A Manhattan subway train veered off the rails Sunday after striking debris thrown onto the tracks by an as yet unnamed suspect, the New York Post reported. MTA customers reportedly grabbed the suspect, apparently known to police for criminal activity around the city’s subway, after the train derailed and held him until police arrived. The …
A 2-year-old North Carolina boy died Saturday after he was wounded by an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound earlier this week, ABC11 reports. Officers responded to a home in the northern part of Fayetteville on Wednesday morning, Fayetteville police said. The boy, who hasn’t been identified, was taken to a local hospital and then airlifted to …
An Indiana man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death and eating parts of her body was found guilty Friday in a Clark County court, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. Joseph Oberhansley, 39, initially confessed to the brutal crime but later walked that confession back, saying two men broke into Tammy Jo Blanton’s house that day, …
A body found Thursday in a rural Virginia field has been positively identified as Andy Banks, a North Carolina man who disappeared last week while trying to sell his 2011 Range Rover on Craigslist, the Raleigh Police Department reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Banks vanished on September 12 from Raleigh, after arranging to meet someone …
A Tennessee man set to go on trial for the murders and dismemberment of his parents is giving the court permission to impose the death penalty if he’s found guilty, despite the prosecution’s decision not to seek execution, WBIR reported. Joel Michael Guy Jr., 32, has been charged with two counts of first degree murder, …
The body of a missing middle Georgia woman was found in “a little hangout area” near a creek Wednesday, and her boyfriend has been arrested for her murder. LaTorra “Torra” Michelle Tillman’s mother, Lillian Cole, reported her missing earlier this month, but nearly two-weeks of searching turned up nothing until friends went down by the …
AJ’s mother is already serving a 35 year sentence after pleading guilty to murder.
Montgomery, Alabama, police arrested a 20-year-old man for the shooting death of an Alabama State University student whose body was found Monday after he was reported missing on September 8, Alabama News reported. Adam “Belle” Dowdell, 22, was a second year student at the historically black university who was reported missing when he failed to …
An hours-long search and chase in Middle Tennessee on Sunday ended with three people shot dead — including a husband who was executed in front of his pregnant wife. The suspect, Dangelo Dorsey, was among the dead, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said. He shot and killed himself after leading police along Interstate 24 at …
“That 70s Show” actor Danny Masterson made his first appearance in a Los Angeles County court Friday to face charges that he raped three women at his Hollywood Hills home, but the well-known Scientologist did not enter a plea, the Los Angeles Times reported. Instead, one of his attorneys — Tom Mesereau, who represented Bill …
One of two teenage boys charged with pushing a 74-pound log over a cliff, where it hit a photographer and killed her, has taken a plea deal in the case, the Columbus Dispatch reported. Jaden W. Churchheus, 17, pleaded guilty in Hocking County Common Pleas Court involuntary manslaughter in the September 2, 2019, death of …
A 35-year-old Michigan man has been charged with multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct against a 12-year-old girl, including having sex with her knowing that he had HIV. Anthony Alvin Hodges is currently being held on a probation violation charge in Oakland County, where he lives, Detroit News reported. The sex crime charges were filed …
