Kelly Allen was visiting a friend in March 2007. She was 20 years old, working as a nursing home caregiver while studying nursing, and she’d already spent a week with her friend. On March 13, she went to a job interview — and had already scheduled a second interview for March 16 before she left. …
It took nearly 52 years, but Vermont detectives stayed on this case until this week, when they announced they had solved the 1971 murder of 24-year-old school teacher Rita Curran in Burlington. The culprit, Burlington Police said, was William DeRoos, who was 31 at the time of Curran’s murder and lived upstairs with his newlywed …
Baton Rouge police are asking for help finding a 42-year-old Georgia man who hasn’t been seen since Thursday night. Nathan Millard, of Walton County east of Atlanta, was on a business trip to Louisiana, according to WSB. He was last seen in downtown Baton Rouge at about 11:30 p.m., police said. Millard’s wife told WSB …
A $5,000 reward is being offered for information about the murder of a 21-year-old Alabama man whose vehicle was found riddled with bullet holes, AL.com reports. Around 9:30 p.m. on November 6, 2022, Kendall Jarrod Thornton Jr. was driving near the intersection of Highway 79 and Cleage Drive near Birmingham when shots were fired at …
A Georgia bus driver accused of entering a 10-year-old girl’s home uninvited and then fleeing upon being confronted is free on bond after being criminally charged in connection with the incident, WSB-TV reports. On Tuesday, police arrested 56-year-old Gogineni Rayudu after earlier in the day he allegedly went to the home of a student on …
A Michigan honors student trying to be a Good Samaritan was allegedly murdered by two younger boys after he offered them a ride amid freezing cold temperatures, WWMT-TV reports. Now the two youths, ages 14 and 13, are behind bars facing murder and other charges following the February 17 attack in Battle Creek. Authorities say …
Investigators looking into the disappearance of a beloved New Jersey kindergarten teacher impounded a car linked to her ex-boyfriend just days before body was found — and found inside the vehicle a pickax, a shovel, and a bloodstained rope. The new details were in an arrest affidavit for 36-year-old Cesar Santana, who has been charged …
A former Goergia police officer already charged with concealing the death of a 16-year-old girl and filing a false report has now been charged with her kidnapping and murder. Susana Morales never made it home on July 26 after texting her mother to say she was on her way. Her body was found earlier this …
An elderly Florida woman initially charged with first degree murder for fatally shooting her terminally ill husband in a murder-suicide pact she couldn’t complete was indicted this week on a lesser charge. A Volusia County grand jury indicted Ellen Gilland, 76, on charges of assisting self-murder/manslaughter for shooting 77-year-old Jerry Gilland in his hospital room …
A woman arrested and ultimately sentenced to probation in the theft of Lady Gaga’s dogs in 2021 has sued the pop star for not paying her the $500,000 reward Gaga offered for the dogs’ return. Jennifer McBride claims the singer “defrauded” her “by making a promise without intent to perform,” Buzzfeed News reported. Her lawsuit …
A North Dakota man was on the run for three days this week after fatally shooting another man in a bar, threatening employees and other patrons, and stealing security camera footage and a vehicle for his escape. Nicholas Poitra, 45, was captured on Wednesday when a farmer saw him walking near his farm and held …
A North Carolina man with a previous child abuse conviction has been charged in connection with the death of his baby daughter, the Statesville Record & Landmark newspaper reports. Adrian Rashaun Lyons, 25, stands accused of first-degree murder following the infant’s death last year, according to an announcement on Thursday by the Iredell County Sheriff’s …
