An attorney for the Suffolk County Police Department said in court on Monday that the department does not have any transcripts of the 23-minute 911 call Shannan Gilbert made the morning she vanished, the last time she was ever seen alive. In December 2010, detectives searching for Gilbert first discovered the remains of suspected victims …
A Massachusetts man who had escaped a house fire ran back into the burning building to save his two young children, but all three died. The tragic scene unfolded in Springfield at about 7:25 a.m. Sunday morning, when a fire broke out in a four-story apartment building on Belmont Avenue, the Boston Globe reports. Springfield’s …
The Coconut Creek police officer who apprehended Parkland school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz was not ordered to leave the school’s staging area to search for him — but decided to take matters into his own hands. Officer Michael Leonard gave his first in-depth interview since the February 14 mass shooting to the Sun-Sentinel this weekend, revealing …
Authorities have tracked down the Pennsylvania high school student missing with a 45-year-old family friend in Mexico, and the teen girl is on her way to being reunited with her family. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Amy Yu, 15, of Allentown, disappeared on March 5 after Kevin Esterly allegedly signed her out of Lehigh Valley Academy Charter School, …
This weekend, Oxygen is airing a two-part documentary about the troubled life of Aaron Hernandez, an NFL rising star who was convicted of murder and took his own life in prison nearly a year ago — just after he was found not guilty at his second murder trial. “Aaron Hernandez Uncovered” focuses heavily on the …
A United flight headed to St. Louis was diverted to Akron, Ohio, after the airline mistakenly loaded a pet onto the flight. ABC News reports that a flight departing Newark airport was diverted after the airline learned that a pet had mistakenly placed on the flight. United Airlines confirmed the incident to the news station, …
Vanessa Trump has hired a criminal defense attorney in divorce proceedings against her husband Donald Trump, Jr. Page Six, which first reported that Vanessa Trump had filed for divorce from Don Jr. earlier this week, now reports that the president’s daughter-in-law has secured White Plains-based attorney David Feureisen to represent her. According to Page Six, Feureisen …
A Georgia toddler who miraculously fought through a severe brain injury due to an accident during Hurricane Sandy has died more than five years later. As reported by CBS News, Tripp Halstead of Winder was struck by a tree branch while at a daycare center playground in October 2012, during the superstorm. He was two …
A California man died this week after someone allegedly threw a large boulder from a freeway overpass, crashing into his vehicle. KTLA-5 reports that Christopher Lopez, 23, was riding in a car with his wife, her mother, and the couple’s four-year-old daughter on the 134 Freeway in Pasadena when a 30- to 35-pound boulder came crashing …
Authorities have released surveillance video footage from the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, when Nikolas Cruz allegedly opened fire in the school, ultimately killing 17 people. The surveillance footage appears to confirm earlier reports that Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, the School Resource Officer, never entered the building while Cruz engaged …
United Airlines could be looking at criminal charges after a 1o-month-old puppy died on a flight Monday night. The New York Daily News reports that the Harris County District Attorney’s Office in Houston will probe the incident after a flight attendant reportedly demanded that a passenger place her French Bulldog puppy in an overhead bin. …
The man who said he helped Natalee Holloway’s purported killer help dispose of her body has been stabbed to death in Florida. The North Port Police Department announced in a Facebook post that John Christopher Ludwick, 32, of Port Charlotte, was stabbed to death during a kidnapping attempt. Ludwick had allegedly attempted to kidnap a …
