Seven people, including a child, have the US Coast Guard and Portland Fire & Rescue to thank after a dramatic rescue Saturday afternoon when their boat hit a submerged erosion control dam and started to take on water. The 40-foot Lawilila was rounding Kelley Point, where the Willamette and Columbia Rivers converge, when it hit …
A southern California man accused of killing his 1-year-old daughter and stabbing two others, including the child’s mother, is a registered sex offender who had previously been imprisoned, the Desert Sun reports. Adam Slater, 49, is facing charges of second-degree murder, attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon. The charges stem from a violent episode on Wednesday …
Montana prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for a woman accused of torturing, beating and killing her grandson, the Casper Star Tribune reports. Patricia Batts is facing charges of deliberate homicide, criminal endangerment, aggravated kidnapping and strangulation of a family member in connection with the death of 12-year-old James Hurley, whose body was found …
A Missouri man stands accused of posing as a teenage girl to solicit sex photos from other children, KTVO reported, citing the Macon County Sheriff’s Office. Martin Mitchell, 20, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of sex trafficking of a child and possession of child pornography. Officials, however, said he admitted to creating fake …
Update 7 p.m.: Savannah Cemele and Ricky Trujillo have been found in separate locations, the Pueblo Police Department reported. The 3-year-old is safe and unharmed and being returned to her family. Police are interviewing Trujillol Update: The AMBER Alert for 3-year-old Savannah Camele has been extended into Wyoming and authorities now say suspect may be …
The mother of a 3-year-old Michigan mother found stabbed to death on Wednesday has been charged with the boy’s murder, The Detroit News reported. Atiya Nina Muhammed, 26, has been charged with first degree premeditated murder, felony murder, child abuse, and torture, according to court records. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said she will be …
Security footage taken in the neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed in February shows the black jogger stopping at a house under construction just minutes before the fatal incident, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Gregory McMichael, who was arrested along with his son Travis on Thursday and charged with murder, …
The man who filmed the video of Georgia jogger Ahmaud Arbery’s shooting death says he’s being wrongfully accused by Arbery’s family, their lawyers, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which announced on Friday it was looking at what role he played in the deadly incident in February, First Coast News reported. William “Roddie” Bryan is …
Lori Vallow’s niece told an Arizona television station that her aunt’s two missing children are being protected from people trying to harm them. KTVK-TV on Friday aired an interview with Melani Pawlowski (formerly Boudreaux) and her new husband, Ian Pawlowski, about the ongoing saga surrounding Tylee Ryan, 17, and Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, who have not been seen …
Ohio authorities believe they have cracked a rape and murder that has gone unsolved for 33 years, Cleveland.com reports. Barbara Blatnik’s nude body was found in the woods in Cuyahoga Falls in December 1987. At the time, police believed the 17-year-old had been raped and strangled. The case was cold for decades until prosecutors this week …
Authorities in Illinois have arrested a fugitive wanted in the murder-for-hire plot that left a Minnesota-based realtor and mother dead on New Year’s Eve and her boyfriend, rapper Momoh, wounded in a shooting. Berry Davis was arrested late last week, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported, after slipping away in January as police closed in on a …
Two men wanted in connection with the shooting death of a Michigan Family Dollar security guard are both in police custody, the Genesee County prosecutor announced Friday. Ramonyea Bishop, 24, was arrested in Bay City, Michigan, on Friday, and his stepfather Larry Teague, 44, was arrested in Houston, Texas, on Thursday along with two people …
