A Massachusetts elementary school teacher was found dead in her home this weekend under suspicious circumstances. MassLive reports that Vanessa MacCormick was discovered unresponsive in her Revere home on Saturday afternoon. Police have reportedly characterized the sudden death as suspicious but have not yet ruled it a homicide. MacCormick, who reportedly gave birth to a …
A suspect has been arrested in the brutal murder of a 12-year-old girl in Nashville last month. East Nashville Patch reports that Roy Coons, 45, has been arrested on multiple murder charges in the August 10 death of Yhoana Arteaga, a 12-year-old girl who was found dead in her home on August 10. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Arteaga …
The mother of a 13-year-old boy who was confirmed dead this weekend has spoken out in response to the news that DNA tests were a positive match for Robert Bee, Jr. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Bee went missing in November from his home in Pekin, Illinois. He reportedly ran away when truancy officers approached him …
A five-year-old boy who was found murdered earlier this month was killed because he witnessed his alleged murderer throw his mother from a cliff — because the suspect thought she owed him $200. As CrimeOnline previously reported, James Spoonamore was found dead earlier this month in Jackson County, Kentucky. Two days prior, hikers found his mother, …
A 22-year-old church usher is being celebrated as a hero in the wake of Sunday’s shooting at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee. CBS News reports that Robert Caleb Engle confronted suspect Emanuel Kidega Samson, 25, who shot and killed Melanie Smith, 39, in the parking lot before walking into the church …
A ten-year-old girl who was allegedly raped and murdered while her mother watched suffered additional horrors before her unspeakably brutal death. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Victoria Martens of Albuquerque, New Mexico, died the day after her tenth birthday, allegedly at the hands of her mother Michelle Martens, her mother’s boyfriend Fabian Gonzales, and the man’s …
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A wealthy British couple allegedly killed their nanny and then burned her body in a backyard bonfire, the Guardian reports. Sabrina Kouider and Ouissem Medouni have been charged with the murder. Authorities reportedly believe the killing took place on or sometime before Sept. 20 in southwest London. The badly torched corpse was discovered in the …
By AMY TAXIN, Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California man who killed eight people at a hair salon in 2011 was sentenced to life without parole Friday in a courtroom packed with sobbing victims’ relatives, who shared vivid memories of their loved ones and wished the shooter a painful end in prison. Scott …
A coroner has confirmed that the human remains found in Pekin, Illinois, this summer belong to missing Robert Bee, Jr. Tazwell County Coroner told James Baldi confirmed to local news station CentralIllinoisProud.com that DNA testing at the Illinois State Police Crime Lab positively identified Bee, 13, who went missing in November after running away from truancy …
Oxygen has released photos of bone fragments that may belong to missing Natalee Hollway, who disappeared on a high school graduation trip to Aruba in 2005. The Oxygen docuseries The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway has chronicled the search for her possible remains and the difficult process of identifying them. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a tipster …
By JOHN O’CONNOR, Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The use of hearsay testimony to convict former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson in the death of his third wife was proper, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday in upholding the conviction. The high court, in a unanimous decision , found that hearsay testimony from Peterson’s dead …
