A retired professional ballet dancer is behind bars in connection with the September death of her husband. According to a press release by the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, Ashley Benefield, 28, was charged on Friday with second-degree murder. She’s accused of killing her husband, Doug Benefield. Benefield allegedly shot the victim twice. She was in …
An alleged trespasser held South Carolina police at bay for nearly five hours on Saturday — only for detectives to find a body in the backyard after the suspect surrendered. York County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a home on Tom Barber Road south of Rock Hill. The trespasser was identified as Prince Demario Barber, …
A 25-year-old Chicago man was ordered held without bail this week for the June murders of his girlfriend, her mother, and her sister — apparently because his girlfriend wasn’t feeling well and wouldn’t cook for him or braid his hair. Shonta Harris, 24, and John Matthews had a 4-month-old son together, although they lived in …
Police in central Georgia have arrested a man for a triple murder at a Macon boarding house Saturday night, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies along with the US Marshals Southeast Fugitive Task Force found Ronald Green Jr., 51, at a motel in north Macon, several miles from the crime scene on the east …
Mexican authorities have arrested a man in connection with the murders of a Mormon family a year ago in Sonora state, according to the Mexican Attorney General’s Office. Three woman and six children were killed in the November 4, 2019, attack that the Mexican Public Security Ministry believes was perpetrated by an organized crime group, …
A New Mexico woman was arrested in Florida this week and charged with the murder of her grandfather, apparently because she wanted his lake house, investigators said, according to KRQE. According to New Mexico State Police, the body of AJ Harden, 83, was found in a tool box dumped into a trash pit behind a …
A New York man has been charged with killing his on-again, off-again girlfriend whose body has not yet been found, the Hudson Valley Post reports. Prosecutors on Friday charged 37-year-old Matthew Louis Mercado with murdering 36-year-old Jessica Lopez, who has been missing for about a year. Lopez, a substitute teacher, was last seen in November …
A Virginia surgical technician shot and killed his wife and then himself Halloween night, just days after she had handed him separation papers, Now, the couple’s 24-year-old daughter and her husband have two high school students to look after while coming to terms with the tragic deaths. “My father took my mom’s life simply because …
A Pennsylvania chiropractor was found dead of an apparent murder in his home office this week. According to WPVI, police responded to a call about a medical emergency at an address in Bensalem on Monday, and found the body of 64-year-old James Sowa, a chiropractor who ran his business out of his residence. Sowa reportedly …
Authorities in Ohio have arrested a second suspect in a deadly shooting that claimed the life of a 4-year-old boy in September. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 4-year-old Rowan Sweeney was killed on September 21 when a gunman or gunmen entered a residence in Youngstown, killing the boy and injuring four adults: Andre Stephon McCoy, Jr., …
A former Major League Baseball prospect was convicted Wednesday of the 2015 first-degree murders of his father, uncle, and a bystander at the family’s California home. The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement that Brandon Martin, 27, killed his disabled father and uncle Michael Martin, 64, Ricky Andersen, 58, and ADT alarm …
An arrest has been made in connection with the shooting death of “Surface” actor, Eddie Hassell. Westport News reports that authorities arrested D’Jon Antone, 18, on Wednesday. The US Marshal Service North Texas Fugitive Task Force and the Grand Prairie police said the suspect was taken into custody without incident at a Dallas home. “He …
