A California woman was charged on Friday with killing her 7-month-old daughter during breastfeeding. On November 4, San Jose police were called to Celina Juarez’s home amid reports that her daughter Melani was not breathing and the baby’s twin sister was unconscious. Melani died the following day, according to KTVU. Juarez, 29, allegedly told police …
JoAnna Cottle called 911 at about 4 a.m. Friday morning to report a “possible intruder” at her Virginia home, but by the time police arrived — a dispatcher heard the gunshots — she and her three children were dead. Police later tracked down her former boyfriend, Jonah Adams, near his home in Waldorf, Maryland, and …
Hyacinth Brown-Johnson, her daughter, and stepdaughter all died in the bloody knife attack.
An Ohio woman has been accused of drowning her 93-year-old grandmother this week in her home in Eaton. Heidi Matheny, 35, reportedly told deputies that she first came up behind Alice Matheny while she was doing dishes and held her head in the sink “until she stopped blowing bubbles.” Then, she said, she wasn’t sure …
A Michigan man has been charged with murders in Wisconsin and Alabama, two men he met on the Grindr app because he thought it would be an easy way to find someone to kill. Caleb Anderson, 23, told investigators he “always just wanted to kill somebody,” since he was 14 or 15, according to the …
A family of five was found dead in a Phoenix house this week, and police say they believe the 44-year-old father killed his wife and children before killing himself. Firefighters first found the presence of gas at the home on Wednesday morning, slowing their response, but Southwest Gas crews cleared the house, KSAZ reported. Inside, …
Autopsies on the bodies of four University of Idaho students found dead in an off-campus apartment on Sunday confirm they were murdered by stabbing, the Latah County coroner officially ruled on Thursday. The Moscow Police Department released the statement from Coroner Catherine M. Mabbutt on its Facebook page. They had already said they were investigating …
On Tuesday, an Idaho judge found Lori Vallow Daybell fit to stand trial for murdering her two children and her husband’s first wife. This is the second time Vallow Daybell, 49, has been deemed competent to stand trial. East Idaho News reported that District Judge Steven Boyce’s latest decision lifts an October 6 ruling which …
A New Jersey woman will spend the rest of her life in prison for killing her infant son, who prosecutors said stood in the way of an extramarital affair. According to Law & Crime, Camden County Superior Court Judge Gwendolyn Blue sentenced Heather Reynolds to life without the possibility of parole on Wednesday, in connection …
Police investigating the gruesome deaths of four University of Idaho students have asked a building supply company whether they sell KA-BAR brand knifes, a combat-style weapon. Scott Jutte, manager of Moscow Building Supply, told the Idaho Statesman that officers have come by more than once to asked about the knives, although it’s not clear that …
Newly-released footage shows two of the four University of Idaho homicide victims hours before their deaths, as they ordered food and spoke with others at a food truck in Moscow. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Moscow police said Ethan Chapin, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, were found dead inside a …
