Have You Seen Her? Police Searching for Missing 13-year-old New York Girl
Missing
Celebrity Justice
February 26, 2022
Empire Star Jussie Smollett Demands His Guilty Verdict for Staging Hate Crime be THROWN OUT
Just weeks before he is scheduled to be sentenced, Jussie Smollett has asked a judge to throw out his conviction or order a new trial on charges related to accusations that he staged a hate crime and lied to police about it, TMZ reports. Attorneys for Smollett filed a motion in court on Friday arguing …
Police
February 26, 2022
Middlesex Cops Can Finally ID Woman Found Near Waterfront Park THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
New Jersey State Police credit social media with helping identify a woman found dead at the beginning of the month on the shore of a waterfront park. Police released a digital sketch of the woman, whose body was found at Waterfront Park in Carteret on February 2, earlier this week. **UPDATE** As a result of …
Unsolved
February 26, 2022
Shock as Highbridge Woman Dead Found Inside Storage Container
The decomposing body of an East Harlem woman was found Friday afternoon in a plastic container across the street from a Bronx storage facility. Police identified the body as that of 35-year-old Nisaa Walcott, who worked as a beautician, the New York Daily News reported. According to WABC, the body was found by a passerby …
Court
February 26, 2022
Ex-Cop Who Shot and Killed Man Over Movie Theater Spat Acquitted of Murder
A retired police officer who shot and killed a man over a spat in a movie theater has been acquitted of murder. Jurors deliberated for just three and a half hours before handing down the verdict in the trial of 79-year-old Curtis Reeves, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Prosecutors had charged Reeves with second-degree murder …
Family Crime
February 26, 2022
4-Year-Old Forced to Drink Hand Sanitizer Also Had to Eat Crumbs Off Floor, Seen on Video ‘Hitting Himself in the Head’ Begging for Bread and Water
More disturbing allegations have surfaced about the horrific abuse of a 4-year-old Texas boy who died from starvation last year, KSAT-TV reports. As Crime Online reported earlier this week, authorities obtained a video allegedly showing the boy being forced to drink hand sanitizer and then crying that his mouth was burning. The boy had reportedly been begging …
Homicide
February 25, 2022
Argument Over Assigned Parking Space Leaves Florida Mother of 2 Dead
Police in south Florida are looking for the driver of a vehicle that struck and dragged a 57-year-old woman after an argument over an assigned parking space at the woman’s apartment building. Hialeah Police said Olga Fernandez was killed on February 13 by an unidentified man driving a dark-colored 2014-2016 Toyota Corolla (L or LE …
Murder
February 25, 2022
16-Year-Old Boy Charged as Adult in Killings of 5-Year-Old, 2 Adults
Detroit police have charged a 16-year-old boy with the murders of a 5-year-old boy, his mother, and her boyfriend, but they released a second teen for lack of evidence. Malcolm Ray Hardy is expected to be arraigned on Tuesday on three counts of murder, one count of premeditated murder, two counts of armed robbery, and …
Lawsuit
February 25, 2022
Murdaughs Encouraged Son’s Underage Drinking Before Deadly Boat Crash: Lawsuit
The family of a woman who was killed in February 2019 when a drunk Paul Murdaugh slammed his boat into a bridge amended their lawsuit on Tuesday to include the estates of Murdaugh and his mother. According to Greenville News, Mallory Beach’s wrongful death lawsuit also accuses parents Alex and Maggie Murdaugh of allowing Paul …
Murder
February 25, 2022
2 More Arrests in Fatal Shooting of ‘Lizard Lick Towing’ Star’s Son
Two juveniles have been charged with Alex Shirley’s murder, and now two adults are charged with obstruction and accessory after the fact.
Crime Stories
February 25, 2022
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace: Angry Girl Shoots Waiter in Face Over $3 Burger
Anthony Rodriguez is lucky to be alive after a brutal attack left him with a gunshot wound. The Wisconsin waiter was working the overnight shift at a George Webb restaurant in Wauwatosa when two sisters, Bryanna and Breanta Johnson, both 20, and two other women became impatient with their service. When they received their order, …
Murder
February 25, 2022
Arrest in 2-year-old Tot’s Slaying Brings in Largest CrimeStoppers Payout Reward in Metro Alabama History
Metro Alabama Crime Stoppers approved a $25,000 reward this week for those who provided information that led to an arrest after a 2-year-old’s slaying death. According to Al.com, Chairman Frank Barefield announced Tuesday that the reward is the “largest approved for payout in the agency’s history.” He added that although Crime Stoppers doesn’t publicize rewards, …
