A bus driver in New Jersey who allegedly fatally mowed down a passenger after dragging him down a street with his arm trapped in the bus door was arrested on Tuesday while trying to flee the country. NJ Transit employee Fayola Howard, 34, was charged with vehicular homicide in connection with a December 31 incident …
A California inmate believed to have beaten two other inmates to death with a cane wrote a San Jose newspaper to confess to the killings, saying he warned prison officials that he would attack an inmate soon if he wasn’t transferred to another facility. Jonathan Watson, 41, has not been charged in the deaths of …
The Cayce Department of Public safety has clarified some lingering questions about the death of the man believed to be responsible for the kidnapping and murder of 6-year-old Faye Swetlik. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Swetlik was found dead on February 13, three days after she vanished from her home in Cayce, South Carolina, shortly after …
Between 1991 and 2001, Mark Douglas Burns was a long haul trucker, and he has now been linked to the unsolved rapes of at least 11 women and girls across the country. Last year, law enforcement matched DNA evidence from those cases to a genealogy DNA database. Burns is currently facing 17 charges in Utah, …
On Thursday, authorities confirmed that a Georgia college student who was found dead days after her disappearance died as a result of homicide. WMAZ reported that Anitra Gunn’s autopsy was completed on Tuesday, the same day her body was discovered in Crawford County, near the Peach-Crawford County line. Gunn, 23, was last seen alive at …
NEW YORK – February 20, 2020 – Nancy Grace, legal commentator, former prosecutor and acclaimed television journalist, joins iHeartMedia, the No.1 commercial podcast publisher world-wide, to bring “Crime Stories with Nancy Grace,” the highly popular true-crime daily podcast where Grace takes listeners inside breaking crime and justice news, to the iHeartPodcast Network. In addition, Grace …
An Indiana woman who was shot and killed on Tuesday is believed to have livestreamed herself exposing a closeted gay man hours before her death. WTTV reported that Jane Waughfield, 40, was shot near the intersection of Lafayette Road and West 30th Street in Indianapolis. Witness accounts indicated that the Camaro the wounded woman was …
Family members of a missing Georgia woman are trying to keep the search–and hope–alive a month after her disappearance. As the Calhoun Times reports, 20-year-old Keeslyn Noell Roberts has not been seen since on or about January 18, when she reportedly fled the Flying J travel center in Resaca after a confrontation at the store. …
Authorities reportedly found the bodies of two newborns at a New Jersey recycling facility. New Brunswick police reportedly discovered a newborn’s body at the Colgate Paper Recycling facility at 9 a.m. on Wednesday. A second body was recovered from the same facility roughly six hours later, according to New Brunswick Today. WPIX reported that autopsies …
A Washington woman says she feels unsafe in her own home after a woman posing as a newborn photographer drugged her cupcake in an attempt to steal her infant daughter. “This is my house. She violated that, she violated my safety, tried to kidnap my daughter,” victim Elysia Miller said at a Tuesday press conference. …
Day two of jury deliberations in the Harvey Weinstein trial ended without a verdict. Before adjourning on Wednesday, jurors asked to review emails to, from, and pertaining to “Sopranos” actress Annabella Sciorra, 59. They also requested to rehear testimony from Sciorra’s friend Rosie Perez and to review all communications Weinstein, 67, had with two private …
Unknown gunmen opened fire at least two hookah bars in the German city of Hanau Wednesday night, killing eight people and wounding several others. The New York Times, citing German public broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk, said the suspects first opened fire at a shisha bar in the center of the city, about 15 miles east of …
