Jonathan Anderson, Journalist

Jonathan Anderson is a Midwest-based journalist. Follow him on Twitter at @crimescoops.

‘Time to exterminate the real problem’: Man arrested after threatening teen accused of killing college student Tessa Majors

 Trevor Spring
Threats

A 31-year-old man allegedly threatened to shoot one of the teens accused in the murder of New York City college student Tessa Majors, the Hartford Courant reports. Police on Friday arrested Trevor Spring of Mystic, Connecticut, after he posted the threat Thursday on Reddit. “I do believe that’s black kids murdered her though,” Spring wrote in the post, according …

Family Crime
December 21, 2019

Missing West Virginia mom found alive — then arrested for being a ‘fugitive of justice’

A West Virginia woman who went missing days after seeking a protective order against her estranged husband has been found, Fox News reports. Police on Friday located Mary Cathleen Haley, 32, in Beckley, West Virginia, Raleigh County Sheriff Scott Van Meter told the news station. She has been arrested on grand larceny charges. WOAY reports …

Two children and probation officer found dead inside home, father critically injured: Police
Unsolved
December 15, 2019

Two children and probation officer found dead inside home, father critically injured: Police

Two minors and a woman are dead after an apparent domestic situation at a home near Los Angeles, KABC-TV reports. Police fired on the woman, a San Bernardino County probation officer, after she barricaded herself inside the residence. The woman’s husband called 911 at 2:30 a.m. Saturday and told dispatchers that someone inside the home was …

Madison high school
December 14, 2019

High school students on field trip find hidden cameras in their hotel rooms: Reports

Police are investigating the discovery of hidden cameras inside hotel rooms occupied by high school students, NBC News reports. Students from Madison East High School in Madison, Wisconsin, say they found the cameras in their rooms at the Minneapolis Hyatt Regency, where they were staying for a conference. School officials were made aware of the cameras …

Tom Liu
Murder
December 7, 2019

Community in shock after ‘perfect family’ father stabs wife & two children to death. Police say he was under extreme stress

A New York man who murdered his wife and two kids before committing suicide was under significant stress at the time of the slayings, WABC-TV reports. Investigators say 46-year-old Chuan-Kai Liu, who informally went by the name Tom, killed his wife, 42-year-old Dorothy Liu, and their children, 7-year-old Tennyson and 4-year-old Adeline. All three were stabbed …

2 children dead, 1 missing after Arizona floodwaters sweep up family’s car
December 1, 2019

2 children dead, 1 missing after Arizona floodwaters sweep up family’s car

Two children have been found dead and a third is missing after being swept up by floodwaters in central Arizona, CNN reports. The children disappeared on Friday afternoon when a vehicle they were in was caught by a flooding creek in Tonto Basin, Arizona. The incident occurred about 60 miles west of the Arizona-New Mexico border, …