Year: 2019

Taylor Williams: Missing girl’s mom in ‘life-threatening’ condition from suicide attempt, after police find human remains in her hometown
Suicide

The mother of a missing 5-year-old Florida girl Taylor Williams is reportedly in life-threatening condition after an attempted suicide. According to First Coast News, two law enforcement sources said that 27-year-old Brianna Williams tried to kill herself Tuesday afternoon, although it’s unclear how. Authorities were en route to arrest Williams when the incident occurred. She’s …

Family Crime
November 12, 2019

SEE IT: Chris Watts says he killed his daughters ‘twice’ [VIDEO]

A woman who says she has exchanged letters with confessed family-killer Chris Watts will appear on the “Dr. Oz” show Tuesday to discuss the Colorado criminal’s detailed confessions about his family’s brutal murders. Cheryln Cadle, the author of the book “Letters from Christopher: The Tragic Confessions of the Watts Family Murders,” has reportedly exchanged letters …

Murder
November 12, 2019

Roommate & boyfriend strangled, smothered college student whose body was placed in plastic bin & dumped in park: Docs

A Georgia woman found dead on Friday was choked and smothered by her roommate and her roommate’s boyfriend before the pair dumped her body in a park, recently-released documents have revealed. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has obtained warrants showing that Alexis Crawford, 21, and her roommate, Jordyn Jones, 21, had gotten in a physical altercation at …

Kelly Dwyer
Podcast
November 12, 2019

Tuesday Crime Stories: Cheese shop, shoes & golf bag solve Kelly Dwyer murder mystery?

27-year-old Kelly Dwyer vanishes during a night out in Milwaukee. While detectives try to piece together the mystery, a cheese factory becomes the centerpiece of the investigation. Kris Zocco makes a 160-mile trip to a cheese factory and buys a spicy pepper jack cheese. He tries to create an alibi with the trip but ends …

classroom
Violent Crime
November 12, 2019

‘Troubled’ man breaks into kindergarten class, attacks 51 children and 3 teachers with toxic chemical: Reports

A man reportedly carrying out a “revenge on society” scaled the walls of an elementary school on Monday afternoon, and sprayed 51 children and three teachers with a harmful chemical. According to the South China Morning Post, the incident happened inside a kindergarten class in southwestern China. The suspect, identified as a  23-year-old man named …

Cold Cases
November 11, 2019

AX MURDER SOLVED? Husband indicted for murder 37 years after wife axed as she slept

James Krauseneck Jr. appeared in court on Friday to answer a grand jury indictment that accused him of burying an ax into his wife’s head as she slept on February 19, 1982. Krauseneck, now 67 and retired in Arizona, appeared in New York State Supreme Court in Rochester with his daughter Sara, who, at 3 …

College Crimes
November 11, 2019

Fraternities suspended after freshman pledge dies

San Diego State University President Adela de la Torre has suspended the school’s Interfraternity Council (IFC) and its 14 affiliated organizations following the death of a freshman after a fraternity party last week. The university announced the death of Dylan Hernandez, 19, on Monday. He was hospitalized last Thursday after his dorm roommate called 911 …

Kidnapping
November 11, 2019

WATCH: Ex-boyfriend charged with holding 15-year-old girl captive for nearly 3 months

A 20-year-old Texas man is behind bars, charged with kidnapping a 15-year-0ld girl and drugging and raping her for months before she escaped. Trevion Shields has been charged with aggravated kidnapping and is being held on $100,000 bond after being arrested on Friday, according to Harris County Jail records. The girl, who said Shields was …

Juveniles
November 11, 2019

11-year-old dead after older brother shoots him in the chest

An 11-year-old boy is dead and his 19-year-old brother is in custody after a shooting incident in West Philadelphia, ABC 6 reported. “We’re not looking for anybody else at this point,” acting Police Commissioner Christine Coulter said, according to NBC Philadelphia. “We believe that he is responsible and as to whether it was intentional or …

Child Abuse
November 11, 2019

Teen girl dies after suffering ‘most severe’ abuse coroner has ever seen: Reports

A Mississippi couple was arrested last week, after authorities determined they had repeatedly abused a 16-year-old girl in their care until her death last month. The Clarke County Sheriff’s Department announced in a Facebook post last Tuesday that they arrested Allen McGay and Shakeithia McGay on felony child abuse charges. Clarke County coroner Greg Fairchild …