Month: August 2020

United Airlines exec Jake Cefolia missing for three weeks; police say there is no surveillance footage from forest preserve where his vehicle was found
Missing

More than three weeks after a high-ranking United Airlines executive vanished without a trace, the circumstances of Jake Cefolia’s disappearance remain a mystery. Cefolia, the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at United Airlines, was reported missing on August 8, two days after he was last seen at his home in Elmhurst, Illinois. Elmhurst Police …

Kidnapping
August 30, 2020

Georgia baby kidnapped at gunpoint by couple who disguised him as a girl

A 1-year-old Georgia boy is back in his mother’s arms after he was kidnapped at gunpoint on Saturday and driven across the metropolitan Atlanta area before Georgia state troopers stopped the vehicle. The boy, Mateo Alejandro Montufar-Barrera, was disguised as a baby girl but unharmed and reunited with his mother, Leslie Bamaca, at the Chamblee …

Sex trafficking
Juveniles
August 30, 2020

Nancy Grace: Sex trafficked kids often ‘described as runaways’

CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace spoke with Fox & Friends Weekend about recent law enforcement operations aimed at locating missing and endangered children in several states, including Georgia, Ohio, and New Jersey. “I hope you’re sitting down,” she said, “because just last year 420,000 plus children went missing. Here’s the problem: Many of them are described as runaways, [but] the …

Missing
August 30, 2020

MISSING: Pregnant Washington woman vanishes day before her first ultrasound

A car belonging to a missing pregnant woman turned up late Friday night near the Tacoma Dome in Washington state, nearly 10 miles from her home in the Tacoma suburb where she was last seen on Tuesday, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office reports. Kassanndra Cantrell, 33, is about three months pregnant, family members told Q13Fox, …

ohio missing
Family Crime
August 30, 2020

200 children are missing from Ohio. For some, it may not be safe to come home: Report

In northeast Ohio alone, about 200 children are missing. A new task force is trying to find them, WBTV reports. “These are kids that have been abused, neglected. Some involved in human trafficking,” U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott told the television station. Operation Safety Net, which has been running for about two weeks, has recovered at …

Murder
August 29, 2020

Female porn star charged in death of man found in shallow grave

A former porn star is among three people arrested for the murder of a man whose remains were found in a shallow grave in Florida this week, nearly two months after he was reported missing. Jeremie Odell Peters, 43; William Shane Parker, 35; and his girlfriend, Lauren Kay Wambles, 23, have all been charged in …

Murder
August 29, 2020

Mom who stabbed 6-year-old daughter, then herself, is identified and charged

The mother who stabbed her six-year-old daughter to death earlier this month and then stabbed herself has been identified as 36-year-old Purkanah Yisrael Mayo, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office reports. The office said that Mayo has been charged with second degree murder in the death of her daughter, identified by family members as Atarah. As CrimeOnline …