A California man on trial alongside his son for Kristin Smart’s murder is accused of calling her names and helping his son move and hide her body, prosecutors said Monday at the Monterey County Superior Court in Salinas. Paul Flores, who attended school at California Polytechnic Stae University with 19-year-old Smart in 1996, stands accused …
An Alabama teen facing murder charges for the 2019 murder of his adopted parents also tried to poison his stepmother with peanut butter, according to recently-released court documents. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Mason Sisk, who was 14 at the time, is accused of killing his family members at their Elkmont home in September 2019. Limestone …
A Texas police officer whose swift actions likely prevented a mass shooting earlier this year is speaking out about the ordeal, the Houston Chronicle reports. The newspaper recently interviewed Houston Sgt. Kendrick Simpo about the incident on February 5 at The Galleria mall. A children’s dance competition was occurring at the time when Simpo, working …
The Houma Police Department in Louisiana provided an update on a 2-year-old boy who was found dead last week in a trashcan near a Houma home. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Houma police released still images last week from surveillance video showing Maya Jones and Jermaine Robinson leaving their home off of Cadiere Street, carrying what appeared …
A new television show is shining a spotlight on a terrifying crime called “phrogging,” where strangers secretly live in other people’s homes, the New York Post reports. The television series, called “Phrogging: Hider in My House,” premieres Monday on Lifetime. Brittany and James Campbell, one of the couples featured in the program, discovered they had …
A man in Clearwater, Florida, is accused of bludgeoning his mother with a hammer and stabbing her repeatedly after plotting the killing for a year, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Logan Lopez, 24, is facing a first-degree murder charge in connection with the horrific allegations. Police were alerted to the crime after a woman dialed …
Massachusetts police are searching for a 23-year-old woman who hasn’t been seen since Saturday. Boston 25 News reports that Mary Anderson’s family said she was last seen at around 10:20 p.m. in Hudson, New Hampshire. They told Harvard police it’s unlike Anderson to go without contacting anyone. “At this time, there has been no contact …
A Pennsylvania man who shot and killed his ex-wife early Friday morning told investigators he thought he was shooting her boyfriend. Jose Bencosme, 55, fired several shots point-blank into a vehicle outside Lineage Logistics at about 4 a.m., striking 44-year-old Maria Rodriguez, who was pronounced dead at the scene, according to WFMZ. Rodriguez had just …
A Florida man and woman allegedly paid underage girls to have sex with them and in some cases recorded the encounters, WPTV reports. Marc Phillip Dinkels, 33, of Vero Beach, and Taylor Kathleen Brandt, 19, of Palm Bay, were arrested last week on multiple charges related to the allegations. Dinkels faces two counts of human …
Salvador Ramos had been nicknamed “school shooter” for his online gaming antics as a teen, but he had struggled since early childhood with a stutter and was bullied because of it and his family’s economic status.
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin released the videos “to be transparent.”
A man with a rifle entered a suburban Indianapolis mall and opened fire late Sunday afternoon, killing three people and wounding two others before a witness shot and killed him. Johnson County Coroner Michael Pruitt said early Monday that the gunman killed two men and a woman and that his office is working on positive …
