‘Desperate Housewives’ actress Felicity Huffman will spend time in prison for trying to bribe her daughter’s way into college — if federal prosecutors get their way. TMZ reports that the U.S. Attorney filed court documents on Friday recommending that Huffman pay $20,000 in fines and spend one month in jail — a lesser sentence than …
A 43-year-old American woman, caught allegedly trying to smuggle a newborn onto an international flight, has been charged with human trafficking in the Philippines, the Philippines National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said in a press conference Thursday. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Jennifer Talbot initially concealed the 6-day-old boy in what International Airport Investigation Division chief …
A mother in Texas has reportedly admitted to hiding her 5-year-old daughter’s dead body in a closet for a week. WBTV reports that authorities found the girl’s body at an apartment complex in Houston after family members looking for the girl had called police. Responding officers noticed a strong odor in the apartment and asked …
A woman in England who killed both of her young daughters because they “got in the way” of her job as a part-time model and sex worker was seen on surveillance video with her two girls before their deaths. Additional images show Louise Porton, 23, carrying her toddler daughter and driving with the little girl in …
A Georgia mother who left her six-month-old son inside a hotel freezer has been sentenced to 99 years in prison. The Associated Press reports that Amanda Gail Oakes, 36, was given the 99-year sentence after pleading guilty to multiple charges in the death of her 6-month-old son, including manslaughter and corpse abuse. According to WSFA, …
The fugitive couple wanted on multiple child abuse charges has been found — and their newborn infant was located unharmed. The Associated Press reports that Hakim Mustafa Moore, 27, and Robin Alexander, 29, were found in St. Louis, Missouri, on Friday, along with a three-month-old infant. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the couple had been on …
A judge has issued a deadline for the defense attorneys of accused killer Patrick Frazee to introduce a possible second suspect. Frazee has been charged with murder in the presumed death Kelsey Berreth, the mother of his toddler daughter, on Thanksgiving Day 2018 — the last day Berreth, 29, was seen alive. According to CBS4 …
The murders of Shanann Watts and her two young daughters will be the subject of an upcoming movie on Lifetime, a year after Chris Watts was arrested for killing his family. As CBS 4 Denver reports, A&E Networks announced the upcoming movie about in a media alert on the network’s website this week. “Lifetime has …
A budding journalist and her accomplished brother are dead after their own mother is believed to have killed them before taking her own life. Cobb County Police told WTHR that Marsha Edwards, 58, is believed to have shot and killed her daughter, 20-year-old Erin Edwards, and her son, 24-year-old Christopher Edwards, before turning a gun …
The woman who briefly dated Betts claimed he once said he wanted to ‘hurt a bunch of people,’ but she didn’t take him seriously because he was drunk
A Florida man has been convicted of killing his parents and brother after they demanded he stop communicating with a woman whom he met on a pornographic webcam site, the Orlando Sentinel reports. On Wednesday, jurors found Grant Amato, 29, guilty in connection with the January shooting deaths of his parents, Chad Amato, 59, and …
Mourners gathered in Westchester County, New York, on Friday for a funeral service honoring the 1-year-old twins who died last week after their father accidentally left them in the backseat of his car while he went to work. As the New York Post reports, the twins’ father Juan Rodriguez was among distraught relatives and friends …
