An elderly North Carolina woman who had been missing for two months was found this week entombed in concrete in her basement. The Avery County Sheriff’s Office said that 70-year-old Lynn Gay Keene’s caretaker, who had been named a person of interest, was found Friday night in a western North Carolina hospital with a “drug …
Newly released audio from a police dashcam video reveals a distraught Anthony Cook screaming at Paul Murdaugh the night the “grossly intoxicated” son of a prominent South Carolina family who allegedly drove a boat into a bridge piling, killing Cook’s girlfriend, 19-year-old Mallory Beach, who was tossed from the boat in the crash. Beach’s body …
A North Dakota daycare provider has been charged with child abuse after police say she shook an infant in her care, causing permanent brain damage. Torrie Vader, 43, was arrested on Thursday and ordered held on a $250,000 bond, the Williston Herald reported. According to a probable cause affidavit, the 5-month-old girl’s mother picked up …
Police found hundreds of pornographic videos — many of them involving children — on a Google account belonging to a Florida college student. Ethan Edlund, 19, turned himself in to the Chicago Police earlier this week after Daytona Beach Police concluded nearly a year of investigation. Edlund, a student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, has been …
Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer convicted of killing a man in his own apartment when she mistakenly thought it was her unit, lost her first round of appeals this week. Botham Jean was sitting on his sofa eating ice cream on September 6, 2018, when Guyger, still in uniform, entered his apartment. She …
A Texas jury deliberated for more than seven hours on Friday before sentencing Otis McKane to death for killing San Antonio Police Detective Benjamin Marconi in 2016. The jury took just 25 minutes last month to convict McKane, and he promptly attacked a bailiff who tried to handcuff him after the verdict, as CrimeOnline previously …
A 24-year-old Rhode Island woman pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that she was among a group of dirt bike and ATV riders who dragged a woman out of her car and beat her in front of her 8-year-old daughter. Shyanne Boisvert, who was previously arrested for assaulting a police officer during another incident involving …
A California man has been charged with murder following a hit-and-run incident earlier this week after a Santa Monica bar and restaurant asked him to leave the establishment. Santa Monica police said Nicholas Ralph Sloan was angry about being asked to leave Monday night and “retrieved his vehicle” and then tried to hit a patron …
A suspected drunk driver who struck a motorcycle while driving the wrong way on a Michigan interstate last week, killing the couple on board, has been released from jail. The Michigan State Police say the man, who hasn’t been identified because he hasn’t been charged with a crime, was released after authorities failed to charge …
Teenage summer campers and one of their counselors collecting wood for a team event Thursday afternoon stumbled upon the badly decomposed body of a man. Camp Lenox, in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, sent an email to parents of campers after the “strange but true” discovery, which directors said was made just outside camp property, …
A 19-year-old British woman sobbed in court Friday when a judge sentenced her to nine years in prison after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter for leaving her toddler daughter alone for nearly a week while she celebrated her 18th birthday. Paramedics who responded to Verphy Kudi’s apartment after she returned on December 11, 2019, found …
A South Carolina man accused of killing three members of his family, including an 11-year-old girl, earlier this week fled the state on a flight to Florida, where he was found just hours later. Jeffery David Powell, 36, was brought back to Greenwood County from Jacksonville on Wednesday after he waived extradition. Powell also waived …
