A New Mexico woman and man are behind bars after a young boy died and his two sisters were injured during an alleged drunk driving episode in Bloomfield on Saturday. Farmington Daily Times reports that Candace Jim (picture right), 40, is accused of driving drunk on Saturday morning at around 11:45 a.m., when she crossed her vehicle …
Talk show host Steve Wilkos opened up on Tuesday and apologized to the city of Darien after he crashed his SUV last month during a drunken outing in the community on January 21. As CrimeOnline previous reported, 53-year-old Wilkos forced other drivers off of the road as he sped down the normally quiet West Avenue in …
Nikolas Cruz, the teen accused of shooting and killing 17 people on February 14 at a Parkland, Florida, high school apparently called authorities for help after he couldn’t cope and flew into a rage, following the death of his mother last November. “The thing is I lost my mother a couple weeks ago, so, like, …
The Florida man who raped, beat, and killed 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle was sentenced to death by a Jacksonville jury last week, but the sentence resulted in clashing opinions and heated debates as the little girl’s mother, Rayne Perrywinkle, went head-to-head with a writer staunchly opposed to the death penalty. Three days after 61-year-old Donald Smith …
A 4-year-old Missouri girl told police she pretended to be asleep while her own father killed her family and then himself, but authorities can’t figure out why the tragedy happened to begin with. FOX News reports that Dornubari Dugbor, 31, called 911 on Thursday night and said police would soon find three dead people inside a Bellefontaine …
Police are searching for a South Carolina woman who hasn’t been seen since a convicted felon was pulled over while driving her car in February. The Post and Courier reports that suspect Thomas Lawton Evans was staying with Sharon Nannette Hayden, 39, of Spartanburg, after he was released from prison earlier this year. A few days before …
New records obtained by The Wall Street Journal show that a tipster called in warnings about accused Florida high school shooter, Nikolas Cruz, weeks before he reportedly opened fire at a Parkland high school on February 14, killing 17 people. “Something is going to happen. Because he’s, he doesn’t have the mental capacity. He can’t, …
While a missing 5-year-old Kansas boy’s father wants the focus stay on finding the child, photos released show what looks like a history of abuse, with bruises across the boy’s face, back and arms. Sally Rasmussen, the great-aunt of Lucas Hernandez, shared photos of the boy with local station, KAKE. The disturbing pictures, taken in …
A Duvall County, Florida, jury unanimously decided on Wednesday afternoon that convicted child killer, Donald Smith, will face death. On the third day of the penalty phase for 61-year-old Donald Smith, both the prosecution and defense made closing arguments before the jury left the courtroom for deliberations. The jury decided that the prosecution provided enough …
Police announced on Wednesday that a California couple accused of sexually assaulting a little boy may have also sexually assaulted a dog. ABC reports that in August 2013, a 5-year-old boy told authorities that his parents sexually abused him. The parents were identified as 35-year-old Roy Ling and 32-year-old Sara Wilson. Authorities arrested the pair nearly …
An Arizona couple is behind bars after police say they locked several adopted children in their bedrooms all day without feeding them or allowing them access to other necessities. ABC reports that Benito Gutierrez, 69, and Carol Gutierrez, 64, were arrested on Tuesday afternoon on charges of child abuse after one of their adopted children snuck out …
The third day of the penalty phase for the man who killed, beat, and raped Florida girl Cherish Perrywinkle begins on Thursday morning and will likely end with a Duvall County jury’s decision on whether Donald Smith will get death or life without parole. On Wednesday, a neuropsychologist explained that Smith was indeed a “psychopath” who …
