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 …
A Louisiana woman awaiting her coronavirus test results died on her kitchen floor while waiting for her results, according to reports. Nola.com reports that 39-year-old Natasha Ott began feeling “cold symptoms” on March 10, but initially declined to take the Covid-19 test since she was considered low-risk. She wanted to ensure elderly people had a …
A man jumped from his 16th-floor luxury apartment in New York City late Friday in the midst of growing fears about the coronavirus pandemic, the New York Post reports. The 64-year-old man, whose identity has not been released publicly, lived in the Tribeca Park apartments in Manhattan. He landed in the courtyard. Authorities pronounced the man dead …
An Ohio man who allegedly murdered a young mother 29 years ago was “hiding in plain sight” in the decades since the slaying, living across the street from the victim’s home and interacting with her family members, Cleveland.com reports. Last week, police arrested 57-year-old Daniel L. Rees in connection with the death of 23-year-old Rachael M. …
A Colorado man nicknamed “Monster” has been charged with trapping a woman in an Adams County home for weeks while he assaulted her almost daily and threatened her with various weapons. Christopher Dale Rockey, also known as “Dysfunctional Rockey,” faces single counts of attempted murder, kidnapping, assault, false imprisonment, and menacing — all felonies — …
A North Carolina man was arrested after he did a Facebook Live video touching various items in a local Walmart while telling viewers he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Justin Rhodes, 31, was charged on Friday with felony perpetrating a hoax in a public building and disorderly conduct. Albermarle police …
Police in Purcellville, Pennsylvania, investigated social media posts showing teens reportedly coughing on produce in a grocery store. They weren’t, but officers warned parents to keep a close eye on kids out of school with more time on their hands.
