No word yet on whether prosecutors will seek the death penalty in Bryan Kohberger’s quadruple murder case. Attorneys for the state have 60 days from Kohberger’s plea to make a determination. Some of the victims’ family members have been vocal in their support of the death penalty. In Idaho, the death penalty can be carried …
An investigation is underway in North Carolina after a 3-year-old boy’s body was discovered in his family’s pool on Sunday. The child, who was not publicly identified, was found deceased in an above-ground pool in Caldwell County. WSOC-TV reported that the mother found the boy after he somehow got out of the house in the …
Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance, has been beaten in a Peruvian prison, according to his lawyer. According to ABC News, van der Sloot was involved in a fight between rival gangs on Saturday inside Challapalca Prison, where he’s currently serving a 28-year murder sentence, according to what his …
A Tennessee woman who vanished during a cross-country road trip with her boyfriend three weeks ago was sighted last week in California while trying to sell her phone, according to reports, following a domestic violence call. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Nikki Alcaraz, 33, and her boyfriend, Tyler Stratton, set off to visit family in Orange …
A North Carolina gas station store owner was charged with murder for Sunday’s shooting which killed a 14-year-old boy. Rick Chow, 58, and his son allegedly chased Cyrus Carmack-Belton from his Shell gas station in Columbia before Chow opened fire down the road. WIS reported that Carmack-Belton suffered a gunshot wound to the low back …
Relatives of a Connecticut woman who vanished in Japan last month say they now believe she might have been a crime victim. According to The Messenger, Patricia “Pattie” Wu-Murad, of Storrs, vanished while supposedly hiking along the Kohechi route of the Kumano Kodo trail in Japan on April 10. She ate breakfast at Tsuji’s, a …
A 58-year-old South Carolina woman was found dead outside her home early Monday, and police shot and killed her suspect boyfriend while trying to subdue him. Landrum Police and Spartanburg County deputies responded to the home at about 4 a.m., the Tryon Daily Bulletin reported. They found Shana McClain dead in her wheelchair of apparent …
Officials said an altercation between two groups near a busy area of the beach in Hollywood, Florida, resulted in nine people being shot, including a 1-year-old child, on Monday night. Police spokesperson Deanna Bettineschi said that at least one person of interest has been detained by the police, but they are actively searching for another …
A New York man has been charged with murder after his 3-month-old daughter was found dead in a wooded area near the homeless shelter where the family lived. Investigators found the body of Genevieve Comager at about 10:30 p.m. just steps away from a pedestrian overpass of the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx, as …
A Texas firefighter on scene of several arson fires along Interstate 35 was stabbed by the alleged arsonist early Monday. Eddie Martinez, chief shift commander with the Austin Fire Department, said the firefighter was stabbed in the thigh and is recovering at home and the suspect has been arrested. The fire department was called shortly …
Survivors of notorious 1970s serial killer Ted Bundy note the similarities between his crimes — especially his 1978 attack at Florida State University’s Chi Omega sorority house — and the killings of four University of Idaho students at an off-campus rental last November. Washington State University criminal justice grad student Bryan Kohberger, 28, has been …
