An Ohio man faces charges of murder just over a week after his fiancee’s mother was killed at her Strongsville home. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Bruce Plescovic found his wife’s body at their residence on October 24 after a series of reported disturbances and attempted break-ins. Jeffrey Scullin Jr., 20, the man Plescovic thought would …
An Illinois man is accused of his mother’s brutal and premeditated murder after a fisherman found the incomplete remains of a dismembered body in a Chicago lagoon Saturday. Though analysts have not determined the torso and two partial legs belong to 76-year-old Gail Peck, authorities said they had enough evidence to arrest her son, 55-year-old …
In the latest episode of Crime Stories, CrimeOnline‘s own Nancy Grace responded to a recent interview that George and Cindy Anthony gave, discussing their daughter Casey Anthony’s mental health. ‘Tot mom’ Casey Anthony was acquitted of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee in a sensational 2011 murder trial, but a cloud of suspicion has followed her …
A Naples, Florida, father who killed his wife and their five young kids was handed six death sentences in court on Friday. The Naples Daily News reported that Collier Circuit Judge Christine Greider handed down death sentences to Mesac Damas for slicing the six victims’ throats in September 2009. After the slayings, Damas fled to Haiti …
A husband and wife who survived the deadly Las Vegas shooting massacre on October 1 died in a car accident two weeks later. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Dennis Carver and Lorraine Carver died together in a fiery car crash on October 16 at their home in Riverside County, California. They had also lived …
A California teenager will stand trial as an adult for charges related to the 2015 rape and murder of his 8-year-old neighbor. Although he was only 15 years old at the time of the attack, a judge sided with prosecutors who argued the graphic nature of the crime and the level of planning that went …
Police in Texas believe a man fatally shot his daughter’s boyfriend, ran them both over, drove off and then killed himself, according to KDFW. Officers said it happened as the shooter’s daughter and her boyfriend left a movie theater Friday evening. The shooter reportedly caught the couple by surprise. Investigators have identified the daughter’s boyfriend …
Police in Plainfield, Illinois, cautioned locals to stay inside as they investigated a suspected murder-suicide that spanned two crime scenes Saturday. According to WMAQ, officers first responded to the report of a shooting at a Jewel-Osco supermarket, where they found the body of a woman shortly after noon. The victim was found in the store’s …
Cindy Anthony, who granddaughter’s death led to one of the most infamous murder trials in modern U.S. history, has said for the first time that she believes her daughter Casey Anthony is mentally ill. Casey was acquitted of murdering her daughter following a sensational 2011 murder trial, but has never escaped a cloud of suspicion, …
Nearly a month after Stephen Paddock shot and killed 58 people and injured hundreds more in a mass shooting in Las Vegas, the public and the media are still very much in the dark about how and why it happened. As far as the public knows, investigators have not found anything yet that indicates what …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the John F. Kennedy assassination files (all times local): ___ 7:30 a.m. Newly released files say a British newspaper received an anonymous call about “big news” in the United States minutes before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A batch of 2,800 declassified documents includes a memo to …
An Indiana man who allegedly stabbed his estranged girlfriend to death and devoured parts of her body was found mentally incompetent to stand trial. On Wednesday, a Clark County judge found Joseph Oberhansley, 36, unfit to face murder, burglary, and rape charges in the September 2014 slaying of Tammy Jo Blanton, 46. WDRB reported that Oberhansley is …
