Jonathan Anderson, Journalist

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

Vet tech likely to lose eye after bodybuilder Tinder date stabs and slashes her; suspect dies after police Taser him: Report

 Vet tech likely to lose eye after bodybuilder Tinder date stabs and slashes her; suspect dies after police Taser him: Report
Violent Crime

A YouTube bodybuilder who severely injured a woman has died after being Tasered by officers who were trying to rescue the victim, WBTS-TV reports. Police arrived to home in Cohasset, Massachusetts, on Thursday night, where 25-year-old Erich Stelzer was attacking 24-year-old Maegan Tapley. Stelzer was reportedly stabbing and slashing Tapley with a knife when officers deployed …

5-year-old girl witnesses brutal sexual assault of her grandmother: Police
Sex Crimes
December 29, 2018

5-year-old girl witnesses brutal sexual assault of her grandmother: Police

A Florida man is accused of sexually assaulting a 78-year-old woman while her young granddaughter looked on, WPLG-TV reports. Authorities told the news station the attack occurred Wednesday, when the victim found 32-year-old Cidoine Petit Beau standing in the living room of her Lauderdale Lakes residence. The victim had left her apartment front door unlocked …

Husband angered by wife’s music shoots laptop, prompts police stand-off: Cops
Family Crime
December 23, 2018

Husband angered by wife’s music shoots laptop, prompts police stand-off: Cops

A Texas man allegedly shot up his wife’s laptop computer because he thought she was playing music too loudly, prompting a stand-off with police as he barricaded himself inside his home, the Dallas Morning News reports. Around 2 a.m. Saturday, authorities responded to a home in northwest Fort Worth where 44-year-old Gary Lee Lykins was …

12-year-old ‘earned his man card’ for killing a woman, his DAD says
December 23, 2018

12-year-old ‘earned his man card’ for killing a woman, his DAD says

A 12-year-old boy and his father are accused of murdering a woman in Colorado. KRQE-TV reports that New Mexico authorities on Thursday morning arrested Heith Gleason and his 12-year-old son, Gage Gleason, at a McDonald’s in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Both were wanted by police in connection with the death of a woman in Colorado, …

2-year-old toddler girl dies after parents, one drunk, leave her in vehicle: Police
child endangerment
December 22, 2018

2-year-old toddler girl dies after parents, one drunk, leave her in vehicle: Police

A Texas couple whose daughter died after they left her in the backseat of a vehicle could face decades in prison, the Houston Chronicle reports. Olga Esquivel and Angel Esquivel-Blanco, of Humble, Texas, were charged earlier this week with child abandonment in connection with the death of their 2-year-old daughter, Alicia Esquivel. The girl died …

Live-in-boyfriend charged in brutal murder of 3-year-old foster child who died after foster mom said he was acting ‘lazy’
Murder
December 22, 2018

Live-in-boyfriend charged in brutal murder of 3-year-old foster child who died after foster mom said he was acting ‘lazy’

A Minnesota man has been criminally charged in connection with the death of a young foster child, KSTP-TV reports. Authorities on Friday announced that a grand jury had indicted Charles Wayne Homich, 28, with multiple counts of first- and second-degree murder. The charges include murder while committing child abuse, murder with a history of child …

‘My roommate told me he’s gonna kill 3 people’: Slain college student sent warning about roommate before her death [Report]
Murder
December 16, 2018

‘My roommate told me he’s gonna kill 3 people’: Slain college student sent warning about roommate before her death [Report]

A man accused of murdering an American student in the Netherlands this week allegedly expressed a desire to kill others just days earlier, ABC News reports. Minnesota native Sarah Papenheim was fatally stabbed on Wednesday inside the Rotterdam apartment she shared with the suspect, 23-year-old Joel Schelling. Police were called to the apartment after “neighbors heard …

Killer dissolved dismembered body of teen girl, young man in tubs of acid
Murder
December 15, 2018

Killer dissolved dismembered body of teen girl, young man in tubs of acid

A Montana man who murdered and dismembered two people before attempting to dissolve their bodies in acid could spend the rest of his life in prison, the Missoulian reports. Augustus Standingrock, 26, pleaded guilty Friday to deliberate homicide for stabbing 15-year-old Marilyn Pickett and 24-year-old Jackson Wiles to death in August 2017. After the slayings, …

Neighbors find children covered in feces, wearing urine-soaked clothes, ‘lost’ just outside of home where they were allegedly kept confined: Report
Family Crime
December 8, 2018

Neighbors find children covered in feces, wearing urine-soaked clothes, ‘lost’ just outside of home where they were allegedly kept confined: Report

Seven children were rescued from a Missouri home where they were wearing urine-soaked clothes and had feces caked onto their feet, KMOV-TV reports. Last month, neighbor Pat Abney reportedly encountered two of the children, an 8-year-old girl and 5-year-old boy, after they had exited the residence in the November cold with bare feet and without …

Killer who taunted police for years, left used condoms on children’s bikes, pleads guilty to the 1988 murder & sexual abuse of April Tinsley
Murder
December 8, 2018

Killer who taunted police for years, left used condoms on children’s bikes, pleads guilty to the 1988 murder & sexual abuse of April Tinsley

Genealogy and DNA technology has once again solved a decades-long cold case, this time in Indiana. John D. Miller pleaded guilty Friday to the 1988 abduction, molestation and murder of 8-year-old April Marie Tinsley in Fort Wayne, WISH-TV reports. Tinsley, who was in first grade at the time, disappeared after walking to a friend’s house …