A robbery suspect is dead after a homeowner shot the man as he was allegdly attempting to break in to the Philadelphia resident’s vehicle. As Fox 29 News reports, the homeowner noticed the tresspasser Wednesday in his West Philadelphia yard, who allegedly broke a window of the homeowner’s SUV by throwing a brick through it. …
A federal jury convicted a former Wisconsin dentist of intentionally damaging patients’ teeth to collect insurance money for fixing them. Scott Charmoli, 61, gave patients more than 1,600 crowns over 20 months, prosecutors said — a rate of 32 crowns per 100 patients, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. An insurance company executive testified during the trial …
A mother-daughter psychic team swindled a 27-year-old upstate New York woman out of tens of thousands of dollars to kill an “unholy sexual spirit” living in her pelvic area and reunited her with an ex-boyfriend. The victim, whose name is being withheld because she also is a sexual abuse victim, paid Honeybee Green and Megan …
A north Alabama police officer allegedly shot his estranged wife this week and then killed himself. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said 46-year-old Stephen Miller, who was on leave from his job at the Scottsboro Police Department, was found dead this week from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a home in Scottsboro. AL.com reported. Miller’s …
An Illinois appeals court on Wednesday ordered actor Jussie Smollett released from jail while he appeals his conviction for lying to police about a hate crime attack against him. The former “Empire” actor began serving 150 days in jail last week, as CrimeOnline previously reported. He was convicted on five counts of disorderly conduct — …
A Florida woman was arrested on Tuesday, four months after a 14-week-old boy reportedly suffered fatal injuries while in her care. Police responded to a Sarasota home on November 8, 2021, after receiving a report of an unconscious infant who was not breathing. The infant was transported to the hospital, where he died two days …
Investigators in North Dakota have made an arrest in the cold case murder of an 18-year-old Minot State University student in 2007. Anita Knutson was found stabbed to death in her home when her father asked for a wellness check because he hadn’t heard from her in a few days, according to KXMB. Investigators found …
Some of society’s most notorious killers appear to be sons and daughters with every benefit that life has to offer available to them: loving parents, financial security, material wealth. So what turns an entitled individual into a murderer? Today on Crimes Stories, Nancy Grace and her panel of experts take a look at some of …
A teen boy confessed to throwing a young child down a flight of stairs months before the 5-year-old died, a jury heard at a Cardiff court in Wales. Angharad Williamson, 30, and her boyfriend, John Cole, 40, are accused of killing Williamson’s son, Logan Mwangi. An unnamed 14-year-old boy who lived in the family home …
An Indiana man was arrested last week for allegedly beating his 5-month-old granddaughter, who remains hospitalized with serious injuries. On March 7, Christopher Allen, 48, reportedly struck the infant multiple times in the face. Her family told WXIN that she suffered a brain bleed, fractured skull, fractured eye socket, swollen eyelid, and various neck injuries. …
A Texas medical examiner is accused of offering to change the cause of death on a man’s autopsy, and investigators say this isn’t the first time he’s been under fire for questionable autopsy results. According to court documents, Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Sandra Lyden was practicing without a license in Nueces County; she was arrested …
The body of a Russian model who disappeared shortly after bashing Putin on social media a year ago has been found dead, her body discovered in a suitcase. Citing local news sources, Fox News reports that Gretta Vedler, 23, was found dead in or near the Lipetsk region. Despite the timing of her disappearance following …
