend and his cousin allegedly raped, strangled, and partially dismembered her body …
A Texas man is behind bars after authorities used Google Maps to locate a vehicle used to run over and kill a man at a party. On Tuesday, a grand jury determined authorities presented enough evidence in the case for it to move forward to an indictment against the suspect. Beaumont Enterprise reports that Raul Najera, …
Police are searching for a man and a woman suspected of an attempted kidnapping earlier last week in New York City. CBS New York reports that a 15-year-old girl was walking in the Greenwood Heights area of Brooklyn on Friday afternoon when a dark SUV pulled up next to her. A man and a woman …
A former Maryland teacher’s aide who molested at least 23 children was sentenced Thursday to an additional 100 years behind bars. According to WBAL, Prince George’s County Judge Beverly Woodard handed down the sentence after Deonte Carraway, 24, pleaded guilty to 23 counts of state child sex abuse and pornography charges—one for each child authorities say …
Friends of the teen who stabbed two of his classmates yesterday – killing one – say he was regularly bullied and endured homophobic slurs on a daily basis. Abel Cedeno, 18, was charged with murder and weapon possession in the Wednesday morning stabbing at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation in the Bronx. 15-year-old …
A group of nine teenagers allegedly attacked a 12-year-old boy and his parents at a Six Flags in Gurnee, Illinois, during a dispute over line cutting. The Chicago Tribune reported that the incident occurred Saturday night during the amusement park’s Fright Fest. Gurnee Deputy Chief Brian Smith claimed that the teens cut the line while hurling profanities, …
A 2-year-old girl in Alabama died suddenly while in the care of her mother’s boyfriend, and now the boyfriend is being charged with her murder. AL.com reports that Levi Ellise Pointer, 2, of Hoover ,died on September 21. Police responded to a 911 call made by her mother’s boyfriend, Dlonta Khalil Melton, 19, who was watching the …
