An Alaska man admitted in court on Monday to abducting, sexually assaulting, and killing a 10-year-old girl in 2018. Ashley Johnson-Barr’s body was found on the tundra two miles from the Kotzebue playground Peter Wilson, 44, abducted her from days earlier. The girl was sexually assaulted and an autopsy report listed her cause of death …
Two children escaped a Massachusetts home where their parents were later found dead of an apparent murder-suicide. According to WCBV, police in Oxford received two 911 calls on Tuesday evening, from a man and a woman who appeared to be at the same residence. Responding officers later found both dead with gunshot wounds at 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 …
A Tennesee family says an 8-month-old baby was beaten to near death and although the case has been determined to be child abuse, there have been no arrests. In late January, Jennifer Atkinson said she received a call that her niece, Makenzie, was in the hospital with life-threatening injuries. NBC 10 News reports that according …
A 16-year-old girl and her newborn son have been missing from their Bronx home for over a week. Katerin Thomas and her 3-month-old son, Joshua Castillo, were last seen at their home in the Fordham Manor neighborhood on the evening on June 13. An NYPD spokesperson told the news outlet that Thomas has been involved …
A man with no apparent relation to the family of missing Summer Wells has offered a $25,000 reward for information about her disappearance. Summer, 5, has been missing for over a week. Her parents reported her missing on Tuesday evening, saying they believed she had left or been taken out of a basement door. Authorities …
Authorities in Florida are working to identify the two girls who were both found dead in the same canal, hours apart. According to WTJV, around noon on Tuesday a resident first spotted the “badly decomposing” body of a girl, face-down in a canal behind the woman’s home, in or near Laderville. “It hurts,” the woman …
S.B 623, also known as The Vanessa Guillén Act, was signed in Texas law over the weekend by Governor Greg Abbott. According to Texas Senator Cesar Blanco, who proposed the bill, the act will allow victims of sexual assault “in any military service” to step outside of the Texas military change of command for help, …
The 7-year-old girl who was a victim in a murder-suicide will be laid to rest this week. As the New York Post reports, funeral services for Layla Malon will be held at Willowbrick Cemetery in Westport, Connecticut. A wake will be held on Wednesday at Lesko & Polke Funeral Home in Fairfield, according to an …
A Texas man who tipped police off after 6-year-old Samuel Olsen vanished last month, is now facing charges himself. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Samuel, of Houston, was found deceased on June 2, inside a Best Western motel in Jasper. His father’s girlfriend, Theresa Balboa, allegedly rented the room under a different name and brought the …
A California man allegedly broke into a family’s home on Thursday and killed their two birds. The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office said that Paul Kiyan, 34, gained entry into the Bel Air home and killed two parakeets. Homeowner Mat Sabz told KTTV that he was the only person home last week when his wife …
Marie Kuhnla, a beloved New York public defender, goes on the vacation of a lifetime with friends and co-workers. After a day at the pool, Kuhnla goes back to her room to rest. She misses dinner, but her friends are not worried, thinking she probably just fell asleep. When she misses breakfast the next morning, …
