Authorities in Ontario, Canada, believe the mother of a missing toddler played a role in his disappearance earlier this year. According to The Star, 35-year-old Michelle Hanson was charged with impaired driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death and criminal negligence causing death. She drove a minivan onto a closed road following a February flood …
The man accused of abusing and starving his 10-month-old daughter to death waited a full 90 minutes to call 911 after he found the infant girl dead — and made a call to his lawyer first. According to MLive, prosecutors played the 911 in the courtroom at the probable cause hearing for Seth Welch and …
UPDATE: 5:16 pm. ET The Mendocino County Sheriff’s office has provided a statement to CrimeOnline on the latest development: “We have been contacted by a lady who has indicated she is the biological mother and is willing to cooperate,” Mendocino County Sheriff Lt. Shannon Barney said. “We have not yet obtained a sample and are working …
Man covered in blood turns himself in to police after killing mother of 8 A Florida man wanted for the murder of his wife turned himself in to police this weekend, covered in blood and nearly 200 miles away from the crime scene, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Marco Stephens, 29, approached a Pasco County …
The California mother who allegedly abused her children and locked them away in a “House of Horrors” will not be able to delay her criminal trial for mental health treatment, the Desert Sun reports. Jeff Moore, a lawyer for Louise Turpin, had asked the court for a so-called “mental health diversion” because of what he …
A California mother and her boyfriend are facing numerous criminal charges for the alleged torture and murder of the woman’s 10-year-old son. The Los Angeles Times reports that Heather Barron, 29, and Kareem Leiva, 32, pleaded not guilty to multiple charges in the death of Barron’s 10-year-old son Anthony Avalos. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Anthony died …
A coroner has completed the autopsy reports for Shannan Watts and her daughters Bella and Celeste, who were found dead last month on the property of a petroleum company where Shanann’s husband Chris Watts worked. Watts has been charged with numerous felony counts, including three counts of first-degree murder. The Denver Channel obtained a court notice …
“She was a very insecure young lady,” Shanann Watts’s former teacher said
A North Carolina woman who was charged Tuesday with felony concealment of death reportedly told authorities that she kept her own mother’s body hidden for months so she could “see the stages of death.” Donna Sue Hudgins, 69, of Enfield, was arrested and charged for concealing the death of her 93-year-old mother, Nellie Mae Hudgins, …
A Tennessee father was arrested Thursday after authorities say he intentionally set his adult daughter’s wheelchair on fire — while she was still in it. Timothy Shane Medley, 41, of Pulaski, allegedly set the woman’s wheelchair ablaze using an accelerant in May, the New York Post reports. According to a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) …
Before Chris Watts confessed to police that he killed his pregnant wife Shanann Watts, he had a one-on-one conversation with his father. The arrest affidavit obtained by CrimeOnline last month shows that Chris Watts asked to speak to his father just before he gave a detailed confession to police. But as People magazine notes, a …
Two teenagers were fatally shot by their own father before he took his own life in what police say is a devastating double-murder suicide in rural Indiana, the IndyStar reports. The children’s mother called police Friday morning after she was informed her kids weren’t at school and no one answered the door at her ex-husband’s …
