The father of a woman who was found dead in a what initially appeared to be an accidental death insists that she was murdered. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Lara Prychodko fell 27 floors to her death when she somehow fell into a trash chute in Zeckendorf Towers, a luxury Manhattan apartment building, late Tuesday afternoon. …
*Correction appended The grieving family of a woman who killed herself just after posting a photo of herself on Facebook is upset that the social media network allowed the unsettling image to remain on the woman’s Facebook page for days after her death. MarketWatch reports that Pamela Elarabi, a 49-year-old yoga teacher and golf enthusiast who …
Nearly two years after a 10-year-old boy died in a horrific waterslide accident in Kansas City, the park is closing down the tallest waterslide in the world. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Caleb Thomas Schwab, the son of a Kansas City lawmaker, died in August 2016 on the Verruckt waterslide at the Schlitterbahn waterpark when a raft …
Police and family members are asking for the public’s help in the desperate search for a 22-year-old PhD student at the University of Southern California. ABC 7 reports that Bo John Jones disappeared after leaving his Los Angeles apartment late Sunday afternoon, presumably for walk in nearby MacArthur Park. Jones reportedly took his cell phone with …
A sadistic serial killer who may have murdered over 100 victims charmed his way onto a TV dating game show — right in the middle of his killing spree. Rodney Alcala was Bachelor Number One on a 1978 episode of “The Dating Game,” a campy game show in which three men compete for the attention …
A Washington man confessed to a 32-year-old unsolved murder, claiming that he wanted to “right the wrong.” Fox News reports that Glenn Adams, 58, walked into Cowlitz County Hall of Justice in Kelso, Washington, on Friday and confessed to killing Russell Haines in a hotel room in Longview in 1986. Adams, who has lived itinerantly and is …
A local news outlet in Pittsburgh has identified the person who purportedly sent a jail inmate a letter claiming to have witnessed Rachael DelTondo’s murder. DelTondo, 33, was gunned down in her driveway on the night of May 13, moments after her friend dropped her off following a night out for ice cream. Police have …
A woman was found dead in a trash compactor at a luxury apartment building in Manhattan’s Union Square neighborhood. The New York Post reports that a 48-year-old woman was found unresponsive inside a trash compactor at Zeckendorf Towers at 1 Irving Place in New York City. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, and …
A Florida widow says she lost her life savings to a con artist she met on the dating website Match.com. Diane Amanda Standish told News 6 that she met a man who called himself Jerry Michael on the website, believing it was a match made in heaven. But the man she believed to be a …
A Chicago police officer fatally shot himself in a police station parking lot. The Chicago Sun reports that 36-year-old Brandon Krueger shot himself while in a parked squad car outside of the Area South/5th District police station Sunday night. The officer, a veteran of the United States Marines, reportedly used his own service gun. An autopsy …
The inmate who received a letter claiming to know who killed Rachael DelTondo has accepted a plea deal in exchange for cooperation with the murder investigation. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Wayne Cordes, an inmate at the Beaver County Jail, received a letter days after DelTondo’s murder, written by a person who claimed to witness the …
Authorities are facing an uphill battle in the search for a fourth suspect in the murder of 10-year-old Victoria Martens — and the unknown person is believed to have been more directly involved in the brutal attack than two of the suspects already in custody. On August 24, 2016, Victoria was found burning in a …
