A 62-year-old Colorado woman was found dead and dismembered at the condo where she had gone to clean on Wednesday, and the man now suspected of killing her shot himself as police forced entry. Aurora police said that Elena Vonfeldt’s son called them late Wednesday to say that he’d been unable to reach his mother …
Chelsea Grimm, a California woman who vanished during a cross-country trip appeared disoriented at an Arizona hotel earlier this month, according to what a witness told police. A witness described 33-yer-old Grimm as “confused” at a hotel in Seligman, after she called her parents about abandoning her cross-country trip to a Connecticut wedding and returning …
Members of the “Soldiers of Christ” videotaped themselves torturing a South Korean woman before she was found dead in the trunk of a car outside a Korean sauna last month. The revelation came from a Gwinnett County Police Department detective during a preliminary hearing Thursday for five of the seven people charged in the death …
A 6-year-old Georgia boy is dead after he was found stabbed multiple times inside a burning apartment. Gwinnett County police and firefighters were called to an apartment fire in Peachtree Corners shortly before 8 a.m. on Thursday, police said. Firefighters made entry into the first floor unit, where the fire was centered, and found the …
A Maryland judge was fatally shot in the driveway of his Hagerstown home Thursday night. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office, which responded calls at about 8 p.m., identified the victim as Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson, 52. He was taken to Meritus Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries. WRC reported that Maryland State …
Prosecutors in Arbua have asked the U.S. Department of Justice for documents related to their investigation of  Joran van der Sloot, who confessed this week to killing Natalee Holloway. Aruba public prosecutor’s office spokesperson Ann Angela told AL.com that officials there want to review the information “before deciding on the procedural steps to be taken” …
More details coming out from Joran van der Sloot’s courthouse admission. In the Dutch national’s interview with his attorney, van der Sloot admitted that he killed Natalee Holloway after she rejected his sexual advances. After kicking her in the face, van der Sloot used a cinderblock to bash her skull. He said he then dragged …
Late last month, prosecutors hinted that criminal charges are possibly forthcoming in the unsolved 2021 disappearance of a 5-year-old Idaho boy. Prosecutor Mike Duke told the Argus Observer that he expects charges in the Michael Vaughan case but undisclosed issues are complicating the matter. Vaughan has not been seen since he reportedly walked out of …
U.S. Marshals arrested a Washington woman on Tuesday for allowing the father of her 10-year-old daughter to rape the girl at least six times last year. Big Country News reported that Dawn Manby, 44, let Grant Yeaman, 43, come to her Asotin County home despite Yeaman having a prior conviction in Idaho for raping a …
A scheduled hearing for accused Indiana child killer Richard Allen was abruptly canceled Wednesday when the judge announced Allen’s attorneys had withdrawn from the case. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the hearing was scheduled address leaked graphic crime scene photos and the defense’s claims Delphi murder victims, Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, were murdered …
An audio confession has been released after Dutch national Joran van der Sloot admitted to killing 18-year-old Natalee Holloway in 2005. As CrimeOnline previously reported, van der Sloot, 36, received a 20-year sentence on exortion and wire fraud charges Wednesday at the Hugo L. Black Federal Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama. The 20-year sentence was offered …
