Jury selection begins Monday in the murder trial of Texas yoga instructor Kaitlin Armstrong, accused of shooting a romantic rival to death and then fleeing the country and changing her appearance to avoid arrest. Armstrong, 36, is charged with killing pro cyclist Moriah “Mo” Wilson on May 11. 2022, shooting the 25-year-old at the Austin …
A 3-year-old child was killed overnight in Houston when an argument between the driver of an SUV and her possibly drunk passenger ended in a rollover crash. According to KTRK, police said the crash happened just before midnight on State Highway 288. Five other children, including a 7-year-old and a 3-month old — were also …
Senior officers from the Portuguese police travelled to London earlier this year to apologize to the parents of missing toddler Madeleine McCann for how they handled the case. As CrimeOnline has reported, the 3-year-old disappeared from her parents’ rental apartment in Praia da Luz, where they were on holiday, on May 3, 2007. Gerry and …
The case inspired an NBC miniseries last year that starred Renee Zellweiger.
At least 15 people were shot, two of them critically, as a Halloween house party in southwest Chicago came to an end in the early hours Sunday. Police said the gunman fled the scene but was captured nearby and taken into custody, WBBM reported. A handgun was recovered, they said. A witness told WBBM that …
A Long Island man has been charged with menacing and endangering the welfare of a child after he allegedly pointed a gun at a 6-year-old boy retrieving a bag of candy mistakenly left on his doorstep. Manhasset police said the incident happened Saturday evening when a mother tood her daughter, two sons, and a nephew …
An autopsy to determine his cause of death may take weeks, but no foul play is suspected.
A Connecticut woman reported missing earlier in the day was found dead Saturday afternoon in the basement of a home in Willimantic. The woman’s family contacted police at about 2 p.m. and said she had been missing and unaccounted for since mid-morning. They said they believed she was in Willimantic in eastern Connecticut. Police went …
A 14-year-old boy and a 22-year-old are dead and 18 hospitalized after shooting erupted during a fight between two groups of people in the midst of Halloween celebrations on the streets of Tampa, Florida, early Sunday. The deadly incident happened just before 3 a.m. near bars and clubs in the city’s Ybor Cty neighborhood, Tampa …
A former Ohio social worker accused of having sex repeatedly with a 13-year-old allegedly showed up to the victim’s home with a gun this week and threatened to kill the boy’s mother and herself, WBNS-TV reports. Now, 24-year-old Payton Shires is back behind bars and faces additional charges stemming from the incident. As CrimeOnline previously reported, …
Jurors quickly convicted a Chicago mother of first-degree murder for helping her son and his girlfriend kill another man, hide his corpse and burglarize his home, WGN News reports. On Friday, the DuPage County state attorney’s office announced that it took a jury about 90 minutes to reach a verdict in the case against 43-year-old …
Nine people were shot, including one fatally, at a large party in Indianapolis early Sunday morning, WISH-TV reports. Officers from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department were dispatched around midnight to the 5100 block of East 65th Street, where they encountered a chaotic scene with shots still being fired and partygoers fleeing for safety. At least …
