A former California police officer who terrorized the state as a serial rapist and murderer pleaded guilty Monday to 13 murders and admitted to more than 80 rapes over a 12 year period, bringing an end to the decades long search for the man known as the Golden State Killer. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr, now …
Oklahoma deputies jailed a woman Friday for putting a 5-year-old girl in a chokehold and then stabbing a man who tried to get her away from the child, according to KTUL. The incident took place near Oologah Lake, northwest of Tulsa. Rogers County deputies responded to a call about a stabbing and were told by …
Louisville police have identified Steve Lopez, 23, as the suspect in a fatal shooting Saturday night in Jefferson Square Park, where demonstrators had been peacefully protesting the killing of Breonna Taylor in a police shooting in February. Lopez faces charges of first degree murder and wanton endangerment for killing Tyler Gerth, 27, who died at the …
An estranged husband drove to the home he once shared with his wife Saturday morning and shot her death, then turned the gun on himself, WBZ reports. Joshua Pereira, 31, had recently moved out of the couple’s Somerset home, investigators said, but he drove back to the house Saturday morning before 8 a.m. A relative …
A former Walmart Distribution Center worker crashed his SUV into the building’s lobby area on Saturday and opened fire, killing one and wounding several others before police engaged and shot him. The suspect, Louis Lane, 31, died at the hospital. The Tehama County Sheriff’s Department said he had been fired from the Red Bluff, California, …
A 17-year-old girl is missing from her South Carolina home, and North Charleston police have asked for help finding her, WCSC reports. Amari Grant suffers from depression and a heart and lung condition, the station said, quoting a police report. Amari was last seen by her mother on June 17 at about 8:40 p.m., police …
New York police have arrested 27-year-old Rudy Osias and charged him in a shooting that left a 19-year-old Connecticut woman dead and her 21-year-old boyfriend wounded, NBC New York reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Erica Lopez and Andres Arias were attending a birthday part in Manhattan’s Flatiron district Thursday night with friends. They left the …
A Virginia couple have been charged with fraud after they allegedly received over $1.4 million in proceeds under the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) meant to help businesses struggling because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Monica Magdalena Jaworska, 43, and her husband, Tarik Jaafar, 42, were arrested on June 20 at JFK International Airport as they tried …
A body found last Saturday in Oregon was that of Allyson Watterson, a 20-year-old who was last seen on December 22, 2019, but not reported missing for 30 hours, the Oregonian reported. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the human remains were discovered by a property owner while clearing brush in a remote farmland area near North …
A 48-year-old employee at the Bunn-O-Matic factory in Springfield, Illinois, opened fire at about 11 a.m. Friday, killing two fellow employees and critically wounding a third, WCIA reported. Michael Collins was found in his vehicle, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, nearly three hours later about 35 miles away in neighboring Morgan County. The Sangamon …
A Pennsylvania woman missing for more than a month was killed by a man she met on the train, her body hidden in an elevator shaft before it was moved to an overgrown lot in Philadelphia’s East Germantown neighborhood, the Delaware County district attorney said this week. District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said that Kareem Malik …
A birthday party in Manhattan’s Flatiron district Thursday night ended with an argument and a fatal shooting early Friday morning. Erica Lopez, 19, was killed in the shooting, and her boyfriend, 21-year-old Andres Arias, was wounded, according to ABC 7. Both were from Norwalk, Connecticut, and had come into the city for the party. Arias …
