A viral video showing a Georgia man apparently hitting a toddler in a Lilburn grocery store parking lot led to the man’s arrest on child cruelty charges. Gwinnett County Police said they were notified about the video on Saturday, after it had been viewed thousands of times, Detectives responded to the Kroger store where the …
A Florida deputy sheriff and his wife were arrested last month after their son told a pastor at a church that they had been abusing him for years and that he didn’t want to go home. Christopher Turney, 40, was fired from his job with the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office after his arrest on charges …
Three people were arrested earlier this week after a 3 1/2-month-old baby was found dead at a Georgia motel. Richmond County officials were called to Wellstar MCG Health in Augusta, where the baby — identified as Josiah Noel Seright — was pronounced dead just after 2:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, WJBF reported. Police said the three …
California investigators announced Friday they had charged a former US Marine electrician with the murders of three women in Ventura County in 1977. Warren Luther Alexander, 73, was already in jail in North Carolina, where he was awaiting trial for the 1992 strangulation murder of 29-year-old Nona Cobb, Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko said. …
A former student at El Camino College in California was found dead after apparently jumping from the fifth Floor of a parking garage at the school — and this after he apparently tried to stab his mother to death. Torrence Police and campus officers responded to the scene just before 5:30 p.m. on Friday and …
The Cook County Medical Examiner said Friday that a woman found dead entangled in baggage handling machinery at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport died by suicide. Virginia Vinton, 57, was found dead before 8 a.m. Thursday in the baggage area of Terminal 5, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Surveillance video showed Vinton, from Waxhaw, North Carolina, entering …
A Detroit judge has dismissed murder and home invasion charges against the man accused of killing Detroit synagogue leader Samantha Woll last year. Michael Jackson-Bolanos was convicted last month of lying to police about the case, but acquitted on a premeditated murder charge and deadlocked on felony murder and home invasion charges. Woll, the president …
A Michigan prosecutor on Friday provided horrific details of the abuse heaped upon a 6-year-old boy who was found dead in his home last week. Giovanni “Chulo” Jennings’ mother, Elaina Jennings, called 911 on July 30 and reported her son was unconscious, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said. When officers arrived, the boy was unresponsive …
Attorneys for Karen Read argued Friday for dismissal of murder and leaving the scene of an accident charges, asking the judge in the case to conduct a special hearing to confirm what they believe to be true — that jurors voted unanimously to acquit her of killing her Boston cop boyfriend. Judge Beverly Cannone declared …
An Ohio man who pleaded guilty to breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home and stabbing her more than 30 times was sentenced this week to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 31 years. Chance Donohoe, 27, got a break from Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Kim Brown, who could have sentenced him …
A 47-year-old Minnesota woman has been charged with stabbing her ex-boyfriend to death over the weekend, telling police she “would kill him again” while on her way to jail. The Moorhead Police Department said they responded to a home on Sunday and found Willard DeGroat Jr., 47, with a stab wound to his chest. He …
A Colorado mother who strangled her 2-month-old son while suffering from postpartum psychosis was sentenced this week to 40 years in prison. Anna Louise Englund reached a deal with Boulder County prosecutors to plead guilty to second degree murder, according to the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office, and her original charges of first degree murder …
