A 63-year-old Arizona man is dead this week after another man thought he was spray-painting graffiti on a wall, KVOA reported. Robert M. Norwood was painting the wall of his Tucson home late Tuesday afternoon when John Francis Hodson, 53, drove by. Thinking Norwood was vandalizing the property, Hodson stopped and confronted him. The two …
An Illinois woman whose body was found earlier this week in a forest preserve in a south Chicago suburb was strangled, an autopsy revealed Thursday. Vanessa Ceja-Ramirez, 22, was last seen Monday afternoon when she was walking with her mother in the Midlothian Meadows preserve, the Chicago Tribune reported. The two separated, with Ceja-Ramirez telling …
Eight Colorado men, ranging in age from 23 to 58, were jailed on child prostitution charges last month after multiple Colorado law enforcement agencies conducted a sting operation aimed at getting child predators off the streets.
A Colorado judge on Thursday nixed bail for a man accused of shooting a babysitter to death, strangling the babysitter’s young charge, and stealing a vehicle to escape when the young girl’s mother came home, CBS4 reported. Trevor George, 32, was arrested hours after the October 29 incident at a Fort Collins gas station, as …
Two bodies found in a burned-out semi-trailer truck in western Mississippi Sunday morning are believed to be those of a husband and wife who died in a murder-suicide, the Natchez Democrat reported. Jefferson County Sheriff James Bailey said detectives believe the couple is Ronald Merritt, 45, and Carisa Merritt, 42, from Fayette, about 15 miles …
A Florida man who posted bail after being charged with trafficking a minor and child pornography in California was arrested again this week back in his home state — this time on charges related to stalking and witness intimidation, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. The sheriff’s office said that …
A former substitute teacher in an east Alabama county pleaded guilty this week to three counts of performing a sex act or deviant sex act with a student, the St Clair Times reported. Whitley Mizzell, 32, appeared in court in St Clair County, northeast of Birmingham, on Monday and entered her pleas. Circuit Court Judge …
A former Alabama couple has been sentenced to a combined 1,161 years in prison for sexually abusing two juvenile family members, allegations that first surfaced in 2007, WIAT reports. Lisa Marie Lesher, 41, was sentenced Monday to 738 years after her conviction on October 1 on two counts of rape in the first degree, four …
A Florida man has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl and uploading videos to the Kik messenger app, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. John D. Taylor, 32, was arrested on Friday, the sheriff’s office said. He’s being held without bail on one count of sexual battery on a child, …
A south Florida woman is in critical condition after her boyfriend allegedly set her on fire early Monday, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. Noe Jimenez-Cortes, 40, was taken into custody Monday evening in North Lauderdale, the sheriff’s office said. Deputies are investigating the incident as an attempted murder. Jimenez-Cortes has not yet been booked, according …
Newly released phone calls between a Kansas woman and her dad raise questions without easy answers about her mother, who’s been missing for more than a year. Ellie Green, 19, last saw Angela Green on June 20, 2019, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Since then, Ellie’s father, Geoff Green, has said she died of a stroke …
US Marshals in Virginia completed a 5-day “Operation Find Our Children” this week, recovering 27 previously missing kids as well as confirming six others were actually with their legal guardians. The marshals were assisted in the operation by the Virginia Department of Social Services, medical professionals and experts from the National Center for Missing and …
