A South Carolina court issued an order Friday after it accidentally provided crime scene photos of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh’s 2021 slayings to Netflix. On Friday, Judge Newman ordered that some video evidence from Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial this year cannot be released to the public. A court official explained to WCIV that unredacted bodycam …
A Las Vegas teen is facing charges after police say he sexually assaulted a girl while a group laughed and filmed the ordeal with their phones. Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that 17-year-old Aiden Cicchetti appeared in court last week at Las Vegas Justice Court after a girl contacted police in March and reported the alleged …
Police in Florida have identified a woman found dead and wrapped in plastic in a steamer trunk in 1969. The “Trunk Lady,” as she became known, is Sylvia June Atherton, who was 41 when she died, according to St. Petersburg Police. According to WBBH, two juveniles saw two men pull up in a pickup truck …
A southwestern Missouri emergency room doctor missing for more than a week has been found dead in northwestern Arkansas. John Forsyth’s brother Richard posted a brief notice on Facebook, while the Benton County Sheriff’s Department in Arkansas said it was investigating, KOLR reported. Forsyth, 49, was reported missing on May 21 when he didn’t show …
Police in Tennessee are searching for a 5-year-old boy who reportedly vanished with his non-custodial mother, identified as Shirley Webb. According to Fox 5, Aden Hall was last seen at a home off Howardcrest Drive in Memphis. Nashville MPD said the child’s grandmother took out the trash while talking to Aden on FaceTime, but when …
Adam Montgomery, the father accused of killing 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery, goes on trial on weapons charges beginning Wednesday. He is charged with being an armed career criminal and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Jury selection is ongoing, carried live by WMUR on their website. The weapons trial is not connected to Harmony’s 2019 …
On Wednesday, convicted double murderer Alex Murdaugh appeared in a South Carolina court and pleaded not guilty to a host of federal charges related to financial crimes he admitted to during his murder trial. Murdaugh was indicted last week for schemes to steal millions of dollars from clients, friends, and his family’s more than 100-year-old …
A Tennessee mom missing for nearly a month has been found safe and her boyfriend arrested on a failure to appear warrant stemming from a theft incident. Nikki Alcaraz, 33, and her 33-year-old boyfriend, Tyler Stratton, set off for Orange County, California, early this month to visit her uncle, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Within days, …
A California appeals court panel has reinstated a parole grant for former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten after Gov. Gavin Newsom blocked her release earlier this year. The 2-1 ruling by the panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal does not mean Van Houten, 73, will be released from prison, Deadline reported. The …
A 33-year-old mom from Tennessee who hadn’t been seen or heard from since May 6 turned up on video at a California Walmart where she was selling her cellphone. CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace says that’s alarming. “What woman in her right mind would sell her cell phone?” Grace asked on Fox News, noting that was Nikki …
A 1-year-old in Washington reportedly died on Wednesday after being left in a car for nine hours. KING reported that the foster mother was working at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup and had left the baby in the car. Police said the mother somehow became distracted, which led to the baby being left in the …
New Jersey officials announced an arrest Tuesday in the shooting death of a Sayreville borough councilwoman outside her home in February. Eunice Dwumfour, 30, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in her white Nissan SUV just before 7:30 p.m. on February 1, CrimeOnline reported at the time. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Rashid …
