Prosecutors in the case of a Missouri man charged with killing his wife and abusing their daughter are seeking to call 40 witnesses with the case finally goes to trial, the Columbia Missourian reported Friday. Earlier this week, Columbia police resumed their search for the body of Mengqi Ji Elledge, 28, who was last seen …
Brittany Smith, 19, pleaded guilty to child neglect after she put her 8 month old baby in a freezer and closed the lid, WBIR reports. She was sentenced to two years probation; the baby survived.
A Pennsylvania man has been jailed on an attempted murder charge after his wife stumbled over a trip wire apparently intended to send her tumbling down the basement stairs to her death, KDKA reports. Laura Dankesreiter, 59, caught her balance and didn’t fall in the morning of October 3 while on her way to the …
Remains found in north Georgia nearly 40 years ago have been identified and linked to Samuel Little, described by the FBI as “the most prolific serial killer in US history.” The 30-year-old woman found in Dade County on September 28, 1981, was Patricia Parker, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced. Little, 80, is a suspect …
Convicted killer Chris Watts sits behind bars for the murders of his wife and children in 2018 and worries about what people will think of him as a new documentary about his crimes streams on Netflix. But before her death at the hands of her husband, Shanann Watts worried about how he felt about the …
Canadian rapper Tory Lanez has been charged in the shooting of fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion during an argument in July, Los Angeles County prosecut0rs announced Thursday. The Los Angeles County District attorney’s office didn’t name Megan Thee Stallion, 25, as the victim in the July 12 shooting, but Megan, whose real name is Megan …
A well-known Atlanta area chiropractor was arrested Wednesday on a sexual battery charge after one of his patients said that he sexually assaulted her in his office last month. Rashad Sanford, founder and CEO of Atlanta Spine Doctors, was arrested by Sandy Springs Police and booked into the Fulton County Jail, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. …
Police in Delaware have identified of a little girl found dead near a Smyrna softball field more than a year ago, dubbed “Baby Elle” by investigators who have actively sought her identity in the months since. Baby Elle’s real name was Emma Cole, Smyrna police said on Thursday, and she was 3-years-old when she died. …
The accused killer of University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated murder and abuse or desecration of a human body in a plea agreement that will let him avoid the death penalty. Ayoola Ajayi, 32, was initially charged with aggravated murder, kidnapping, obstruction of justice, and desecration of a human body …
A Florida man beat and stomped a 17-year-old girl unconscious in a mall food court on Tuesday after she rejected his flirtations, the Naples Daily News reports. Police said the pummeling continued until the teen’s brother threw a chair at Bruce Gordon, 37, who was arrested and charged with battery. Gordon told police that that …
A Texas mother shares her terrifying story of a violent carjacking attempt with CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace, in an episode of her exclusive Fox Nation show “Nancy Grace Crime Stories: Safety While Driving.” Dorothy Baker had been shopping in June 2013, returning to her unlocked minivan for the drive home. She strapped her two- and five-year-old …
A Long Island man crashed his car during a police chase on Tuesday and slit his own throat before officers got to his car — and then the story got really weird. Officers headed to the home Bill Farnum shared with his father and sister to inform them of his apparent suicide, only to find …
