An attorney defending one of the men charged with Ahmaud Arbery’s murder in Brunswick, Georgia, asked the court on Friday for a mistrial, saying a prayer vigil held by Black pastors outside the court house on Thursday was akin to a “public lynching” of the defendants. Thursday’s prayer vigil was a direct response to attorney …
A Florida woman has been charged in Connecticut for the death of her infant son in 1986. Greenwich police say Janita Phillips, 62, confessed to killing her son after DNA testing revealed she and her husband were the boy’s parents, WABC reported. Phillips reportedly hid her pregnancy from her husband, telling police, “I didn’t want …
A four-day manhunt for a fired Baltimore County police officer who kidnapped his two young children earlier this week ended Thursday with all three — and Robert Vicosa’s alleged accomplice — dead. Vicosa, Tia Bynum, and Vicosa’s 6- and 7-year-old daughters were found after a brief car chase that ended in a minor crash in …
A 2-year-old Alabama girl found dead in her family’s apartment last week died from multiple blunt force trauma Ivy Baker was found dead in her family’s Opelika apartment early Friday morning when first responders responded after her mother, Chasity Umeko Baker, 28, found the little girl unresponsive. Baker and her boyfriend, 28-year-old Jamario Emanuel Mitchell, …
The defense rested its case on Thursday, and Judge Timothy Walmsley set closing arguments for Monday.
Two men charged with kidnapping in a Missouri missing person case that included photos of the victim kept in a cage have now been charged with her murder, according to court documents that also revealed investigators had found the remains of Cassidy Rainwater. The upgraded charges against James Phelps and Timothy Norton came after the …
‘This is a life-or-death situation, and I’m going to have to stop him from doing this, so I shot,’ says the man accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery.
Two women who’d been party-hopping around Los Angeles last week were later dropped off at different hospitals — where one died and one is fighting for her life. Christy Giles, a 24-year-old model originally from Alabama, was dumped on the sidewalk in front of Southern California Hospital in Culver City, where she died, Fox News …
The attorney for one of the men charged with killing Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery asked a judge Monday to toss the Rev Jesse Jackson from the courtroom. Kevin Gough, attorney for William “Roddie” Bryan, tried last week to have Rev Al Sharpton removed from the courtroom, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Gough later apologized, saying his …
The parents of a 15-month-old boy who died of fentanyl poisoning in September have been charged with the toddler’s murder. The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office added a murder charge at 22-year-old Adler Metcalf’s initial court appearance, KTLA reported. He had previously been charged only with child endangerment. The boy’s mother, 20-year-old Sandy Acuna, is …
The mother of a New Jersey teen missing for nearly a month stabbed the girl, sprayed bleach in her eyes, and hit her with a frying pan, a criminal complaint filed in the case says. Jamie Moore, 39, reported her 14-year-old daughter JaShyah Moore missing on October 14 after the girl didn’t return from a …
A Texas woman was shot in the back Monday morning while protecting her 7-year-old daughter from a road rage shooting. San Antonio police told KSAT that a male driver opened fire because he thought the other driver cut him off in a turnaround lane. The 29-year-old woman climbed into the back seat of the car …
