A New Jersey mother accused of killing, dismembering and burning her 23-month-old child in 2019 has rejected a plea deal offered by prosecutors and will go to trial early next year. Nakira M. Griner, 27, initially told police that her son, Daniel Griner Jr, was abducted by an unknown assailant, but the toddler’s body was …
A manhunt is underway in middle Georgia after a former convict allegedly gunned down a small town police officer early Saturday morning. Dylan Harrison, 26, was shot and killed in the line of duty, officials said, without releasing any information about what led to the 1 a.m. shooting outside the Alamo Police Department station. Harrison, …
A man spotted in the stands behind the plate at a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball game in 2016 is not a wanted fugitive who disappeared 18 years earlier. John Ruffo, now 66, was convicted in Virginia for devising a scheme that defrauded domestic and international banks of $350 million. But he fled before he was …
German prosecutors say they are “100 percent sure” convicted pedophile Christian Brueckner kidnapped and killed Madeleine McCann, but they admit they do not have proof the toddler is dead. Madeleine, 3 years old at the time, was vacationing with her family in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007 when she vanished from her hotel …
Despite a new suspect put forward by a group calling themselves the Case Breakers, the detectives actively investigating the Zodiac Killer case say it’s still “open and unsolved.” As CrimeOnline previously reported, a team of more than 40 former law enforcement investigators, military intelligence officers, and journalists said on Wednesday that they had identified the …
Caroline Crouch’s Greek helicopter pilot husband suffocated her in her sleep and staged the crime to look like a robbery.
A Texas toddler who wandered away from home chasing a neighbor’s dog into the woods has been found safe and reunited with his mother. Christopher Ramirez, 3, disappeared from his Grimes County home at about 2 p.m. on Wednesday, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Deputies headed to a wooded area about five miles from his home …
A Colorado man found guilty earlier this summer of murdering his 13-year-old son in 2012 was sentenced to 48 years in prison on Friday. La Plata County Judge Jeffrey Wilson told Mark Redwine, 59, that “the community needs to be protected from you.” “You need to be removed from society for a very long period …
An Idaho judge on Friday granted a defense motion for a change of venue for Chad Daybell’s murder trial. Seventh Judicial District Judge Steven Boyce said the trial should be moved out of the 10-county Seventh District entirely and suggested it be held in Ada County, where Boise is the county seat, according to Fox …
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Friday suspended the law license of Alex Murdaugh’s best friend and college roommate, Cory Fleming, the attorney who earlier this week reached a settlement with the estate of Gloria Satterfield, the Murdaugh family housekeeper who died at their property three years ago. Fleming, who negotiated the initial wrongful death …
A Florida woman is dead after a man shot her in the head with a gun the two had just rented at a Holly Hill gun range for a gun safety course. The man then shot himself, Holly Hill police said, and was taken to the hospital. His condition has not been updated, WKMG reported. …
Two Kentucky teens have been charged with rape and other sex crimes involving a minor after a sheriff’s deputy responded to a call about a disturbance at a restaurant late Wednesday night. A Carlisle County deputy found Carl Wecker, 19, and Alexis Davis-Mardis, 18, apparently under the influence of narcotics. Wecker, in fact, told the …
