A man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for murdering his ex-wife on a cruise nearly 15 years ago, a crime that prosecutors said he almost got away with, the Associated Press reports. Lonnie Loren Kocontes, 62, was sentenced on Friday to life without the possibility of parole in connection with the …
A 2-year-old North Carolina boy died Saturday after he was wounded by an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound earlier this week, ABC11 reports. Officers responded to a home in the northern part of Fayetteville on Wednesday morning, Fayetteville police said. The boy, who hasn’t been identified, was taken to a local hospital and then airlifted to …
An Indiana man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death and eating parts of her body was found guilty Friday in a Clark County court, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. Joseph Oberhansley, 39, initially confessed to the brutal crime but later walked that confession back, saying two men broke into Tammy Jo Blanton’s house that day, …
A body found Thursday in a rural Virginia field has been positively identified as Andy Banks, a North Carolina man who disappeared last week while trying to sell his 2011 Range Rover on Craigslist, the Raleigh Police Department reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Banks vanished on September 12 from Raleigh, after arranging to meet someone …
A Tennessee man set to go on trial for the murders and dismemberment of his parents is giving the court permission to impose the death penalty if he’s found guilty, despite the prosecution’s decision not to seek execution, WBIR reported. Joel Michael Guy Jr., 32, has been charged with two counts of first degree murder, …
The body of a missing middle Georgia woman was found in “a little hangout area” near a creek Wednesday, and her boyfriend has been arrested for her murder. LaTorra “Torra” Michelle Tillman’s mother, Lillian Cole, reported her missing earlier this month, but nearly two-weeks of searching turned up nothing until friends went down by the …
AJ’s mother is already serving a 35 year sentence after pleading guilty to murder.
A New York woman was allegedly beaten and stabbed to death by her boyfriend shortly after he was released from jail, the New York Daily News reports. Now that man is on the lam. Carol Nystrom, 44, was found dead Thursday inside her apartment bedroom in the Manhattan neighborhood of Inwood. Authorities believe her boyfriend, …
Montgomery, Alabama, police arrested a 20-year-old man for the shooting death of an Alabama State University student whose body was found Monday after he was reported missing on September 8, Alabama News reported. Adam “Belle” Dowdell, 22, was a second year student at the historically black university who was reported missing when he failed to …
An hours-long search and chase in Middle Tennessee on Sunday ended with three people shot dead — including a husband who was executed in front of his pregnant wife. The suspect, Dangelo Dorsey, was among the dead, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said. He shot and killed himself after leading police along Interstate 24 at …
The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, has died at age 87 from complications of pancreatic cancer. As NPR reports, the Supreme Court announced Ginsburg’s death on Friday. Ginsburg, known affectionately as “RBG,” had served on the Supreme Court for over 27 years, appointed by President Bill Clinton in …
“That 70s Show” actor Danny Masterson made his first appearance in a Los Angeles County court Friday to face charges that he raped three women at his Hollywood Hills home, but the well-known Scientologist did not enter a plea, the Los Angeles Times reported. Instead, one of his attorneys — Tom Mesereau, who represented Bill …
