New York police are looking for an 18-year-old man for the stabbing of his girlfriend, a 16-year-old Manhattan girl found dead in an apartment in Harlem. Officers responded to a call about the stabbing on Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard at about 5:30 p.m. and found Saniyah Lawrence badly injured with a stab wound to the …
Authorities in Maryland found the decomposing body of a pregnant woman last week at the apartment of a man accused of killing a convenience store clerk. Torrey Moore, 31, was arrested on Friday for the shooting death of 61-year-old Ayalew Wondimu on Thursday, WTOP reports. Montgomery County Police Chief Marcus Jones said a search of …
The Virginia sheriff’s deputy who killed the mother and grandparents of a California teen he catfished shot himself with his service weapon after a chase with law enforcement 200 miles from the murder scene. Investigators’s say 28-year-old Austin Lee Edwards “catfished” the 15-year-old daughter of Brooke Winek, 38, posing as a 17-year-old boy, as CrimeOnline …
A 77-year-old Atlanta woman was stabbed to death on Saturday, apparently when she interrupted a suspect trying to steal her Lexus SUV. Eleanor “Ellen” J. Bowles was found dead by her son, who arrived home for the holidays, at her home in Atlanta’s tony Buckhead neighborhood, just a mile from the Georgia governor’s mansion. Atlanta …
A 21-year-old Colorado man has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of two women and a man at a home in Aurora on Friday. Christopher Martinez was arrested Saturday morning at at about 5:30 a.m., 24 hours after family members first contacted police for a welfare check at the residence, the Aurora …
A California woman is on trial for allegedly killing her former stepfather after she discovered naked images of herself on his computer, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Jade Janks, 39, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Thomas Merriman, 64, who was found dead in January 2021 at his apartment in Solano Beach, California. “This was …
A northeast Alabama man has been arrested and charged with killing his 62-year-old mother. DeKalb County emergency officials responded to a home in Collinsville Tuesday night and found Sandra Jelks dead in her living room, WDEF reported. Jelks was the mother of a DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office employee, so Sheriff Nick Welden asked deputies in …
A Louisiana Uber driver was stabbed to death in the parking lot of a hotel by a rider who “decided he was going to kill someone.” Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said that 54-year-old Yolanda Dillion picked up Brandon Jacobs, 29, in New Orleans on Thursday and drove him to a Travelodge in Harvey at …
A Florida man is accused of violently stabbing to death a woman whom he was trying to date, FOX 4 reports. On September 26, police were called to a residence on South Haberland Boulevard in Port Charlotte, where they found a bloody and gruesome scene. Officers found a woman whose hands were tied behind her back, …
Prosecutors this week revealed a possible motive for why South Carolina legal scion Alex Murdaugh allegedly murdered his wife and son, WCSC-TV reports. In a court filing on Thursday, lawyers for the government alleged that Murdaugh committed the murders to divert attention away from his theft of almost $9 million from clients. Because of that …
A woman found dead after a house fire in Atlanta earlier this month was stabbed several times and her neck was slashed, police said. WXIA reported that two people were found dead inside the home: Lola Bell Thomas, the homeowner, and her nephew, Bobby Grubbs. Thomas was the victim of a homicide, the Fulton County …
A 5-year-old South Carolina girl reported missing after her mother was found dead has been located, and her father has been charged with her mother’s murder. Orangeburg County Sheriff Leroy Ravenell said that Aspen Jeter’s father, 46-year-old Antar Antonio Jeter, is in custody after two warrants were issued for his arrest, one for the murder …
