Month: June 2020

BREAKING: Officers involved in Rayshard Brooks death face multiple charges after allegedly kicking & standing on him following deadly shooting [DA]
Murder

The Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy’s parking lot last week is facing 11 charges. Another officer involved in the incident is also facing numerous charges. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation began investigating after officer Garrett Rolfe shot and killed 27-year-old Brooks in the back as he …

Murder for hire
June 17, 2020

Nancy Grace goes toe-to-toe with attorney for ‘Black Widow’ newlywed who was caught on tape plotting husband’s murder

For Monday’s episode of “Crime Stories,” host Nancy Grace went toe-to-toe with the lawyer representing a Florida woman who’s serving a 16-year sentence for a failed murder plot targeting her husband. Prosecutors have alleged Dalia Dippolito plotted Mike Dippolito’s murder to gain control of her husband’s savings and their Palm Beach County home. Authorities got …

Vanessa Guillen
Missing
June 17, 2020

‘How can you not have these answers?’: Reward reaches $50K as desperate search for missing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen continues

Nearly two months after Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen disappeared, a reward for information that leads to her whereabouts has increased to $50,000 As CrimeOnline previously reported, Guillen, 20 was reportedly last seen on April 22 at around 1 p.m. at the parking lot of the Regimental Engineer Squadron Headquarters, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, in Fort …

Laene Piontek
Murder for hire
June 17, 2020

Wisconsin man accused of sexually assaulting little girl, paying someone to kill her & her mother so they won’t testify: Police

A Wisconsin man charged earlier this month with sexual assault is apparently facing additional charges after he tried to have the victim and her mother killed, police say. Fox 11 reports that Laene Piontek appeared in court Tuesday on charges of first-degree intentional homicide solicitation. Although the suspect’s defense attorney called the new charges a …

Taylor Williams: NEW court docs reveal DNA blood stain results, Petty Officer mom going ‘wild’ with men while starving her little girl [DA]
Child Abuse
June 16, 2020

Taylor Williams: NEW court docs reveal DNA blood stain results, Petty Officer mom going ‘wild’ with men while starving her little girl [DA]

A newly-released forensic report in the case against a Florida woman accused of abusing her daughter sheds new details on how little Taylor Williams may have died. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Brianna Williams, who served as a Petty Officer 1st Class at NAS Jacksonville, told police last year that she last saw her daughter, Taylor, …

Missing
June 16, 2020

Missing woman found dead in car hours after reported disappearance, cops say

A body discovered in a car earlier this month has been identified as a Wyoming woman who was reported missing a day earlier. The Sublette County Sheriff’s Office said that on June 7, a friend of the family found Mary Latham’s body inside her SUV, which was parked alongside a local road. Latham, 60, was …

Podcast
June 16, 2020

Tuesday Crime Stories: Mild mannered pharmacist turned fire bomber drug dealer?

This small-town story would make a good movie plot. A local pharmacist cooks up a scheme involving drug sales, the dark web, and a firebomb plot in this town of just over 3,000 people. Hyrum Wilson, owner of Hyrum Family Value Pharmacy in Auburn and William Burgamy, has been arrested for distribution and conspiracy to …