Police investigating the disappearance and death of a 45-year-old Pennsylvania mom said Thursday there is “NO EVIDENCE that Dana Smither’s disappearance, is in ANY WAY tied to Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger.” Media outlets, including CrimeOnline, reported that Kohberger’s parents, Michael and Maryann Kohberger, had been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in Monroe …
A Texas teenager accused this week for murdering his parents, sister, and brother allegedly told a man who confronted him inside the home that he killed them because they were cannibals and were going to eat him. Cesar Olalde, 18, is charged with killing his mother, Aida Garcia-Mendoza; father, Reuben Olalde; older sister Lisbet Olalde; …
A Texas mother was indicted Wednesday on capital murder charges for stabbing three of her children to death in March. KDFI reported that Ellis County prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Shamaiya Hall, 25, who allegedly killed her 6-year-old son and 5-year-old twins after Child Protective Services tried to remove them and her 4-year-old …
A Utah man arrested in the deaths of his wife and in-laws was formally charged Thursday with three counts of aggravated murder and could be facing the death penalty. Jeremy Bailey called 911 on May 19 and told dispatchers “that he had shot his wife, his mother-in-law, his father-in-law, and three of the four family …
A Kansas jury that convicted Jenna Boedecker on Friday of second-degree murder and endangering the welfare of a child is seeking a prison sentence of more than 50 years. On Monday, the jury recommended sentencing Boedecker to 22 years for each of the two second-degree murder convictions and a combined total of nine years for …
Sources say the Kohbergers are testifying about the disappearance in May 2022 of Dana Smithers, who was found dead earlier this month.
A 17-year-old Virginia honor student has been arrested for fatally shooting a freshman classmate as he walked down the street Tuesday afternoon. Investigators said Sean Shewey, 16, was pronounced dead at the scene in Jarratt while his sister was wounded and flown to a trauma center in Richmond, WRIC reported. The sister has since been …
North Carolina police arrested a 33-year-old man on Monday in connection with the 2021 death of his 3-month-old son. In May 2021, Guilford County EMS responded to a medical cardiac call involving Sterling Cummings’ son, Waylon Cummings, who died about a week later. Sterling Cummings was watching the baby at the time as his mother …
Texas police named a suspect Tuesday in the murder of a woman who was found dead the day before. KLBK reported that Lakaria Moore, 18, vanished on Sunday, and Christopher Carter, 39, was the last person she was seen with. Lubbock police had learned that Carter’s vehicle was located outside city limits before they found …
A recently-released arrest affidavit sheds light on details surrounding the death of Madeline Pantoja, a Texas woman found murdered and left in a rural area in southeast Midland. Mario Juan Chacon Jr., 24, was arrested on Saturday for the disappearance and death of Pantoja, 20. Following a 10-day search, Pantoja’s body was discovered in a …
A South Carolina woman allegedly drowned her 6-year-old daughter on Friday before trying to do the same to her 8-year-old child. Beaufort County police responded to reports that a woman was trying to drown her child at a home on St. Helena Island. Responding officers discovered Mackaya Brun’s body and detained her mother, Jamie Michelle …
A 13-year-old boy is dead after a reported argument led to multiple others beating him and setting him on fire in Russia. Albert Umbetyarov was locked in a shed in the woods of Dubovaya Roschcha region, Moscow, following an argument on Friday. According to a witness, the assailants severely beat him with bats, soaked him …
