A 78-year-old man learned the hard way about online scams after he was tricked by scammers for $600K in money and products. Before his retirement, the unnamed victim reportedly worked for the government, investigating fraud as a Foreign Service officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development. In 2019, he retired, according to the Washington …
A woman was arrested in Kentucky on Saturday, days after she allegedly abandoned her 5-year-old son in Ohio. According to The Cincinnati Inquirer, Georgetown police arrested Heather Adkins, 32, after someone reported her for knocking on windows at a Kentucky gas station. Though Adkins initially gave police a fake name, officers eventually ran her information …
New details were released in connection with a Tennessee woman accused of having sex with nine underage students, one as young as 14. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Melissa A. Blair reportedly surrendered to the McMinn County Sheriff’s Department are an indictment revealed she’s facing 18 counts of statutory rape, allegedly with students at a McMinn …
The parents of a slain New York college student said she was in the wrong place at the wrong time when she was shot to death last week near her university. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Elizabeth Howell, 21, a music education student at the State University of New York at Potsdam, was found lying along College …
A Florida woman reportedly found her 2-year-old daughter alone in a closed day care on Wednesday. Plantation police said they were called to Plantation KinderCare roughly eight minutes after an assistant director and teacher closed the center. Responding police and fire crews were able to get Stephanie Martinez’s child out of the locked day care …
A congressional candidate in Oklahoma is facing bizarre accusations that she hurled vulgar and disparaging insults toward pre-teen girls while drinking alcohol at a house party, NonDoc.com reports. Abby Broyles, who is running as a Democrat in Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional District, allegedly went to a friend’s home on February 11 where the middle-school girls were …
An infant was found alive Sunday after five people were discovered dead in a Colorado apartment, reportedly from some sort of drug use, the Denver Post reports. Around 3:45 p.m., Ian Scott was inside his unit at the North Range Crossing apartment complex in Commerce City when he heard a woman scream. Scott stepped out …
A Michigan man has been charged with deliberately striking and killing a 64-year-old woman with his truck so he could have sex with her body. Melody Rohrer, a retired nurse, was last seen walking along County Road 215 in Hamilton Township on September 20, 2021. Her husband reported her missing when she didn’t return from …
A Houston mother returned home early Sunday afternoon to find her teenage son and the boy’s father dead from an apparent murder suicide. The Houston Police Department said the man, who was in his 50s, suffocated his son, who was in his late teens, before using some kind of edged weapon to kill himself, KHOU …
A Missouri man has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting girls in his care as a foster parent for decades. A probable cause statement says that the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation into Ronald Graham Jr in December when one of the alleged victims reported the abuse, according to Lincoln News Now. …
A Florida woman has been charged with first degree murder after she alleged stabbed her husband more than 140 times with a meat cleaver. Joan Burke, 61, was arrested on Saturday and made her first court appearance on Sunday. She was ordered held without bail. Palm Springs police said they were called on the evening …
Authorities in Dallas, Texas, announced Friday they’d made an arrested in the 38-year-old rape and murder of Mary Jane Thompson. Thompson, 21, was found dead behind a Dallas warehouse on February 13, 1984, but her killer had never been found. Advanced DNA techniques led investigators to Edward Morgan, now 60, who has been jailed on …
