The judge overseeing Chad Daybell’s murder trial has denied his attorney’s motion to withdraw from the case, apparently agreeing with prosecutors that the motion was an attempt to delay a trial that has been in preparation since 2021. John Prior, who has been Daybell’s sole attorney since he was arrested for the murders of his …
The parents of a 3-month-old baby boy who died late last year in a filthy motel room from malnourishment and neglect were indicted Thursday on murder charges and other felonies. Skylynn Katherine Tuerk, 33, and Charles Devin Harris, 27, were both indicted on four counts. In addition to murder, the McLennan County grand jury charged …
Two South Carolina women were found dead after a house fire in suburban Greenville on Wednesday, and the man suspected of killing them and setting the fire to cover up the murder was later shot dead in a confrontation with police. The investigation began just before 2 p.m. Wednesday when authorities were called to a …
An 18-year-old Pennsylvania man was arraigned Thursday on charges of homicide and theft in the September 2023 deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her mother. John Bradley — who was 17 when he’s accused of stabbing and strangling 16-year-old Rianna Glass, stabbing 39-year-old Rosalyn Glass, and stealing the older woman’s car — pleaded not guilty, Lehigh …
Texas authorities have released a sketch of a man wanted for shooting a driver in the head on Interstate 45 last month. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said that Arthur Luna Jr. called 911 at about 5 a.m. on December 14, 2023, after the unknown man, in a white Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck, began driving …
The LA Innocence Project has decided to represent convicted wife killer Scott Peterson in an attempt to have his conviction thrown out. According to ABC News, the group says that Peterson’s state and federal constitutional rights were violated and that his claim of innocence “is supported by newly discovered evidence,” court filings say. Peterson, 51, …
“Burner” phones connected to accused serial killer Rex Heuermann showed hundreds of contacts with sex workers in the years before his arrest last year, a newly filed court document says. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the 60-year-old Manhattan architect was charged with the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes earlier this week, adding the fourth of the so-called …
Police in Las Vegas this week arrested a 36-year-old woman for posing as an attorney and accepting fees to help clients “file documents” for divorces, legal reviews, name changes, and adoptions. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Cenia Poulsen defrauded multiple victims since January 2022. She has been charged wih forgery, theft, preparing or …
Art Guty Jr. told police conducting a welfare check, after Nicole Zambrano had been reported missing, that he hadn’t heard from her since before Christmas.
A federal judge in Chicago has sentenced Heather Mack, who admitted conspiring with her then-boyfriend to kill her mother in Bali in 2014, to 26 years in prison. Mack, 28, was convicted in the beating death of Sheila von Wiese-Mack in Indonesia and served seven years in prison there, but US District Judge Matthew Kennelly …
A Wisconsin woman was bound over for trial this week on charges that she ran over her husband with her pickup truck and killed him. Mary Terry, 49, is charged with first degree intentional homicide and homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle, WBAY reported. A just found probable cause for the case to …
