The final installment of the Boston Globe‘s investigative series on the violent life and death of Aaron Hernandez explores a possible connection between the head trauma he suffered as a professional football player and the impulsive acts of aggression that found him on trial for murder twice in his short life. As CrimeOnline reported last …
As part of an ongoing series about the NFL star’s fall from grace, the Boston Globe published new information about Aaron Hernandez’s time in jail and the events leading up to his shocking suicide, just days after he was acquitted of double murder in April 2017. The Boston Globe report cited hundreds of records of …
Court filings and testimony related to the incomplete divorce of a Tennessee mom who was found dead with her four adopted children in an apparent murder-suicide this week shed more light on her relationship with her estranged husband, but many questions remain unanswered. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Cynthia Collier, 55, was found dead in her …
Defense attorneys for accused family murderer Chris Watts are asking a judge to file a sealed motion involving health records. The Denver Post reports that Watts’s attorneys have requested to file a sealed pleading that includes information typically protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPA) act. The lawyers requested an “ex parte” hearing …
Aaron Hernandez had become increasingly paranoid after his alleged involvement in a 2012 shooting, and reportedly met with New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick to confess his fears for his safety. The Boston Globe conducted interviews and obtained police documents about a meeting Hernandez had with his coach at an Indianapolis hotel in February …
The mother found dead with four of her adopted children in an apparent murder-suicide this week was involved in ongoing divorce proceedings from her husband, who moved out of their home nearly a decade ago. The Tennessean obtained court records showing that Cynthia Collier’s four teenage adopted children had requested earlier this year to continue …
Authorities have found human remains “consistent” with a missing one-year-old boy five months after his mother’s dead body was discovered in the same area. According to NYUp.com, Wayne County Sheriff Barry Virts confirmed that scattered human remains had been found in a 12-inch-grave on the same Sodus, New York, farm where Owen Hidalgo-Calderon’s mother Selena Hidalgo-Calderon …
Authorities have identified the family members killed in an apparent murder-suicide on Monday evening but are still searching for a motive. As reported by the Tennessean, the Maury County Sheriff’s Office held a press conference on Tuesday in which Sheriff Bucky Rowland identified the five people found dead of gunshot wounds in a Columbia, Tennessee, home …
The man suspected of murdering a standout golfer in broad daylight last month reportedly appeared at a home not far from where the body was found covered in sand and blood, and took a shower there. The Des Moines Register reports that authorities are continuing to build a case against Collin Richards for the the September …
An experienced skydiver died on Sunday when her parachute failed to open during a jump. NBC News reports that the female skydiver, who has yet to be identified, was killed during an attempted jump at Lodi Parachute Center in Lodi, California. The woman appears to have been a skilled skydiver, having successfully executed over 2,500 parachute …
A male cheerleader at the University of Central Florida in Orlando has been accused of putting a female teammate in a chokehold long enough for her to lose consciousness and collapse — in addition to allegedly sexually assaulting two other teammates. WKMG reports that Dawan Carter Jr., 22, has been arrested by campus police on charges …
A Boston Globe investigative series has found that former NFL standout Aaron Hernandez, who died of suicide in prison last in 2017, was abused as a youth and hid a “sexual relationship” with his male teammate in high school. The investigative series was based on previously undisclosed communications Hernandez had while in prison, court and …
