SEE IT: Newly-released video sparks debate after officer shoots boy in the back of the head. DA calls it justified
Juveniles
**WARNING**: Graphic Video
Trials
October 24, 2019
Slain college student’s family creates fake Facebook profile to catch sadistic serial killer who strangled at least 3: Prosecutor
Friends and family a murdered New Jersey college student apparently set up a fake profile that helped lure in a man suspected of assaulting and killing several people. NJ.com reports that Khalil Wheeler-Weaver is on trial for the murder of three young women, including 20-year-old New Jersey City University student, Sarah Butler. Wheeler-Weaver allegedly strangled …
Animal Crimes
October 24, 2019
Grisly photos reveal alleged evil inhuman cruelty: TWO ‘dog lovers’ indicted for starving pups to near death
**Warning**: Graphic Photos
Unsolved
October 24, 2019
Breaking: Woman’s body found in basement after missing mom puts children on school bus, disappears
Authorities found a body inside the basement of a missing Maine woman’s home. Officials are working to determine her identity, but believe it’s likely the body of 29-year-old Melissa Sousa. NECN reports that at around 10:0 p.m. on Wednesday night, Waterville police located the woman’s body inside the basement off a duplex off of Gold …
Murder
October 24, 2019
‘Why would you wreck my life?’: Wife loses it before slashing husband to death in front of their children
A Maine woman will spend the next 32 years in prison after fatally stabbing her husband in front of her two children. A tumultuous court battle that dragged on for months ended into a deadly confrontation in 2017, when Kandee Collind stabbed and killed her ex-husband, Scott Weyland, according to the Portland Press Herald. Collind, …
Weird Crime
October 23, 2019
Florida man caught ‘having sex with stuffed Olaf’ doll inside Target store: Police
A Florida man was arrested after he allegedly had sex with a stuffed animal inside a department store on Tuesday. Click Orlando reports that 20-year-old Cody Meader is accused of “dry humping” an Olaf doll from the Disney movie “Frozen,” while inside a St. Petersburg Target store off of 31st Street, on Tuesday afternoon at …
Missing
October 23, 2019
‘I believe Nick killed her’: Mom puts twin girls on school bus & mysteriously vanishes. Friend thinks foul play is involved [Reports]
Friends of a Maine mother are worried after she mysteriously vanished Tuesday morning after making sure her children got on their school bus. CBS 13 reports that 29-year-old Melissa Sousa was last seen by her Waterville duplex off of Gold Street on Tuesday, at around 8:30 a.m. after putting her children on a school bus. …
Court
October 23, 2019
Convicted sex offenders sue sheriff for placing ‘No Trick-or-Treat’ signs in their yards
A group of convicted Georgia sex offenders filed a lawsuit against the Butts County sheriff in an attempt to stop “No Trick or Treat” signs from being placed in their yards. The New York Times reports that according to the lawsuit, three sex offenders, Christopher Reed, Reginald Holden and Corey McClendon, were told by Butts …
Murder
October 23, 2019
Police: Graphic details emerge after father murders wife & 4 children, drives around with their bodies for weeks [Update]
Gruesome details have emerged in the case against a Florida man accused of killing his wife and four children before driving around for weeks with their bodies inside a van. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 38-year-old Michael Wayne Jones Jr. is accused of murdering his wife, Casei Jones, and their four children. Two of the children …
Juveniles
October 22, 2019
Police: Toddler boy did NOT die from flu, he was killed. Search is on for possible murderer [Exclusive]
California authorities announced that a boy’s death has been officially deemed a homicide, months after his family was told he may have died from the flu. CrimeOnline spoke exclusively with Tracy Gulcynski, the paternal grandmother of 2-year-old Koltyn Sparks-Blackwood. Koltyn passed away on January 15 after his mother, Nicole Sparks, dropped him off with a …
Murder
October 22, 2019
‘Make-A-Wish mom’ takes over $20K in donations for ‘terminally ill’ little girl, then kills her. She’s now charged with murder [Police]
A Colorado woman who claimed her little girl had a terminal illness was charged with murder on Friday in connection with the child’s death. CBS Denver reports that Kelly Renee Turner, 41, said that her youngest daughter, Olivia, was diagnosed with neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy. According to the National Institutes of Health, the rare disease attacks body …
Court
October 22, 2019
Mollie Tibbetts’ suspected killer could get murder confession thrown out, judge to hear arguments
An accused killer’s attorneys are pushing to have his murder confession thrown out after claiming he was not fully read his Miranda rights. A three-day hearing over whether to suppress the man’s confession was scheduled to begin Tuesday but has been postponed due to a lawyer’s family emergency, CBS2/Fox 28 News reports According to Law …