A trial began Friday for in Dawson County, Nebraska, against a woman accused of luring a Tinder date to her death. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Bailey Boswell, 26, is accused of conspiring for weeks with her boyfriend, Aubrey Trail, 52, to lure in Sydney Loofe, 24. Boswell is accused of enticing Loofe to meet up …
A Chicago woman is in custody on Monday after allegedly stabbed her 5-year-old daughter to death. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Serenity Arrington died on Saturday after she was taken to a Chicago hospital with a stab wound or wounds to the throat. Police sources told the Chicago Sun-Tribune that the girl’s mother, 27-year-old Simone Austin, …
Shots were fired outside of Taylor Swift’s upscale Tribeca home in New York on Sunday, according to police. New York Post reports that police showed up to the Franklin Place area at around 5 p.m. after someone called 911. No one was injured but authorities found the shell casings. The incident was apparently sparked when …
A Bronx dad went to an Eastchester car dealership Monday night, looking to buy his wife a car for her upcoming birthday. Instead, Anthony Jefferson found himself on the floor, shielding his three children as gunshots rang out, shattering glass and striking him in the thigh. Jefferson was sitting on a sofa in a waiting …
A former employee of Mississippi Child Protective Services was charged this week with multiple counts relating to alleged inappropriate conduct with juveniles under her care. A Tishomingo County grand jury indicted Lauren Rose Cavness, 26, after a months-long investigation by the Tishomingo County Sheriff’s Office, the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services, and the Mississippi …
A Florida woman has been charged with setting up a GoFundMe, collecting donations for the families of a triple murder, and then spending the money on herself. Amanda Brown, 32, has been accused of taking nearly $12,000 from a now-defunct GoFundMe called “Polk County Triple Homicide, Family Expenses” and depositing it into her personal accounts, …
A 5-year-old girl was stabbed to death in Chicago Saturday morning, and police are questioning a 27-year-old woman they say is a relative. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the little girl as Serenity Arrington, who, police said, had multiple stab wounds, CBS Chicago reports. Neighbors tried to help her before the arrival of …
A 20-year-old former North Carolina convict was arrested Friday in Winston-Salem after an investigation into two incidents involving a man forcing his way into women’s apartments and, in one case, raping her. Tavon Demaris Taylor has been charged with first-degree burglary, first-degree forcible rape, first-degree sex offense, kidnapping, assault by strangulation, felonious breaking and entering …
Mourners gathered together in South Carolina on Saturday to remember the life of Gannon Stauch, a young boy killed in Colorado earlier this year and found months later in Florida. At the gathering, held at the Beach Church in Myrtle Beach, mourners delivered heartfelt messages about the 11-year-old, including his best friend, who said Gannon …
A California man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of his young daughter six years ago, the Press-Enterprise reports. Police on Thursday arrested 33-year-old Ernesto Landeros Jr. on suspicion of murder in the second degree and assault on a child under 8 years of age causing death. Landeros’ daughter, Destiny Marquez, …
Authorities have evidence that missing British tot Madeleine McCann may be dead, Seven News reports. In an interview with the Portuguese television network RTP, cited by the New York Post, a German prosecutor said there is “material” evidence that McCann is no longer alive. According to the report, prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters was asked by …
A new syndicated series from CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace debuts next month, focusing on how new technologies — DNA profiling, genetic genealogy, and familial searches — are helping bring closure to cold cases. “Bloodline Detectives” debuts on October 2. Its second episode, “Murder in the Snow,” takes on the 1984 murder of Wisconsin teenager Traci Hammerberg, …
