It’s been nearly a year since Irene Gakwa last spoke with her parents and siblings, the quietness of each passing day a piercing reminder of her absence. “We can hardly sleep and when we sleep, we keep waking up and it’s like dreaming,” Francis Gakwa, Irene’s father, told PEOPLE magazine as he cried. In 2019, …
Loved ones of a Louisiana woman found deceased in 2019 continue to push for an outside agency to assist in solving her death. Jessica Easterly Dunning’s friends and family have started a Change.org petition in hopes that “New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell” will “encourage the New Orleans Police Department to seek outside investigative assistance” in …
A California man found dead in Mexico on vacation with his wife was allegedly the target of an extortion scheme by Mexican police hours before his brutal death, ABC News reports. On January 14, Elliot Blair and his wife, Kim Williams, were celebrating their first wedding anniversary at Las Rocas Resort and Spa in Rosarito …
A popular Oakland baker has been declared dead after she was critically injured during a daylight purse snatching in a bank parking lot earlier this week. Jennifer Angel, owner of Angel Cakes bakery, was in the parking lot of a Wells Fargo bank less than a mile from her shop on Monday when a vehicle …
A Georgia man calling himself a “witch doctor” was charged this week with raping a woman who came to him to be “cleansed” during a “ritual.” The Duluth Police Department charged 44-year-old Hassan Shalgheen with rape, sexual battery, false imprisonment, and theft by deception, WXIA reports. The victim told police she paied Shalgheen $500 for …
Two men have been arrested for an early morning explosion last month that police say was intended to kill a woman and child who lived there. Investigators say Steven Glosser and Caleb Kinsey planted a bomb in the driveway of a home in the coastal Georgia town of Richmond Hill on January 13. The blast …
A Michigan man was convicted this week for shooting an innocent man he believed had killed his 16-year-old son. Anthony Webb, 44, shot Zachary Degroot, 26, multiple times last July, while Degroot tried to convince him he was shooting at the wrong person, MLive.com reported. According to testimony in the two day trial, Webb’s son, …
A housekeeper for Alex Murdaugh testified today that the day after the double murders of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh, that she was asked by Alex Murdaugh to clean the house. Blanca Simpson revealed that when she went to the house several “very unusual” things stood out to her. They included food pots being in the …
Editor’s Note: This story is part of a series this month spotlighting missing Black women in America. A childhood friend of a missing Louisiana ride-share driver is hoping for answers as the anniversary of her disappearance nears. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Ella Goodie, 32, told her teenage daughters on March 9 she was giving a …
On Friday, the Murdaugh family’s former housekeepers testified that Alex tried to convince her what shirt he was wearing the day his wife and son were murdered. Blanca Simpson said that in August 2021 — two months after the murders — she was at the “little” house which is positioned between homes belonging to Johnny …
Unveiled documents in the murder investigation into slain Colorado girl, JonBenét Ramsey, show DNA evidence recovered from her clothes and fingernails did not match any members of her family or anyone close to the case. According to Fox News Digital, investigators in the case didn’t dismiss the idea to the public that JonBenet’s family may …
