Update: 8:30 p.m.: A missing hiker was found dead at the bottom of a California waterfall in a steep ravine, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said. Caroline Meiser, 30, was last seen on Monday when she left for a hike at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in Carmel Valley. The sheriff’s office said a search …
A 64-year-old Ohio man has been charged with the shooting death of his 60-year-old girlfriend in Columbus. Stewart Butler initially told police he shot Marchelle Freeman in self defense, but later said he shot her because he was mad that that she kicked and poked him, WSYX reported. He told police the grabbed his gun …
Police in California last week arrested a pastor and a man he allegedly hired to kill his daughter’s boyfriend last fall. Samuel Pasillas, the 47-year-old pastor of a Spanish-language church in Victorville, has been charged with solicitation for murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, and assault with a deadly weapon, Riverside police said. Juan …
Police are searching for two squatters who somehow got into a vacant upscale Manhattan apartment, killed the woman who owned it, and fled the state in her stolen Lexus. New York Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Thursday that the two suspects, a man and a woman, crashed the vehicle in Pennsylvania and then were …
Chad Daybell, the Idaho doomsday writer whose wife has already been convicted of killing her children and his first wife, has been transferred to Ada County where his own murder trial will be held. Daybell’s trial is set to begin April 1 in the same courtroom where Lori Vallow Daybell was tried and convicted last …
Philadelphia Police have arrested a fifth suspect in the bus stop shooting earlier this month that wounded eight high school students and charged one of the other suspects with murder in a separate shooting in February. Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Vanore said the latest arrest is a 15-year-old boy who was inside a Dunkin’ by …
A third teenager has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a 21-year-old man found dead earlier this week in a remote Utah desert. Taylorsville Police said the 17-year-old boy, taken into custody Thursday morning, joins another 17-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy now charged with the death of Alex Franco, as CrimeOnline …
Wednesday’s search of a Tennessee dam turned up no sign of a Missouri man who has been missing for nearly three weeks. WSMV reported that crews searched the Cheatham Dam, which is about 40 miles from where Riley Strain, 22, vanished in Nashville on March 8. The search entailed opening and closing the dam and …
Kansas City police have charged a third adult suspect with murder in the shooting after the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade and rally in February. The February 14 shooting killed popular radio host Lisa Lopez-Galvan, 43, and wounded at least 25 others, many of them children, as CrimeOnline reported. Jackson County prosecutors announced Thursday …
After moving back to Houston, Christina Johnson has been staying with her dad. Her normal routine includes her Max, her 10-year-old mix breed dog. Johnson rarely goes anywhere without her canine best friend. Each morning, Christina grabs her laptop and takes Max for a walk to a nearby Jack-in-the-box, or they go to the Hackberry …
Florida police said on Thursday that murder charges have not been filed in the death of a 13-year-old girl whose body was found earlier this month. Kissimmee Police Chief Betty Holland said there likely will be no updates until they receive the medical examiner’s report revealing Madeline Soto’s cause of death. Holland also claimed that …
Months after fabricating her abduction and making a false report to police, Alabama woman Carlee Russell is set to reappear in court. Carlee Russell admitted guilt in court on Thursday in Jefferson County, to two misdemeanor charges of false reporting to law enforcement and falsely reporting an incident after calling 911. As CrimeOnline previously reported, …
