Murder

‘First responders without the training’: Postal worker mom gunned down over an aggressive Chihuahua and stimulus check [UPDATE]

 Angela Summers
Murder

A murder suspect arrested last month in connection with a shooting that left an Indiana postal worker dead, allegedly shot the woman because she didn’t deliver his stimulus check. As CrimeOnline previously reported, police arrested Tony Cushingberry, 21, in connection with shooting death of postal worker Angela Summers. Summers was reportedly shot in the chest …

Murder
May 26, 2020

HOUSE OF HORRORS: Cops find skeletal remains of girl who died years earlier after being fed only bread and water for months; brother rescued from confinement in feces-strewn concrete basement [Report]

An ongoing child abuse and neglect case in Tennessee reportedly resulted in investigators finding a girl’s skeletal remains in a couple’s backyard on Saturday. According to 1057News.com, authorities got involved on Friday, after someone called 911 about a 10-year-old boy walking alone in the street in Roane County. Officers eventually made contact with the boy’s …

Murder
May 25, 2020

3 dead in north Alabama shooting, ‘dangerous’ killer on the loose: Cops

Authorities are looking for a 58-year-old north Alabama man they say shot three people to death and wounded a fourth on Sunday afternoon. Carson Ray Peters is considered armed and dangerous, the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. Peters is reportedly with April Hanner, and the two are possibly in a black 2013 Chevrolet 1500 …

UConn killer Peter Manfredonia
Murder
May 25, 2020

MANHUNT underway for ‘armed and dangerous’ college student suspected in double slaying & kidnapping

Authorities in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania are searching for a man who they believe killed a stranger and acquaintance last week before abducting the acquaintance’s girlfriend. WPVI reported that University of Connecticut student Peter Manfredonia, 23, is suspected of killing Theodore Demers, 62, in an attack Friday morning in Willington that left another man …

Alejandro Ripley
Murder
May 25, 2020

‘He never made a sound’: Witness says she saw autistic boy fall into canal. Days later, his mother is arrested for felony murder. [Update]

A Good Samaritan spotted a Florida woman moments before her son fell into a canal; she said nothing seemed unusual between mother and son. The child’s mother would later find another canal to push the child into, where he drowned, according to police. As CrimeOnline previously reported, security footage captured 47-year-old Patricia Ripley pushing her son, …

Child Abuse
May 24, 2020

Mom, stepdad charged after 7-year-old boy dies from ‘severe abuse’

A mother has been charged with murder and a stepfather with endangering children after a 7-year-old Ohio boy died at his home, ABC 6 reports. Columbus police officers responded to a call about a drowned child at about 8 p.m. Saturday night, the station said, and found Fabian Maldonado-Cortez unresponsive. He was taken to Nationwide …

Family Crime
May 24, 2020

7-year old girl found dead in garage, father in custody

A California father was arrested Saturday in connection with the death of his young daughter, KOVR-TV reports. Around 4:45 a.m. Saturday, police in Stockton were dispatched to a home to check on the welfare of 7-year-old Billie Williams. Officers found the girl unresponsive in the garage and she was pronounced dead, the Record reports. Her …

Murder
May 23, 2020

Florida woman charged with man’s death after she claims he fell on a knife

A Florida woman has been charged with negligent homicide after medics responding to a call about a cardiac arrest Friday night found a 19-year-old man dead on the floor. Lillian Patterson, 19, initially told police that Xavier Collins had stumbled out of the bedroom and collapsed, unresponsive, on the floor. A detective and a medical …

Murder
May 23, 2020

BREAKING: Police ID suspected Long Island Serial Killer victim

Authorities in Suffolk County have identified the remains of a woman believed to be a victim of the Long Island Serial Killer. According to the New York Post, Suffolk County law enforcement officials say they have identified Jane Doe #6, one of the previously unidentified victims believed to have been part of a possible decades-long …