Update: 8:45 p.m.: Family members have identified the young woman beheaded Thursday on a San Carlos street at Karina Castro, a 27-year-old mother of 7-year-old and 1-year-old girls who worked for DoorDash. The suspect was previously identified as 33-year-old Jose Raphael Solano Landaeta, the father of Castro’s 1-year-old daughter. Castro’s family said he goes by …
A 45-year-old Illinois man has been charged with stabbing his parents to death Wednesday morning in their apartment in the well-to-do Chicago suburb of Highland Park. Barry Goldberg was ordered held on a $5 million bond at a hearing Thursday in the case, WMAQ reported. The bodies of Ronald Goldberg, 79, and Renee Goldberg, 74, …
A 16-year-old Florida boy has been charged with the brutal stabbing death of his 57-year-old grandmother, an investigator for the Florida Commission on Offender Review. Jaylin Christian reportedly used at least two knives to stab Muriel Ladonna Emerson in the kitchen of the home he shared with her. When asked how many times he stabbed …
Investigators said they found DNA consistent with Robert Telles’s beneath reporter Jeff German’s fingernails.
An Oregon man has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2018 murder of his elderly mother. According to the Washington County District Attorney in Oregon, Garth Patrick Beams was found guilty last month of second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon. His mother, Wendy Henson, was found deceased and beaten with a …
A Clark County public official has been arrested for the murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, whose reporting of alleged wrongdoing by that official cost him his party’s nomination for another term in office this year. Investigators searched the home of Robert Telles early Wednesday morning, as CrimeOnline previously reported, but police provided …
A Missouri man flagged down a Texas police chief Wednesday and told him he’d shot his wife. Floydada Police Chief Reuben Ramon told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal that he was checking out a report of a hay bale in the road early Wednesday afternoon when Keith Bass II, 48, waved him over. Ramon said Bass approached …
A New Hampshire man will admit on Wednesday that he killed his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son last year. The Boston Globe reported that Joseph Stapf, 31, will plead guilty to manslaughter, second-degree assault, falsifying physical evidence, and witness tampering. Stapf was dating Elijah Lewis’ mother at the time of his disappearance and death. In October, a …
A Washington teen accused of killing his mother’s former boyfriend claims that the victim’s “biker buddies” pushed him into robbery and murder. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Gabriel Michael Davies, 16, and another teen, identified as 16-year-old Justin Jiwoon Yoon, were arrested Friday and subsequently charged with suspected burglary, murder, and unlawful possession of a firearm. …
The suspect in the kidnapping and killing of Memphis mom Eliza Fletcher may well face the death penalty, CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace says. Prosecutors have not said if they will seek execution for Cleotha Abston, 38, which in Tennessee could come in the form of either lethal injection or electrocution. “This is a qualifier to the …
Surveillance video obtained by WREG shows Cleotha Abston arriving at his brother’s apartment complex just hours after he allegedly abducted Memphis mom Eliza Fletcher during her morning jog. The video ultimately shows Abston spending an hour cleaning the passenger side of the black GMC Terrain.
A Florida judge on Tuesday denied an attempt by OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney’s attorney to restrict potential evidence in her upcoming trial on charges that she stabbed her boyfriend to death in their luxury Miami apartment earlier this year. Clenney, 26, was arrested in Hawaii last month and brought back to Florida to stand trial …
