Texas sheriff’s deputies responded to a desperate 911 call in Liberty County early Saturday evening and found a woman in chains inside the house and another woman dead inside a burning car outside, KPRC reports. A suspect identified as Jose Marin Soriano, 59, is on the run, the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office said. Both victims …
A Manhattan subway train veered off the rails Sunday after striking debris thrown onto the tracks by an as yet unnamed suspect, the New York Post reported. MTA customers reportedly grabbed the suspect, apparently known to police for criminal activity around the city’s subway, after the train derailed and held him until police arrived. The …
A person of interest has been found and detained in connection with a missing 1-month-old Texas baby, but police are still searching for the infant. Jacksonville Progress reports that baby Armaidre Antwan Marquie Argumon was last seen on September 18 in Wells, Texas, close to the 500 Block of Old Forest Road at around 7:30 …
An Arkansas woman arrested after a young child was thrown from a moving vehicle and died has a history of traffic and alcohol violations, according to court records, KATV reports. On Tuesday, 30-year-old Whitney Turner-Tyson of Little Rock was arrested for capital murder after a child was found with severe injuries on an interstate in Benton, Arkansas. The …
A man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for murdering his ex-wife on a cruise nearly 15 years ago, a crime that prosecutors said he almost got away with, the Associated Press reports. Lonnie Loren Kocontes, 62, was sentenced on Friday to life without the possibility of parole in connection with the …
A 2-year-old North Carolina boy died Saturday after he was wounded by an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound earlier this week, ABC11 reports. Officers responded to a home in the northern part of Fayetteville on Wednesday morning, Fayetteville police said. The boy, who hasn’t been identified, was taken to a local hospital and then airlifted to …
An Indiana man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death and eating parts of her body was found guilty Friday in a Clark County court, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. Joseph Oberhansley, 39, initially confessed to the brutal crime but later walked that confession back, saying two men broke into Tammy Jo Blanton’s house that day, …
A body found Thursday in a rural Virginia field has been positively identified as Andy Banks, a North Carolina man who disappeared last week while trying to sell his 2011 Range Rover on Craigslist, the Raleigh Police Department reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Banks vanished on September 12 from Raleigh, after arranging to meet someone …
A Tennessee man set to go on trial for the murders and dismemberment of his parents is giving the court permission to impose the death penalty if he’s found guilty, despite the prosecution’s decision not to seek execution, WBIR reported. Joel Michael Guy Jr., 32, has been charged with two counts of first degree murder, …
The body of a missing middle Georgia woman was found in “a little hangout area” near a creek Wednesday, and her boyfriend has been arrested for her murder. LaTorra “Torra” Michelle Tillman’s mother, Lillian Cole, reported her missing earlier this month, but nearly two-weeks of searching turned up nothing until friends went down by the …
AJ’s mother is already serving a 35 year sentence after pleading guilty to murder.
A New York woman was allegedly beaten and stabbed to death by her boyfriend shortly after he was released from jail, the New York Daily News reports. Now that man is on the lam. Carol Nystrom, 44, was found dead Thursday inside her apartment bedroom in the Manhattan neighborhood of Inwood. Authorities believe her boyfriend, …
