An Indiana mother is accused of recording herself molesting her three-year-old daughter and selling the videos for drug money. The child’s father told WAVE that he called the police after finding the disturbing footage on Jamie Simms’ phone. Court documents obtained by the news station stated that Simms was visiting the 3- and 1-year-old she shares …
A Michigan mother who admitted to causing the death of her second baby learned her fate this week. Lisa Rae Bryan, 32, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 to 22 1/2 years in prison for the November 2016 death of her 1-month-old daughter, Isabella Powrozek. According to MLive, Bryan claimed she was breastfeeding Powrozek when she fell asleep and …
Authorities in New Jersey have identified the young girl’s body found in a suitcase near a train station earlier this month. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the toddler’s remains were discovered on April 11 under a bridge near the Journal Square Transportation Center. Though initial estimates placed the girl’s age at about 10 months, authorities now …
The adoption appears to have been handled by an agency that is no longer in business
“After the photo event, they go back to looking lifeless,” a friend who reported Jennifer and Sarah Hart to human services said
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A couple who recently moved from Switzerland to Utah planned a murder-suicide that left their family of four dead, buying sleeping pills and researching shootings, according to a police report on the investigation into the deaths that was released this week. Jessica Griffith, 43, believed she had a terminal disease …
A married Illinois woman was charged with one count of solicitation of murder for hire Wednesday after allegedly contracting a company on the dark web to kill her boyfriend’s spouse. According to the Chicago Tribune, Tina Jones, 31, of Des Plaines, reportedly made a $10,000 bitcoin payment in January to a spurious Internet company called Cosa …
A Swiss woman apparently convinced her husband to move their family to Utah where they staged a murder-suicide that left them, their two children and pet dog dead last year, according to police. According to the Daily Herald 43-year-old Jessica Griffith reportedly told her husband she was dying and in great pain. She told Timothy …
A Canadian mother has been taken into custody in connection with her toddler daughter’s death. CBC reports that Audrey Gagnon, 23, was set to face charges in court on Thursday, but the hearing has been delayed after the young mother reportedly hurt herself intentionally while in police custody. Authorities told the news outlet that the …
Detective Sgt. James Bogner says the girl “had no idea what she had done and she was very scared.”
A judge in southern California will review a death investigation previously ruled a suicide after a civil jury found the victim’s brother-in-law was responsible for her death. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Adam Shacknai was ordered to pay over $5 million in damages to Rebecca Zahau’s family following a civil trial that found him legally responsible …
Arizona mom Brittany Velasquez allegedly murdered her two young children by locking them in a car for over 14 hours and then blaming an unidentified babysitter for their deaths. Nancy Grace looks at the case against the 20-year-old woman with a panel of experts including DNA expert George Schiro, New York psychotherapist Lauren Howard, Atlanta juvenile judge and founder …
