Court proceedings are underway in the trial of Jussie Smollett, the “Empire” star accused of paying two brothers to stage what he claimed was a homophobic and racist attack. CBS Chicago reports that jury selection begins Moday in the high-profile trial. Smollett, now 39, is facing multiple charges in connection to the incident, in which …
A missing Indiana woman who was last seen in California is still missing and her mother, desperate to find her, says she isn’t getting any help from one of the last people who reportedly saw her daughter. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 20-year-old Lateche Norris was last seen on November 4 at a 7-Eleven store at 222 Park …
Chicago police are looking for three masked men who kidnapped a girl Saturday night. The girl, whose age was unknown, was walking near Austin High School while being followed by a four-door black sedan with tinted windows. When the girl walked under a viaduct, police said, three men in ski masks jumped out and forced …
Jeffrey Epstein compadre Ghislaine Maxwell finally gets her day in court on Monday, when opening statements are expected in her trial on multiple felony accounts, including sex trafficking. Maxwell was arrested in July 2020 after hiding out for months. She has been charged with enticing a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity, transporting a …
A South Carolina mother has been charged with murder in the shooting death of her 6-year-old son on Thanksgiving. Police said that Mary Amelia Rosborough, 31, had returned from hunting at about 6 p.m. on Thursday, carrying her gun, when she shot the boy in the upper body, The Voice reported. Investigators have not released …
A 13-year-old Minnesota boy shot and killed a 5-year-old relative Thursday night while filming a video for social media. Brooklyn Park Police Deputy Chief Mark Bruley said the incident happened just after 10 p.m. during a family Thanksgiving gathering, WCCO reported. “A preliminary investigation found that at some point about four to five youths had …
The body of 2-year-old Emma Sweet was found Sunday in the White River, 2 1/2 miles from where duck hunters found her father in a submerged pickup truck earlier this week. Jeremy Sweet has been hospitalized for hypothermia and is reportedly in critical condition, WXIN reported. Emma and her father were last seen Wednesday night, …
Actor Jussie Smollett’s Chicago trial on charges that he faked a hate crime attack on himself three years ago begins Monday with jury selection. Smollett, 39, was a star of the television show “Empire” when he claimed he was attacked on January 29, 2019, by two men who hurled racial and homophobic slurs at him …
A New Mexico mother is accused of abusing her young son so severely that one doctor described it as “torture,” the Farmington Daily Times reports. The woman, 23-year-old Marissa Gutierrez, allegedly locked the 4-year-old boy in closets, starved him, and caused serious injuries such as spinal fractures, a brain bleed and a broken arm, according …
Remains believed to be those of a Wisconsin mother of four have been found near where she was last seen in late September. Ashley Miller Carlson, 33, was last seen on September 23 near the Lake Lena community on the Mille Lacs Band’s Reservation in Minnesota, and Applied Professional Services (APS) said it found the …
Investigators searching for 2-year-old girl missing after her father was found in a truck submerged in a river say the little girl was not in or beneath the vehicle when they pulled it out of the water. Emma and Jeremy Sweet were reported missing Thursday after they were last seen on Wednesday night, as CrimeOnline …
A 15-year-old boy in Dallas has been charged with the fatal shooting of his mother on Friday afternoon. Dallas Police said they were called to a home in the Oak Cliff neighborhood where a couple said their 2-year-old great-granddaughter had been dropped off by an unknown person. The great-grandparents told officers that the child was …
