A Texas jury deliberated for 13 hours before finding former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean guilty of manslaughter on Thursday in the fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson in October 2019. Dean shot and killed Jefferson, 28, with a single shot through her bedroom window on October 12 after a neighbor asked for a welfare …
The father of Athena Strand, a 7-year-old Texas girl found strangled earlier this month, filed a lawsuit against FedEx after one of the company’s contract drivers was arrested for Athena’s murder. According to a civil complaint filed the in the 271st Judicial District in Wise County, Jacob Strand accused FedEx and its contracting company, Big …
A jury took less than an hour Tuesday to return a guilty verdict for a Wisconsin father accused of stabbing his two children to death in February 2020. Matthew Beyer, 38, denied killing 5-year-old William Beyer and 3-year-old Danielle Beyer at their mother’s home in Kaukauna they day before the parents were to appear in …
A Texas woman was found guilty Friday of hiring carnival worker to kill her son and daughter-in-law in 2013. Prosecutors said that Ruth Ann Comer wanted her son and his wife dead to cover her tracks after the unsolved murder of her boyfriend, Jerry Collins, a year earlier. Bexar County Prosecutor Lauren Scott argued that …
A former Chicago socialite who has already spent eight years behind bars in Indonesia for the murder of her mother was denied bond this week and will remain jailed until her conspiracy trial begins next summer. Heather Mack, 27, was convicted in the murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack in 2014 in Bali, where von Wiese-Mack …
A Wyoming man pleaded guilty Wednesday to second degree murder and child abuse in the death of his ex-girlfriend’s toddler son last year. Wyatt Lamb initially pleaded not guilty to first degree murder and 10 counts of child abuse relating to the death of 2-year-old Athian Rivera. The boy’s mother reported him missing on February …
A former New York police officer was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on Thursday, following his conviction last month for locking his 8-year-old son with autism in an unheated garage as temperatures dropped into the 20s — and after hosing him down with cold water. Michael Valva did the same to Thomas …
On Thursday, a Florida judge denied bond to a woman who is accused of murdering her boyfriend in April. According to WPLG, Circuit Judge Laura Shearon Cruz rejected Courtney Clenney’s request to be freed on bond pending trial. Clenney is charged with second-degree murder with a deadly weapon for allegedly stabbing Christian Obumseli, 27, with …
An Alabama man was formally indicted Tuesday in connection with the death of Cassi Carli. According to Fox News, 35-year-old Marcus Spanevelo was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday in St. Clair County preliminary hearing regarding evidence against him in connection with his former girlfriend Carli’s death. However, that hearing has been canceled, and Spanevelo …
A Missouri woman accused of kidnapping and killing an expectant mother so she could steal her baby is denying the allegations, setting the stage for a trial early next year, KNWA-TV reports. On Friday, 42-year-old Amber Waterman was in federal court, where she pleaded not guilty to the charge of kidnapping resulting in death. Authorities …
A gag order has been issued in the case of alleged murderer Richard Allen, accused of killing two children in Delphi, Indiana, in 2017. According to Fox 59, Judge Frances Gull granted the state’s motion for a gag order in Allen’s case on Thursday. The order came after Allen’s lawyer wrote a 3-page press release, …
A Maryland daycare owner accused of shooting her alleged child molester husband pleaded guilty Monday in D.C. court to gun and assault charges. According to CBS Baltimore, 50-year-old Shanteari Weems pleaded guilty to “aggravated assault knowingly while armed,” along with carrying a gun outside of a home or business without having a license. As CrimeOnline previously …
