A St. Louis-area father has been convicted of abusing and murdering his disabled 9-year-old son nearly two decades ago, NBC 5 reports. On Friday, jurors found Dawan Ferguson guilty of first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death after his son Christian vanished in June 2003. Christian had a metabolic disorder called citrullinemia, in which …
A Texas woman accused of murdering her boyfriend’s apparent love interest and then fleeing to Central America is back in the United States, ABC 13 reports. The television station on Saturday published a video of 34-year-old Kaitlin Armstrong being escorted by law enforcement at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. A handcuffed Armstrong was led …
The bodies of a mother and three children have been recovered from a Minnesota lake in what authorities say is a “possible triple murder-suicide” following the death of a man earlier in the day, ABC 5 reports. As CrimeOnline reported previously, crews found the body of the first child around 7:30 p.m. Friday and the …
Prosecutors have charged a Hollywood producer with murdering two women who overdosed on drugs and were later dumped at Los Angeles-area hospitals, the Los Angeles Times reports. As CrimeOnline reported previously, Christy Giles, a 24-year-old model, was abandoned on the sidewalk at Southern California Hospital in Culver City on November 13 and died soon after. …
The body of a missing high school student who witnessed her father’s murder earlier this year has been found in a shallow grave in upstate New York, The Buffalo News reports. On June 6, homicide detectives located the remains of 18-year-old Jalia Marrero in a wooded area behind a shopping center in the North Buffalo …
Police have arrested the former boyfriend of a woman who was shot to death in the head earlier this week while walking the pair’s 3-month-old child in Manhattan. According to ABC New York, authorities on Friday announced the capture of 22-year-old Isaac Argro in connection with the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Azsia Johnson on Wednesday …
A Minnesota mother is suspected of killing her three young children and may have also taken her own life, just hours after her husband and the children’s father reportedly died, the Pioneer Press reports.The tragic situation is still unfolding, with crews late Friday night searching a lake in a St. Paul suburb, where the bodies of …
A $40,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever kidnapped and murdered a 10-year-old Washington state girl, KOMO-TV reports.Thirteen years ago on this date – June 26, 2009 – Lindsey Baum vanished without a trace from her small town in McCleary.Investigators believe she was abducted while walking home after visiting …
The man whom Alex Murdaugh allegedly paid to shoot him has been arrested again, WCSC-TV reports.On Friday, police took 61-year-old Curtis “Eddie” Smith into custody. He is being detained at the Colleton County Detention Center on warrants from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, but authorities have not released any details about why.However, sources told FITSNews that the …
The decaying body of a 3-year-old boy was found Friday in a freezer at his mother’s dilapidated Detroit home, only after the woman’s family reportedly contacted child protective authorities more than a dozen times, WJBK-TV reports.Five other children were also found living in squalor inside the residence on the city’s west side, according to the Detroit News.The …
A California man has been arrested after police found him possessing enough fentanyl to kill 12 million people, KABC-TV reports. On Wednesday, the California Highway Patrol pulled over 60-year-old Alfonso Gomez-Santana during a traffic stop in Fullerton. Inside his vehicle, officers discovered four kilos of fentanyl and an additional 20 more kilos at his home, according …
The parents of a disabled teen who died last year from appalling abuse have been charged with murder in connection with his death, Syracuse.com reports.Authorities on Friday announced that a grand jury indicted 43-year-old Lisa Marie Waldron and 37-year-old Anthony Michael Waldron on charges of second-degree murder and first-degree assault.Investigators allege that the pair criminally neglected …
