Sherri Papini, a California mother and wife whose disappearance more than five years ago prompted a massive search, was arrested Thursday and a DNA test reportedly helped police crack the case. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Sherri Papini disappeared on November 2, 2016, while jogging in her Shasta Lake neighborhood. Authorities later found her on Thanksgiving …
Police in New York City are investigating the apparent homicide of a woman whose dismembered torso was found stuffed in a bag in a shopping cart. According to NBC News, a witness made the horrific discovery early Thursday morning. The man began pushing the shopping cart, found near a collection of businesses at the intersection …
Authorities in Tennessee have issued an urgent AMBER Alert for a 13-year-old girl who reportedly left home with a adult male now wanted for kidnapping. According to Knox News, 13-year-old Alexis Smiley is believed to have left her home Lenoir City with a man nearly a decade her senior: William Tyler Nicholson, 22. Tennessee Burea …
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A California woman whose disappearance more than five years ago prompted a desperate three-week search was arrested on Thursday and charged with lying to federal agents about being kidnapping and defrauding California’s victim compensation board. Sherri Papini, 39, was reported missing on November 2, 2016, and found 22 days later just off Interstate 5 near …
A south Florida Lyft driver has been charged with raping an intoxicated passenger over the weekend and ordered held on a $500,000 bond. The Miami Beach police report says that Kevyn Rojas, 26, is charged with sexual battery on a physically helpless victim, according to the Miami Herald. He was ordered to give up his …
A Philadelphia grand jury has indicted a veteran homicide detective for his part in a violent interrogation of a man who spent 11 years in prison for murder before he was exonerated. James Pitts has been accused of assaulting Obina Onyiah during his interrogation for the 2010 murder of a jewelry store owner. Onyiah confessed …
An Ohio man set to go on trial on abduction charges was arraigned Thursday for a 2019 rape in which he allegedly took a woman’s prosthetic leg and kicked her unconscious before the sexual assault. Prosecutors said Yoder was identified as the suspect in the July 2019 rape via DNA testing, WKRC reports. At Thursday’s …
The adoptive parents of two California boys are behind bars facing murder charges but both claim innocence. Trezell West, 35, and Jacqueline West, 32, pleaded not guilty to murder, child abuse, and false reporting during their arraignment at the Kern County Superior Court in Bakersfield on Thursday. According to ABC News, Judge Chad Louie ruled …
A Florida mom who reported her 5-year-old daughter missing back in 2019 pleaded guilty Thursday to killing the little girl. Brianna Williams, who was a Navy petty officer when she was arrested, had been charged with aggravated child abuse, lying to police, and tampering with evidence, as CrimeOnline previously reported. She pleaded not guilty. The …
Jacqueline Avant, wife of legendary music executive Clarence Avant, was shot dead in their home in December.
The adoptive parents of 3-year-old Orson West and 4-year-old his brother Orrin, send the boys outside to play just days before Christmas. Mom is inside wrapping presents. The brothers haven’t been seen since. The dad was outside collecting firewood when he says he couldn’t see the boys. After confirming the boys weren’t inside the home, …
