The mysterious dark web is a place to buy all the things outside the mainstream of social norms and laws, especially hitmen. Today, Crime Stories looks at three cases of murder for hire on the dark web, and the women involved, who are both victims and suspects: Tina Jones, Amy Allwine and Alexis Stern. Joining …
Federal officials reportedly issued an alert to law enforcement warning that white supremacist groups were encouraging members who’ve contracted the novel coronavirus to spread the disease to police, racial minorities, and Jewish people. The Federal Protective Service, which is a division of Homeland Security, wrote in an intelligence brief for the week of February 17-24 …
Prosecutors announced last week they plan to seek the death penalty against a Pennsylvania woman accused of killing her two children and sexually assaulting the family dog. Lisa R. Snyder, 37, is facing murder charges in connection with the deaths of her children, Conner, 8, and Brinley, 4. She’s also facing charges of animal cruelty, …
Police in Ohio have arrested three women who allegedly sexually abused several boys and girls as young as 3 years old. Magan Richmond, 32, Tasha Stringer, 37, and Kathryn McMullen, 36, were charged with felony rape. The Scioto County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement posted to Facebook that the women molested several children, between …
A Texas man said he feared he would catch coronavirus behind bars. A judge decided to let him out of jail. The Houston Chronicle reports that David Cruz, 29, was in a Harris County jail facing murder charges in connection with the August 2019 murder of Christian Tristan. His attorneys filed a motion to reduce …
The father of Gannon Stauch released a statement over the weekend, following the news that his son was found deceased close to 1,400 miles away from his home. Al Stauch released the statement through Restoration Church, A Colorado Springs-based church that has been instrumental in holding vigils and community prayers for 11-year-old Gannon, who was …
College students in Florida have tested positive for the coronavirus after returning from spring break. As CrimeOnline previously reported, young people were seen in Miami and elsewhere in Florida defiantly celebrating Spring Break and St. Patrick’s Day despite increasingly alarming reports about the domestic spread of coronavirus, which causes COVID-19. WFLA now reports that five …
Doctors at Fort Worth’s Cook Children’s Medical Center warn that stress resulting from worries over the novel coronavirus pandemic may lead to an increase in child abuse. The national recognized pediatric hospital has seen six child abuse cases this week — one fatal — when it normally sees about eight a month, Dr. Jayme Coffman, …
A 36-year-old Texas woman has been charged with murder after she allegedly slit her four year-old son’s throat with a knife and then tried to kill herself. Ritika Rohatgi Agrawal’s husband found her wandering around their Sugar Land home Saturday morning with cuts to her neck and wrists and their son dead in an upstairs …
Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, CNHI newspapers reported Sunday, citing two anonymous officials connected to the New York state prison system. Weinstein was taken to Wende Correctional Facility in western New YOrk on Wednesday to begin his journey through the prison system and is one of two prisoners …
A Florida woman claiming to have a “black belt in martial arts” kicked her boyfriend in the nose when he wouldn’t have sex with her and then coughed “copious amounts of saliva” onto a paramedic’s face while shouting “I have the coronavirus!” the Villages News reported. La-Donald Holmes, 38, was charged with domestic battery and …
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace and her guests asked the hard questions this week about the death of Tammy Daybell, who died mysteriously just two weeks before her husband married “cult mom” Lori Vallow. Tammy Daybell’s death came in October, about a month after the last time 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan, Vallow’s children …
