A 14-year-old Louisiana teenager allegedly tried to hire a hitman to kill her former boyfriend and is now facing criminal charges, WWL-TV reports. The ninth-grader is accused of arranging the murder through the website Rentahitman.com, which is a prank site designed to catch would-be killers. Authorities in Baton Rouge have not released the identity of …
A college music student in upstate New York who was on the cusp of graduating is dead after being found shot near campus, WWNY-TV reports. Elizabeth Howell, 21, a music education student at the State University of New York at Potsdam, was found lying along College Park Road – just off campus – around 6 …
The sister of Wall Street fraudster Bernie Madoff is said to have died in a murder-suicide earlier this week in Florida, BocaNewsNow.com reports. The news outlet says 86-year-old Sondra Wiener and her husband, Marvin Wiener, were found dead Thursday evening at their home in Boynton Beach. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office has reportedly confirmed a …
Loved ones of a woman who was murdered at their Virginia vacation home is pleading for answers as the case continues to remain unsolved, PEOPLE reports. On July 11, 2017, the body of Peggy Lammers was found in the hallway of her family’s waterfront property in Deltaville on the Chesapeake Bay. Investigators determined that Lammers died …
Criminal proceedings against a man who allegedly kidnapped a young boy from his bed and stabbed him to death have been halted indefinitely after a judge’s ruling, the Dallas Morning News reports. On Friday, Magistrate Judge Farrel Chapman found Darriynn Brown incompetent to stand trial on a capital murder charge in connection with the death …
A police officer is accused of the kidnap, rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl whose body was found in a Florida drainage ditch nearly 40 years ago, WKMG-TV reports. On Thursday, St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara announced that investigators have uncovered evidence that James Harrison, a former deputy, was responsible for the attack. The …
A teenage social media influencer is opening up about a terrifying ordeal when a stalker fired a shotgun through her family’s front door and was later killed by her father, The New York Times reports.The influencer, Ava Majury, who has more than a million followers, started posting on TikTok in 2020 when she was just 13 years …
A drunk woman led police on a slow-speed chase through the Orlando International Airport while riding a motorized suitcase in a bizarre incident captured on police body cameras, WKMG-TV reports. Video of the interaction, which occurred in April, was recently obtained and broadcast by the television station. The kerfuffle started when Southwest Airlines would not let …
An Ohio mother is accused of killing her young daughter on Saturday, but police have released limited details about what happened or why, WOIO-TV reports. Around 6:30 p.m., emergency crews responded to an apartment building in Bedford Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, and found a 5-year-old girl dead on the floor of a bathroom, according to …
A missing California woman whose body was found earlier this month was brutally raped, sodomized and murdered by a homeless man in what authorities described as “a very gruesome crime,” the Sacramento Bee reports. Emma Roark, 20, went missing January 27 in Rancho Cordova and her body was found five days later near the American …
The head caddie of an exclusive country club in the Hamptons was allegedly choked to death by a colleague after watching golf on television, The Southampton Press reports. The victim, 45-year-old Kevin Somers, died February 5 at the Long Island home of 34-year-old Marc Dern. Authorities allege that Somers and Dern were watching a golf …
A Pennsylvania man allegedly murdered his former girlfriend and then dismembered and beheaded her body with a machete, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Around 4:15 a.m. Friday, a neighbor called authorities to report screaming at an apartment building in Clifton Heights, a suburb of Philadelphia. Arriving officers initially knocked on the home’s front door, but no …
