A 7th member was added to the jury Friday to hear the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, accused of kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes last year while Floyd begged for life. Floyd’s death was videotaped by bystanders, and the video’s release prompted nationwide protests and calls for …
An upstate New York woman found dead in the trunk of a car in Queens this week died from a blow to the head that fractured her skull and caused a brain injury, the New York Daily News reports. Destini Smothers, 26, had been missing since November when she came to New York to attend …
A Missouri man suspected of killing and decapitating his mother last year has been found dead in Arkansas, the Vernon County Sheriff’s Office says The Sheriff’s Office named Aaron Goodwin, 38, the sole suspect in the death of 63-year-old Connie Goodwin, who was found dead in her southwestern Missouri home on October 28, as CrimeOnline …
A California man was sentenced to 212 years in prison for defrauding insurance companies with an “evil and diabolical” plot to kill his two severely autistic sons, the Los Angeles Times reports. Ali F. Elmezayen, 45, drove the family car off a San Pedro wharf in 2015, killing Abdelkarim Elmezayen, 8, and Elhassan Elmezayen, 11, …
A stolen playground slide turned up in a child’s bedroom several miles away from the park where it had cheered the children of Pasco, Washington, until mid-December, the Pasco Police Department said. Police said investigators were tracking stolen catalytic converters — parts of a vehicle’s exhaust system that have become a popular target for thieves, …
Authorities in southwest Missouri have asked for help identifying a woman who ran into oncoming traffic on Interstate 44 last week and was struck and killed, the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office says. The woman was seen walking around a rest area near Mile Marker 52 east bound on March 6 before taking off headlong into …
Two more jurors were seated Wednesday in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd, bringing the total to five, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, attorneys selected two men and a woman for the jury on Tuesday. Wednesday’s proceedings added two more men. Also on …
A female aide to New York Gov Andrew Cuomo says the governor reached under her blouse and groped her when they were alone in his office, according to a report in the Albany Times-Union, reported by the New York Post. According to the Post, the Times-Union did not name the woman, and her story was related to them by a third party. In a statement, Cuomo said the woman’s story was “gut-wrenching,” but he reiterated his claim that he has “never done anything like this.” The NY Attorney General appointed former acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon Kim and veteran employment lawyer Anne Clark to lead an investigation of the allegations against Cuomo.
A 23-year-old Colorado man has been charged with 15 counts related to a “rampage” of hit-and-run crashes in Denver in January that injured four people, including two police officers. Tyler Hazell also faces two counts of bias-motivated crime when investigators determined that he may have targeted two victims based on perceived sexual orientation, ABC7 reports. …
Los Angeles police have recommended negligent manslaughter charges against a teen driver of a speeding Lamborghini who killed a 32-year-old secretary when he slammed into her vehicle last month, the Daily Mail reports. Brendan Khuri, the 17-year-old son of multi-millionaire manufacturing and distribution magnate James Khuri, remains hospitalized after the February 17 crash that killed …
A Connecticut woman charged with killing her 4-year-old son was put on a suicide watch after her arraignment on Monday, The Day reports. Tiffany Farrauto, 33, allegedly told officers to “take me in” because she’d killed her son when police responded on Sunday to a report of a woman damaging vehicles at an apartment complex …
After his defense rested without calling a single witness, Donthe Lucas was found guilty by a Colorado jury in the murder of his pregnant girlfriend in February 2013, the Denver Channel reports. Kelsie Schelling, then 21, vanished on February 4, 2013, after meeting up with Lucas, the likely father of her unborn child, at a …
