A 38-year-old Wisconsin woman is being held on a $1 million bail after she allegedly offered a police informant $500 to kill another person. A criminal complaint filed this week in Winnebago County says Melissa A. Smith told the informant the person she wanted killed “had told police [Smith] was selling drugs, had urinated on …
A former “Saturday Night Live” cast member has been accused of grooming and sexually assaulting a teenage girl during his time on the nearly 50-year-old sketch comedy show. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in New York City Supreme Court, says that Horatio Sanz “began his process of grooming” the girl, who ran a website about SNL, …
Rape and related charges have been dropped against an Ohio teen athlete who was once slated to play football at the University of St. Francis in Indiana. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a criminal complaint filed at the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, accused 18-year-old Crosley MacEachen, a high school football standout, of rape and sexual battery …
Illinois authorities are reportedly interviewing someone possibly involved in the case of a newborn boy who was found alive in a dresser in a Chicago alley on Tuesday. WLS reported that that Chicago police are speaking with a person of interest, but it is not immediately known how they are connected to the ongoing investigation. …
More details emerging in the case again the husband of missing mom Suzanne Morphew. At a pretrial hearing for Barry Morphew, investigators shared text messages with the court, showing that Suzanne Morphew told a friend she wanted out of her marriage — but didn’t believe her husband would let her go without a fight. Evidence …
California police are reportedly monitoring death threats that are being made towards the judge presiding over Britney Spears’ ongoing conservatorship battle. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department told Variety that they are aware of “concerning” comments being made on social media about the case, but so far none have “risen to the level of a creditable …
A Texas death row inmate has filed a lawsuit against prison officials, who reportedly refused to allow a pastor to lay hands on him during his execution. The attorneys for death row inmate, John Henry Ramirez, 37, filed a lawsuit in Corpus Christi Tuesday, which asked a federal judge to allow Dana Moore, pastor of …
A Republican political strategist was arrested on Thursday in Minnesota for allegedly recruiting six underage girls to perform sex acts in exchange for money. The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Minnesota said in a statement that Anton Lazzaro, 30, conspired with others in recruiting and soliciting children for the sex trafficking ring. Federal …
A second juvenile suspect has been arrested in the murder of a woman who was fatally shot on her way to a fitness class. As KTRK reports, 62-year-old Elsa Mikeska was walking into an early morning class at Life Fit Personal Fitness Studio in southeast Houston on June 17 when she was fatally shot during …
A man accused of killing numerous people earlier this month was apparently a YouTube vlogger who ranted about being a “f***ing fat ugly virgin.” Jake Davison, 22, a crane operator who complained about not getting women, allegedly killed five people, including a 3-year-old girl, in Plymouth, England, on Thursday. Afterward, he turned the gun on himself, …
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