A 20-year-old former North Carolina convict was arrested Friday in Winston-Salem after an investigation into two incidents involving a man forcing his way into women’s apartments and, in one case, raping her. Tavon Demaris Taylor has been charged with first-degree burglary, first-degree forcible rape, first-degree sex offense, kidnapping, assault by strangulation, felonious breaking and entering …
A new syndicated series from CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace debuts next month, focusing on how new technologies — DNA profiling, genetic genealogy, and familial searches — are helping bring closure to cold cases. “Bloodline Detectives” debuts on October 2. Its second episode, “Murder in the Snow,” takes on the 1984 murder of Wisconsin teenager Traci Hammerberg, …
A Florida man has been charged with commercial sex trafficking after he allegedly paid a 16-year-old girl repeatedly to let him sexually abuse her. Gregory Thomas Garcia, 34, faces a sentence of 10 years to life if convicted, the US Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Florida, said. The newspaper said that a Homeland Security Investigations …
A 15-year-old Mississippi boy is being held on a $2 million bond, charged with the rape, beating, and stabbing of a 91-year-old woman with dementia, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported. Tydarius Wade has been charged as an adult with rape, burglary, breaking and entering, and attempted murder in the brutal attack against the woman, who was …
A 26-year-old parolee is back in jail in Georgia after he shot and killed an ex-girlfriend, wounded her 4-year-old child and grandmother, and shot another woman while trying to rob a Waffle House. Karl Anthony Jordan allegedly shot the ex-girlfriend Wednesday night in Hampton, Georgia. She reportedly died in the hospital on Thursday, the Atlanta …
A New Hampshire man has been charged with murder in the death of his wife’s lover, and she has been charged with tampering with evidence after he allegedly ordered her to saw off the dead man’s head. The arrest affidavit for Britany Barron, 31, and Armando Barron, 30, tells a macabre tale of jealousy, deception, …
A cadaver dog appears to alert to scents while in a boat near a lake house belonging to Don Lewis, the millionaire husband of Carole Baskin who disappeared 23 years ago, in a new special exploring the case. The Daily Mail saw a clip from Discovery’s “Tigers, Lies, and Cover-ups,” set to air Sunday, with …
The search for a missing 19-year-old mother in central New York took investigators on Friday to a site about 10 miles from where she was last seen, but they’re only saying they’re “following up on any lead we can.” Elizabeth Garrow was last seen at a Dunkin’ in Canastota just before noon on Wednesday. She …
A Pennyslvania couple was arrested this week after probation officers found their 6-year-old child in a bedroom surrounded by rotting food, trash, and an “abundance of flies.” In fact, trash was everywhere in the Altoona home, according to the complaint against Travis J. Huff, 35, and Amanda M. Huff, 36, along with more rotting food …
A Denver man has been charged with murder in a fatal shooting that began over a dispute about children playing in a yard, Denver7 reports. Jason Arroyo, 33, has been charged with the murder of Patricia Cruz, 55, who died 11 days after the September 6 incident in the city’s north end. Cruz’s son, Chris …
A North Carolina grand jury returned indictments of first degree murder for a Taylorsville man and his teenage girlfriend, both already charged with three other murders in what the county sheriff called a “mass murder,” WBTV reported. Areli Aguiree Avilez, 30, and Heidi Darlene Wolfe, now 18, were charged with the murders of Avilez’s ex-wife, …
Two Amish brothers in Missouri pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges that they repeatedly had sexual relations with a younger sister, who gave birth to a child by one of them a few weeks earlier. But on Thursday, a prosecutor filed a motion in a Webster County court to revoke probation for Aaron C.M. …
