The father of a first-grade student who was shot and killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre has died of an apparent suicide. The Hartford Courant reports that Jeremy Richman was found dead Monday in his office at Edmond Town Hall. Police told the newspaper that the death appears to be a suicide, although the cause …
Two suspects have been arrested and charged in the fatal weekend shooting of a young Chicago police officer. As CrimeOnline previously reported, John Rivera, 23, was shot early Saturday morning Chicago’s River North neighborhood. Rivera was off-duty, having just finished his shift, and was sitting in his Honda with three other people, including another off-duty …
The teen girl reportedly died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound
The man who admitted to the brutal, rape, and torture of his girlfriend’s daughter reportedly taunted a hospital staffer with cryptic references to the crime as he was recovering from a failed suicide attempt. Jacob Sullivan is expected to be sentenced in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for the 2016 rape and murder of 14-year-old Grace Packer …
A jury at the trial for Bo Dukes, the Georgia man who helped conceal the murder of teacher and beauty queen Tara Grinstead, took less than an hour to deliberate before handing down a guilty verdict on Thursday. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Dukes was found guilty of hindering the apprehension of a criminal, concealing …
Two JetBlue pilots are accused of drugging and raping female airline workers during a layover in San Juan, according to a new lawsuit. The New York Post obtained court documents showing that three women are suing JetBlue after two pilots with the airline, Eric Johnson and Dan Watson, allegedly drugged all three women before Johnson raped …
The mother who pleaded guilty a rape-murder plot that killed her 14-year-old adopted daughter testified in court Wednesday that the plan had not been to kill Grace Packer right away — but to keep her imprisoned, essentially as a sex slave, so that her boyfriend could repeatedly rape the girl. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Sara …
The creator of a popular YouTube channel is facing numerous charges after her biological daughter alerted authorities about alleged abuse in her home. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Machelle Hackney, the creator of the “Fantastic Adventures” YouTube channel, was arrested on charges of abuse and false imprisonment following allegations that she confined, starved, and tortured seven …
The mother of a 14-year-old girl who was brutally raped, tortured, and killed at the hands of her mother’s boyfriend testified against the confessed murderer at his sentencing hearing on Wednesday. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Jacob Sullivan’s sentencing hearing is ongoing this week in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In early 2017, Sullivan confessed to raping and …
The man who admitted to brutally raping and killing 14-year-old Grace Packer, his girlfriend’s adopted daughter, is awaiting his fate, and jurors at his sentencing hearing heard the confession he gave investigators in January 2017 as he was recovering from a suicide attempt. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Packer was raped, drugged, and left for dead …
One of the boys said he spent ‘most of his life’ in a bare closet with limited access to food, water, or the bathroom
The trial for Bo Dukes, one of the men accused in the 2005 murder of Georgia high school teacher Tara Grinstead, is underway in Wilcox County, with a key witness testifying that Dukes admitted to burning Grinstead’s body the year after she disappeared — and a decade before any arrests were made in the missing …
