The family of 19-year-old Kristin Smart released a statement Tuesday, following the news of an arrest made nearly 25 years after Smart’s disappearance. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Paul Flores, the prime suspect in the disappearance and presumed death of a Cal Poly freshman, Kristin Smart, was booked Tuesday in the San Luis Obispo County jail on suspicion …
A former Wisconsin newspaper delivery driver says he saw the person who hid a murder victim’s vehicle into a salvage yard, and it wasn’t either of the men currently serving sentences for the crime. Thomas Sowinski signed a sworn affidavit, claiming that he was working on November 5, 2005, for Gannett, delivering papers when he …
A community was shocked when a beautiful, beloved New York City socialite was found dead in her Manhattan apartment at the hands of her own husband. The case is now the centerpiece of a new book, which provides never-before-revealed details about “backgammon-loving leech” Rod Covlin and the murder of his wife, Shelle Danishefsky. As CrimeOnline previously reported, …
Friends, family, still unnerved by close encounters with the killer grandma Lois Reiss.
An upcoming episode of “20/20” will analyze how detectives linked “Dating Game” serial killer Rodney Alcala to eight murders in the 1970s. Scheduled to air on Friday, the “20/20” episode will detail how Alcala’s arrest for Robin Samsoe’s July 1979 murder exposed the photographer’s secret life as a serial killer. According to ABC, Samsoe, 12, …
A Texas woman who was convicted of fatally stabbing her husband in 2003 was freed from prison Wednesday after serving 16 years of a 20-year sentence The Houston Chronicle reported that Susan Wright, 44, left the Dr. Lane Murray Unit in Gatesville, where she served part of her sentence. She requested privacy from reporters upon …
An attorney charged with conspiracy in the death of missing Connecticut mom Jennifer Farber Dulos may be cooperating with investigators, an attorney for another alleged conspirator charged in the case said in court documents filed Monday, according to the Hartford Courant. Kent Mawhinney, a friend of Farber Dulos’s husband Fotis Dulos who represented him in …
Chatham County Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley denied bond last month to the father and son accused of killing Georgia jogger Ahmaud Arbery earlier this year, and this month the judge detailed his reasons for the denial in a strongly worded order filed with the court on Wednesday. Gregory McMichael, 64, and Travis McMichael, 34, …
Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten has again been been blocked from parole, with California Governor Gavin Newsom saying in his decision that “evidence shows that she currently poses an unreasonable danger to society if released from prison,” the Los Angeles Times reports. Van Houten is serving a life sentence for her part in the …
Prosecutors admitted they made a “deal with the devil” in exchange for Krystal Lee Kenney’s witness testimony, which helped convict Patrick Frazee of Kelsey Berreth’s murder
The defense lawyers for Scott Peterson say new evidence will be presented that shows prosecutors during his murder trial established an incorrect timeline. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Peterson, who’s currently in San Quentin prison for killing his wife, Laci, and unborn son, Connor, wants a new trial. Last month, the California Supreme court was ordered …
A South Carolina woman accused of driving her into a lake with her two young sons strapped in their car seats could be out of prison by 2024. People magazine reports that 49-year-old Susan Smith has been on her best behavior while behind bars at the Leath Correctional Institution in Greenwood, S.C., according to an …
