A Minnesota man has been arrested in the murder of an aspiring model found dead in her downtown Los Angeles apartment last year. Maleesa Mooney, the 31-year-old sister of Guyanese pop star Jourdin Pauline, was found bound and gagged in her refrigerator on September 12, 2023, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Mooney’s wrists and ankles were …
A Florida man has been charged with shooting his mother to death as she celebrated her 78th birthday. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Joanne Turrell’s body was found by a neighbor who checked on her at the request of Turrell’s daughter. The neighbor found the woman, covered in a blanket, and called 911. Deputies …
A 3-year-old boy was found Tuesday night in a bathtub at his home with his throat slit. One of the toddler’s relatives called a family friend to the house in Lancaster, California, a source not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation told the Los Angeles Times. That friend found the boy in the tub …
Audrii Cunningham’s body has been found along the Trinity River after water levels were lowered, allowing detectives access. Don Steven McDougal, 42, led investigators to the location earlier in the investigation. McDougal has now been charged with capital murder. Don Steven McDougal has been a person of interest since the first 24 hours of Audrii …
Jurors in the case against Adam Montgomery for the murder of his 5-year-old daughter deliberated for about two hours Wednesday afternoon before going home for the day. Montgomery is charged with killing Harmony Montgomery on December 7, 2019, as CrimeOnline reported. The girl reportedly soiled herself in the car where the family was living, and …
The Texas man believed to have killed 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham reportedly has a lengthy criminal history which includes crimes against children. On Tuesday, Cunningham’s body was found tied to a rock with rope in the Trinity River. Polk County police issued an AMBER Alert on February 15, after Cunningham did not board her bus or show …
A search is intensifying for a missing 3-year-old Wisconsin boy, last seen with a caregiver on Tuesday. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 3-year-old Elijah Vue was last seen by his caregiver at about 8 a.m. in the 3900 block of Mishicot Road. Police said no family members or other “associates” were in the area at the …
An Oklahoma teen reportedly died earlier this month after being attacked at their high school. Dagny “Nex” Benedict — a nonbinary 16-year-old who used they/them pronouns — died on February 8, a day after being attacked in a girls’ bathroom at Owasso High School West Campus. The Oklahoman reported that one of Benedict’s parents contacted …
A Florida couple was arrested last week amid allegations that they sexually abused their pets. According to WBBH, Samantha White, 26, had sex with the family dog multiple times. Her husband, John White, 29, allegedly filmed the abuse. Samantha and John White were arrested on February 15. Samantha White was charged with sexual activities involving …
A supposed family friend and the primary suspect in the death of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham has been charged with capital murder. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 42-year-old Don Steven McDougal, who lived in a trailer behind a Livingston, Texas, home where Cunningham lived with her father, admitted that he agreed to take her to her school …
The search continues for a Virginia woman who reportedly vanished last Tuesday. On February 13, Carina Leach, 52, got off from her cafeteria assistant job at W.T. Cooke Elementary School in Virginia Beach. WVEC reported that she talked on the phone with someone two hours later, marking the last time she was heard from. According …
