A Texas couple was sentenced to prison on Friday, months after police found their 2-year-old daughter’s partial remains in an acid-filled container. Monica Dominguez, 38, and her husband, Gerardo Zavala Loredo, 32, were arrested in February when police searching their apartment found Rebecka Zavala’s body in a five-gallon container hidden in their bedroom closet. Dominguez …
Authorities have located a body in the search for a missing Missouri woman whose husband is suspected of her murder. Citing police sources, the Riverfront Times reports that Jennifer Rothwell’s husband Beau Rothwell led St. Louis County police to his wife’s body, reportedly found in a wooded area of Lincoln County. As CrimeOnline previously reported, …
Five members of a San Diego family are dead — including three young children — after an apparent murder-suicide sparked by a rancorous divorce. San Diego police said an estranged husband shot and killed his wife and three of their children Saturday morning and wounded a fourth child, who is listed in critical condition after …
The husband of a missing St. Louis woman has been charged with murder in connection with her disappearance, following earlier charges of tampering with evidence. As NBC News reports, Jennifer Rothwell, 28, has not been since November 12 when she left her home to go to work, but never showed up. On Wednesday Rothwell’s husband …
An incestuous British couple who strangled their two sons and tried to kill their four surviving children in May was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday. The BBC reported that Sarah Barrass, 35, strangled Tristan Barrass, 13, with her gown cord and her half-brother, Brandon Machin, 39, used his hands to strangle Blake Barrass, 14, …
The grieving mother says that while her husband has repeatedly apologized, he hasn’t explicitly asked for her forgiveness. “We’ll work on that,” she says.
Co-workers of a young Colorado mother presumed murdered testified at her suspected killer’s trial on Wednesday, contradicting claims Patrick Frazee allegedly made about Kelsey Berreth’s parenting and substance use. Berreth has not been seen since Thanksgiving Day 2018, and authorities believe she was murdered although her body has not been found. A former girlfriend of …
An Arizona mother accused of abusing her children while she profited from their popular YouTube channel has died. ABC 15 reports that Machelle Hobson, 48, has died in a Phoenix hospital as she was facing dozens of child abuse charges. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Hobson, the creator of the “Fantastic Adventures” YouTube channel, was arrested …
A woman who says she has exchanged letters with confessed family-killer Chris Watts will appear on the “Dr. Oz” show Tuesday to discuss the Colorado criminal’s detailed confessions about his family’s brutal murders. Cheryln Cadle, the author of the book “Letters from Christopher: The Tragic Confessions of the Watts Family Murders,” has reportedly exchanged letters …
A Texas man is accused of killing his mother’s dog because she wouldn’t let him bring a woman into her home for sex. News 4 San Antonio reports that James Garcia, 39, was arrested after he allegedly threw his mother’s dog, Roxy, 18 feet in his parents’ San Antonio home, causing the dog’s heart to …
A Virginia mother is accused of trying to murder her two young children before fleeing their home. CBS 6 reports that authorities responded to an apartment complex in Stafford County in response to reports of a “distraught woman” on Saturday morning. Amanda Vicinanzo with the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office told the news station that deputies …
New details cast doubt on the official account of the Mormon killings in Mexico, with evidence indicating that some victims were shot at point-blank range, the New York Post reports. Nine women and children of a Mormon family were gunned down Monday as they were traveling in a convoy of sport utility vehicles in the …
