Year: 2021

Was Suzanne Morphew’s Husband Spying On Her? New Evidence in Barry Morphew Murder Case Includes Spy Pen Recording of Suzanne Talking on the Phone

 morphews
Family Crime

Prosecutors and defense attorneys revealed new details about evidence in Suzanne Morphew murder case at a hearing to address issues with discovery. As previously reported, Barry Morphew is charged with numerous counts, including first-degree murder, in the disappearance and presumed death of his wife. Suzanne disappeared on Mother’s Day weekend in 2020, and Barry was …

Bruce and Debra Bennett and their children
Murder
July 23, 2021

‘Hammer Killer’: Alleged Killer Beats Couple & Daughter to Death with Claw Hammer, Rapes Both Mother & Child [Prosecutors]

The trial of Alex Christopher Ewing is scheduled to begin Monday in Colorado, over 37 years after his alleged victims were brutally murdered. Ewing, 60, is facing first-degree murder charges in connection with the 1984 deaths of Bruce and Debra Bennett, and their daughter, 7-year-old Melissa. The couple’s 3-year-old daughter, Vanessa, was left with critical …

samantha josephson
Trials
July 23, 2021

Watch Live: Nathaniel Rowland Murder Trial, Accused of Killing Samantha Josephson

Day four of the murder trial against a South Carolina man accused of killing a college student Samantha Josephson, who accidentally got into his car, thinking it was an Uber, resumes Friday. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Columbia Police arrested Nathaniel David Rowland, 24, in March 2019, for the murder of University of South Carolina student, …

julia devlin
Missing
July 22, 2021

University of Virginia Lecturer’s Car Found Wrecked in National Park, She’s Nowhere to Be Found

A University of Virginia economics lecturer has disappeared in Shenandoah National Park, prompting an extensive search. Fifty-five-year-old Julia Christine Devlin was last seen in Charlottesville on July 14; security footage showed her white Lexus sedan entering the park late on that day. On Saturday, investigators found her car wrecked and abandoned in the southern portion …

callista ryan
Missing
July 22, 2021

MISSING: 13-Year-Old Iowa Girl Has PTSD, Psychotic Episodes

Iowa police are looking for a 13-year-old girl they say has PTSD and occasionally has psychotic episodes. Callista Ryan was last seen at about 7 a.m. Thursday morning in south Cedar Rapids, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported. Ryan is described as 4 feet 11 inches tall and about 107 pounds. She has a Ying Yang …

veronica pyatt
child endangerment
July 22, 2021

Mom Keeps Driving After Teen Son Shoots Toddler in Back Seat

A California mother and her 14-year-old son have been arrested after the son “accidentally” shot his toddler half-sister. Thirty-seven-year-old Veronica Pyatt, the teen, and Pyatt’s 20-month-old daughter were in a vehicle in San Bernardino Tuesday afternoon, San Bernardino police said. The teen was “manipulating a loaded firearm in the back seat” of the vehicle, police …

helen kaneris
Missing
July 22, 2021

MISSING: Elderly Michigan Woman Last Seen Heading to a Friend’s

Police in the western Detroit suburbs are looking for 86-year-old woman who disappeared while on her way to visit a friend. Livonia police said that Helen Kaneris was driving a black, 2011 Chevy Malibu with Michigan plates ELS1149. Kaneris never arrived at her friend’s home and never returned to her own, they said. Anyone who …

Chanelle Lewis
Murder
July 22, 2021

Oklahoma Wife RUNS HUBBY DOWN DEAD WITH ATV When He Wants DIVORCE After FOOD FIGHT

An Oklahoma woman has been charged with murder for allegedly running over her husband with an ATV. The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office was called to the scene at Soggy Bottoms ATV Trails at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday night after a 911 caller said a “girl was screaming saying her dad was dead.” “Somebody ran her …

Family Crime
July 22, 2021

Mother Who Confessed to Drowning Her Young Children is a Family Services Worker: Report

The Nevada mother accused of intentionally drowning her young son and daughter before failed suicide attempts works for a social services agency. As CrimeOnline previously reported, siblings Christopher Fox III, 4; and Gihanna Fox, 1; were pronounced dead at their home in Henderson after police responded to the residence Monday evening. The children’s mother, 33-year-old …

Alejandro Negrete mugshot
Assault
July 22, 2021

Police Find 4 More Child Victims After FedEx Driver Tries to Sodomize Little Girl: Cops

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon says that a man arrested for trying to sexually assault a child had at least four additional victims. Alejandro Negrete was arrested last Friday after he allegedly tried to sexually assault a 9-year-old Aloha girl. At the time of the attempted assault, according to police, Negrete was driving …