David and Louise Turpin, the California couple arrested last year for the torture and abuse of 12 of their 13 children, were sentenced Friday to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years. In February, the Turpins pleaded guilty to 14 criminal counts, including torture and false imprisonment. The couple was arrested …
The couple’s 17-year-old daughter told a dispatcher that she hadn’t taken a bath in a year and barely had a first-grade education
A man charged for last year’s stabbing death of a 15-year-old New York boy is reportedly in talks with prosecutors about making a plea deal that could spare him from life in prison. The mother of Lesandro Guzman-Ortiz, Leandra Feliz, told WPIX Tuesday that she’s requested a meeting with Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark amid news that Jonaiki …
Authorities in Arizona say a defendant turned his aggression toward his own attorney after a jury announced their guilty verdict against him. According to the Tucson Daily Star, 28-year-old Chet Jack Wadsworth Maley was convicted on Monday of the 2016 stabbing that left his girlfriend dead. As witnesses reported at the time of 29-year-old Roxanne …
Despite appearing for a hearing on charges related to the attempted murder of her estranged husband, a New York woman was in apparent good spirits as she arrived at a Suffolk County courthouse recently. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 40-year-old Renee Burke is accused of pouring antifreeze in Matthew Burke’s drinks on multiple occasions — even …
The father of a 4-year-old Ohio girl who was killed last year by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county’s Department of Children and Families, accusing the agency of ignoring evidence of abuse before his daughter’s murder. According to WJW, Mickhal Garrett filed the lawsuit against the Cuyahoga County …
Months after a crash killed 20 people in the nation’s deadliest auto collision since 2009, the owner of a limousine company in Wilton has been indicted on dozens of related criminal charges. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 18 individuals inside the limo — including the driver — as well as two pedestrians were killed in the …
A Michigan family has agreed to an $8.25 million payout nearly nine years after an officer shot and killed a 7-year-old girl during a police raid which crews filmed for the A&E series “The First 48.” The Detroit News reported that the city of Detroit and family of Aiyana Stanley-Jones reached a settlement Thursday, days before a …
Dozens of women have sued a California hospital for allegedly recording them in gynecology operating rooms without their consent or knowledge. BuzzFeed News reports that 81 women have sued Sharp Grossmont Hospital, alleging that approximately 1,800 women were recorded in three rooms at the hospital’s Women’s Center between July 17, 2012, and June 30, 2013. Women’s faces were …
An attorney representing one of five suspects accused of fatally stabbing a 15-year-old New York boy last summer insinuated in court that the slain teen was possibly a gang member—leading to outrage inside and outside of court. From WPIX, the comments came Thursday while Jose Muniz’s lawyer cross-examined detective Oscar Rosa of the Bronx Homicide …
A Kentucky man has filed a lawsuit claiming that his former boss interrogated him about his sexual interests and religious beliefs, and reprimanded him for refusing to be exorcized. According to the lawsuit obtained by WKYT, Jason Fields started working as a desk clerk at Hampton Inn in 2016. His manager, Sharon Lindon, learned that …
The monster Wisconsin man who killed two people and abducted their daughter, Jayme Closs, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to homicide and kidnapping. As a Barron County judge read out the charges against him, 21-year-old Jake Patterson acknowledged that he was voluntarily pleading guilty to the charges. Although he walked into the courtroom smiling and nodding …
