A 12-year-old boy is among three suspects who have been charged in connection with last year’s beating death of an elderly man in Pennsylvania. The unidentified juvenile, along with John Nusslein, 18, and Qiyam Muhammad, 16, are facing criminal charges for a December 2 attack that led to Chung Yan Chin’s death on December 21 …
Investigators have arrested a suspect in the death of an Uber driver reported missing last week and found dead along a wooded hillside in a suburb of Pittsburgh. WPXI reports that Calvin Crew, 22, was charged Thursday with criminal homicide, robbery, and tampering with evidence in the death of Christina Spicuzza, 38. As CrimeOnline previously …
Police in Colorado are investigating Thursday after finding a 38-year-old woman dead from a gunshot wound and her 28-year-old husband wounded by an apparent self-inflicted gunshot. Investigators have not released the identities of the couple, KMGH reported. The husband was taken to a hospital for treatment. Police responded to reports of a shooting at an …
A pregnant woman died on Monday in what Ohio authorities are investigating as a murder-suicide. Kayla McGovern, 29, and Michael Reece, 42, were found deceased together in Harrison Township. McGovern’s relatives told WXIX that she was five months pregnant. Hamilton County police have not disclosed who carried out the murder-suicide. However, those close to McGovern …
A grand jury has indicted the Texas father of a 14-year-old boy wanted for a triple murder after investigators said he drove his son to the shooting location and then drove him back home. Richard Acosta Jr, 33, faces a capital murder charge for the December 26 shooting that killed three other teenage boys and …
A Missouri woman has been charged with murder after she allegedly decapitated her 6-year-old son According to KSHB, Tasha Haefs, 35, called police Tuesday night and reported that the devil was trying to attack her. She hung up before providing more information. Kansas City Police officers responded to the home and saw what looked like …
A Florida woman is behind bars for allegedly using her pandemic-relief loan to hire a hitman to kill a Miami federal airport officer. Jasmine Martinez, 33, received the loan on April 20, 2021. Two weeks later, a man dressed in a black hooded sweatshirt shot and killed U.S. Transportation Security Administration officer, Le’Shonte Jones (pictured …
East Point police are seeking help identiying the victim.
A Kansas man is behind bars after police say he burned down a home, killing an infant boy in the process. According to the Shawnee Police Department, Nicholas A. Ecker was arrested Monday and charged with first-degree murder, aggravated arson, and related charges. The incident happened early Sunday morning in Shawnee, at a home off …
A homeless New York man accused of murder will be held without bail after leaving the victim with multiple stab wounds, a judge ruled Monday morning. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 35-year-old Christina Yuna Lee arrived home to her apartment on Christie Street in Manhattan early Sunday morning after a Saturday night out. The suspect allegedly …
A Pennsylvania father was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday, after confessing in court to abusing and starving his son to death in 2020. PennLive.com reported that Scott Schollenberger Jr., 43, pleaded guilty to criminal homicide, endangering the welfare of a child, and conspiracy on both counts. On May 26, 2020, the man’s son, …
Authorities in Florida have released the autopsy and forensic reports for Brian Laundrie, who was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in a Florida nature reserve this fall. When Laundrie, 23, was found dead of an apparent suicide, police had been searching for him in connection to the death of his …
