Police in Pasadena, California, have released the 911 call placed by a witness who believed they recognized the suspect in the murder of a UCLA grad student, who had been on the loose for a week after allegedly killing Brianna Kupfer at her place of work. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Kupfer, 24, was working alone …
A 33-year-old Detroit mother of four was found shot to death and dismembered in her own home this week — nearly a month after she was reported missing. Police arrested Latima Warren’s boyfriend, 44-year-old Rondell Lamar Watters, and charged him with open murder. He was at the home, with an infant child, when police executed …
Three teens found dead in a rural Texas home on Tuesday were victims of a double murder and suicide, according to Harris County deputies, who also named the three teenagers. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office identified the teens as siblings Hayden Burns, 15, and Haley Burns, 17, and Hayley’s friend, 17-year-old Kadience Cadena, KHOU reported. …
A pedestrian alerted police to a wanted man accused of killing an UCLA graduate student last week. Citing a law enforcement source, Fox News reports that a witness spotted Shawn Laval Smith sitting on a park bench in Pasadena on Wednesday and alerted authorities. The pedestrian presumably recognized Smith from photos and videos the Los …
A Kansas man is facing multiple charges after he allegedly killed his girlfriend’s friend, who apparently gave her a cover story on the night she went out without her boyfriend. Jose E. Escalante-Corchado, 24, has been charged with murder and numerous related offenses after he allegedly killed Mackenzie Hopkins, 24, and attempted to kill her …
Attorneys for Ghilsaine Maxwell have asked for a retrial after being convicted of sex trafficking earlier this month. The New York Post reports that attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein’s close confidant have requested a retrial, reportedly because one juror did not disclose during jury selection that they were a victim of childhood sex abuse. As CrimeOnline …
San Diego investigators said Wednesday that a mother and her toddler son who died when they fell from a concourse at the city’s major league baseball stadium died from a murder-suicide. Police said the deaths of Raquel Wilkins, 40, and Denzel Browning-Wilkins, 2, were suspicious at the time. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Wilkins and her …
No arrests have been made in the slaying of a 16-year-old California girl who was reportedly shot in the neck and dumped on the side of a highway. According to KABC, Tioni Theus was found dead near 110 Freeway in South Los Angeles on January 8 after drivers spotted her body and contacted authorities. Additional …
Update, 4:11 p.m. The Los Angeles Police department has confirmed that Shawn Laval Smith was arrested in Pasadena on Wednesday. We can confirm, Shawn Laval Smith, the suspect responsible for the murder of Brianna Kupfer is in custody, after being located and detained by Pasadena PD around 11:50am this morning in the area of Fair …
On Tuesday, the search for a New South Wales girl ended when police made a gruesome discovery in Mount Wilson. According to Daily Beast, 9-year-old Charlise Mutten was reported missing on January 14 after she vanished while visiting with her mother over the school holidays. The child’s grandmother, who Charlise lived with, said she disappeared …
A New York district attorney released details of a renewed, yearlong investigation of Robert Durst in the disappearance and presumed murder of his wife Kathie Durst, missing since 1982. Durst died in prison earlier this month, after he was convicted in the 2000 murder of his close friend, Susan Berman. As CTPost reports, Westchester District …
A Minnesota mother reportedly helped in convicting the man who killed her 18-year-old daughter in September 2019 by stashing a tracking device in the teen’s car before her death. Wendy Poulson told the New York Post that she put the SafeTrack device in her adoptive daughter Dani’s car trunk before overdose death. The device — …
