A 75-year-old woman and her 58-year-old daughter were found stabbed to death Tuesday in the basement of their home in Philadelphia’s Crescentville neighborhood. Police identified the victims as Angela Trejo and her daughter, Alma Barberena, and said both women suffered multiple stab wounds, WPVI reported. They were pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators said they …
According to newly released court documents, Oklahoma investigators found a trove of evidence inside a pickup truck of two suspects facing murder charges in connection with slain mothers, Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Tifany Adams, 54; Tad Cullum, 43; Cole Twombly, 50; and Cora Twombly, 44, have been charged with two …
A Florida teen has been arrested conspiring to kill his father in 2022 and then killing the accomplice who helped him murder the father. Shane Payne Sr. was found shot to death inside his home in August 2022, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said. Three days later, Jacksonville deputies found 16-year-old Timothy Dixon suffering from a …
A 101st Airborne Division soldier was found dead at her home near Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and authorities are looking for her killer. Private First Class Katia Duenas-Aguilar, 23, was assigned to the division’s Combat Aviation Brigade, Military.com reported. “We are stunned by the death of Pfc. Duenas-Aguilar,” Lt. Col. Tony Hoefler, spokesperson for the 101st …
A Alabama woman was found dead on a front porch Tuesday afternoon in Birmingham’s Inglenook neighborhood, and police say her body had been there for a couple of days. “This did not just happen,’’ Officer Truman Fitzgerald told AL.com. Fitzgerald said the death was being investigated as a murder after “officers observed signs of trauma …
A North Carolina man was arrested on Monday for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and seriously wounding her mother’s fiance on Saturday. The Gaston Gazette reported that David McDowell, 24, killed the mother of his 2-year-old son, Zanayah White, 19, at her Gastonia home. He allegedly then walked outside and shot her mother’s fiance in the …
An Iowa woman will spend her life behind bars for the murder of her stepmother. On Monday, a Benton County jury found Samantha Bevans, 35, guilty of first-degree murder in the 2022 killing of 58-year-old Jodie Bevans. Last week, Bevans testified in her defense, claiming her boyfriend, Tacoa Talley, smothered the victim inside her home …
A Georgia college junior was shot and killed Saturday during an argument in front of a campus residential complex. Kennesaw State University identified the victim as Alasia Franklin, 21. She was pursuing a career in nursing, her father, Bobby Franklin, told WXIA. Campus police issued a shelter-in-place alert for the campus, northwest of Atlanta in …
New York police have arrested a 19-year-old man in the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy last week and say they are still looking for a second suspect. Henry Thomas was arrested on Friday and has been charged with murder in the death of Makhi Brown, WABC reported. Brown has breaking up an argument between …
A Pennsylvania man is behind bars after state police say they found his roommate’s body scattered in three locations, including a trail, a cemetery, and a quarry. Police said 37-year-old David Hittinger’s dismembered body was discovered in Slatington, just 15 miles north of Allentown, Pennsylvania, according to CBS News. Hittinger was reported missing Monday by …
A UPS driver was found shot to death in his truck Thursday afternoon, and a co-worker with the delivery company has been charged with killing him. Irvine, California, police were called to the scene by multiple reports of shots fired at about 3 p.m., KCAL reported. Officers found Expedito Cuesta De Leon, 50, slumped over …
A man suspected of gunning down a South Carolina woman as she arrived at her job Friday morning was arrested hours later in Georgia. The Anderson County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Katy Brooke Jones, 36, an employee at NRTC Automation in Piedmont, South Carolina. Investigators say Jones arrived at work and Derek Snyder, …
