Officials said a California woman who has been missing since August was found dead on Monday. KMPH reported that Jolissa Fuentes’ body was found in rural Fresno County. Police Chief Rudy Alcaraz said Fuentes’ car went off Trimmer Springs Road near Pine Flat lakes, leading to her death. Search crews rappelled down a cliff 250 …
A 22-year-old Missouri woman held captive, raped, and assaulted since early September showed obvious signs of restraint and was wearing a metal collar with a padlock when she escaped the house where she was being held. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the woman got out of the Excelsior Springs house early Friday morning and ran to …
The Alabama man who kidnapped a 3-year-old girl in 2019 tried to abduct other children before taking the toddler, who was ultimately found murdered. Prosecutors said Patrick Stallworth bought $20 in candy and drove to a K-8 school where he stopped teens walking home from school. A student testified during Stallworth’s federal kidnapping trial that …
As our investigation into “The Girl Scout Murders” continues, evidence points to Gene Hart as the person who murdered three little girls, but not everyone thought so. In fact, a jury acquits the convicted rapist and prison escapee. Why? Part two of “The Girl Scout Murders” today on Crime Stories. Joining Nancy Grace for part …
The owner of “Best Showgirls in Vegas is pushing for answers after an undocumented immigrant with purported mental health issues was released from jail unobserved before he attacked numerous Vegas performers, killing two of them. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Yoni Barrios, 32, has been charged with two counts of open murder with the use of …
A 2-year-old North Carolina boy reportedly died on Friday after vanishing from a home. CorNyeah Lindsey dropped off her son, Dinari Lindsey, at a family friends’ home in Edenton. Hours later, she received a call that her son was in the hospital — where a deputy told her that he had died, according to WAVY. …
A Nevada babysitter took a plea deal this week, in connection with the 2021 death of a 5-year-old boy she killed while babysitting. According to CBS Las Vegas, Laurren Jeanette Courtney took an agreement with prosecutors after murdering 5-year-old Ryan James Peralto in his home, on March 11, 2021. She was scheduled to start trial …
A California woman was found dead Friday in the Baldy Mesa area of the Mojave Desert after police say two hunting dogs attacked her. According to the Los Angeles Times, 80-year-old Soon Han was found deceased on the side of the road Friday morning at around 11 a.m., after taking her own dogs for a …
An apparent carbon monoxide leak at a Pennsylvania day care on Tuesday has reportedly left more than two dozen children and employees hospitalized. WPVI reported that the incident unfolded at Happy Smiles Learning Center in Allentown. There, emergency crews received a call about an unconscious child. According to The Morning Call, the child who lost …
A toddler fatally shot himself in the parking lot of an AutoZone in St. Louis on Monday afternoon. Police said the boy had already been taken to the hospital by the time they arrived. He was pronounced dead there, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The Child Abuse Unit is handling the investigation. KMOV said the …
The search for missing Georgia toddler Quinton Simon is now considered a criminal investigation, officials say, six days after he was reported missing from his Savannah home. Although the 911 call was not released, ABC 22 reports that it obtained the dispatch call made by Quinton’s mother, Leilani, on October 5, the morning he was …
South Carolina police are investigating a shooting in rural Spartanburg County that left five unrelated people dead. Four people were found shot to death in the South Carolina home Sunday night, and another person died later at a hospital, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger said the victims — all adults — …
