Sarah Boone, the Florida woman on trial for killing her boyfriend in 2020 by putting him in a suitcase, took the stand on Tuesday. Boone, 47, testified that she and Jorge Torres, Jr., 42, were playing hide-and-seek when Torres got in the suitcase and lay flat. She claimed she was intoxicated when she zipped the …
The California prosecutor tasked with deciding whether to recommend resentencing for the Menendez brothers said on Monday that the pair do not pose a danger to the public. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón told People that he plans to decide on Erik and Lyle Menendez’s resentencing at the end of the week after …
Canadian police said a woman found dead at Walmart on Saturday was discovered in a walk-in oven. The 19-year-old Walmart employee reportedly died in an oven at the store’s bakery department in Halifax. According to Global News, the woman had recently moved to Canada from India. As of Tuesday, a cause of death has not …
Skeletal remains were discovered at a New York nature preserve on Saturday, two years after authorities searched the location for a boy who vanished in 2000. A law enforcement source told the Albany Times-Union that “non-adult human” bones — including a skull and ribs — were found at Burden Pond Preserve in Troy. A tip …
The search continues for a missing Washington woman who may have been kidnapped earlier this month. KOMO reported that Jackelin Perez, 21, is six weeks pregnant and moved to Auburn four months ago. Auburn police said Perez’s October 13 disappearance is “suspicious” as they believe she was taken from her home against her will. Perez’s …
Six more civil lawsuits were filed on Sunday in New York against producer Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was arrested last month on federal sex trafficking charges. Deadline reported that one of the accusers claimed she was 13 when Combs and a male celebrity raped her at a post-MTV VMAs party in 2000. The woman, now …
A North Carolina man was fatally shot on Saturday in an apparent road rage incident hours after his wedding. Tyrek Burton, 37, was killed at the Barber Park Events Center in Greensboro. His sister told WLS-TV that Burton was leaving the venue hours after his wedding when he learned from his wife that she was still …
A Washington man was arrested on Thursday, weeks after a missing woman’s body was discovered in a suitcase at a homeless encampment. On September 27, outreach workers found Shannon Reeder, 37, dead in a large suitcase at a homeless encampment in Seattle. It is now believed Steven Thanh Nguyen, 57, killed Reeder with a sharp …
A man accused of murdering a woman on a Tennessee trail on Monday reportedly stayed at the scene to stake out police. Paul Park, 29, was arrested at his Brentwood home on Tuesday, a day after he allegedly shot Alyssa Lokits, 34, on the Old Hickory Trailhead in Antioch. A woman who was in the …
Tennessee police arrested a suspect on Tuesday, a day after a woman was killed in a seemingly random attack. Alyssa Lokits, 34, died shortly after she was found on the Mill Creek Greenway on the Old Hickory Trailhead in Antioch. Witnesses heard a woman screaming, “Help! He’s trying to rape me,” before gunshots rang out, …
On Wednesday, more than 20 relatives of the Menendez brothers — who are serving life sentences for killing their parents in 1989 — urged California prosecutors to review their convictions. The family gathered outside the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, where they asked the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office to resentence Erik and Lyle …
A Minnesota judge ruled on Tuesday that a man accused of killing and dismembering his pregnant sister in May is fit to stand trial. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 30-year-old Bethany Israel as found dead in her home on May 23 after her mother reported finding blood in her home after she’d had dinner with her …
