South Dakota police issued an endangered missing advisory Friday for a Sioux Falls girl who disappeared Thursday morning, the Argus Leader reports. Nakia Jackson, 11, walked out of her home at about 6:30 a.m. after an argument, Lt Terrance Matia said. She was not appropriately dressed for the weather and may have been picked up …
A 63-year-old Arizona man is dead this week after another man thought he was spray-painting graffiti on a wall, KVOA reported. Robert M. Norwood was painting the wall of his Tucson home late Tuesday afternoon when John Francis Hodson, 53, drove by. Thinking Norwood was vandalizing the property, Hodson stopped and confronted him. The two …
An Ohio man is facing criminal charges for allegedly biting off his mother’s nose and beating her during an altercation on Tuesday afternoon. According to The Cincinnati Enquirer, Sean Ohman, 36, told a 911 dispatcher that he battered his mother in her bedroom. Ohman allegedly used a tea kettle to beat his mother. Investigators who …
An Illinois woman whose body was found Wednesday, two days after her reported disappearance, was beaten, raped, strangled, and burned, officials said. Vanessa Ceja-Ramirez, 22, was found dead at the Midlothian Meadows Forest Preserve, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office listed her cause of death as ligature strangulation and said she …
The stepmother accused of killing Colorado boy Gannon Stauch is pushing to postpone an upcoming competency hearing. The Gazette reports that the attorneys for Letecia Stauch filed a motion to postpone her competency hearing after an October 26 COVID-19 outbreak at the El Paso County jail. According to Stauch’s lawyers, the outbreak hampered a second …
A Pennsylvania chiropractor was found dead of an apparent murder in his home office this week. According to WPVI, police responded to a call about a medical emergency at an address in Bensalem on Monday, and found the body of 64-year-old James Sowa, a chiropractor who ran his business out of his residence. Sowa reportedly …
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) restricted airspace over the Delaware home of Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden. The agency issued a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) showing a no-fly zone in Wilmington. CNN reported that the one-mile radius covers Biden’s home. According to the news outlet, the FAA also restricted airspace over …
Teacher and bride-to-be Ellen Greenberg is found inside a locked apartment stabbed 20 times, including the back of the neck. It’s ruled a suicide but does the evidence support the claim? Greenberg’s family has filed a lawsuit against the Philadelphia County Medical Examiner’s Office to compel officials to change the cause of death back to homicide …
Authorities in Ohio have arrested a second suspect in a deadly shooting that claimed the life of a 4-year-old boy in September. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 4-year-old Rowan Sweeney was killed on September 21 when a gunman or gunmen entered a residence in Youngstown, killing the boy and injuring four adults: Andre Stephon McCoy, Jr., …
A former Major League Baseball prospect was convicted Wednesday of the 2015 first-degree murders of his father, uncle, and a bystander at the family’s California home. The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement that Brandon Martin, 27, killed his disabled father and uncle Michael Martin, 64, Ricky Andersen, 58, and ADT alarm …
An arrest has been made in connection with the shooting death of “Surface” actor, Eddie Hassell. Westport News reports that authorities arrested D’Jon Antone, 18, on Wednesday. The US Marshal Service North Texas Fugitive Task Force and the Grand Prairie police said the suspect was taken into custody without incident at a Dallas home. “He …
The Associated Press has called the 2020 U.S. Presidential election for Democratic challenger Joseph Biden. The news outlet announced the result Saturday after former Vice President Biden was declared the winner in Pennsylvania, which put him past the threshold of the required 270 electoral votes to defeat incumbent Donald Trump. Early Wednesday morning, Trump had …
