Correction appended Lori Vallow’s lawyer has reportedly filed a motion requesting her upcoming murder trial be moved out of Fremont County, Idaho, according to court documents. Vallow is currently behind bars in Idaho, facing murder and related charges in connection with the death of her two children and the death of her husband’s former wife. …
An alleged murderer accused of going on a killing spree that spanned three weeks has been indicted on 41 counts for numerous assaults, murders, and robberies. Keith Gibson, 39, allegedly killed two people in Delaware and injured several others. On May 5, he shot and killed 28-year-old Leslie Ruiz-Basilio while robbing a T-Mobile store. On …
– Keegan Casteel, 32, of Ankeny, Iowa, is facing two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
– Casteel was arrested in Chicago, allegedly with a .308 caliber rifle, a semi-automatic pistol, and a high-powered scope.
– An employee at the W Hotel made the discovery while cleaning Casteel’s room.
– “Five loaded magazines that he had perched up on the windowsill,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said. “Thank God for that hotel worker who saw something and said something.”
A teen girl found guilty of murder after carjacking an Uber Eats driver earlier this year was sentenced this week in juvenile court, according to reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 66-year-old Mohammad Anwar was killed in March after two girls, ages 13 and 15 at the time, tried to steal his vehicle in Washington D.C. The …
A Pennsylvania woman was arraigned on Thursday for allegedly being involved in a drug trafficking ring that entailed her daughters selling drugs. The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement that Suleyka Santiago, 34, took over her boyfriend’s illicit drug operation after he was arrested in October for selling counterfeit Oxycodone pills laced …
Alicia Kozakiewicz, 13, enjoyed chatting online, but on January 1, 2002, her life was changed forever. The teen boy she thought she was talking to turned out to be a 38-year-old child molester. He lured Alicia out of her home and into hell. She was held captive in his basement dungeon, chained by the neck, …
A Florida woman was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for allegedly fatally stabbing her two children in December. Berenice Jaramillo-Hernandez, 26, pleaded guilty to murdering 5-year-old Mateo Jaramillo and 6-year-old Katherine Jaramillo, before putting masks on both of their faces. The mother confessed to killing her son in …
Homicide investigators in California are searching for clues in the brutal, grisly murder of a Los Angeles-area woman who was found dead in her home. As CBS Los Angeles reports, Fatima Johnson’s daughters and sisters had been searching for her after Johnson went missing sometime last week. The relatives reportedly went to Johnson’s home in …
The murder trial for a Colorado man accused of killing his own mother and tossing her into a dumpster begins this week in Pueblo. As CrimeOnline previously reported, investigators released surveillance video of a man in October 2019 driving up to a dumpster at a South Side Pueblo car wash off of Ivywood Lane. The …
Advancements in DNA testing may bring Minnesota police closer to identifying three babies who were found dead in the same river between 1999 and 2007. Retired Goodhue County investigator Glen Barringer told the Post Bulletin that in the past six months, forensic testing has provided them leads in at least one of the cases involving …
Police in North Carolina are searching for the suspects in a drive-by shooting that killed an 8-year-old girl. As the Statesville Record & Landmark reports, Ah’miyahh Howell was playing in the yard of her home in Statesville on Sunday when she was gunned down by shots fired from one or two vehicles that fled the …
Alleged Colorado killer Mark Redwine, 59, is on trial for the 2012 murder of his son Dylan Redwine, 13. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Redwine was arrested in Washington in 2017 and charged with second-degree murder and child abuse, years after Dylan’s death. He has maintained his innocence but prosecutors say Redwine killed his son in …
