On Tuesday, an Idaho judge rejected a plea deal for a woman accused of sexually assaulting two underage teen boys in 2016. District Judge Darren Simpson said the plea deal offered to Amanda Steele, 34, was insufficient because the amended charges weren’t relevant to the allegations against her. The rejected plea deal would’ve changed the …
A Wisconsin man charged earlier this month with sexual assault is apparently facing additional charges after he tried to have the victim and her mother killed, police say. Fox 11 reports that Laene Piontek appeared in court Tuesday on charges of first-degree intentional homicide solicitation. Although the suspect’s defense attorney called the new charges a …
During a Monday press conference, Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that police believe that three deaths of homeless people in the city are linked. The first killing shooting happened on June 1 close to an overpass by Baker-Highland Connector and Piedmont Avenue, at around 1:40 p.m. Someone shot and killed 45-year-old Timothy Terrill Smith, …
A newly-released forensic report in the case against a Florida woman accused of abusing her daughter sheds new details on how little Taylor Williams may have died. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Brianna Williams, who served as a Petty Officer 1st Class at NAS Jacksonville, told police last year that she last saw her daughter, Taylor, …
On Monday, a former attorney was found guilty in California of killing his ex-wife on a Meditteranean cruise 14 years earlier. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced that Lonnie Kocontes, 62, was convicted of murder with a special circumstance allegation of murder for financial gain for the May 2006 murder of Micki Kanesaki, 52. …
A body discovered in a car earlier this month has been identified as a Wyoming woman who was reported missing a day earlier. The Sublette County Sheriff’s Office said that on June 7, a friend of the family found Mary Latham’s body inside her SUV, which was parked alongside a local road. Latham, 60, was …
This small-town story would make a good movie plot. A local pharmacist cooks up a scheme involving drug sales, the dark web, and a firebomb plot in this town of just over 3,000 people. Hyrum Wilson, owner of Hyrum Family Value Pharmacy in Auburn and William Burgamy, has been arrested for distribution and conspiracy to …
The man who was recently named the prime suspect in the disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann in 2007 is now being investigated in connection to a murder a decade before the little girl disappeared while on a family vacation in Portugal. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Christian Brueckner, 43, has been named a suspect in Madeleine’s …
A set of 2-year-old twins are injured but safe after a heroic officer jumped into the ocean and rescued them when their father plunged his car off of the Sunset Cliffs in San Diego on Saturday. CBS 8 reports that the estranged wife of 47-year-old Robert Brians called police at around 4:30 a.m Saturday morning, …
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters Tuesday that none of the children seen in the child pornography they recovered have been found.
A 51-year-old New Jersey woman is dead and police say her own 14-year-old daughter helped dispose of her body. Northjersey.com reports that the teen girl’s father reported her mother, Divna Rosasco, missing at little after midnight on Monday. After an hour of searching, Cresskill authorities found Rosasco’s SUV at the Overpeck Park in Teaneck. Bergen …
Ohio police are investigating after two sisters died while on a hammock at their Cleveland Heights home. Fox 8 reports that the incident happened at a residence off of Berkshire Road at around 7:45 p.m. on Sunday. Cleveland Heights Police and Fire responded to a call about two girls trapped under a brick pillar. When …
