Two Alabamians were arrested this week after videos showing the sexual assault of a man with a mental disability were shared via Facebook, text messaging and email before making their way to Marshall County authorities. The Marshall County Sheriff’s Office said it was notified of the videos on Tuesday. After identifying the victim and the …
A 51-year-old Idaho man was arrested this week and charged with felony lewd conduct with a child and felony sexual exploitation of a child after two children — a 13-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl — said he’d sexually abused them for years. Richard Dutton reportedly admitted to sexually abusing the boy, saying that it …
A South Carolina woman pleaded guilty this week to fatally poisoning her husband with eyedrops and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, WCNC reported. Lana Sue Clayton, 53, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and tampering with a food or drug, admitting that she had laced Steven Clayton’s drinks with Visine for three days before …
Two Honolulu police officers were shot near the base of Diamond Head on Sunday when they responded to an assault call at a home that later burst into flames and spread to other houses in the neighborhood as well as vehicles parked on the street. Live ammunition exploded inside the home as well, the Honolulu …
A Chicago teen was shot to death on the city’s South Side Friday, prompting police to search for three males believed to be involved in the case. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the victim, 17-year-old Camerie Crawford, was in a vacant lot in Englewood Friday evening when the killing occurred. Around 6:30 p.m., three males exited a silver …
A Utah community was left “devastated” on Saturday after a teen boy was accused of killing three children and an adult, all members of his family, and wounding another, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Police took the suspect into custody Friday night at a Tooele County hospital, Grantsville Police Cpl Rhonda Fields said. He was …
A 14-year-old girl was drugged and kidnapped from a California strip mall earlier this week, but her abductors didn’t take her phone from her. “Somebody help me,” she messaged her friends over Snapchat, KPIX reported. “I’m in a random man’s car … I am not in Santa Cruz. Where am I?” Her digital savvy friends …
A Bronx man burst into his girlfriend’s workplace this week and began punching her in two violent incidents separated by his stepping outside to put a 12-inch knife up his sleeve — and it was all caught on video. The Mid-Hudson News reported that the incident took place at Superior Package Company in Harriman, north …
A New Jersey woman who has been missing for nearly six years was reportedly found dead on Thursday inside a car submerged in a river. Vanessa Smallwood, then 46, was last seen at a dry cleaner’s store in Cherry Hill on January 27, 2014. Smallwood’s relatives reported her missing 10 days after her disappearance. Authorities — …
Authorities have charged a suspect accused of fatally gunning down an 11-year-old girl in August: her teenage brother. The Morning Sun reports that prosecutors in Michigan charged Corbin Redman, 16, with the murder of his sister, Addison, who was killed August. 20 at the family’s home in Gratiot County. Addison had one gunshot wound to …
A grandfather facing negligent homicide charges knew the window on the 11th floor of a cruise ship was open before he lifted his toddler granddaughter to the ledge, newly-released court documents claim. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Chloe Wiegand, an 18-month-old toddler from Granger, Indiana, was on a cruise with family when she lost her life aboard …
New details have emerged about the grisly murder of the United Kingdom’s most notorious pedophile, according to the Toronto Sun. A new report shows Richard Huckle, 33, was choked with condoms and pens, strangled using a guitar string and stabbed. Huckle was found dead in October inside a Yorkshire prison, where he was serving a sentence after …
