Oxnard Police knew what they might find when they conducted a search of Donny Askar’s waterfront home earlier this month, and it wasn’t just the drugs they were investigating. After taking the 44-year-old Askar into custody in Port Hueneme, they headed to his home in Oxnard’s Channel Islands neighborhood. Sure enough, along with heroin, methamphetamines, …
A 12-year-old girl was reported missing Friday from rural Davidson County, North Carolina, deputies say. Ashlan Kaye Earley is described as about 5 feet 3 inches tall, 120 pounds, with brown hair, blue eyes, and fair skin. She wears circular glasses and has a light pink birthmark on the back of her neck, the Davidson …
Authorities in DeKalb County, Georgia, are looking for 17-year-old Sajidah Phillips, who was last seen on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. near their home in Decatur. DeKalb County police initially said that Sajidah and her 11-year-old brother, Sameem Ibn-Phillips Jr, were both missing, but they announced Sunday afternoon that Sameem had been found and returned home. …
The dead body of a teenager wrapped in plastic was found over the weekend in a New York building, WABC-TV reports. The teen, who has been described as homeless, was discovered Saturday morning around 9:20 a.m. inside the old Fulton Fish Market building, the New York Daily News reports. The abandoned facility is located in lower Manhattan. Investigators …
An Idaho man was charged this week with the 2014 murder of his wife after Cassia County authorities brought in the FBI to help with the case, the Idaho State Journal reports. Jimmy Lee Murphy, 32, was arrested on Wednesday at his home in Minidoka County scuffling with officers when he tried to flee. He’s …
A Kentucky police dispatcher answered a desperate call to 911 Thursday night: A 10-year-old boy reported a deadly shooting at his home in Brandenburg, WLKY reports. “A 10-year-old was on the telephone saying that his stepmother and stepmother’s dog had been shot,” said Brandenburg Police Chief Brian Haag. Brandenburg police and Meade County sheriff’s deputies …
A Louisiana mother wanted for kidnapping her two sons in Louisiana and abandoning them in Florida has turned herself in, WGNO reports. Shawntel Heck, 38, contacted the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office in Florida on Friday and told them she was tired of running and wanted surrender, the station reported. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Heck …
James Richard King appeared via video for a preliminary hearing on Friday, charged with the September 2020, murder of 53-year-old Lexie Walters, his on-again, off-again girlfriend, the Virginian-Pilot reported. King, 67, showed up at a Virginia Beach police precinct just before 9 a.m. on September 17 “to turn himself in” and tell police “that there …
A Florida man who taunted police to “find the body” has been arrested for the murder of his wife — after they found her body buried in his Boynton Beach backyard, the Palm Beach Post reports. Roberto Colon, 66, reportedly told police he married Mary Stella Gomez-Mullett — an immigrant who lived with and took …
A teenage girl is missing in Chicago and authorities are asking for the public’s help to find her, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Amea King, 15, was last seen Friday evening around 7:45 p.m., according to WGN-TV. Investigators believe King was last wearing a navy-blue shirt, red jogging-style pants, and black Ugg brand boots. King is described as 5-foot-1 and …
An Ohio mother and her boyfriend are now facing formal charges in connection with the death of her young son, whose body was dumped in a river and has not yet been found, WHIO-TV reports. A grand jury on Friday indicted 29-year-old Brittany Gosney and 42-year-old James Hamilton following the death of 6-year-old James Hutchinson in …
