Minor League Baseball pitcher Blake Bivens opened up on Thursday after he lost his wife, infant son, and mother-in-law to senseless murders on Tuesday, allegedly carried out by his teen brother-in-law. “My life as I knew it is destroyed,” 24-year-old Bivens said Instagram. “Emily, my sweetheart, you are the best wife and mother this world …
Newly-released court documents and details provided by a family member shed additional insight into what happened when a Virginia teen allegedly killed his family members. The News & Advance reports that according to documents released this week by the Pittsylvania Domestic Relations Court, authorities found a bloody sledgehammer, a rifle, and shell casings close to …
A missing California teen was rescued on Tuesday from sex trafficking during an undercover operation by Pomona police. ABC 7 reports that plainclothes officers found the teen while conducting surveillance in the East Holt Avenue Corridor area of Pomona. Authorities said the girl was reported missing from Riverside County. The victim’s identity is protected due …
A Georgia mother who left her six-month-old son inside a hotel freezer has been sentenced to 99 years in prison. The Associated Press reports that Amanda Gail Oakes, 36, was given the 99-year sentence after pleading guilty to multiple charges in the death of her 6-month-old son, including manslaughter and corpse abuse. According to WSFA, …
A Colorado woman who threw her newborn baby over a fence last year was convicted of murder on Wednesday in a Douglas County, Colorado, courtroom. The 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office reported that a Douglas County jury found 23-year-old Camille Wasinger-Konrad guilty of “first-degree murder of a child under 12 by a person in a …
A pair of married murder suspects are on the loose after hijacking a secured van that was transporting them from a facility in upstate New York to Arizona, where they are facing murder charges. NBC News reports that Blane Barksdale, 56, and Susan Barksdale, 59, overpowered security guards in van they were traveling in and …
A Kentucky man who was reportedly one of the last people to see Savannah Spurlock alive has been officially indicted for murder. According to ABC 13, a Garrard County Grand Jury indicted David Sparks, 23, for Spurlock’s murder. Prior to his most recent indictment, David Sparks was arrested last month for tampering with evidence in connection …
As investigators work to determine the motive behind the murders of a Minor League baseball player’s family members, the accused killer has been placed on suicide watch. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 18-year-old Matthew Thomas Bernard, the brother of Blake Bivens’ wife, was arrested Tuesday on three counts of first-degree murder and use of a firearm …
Authorities leading the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s death at a Manhattan jail this month are sending two cameras that were positioned outside of his jail cell to the FBI for further analysis, the New York Post reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, sources told the Washington Post that at least one camera positioned near Epstein’s cell …
Five years after his wife’s sudden death, a Michigan man has been charged with killing her — by spiking a bowl of cereal with heroin. According to MLive, Christina Ann-Thompson Harris, 36, of Davison, was found dead in September 2014 of what authorities initially believed was a drug overdose –– but Harris’s friends and family …
The 16-year-old girl who flew to London this weekend to meet an older man following a reported online relationship is set to be reunited with her parents, and authorities have made an arrest. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Victoria Grabowski went missing from Queens, New York, this weekend, and her family suspected that she had gone …
