A Colorado man has been jailed for the 2016 murder of his girlfriend aboard a train traveling from Wisconsin to Denver. The Denver District Attorney’s Office said that Angelo Valentino Mantych, 41, was charged with first degree murder in the death of Marina Placensia, 28, KMGH reported. Mantych, Placensia, and her four young children — …
A North Dakota woman has been charged with poisoning her boyfriend after he reportedly won a $30 million inheritance and planned to break up with her. Ina Thea Kenoyer, 47, has been charged with felony murder in the death of Steven Edward Riley Jr., 51, on September 5. Minot Police said Riley was initially brought …
The search for an accused Massachusetts killer Aaron Pennington resumes Tuesday morning in the Gardner area, where police located his abandoned vehicle last week. MassLive reports that Massachusetts State Police will continue searching at Camp Collier and its surrounding areas while “using K-9 units and possibly the Air Wings.” Police are currently searching for Pennington …
Federal prosecutors say they will not pursue the death penalty for a Michigan man charged with kidnapping and strangling his former girlfriend’s daughter. Although he was eligible for federal death consideration, U.S. Attorney Mark Totten announced Thursday that prosecutors declined to seek the death penalty for Rashad Maleek Trice, according to ClickonDetroit. He’s accused of …
The case inspired an NBC miniseries last year that starred Renee Zellweiger.
A Connecticut woman reported missing earlier in the day was found dead Saturday afternoon in the basement of a home in Willimantic. The woman’s family contacted police at about 2 p.m. and said she had been missing and unaccounted for since mid-morning. They said they believed she was in Willimantic in eastern Connecticut. Police went …
Jurors quickly convicted a Chicago mother of first-degree murder for helping her son and his girlfriend kill another man, hide his corpse and burglarize his home, WGN News reports. On Friday, the DuPage County state attorney’s office announced that it took a jury about 90 minutes to reach a verdict in the case against 43-year-old …
Police arrested a man Friday after a six-hour standoff at a San Diego hotel room and found a 31-year-old woman dead inside. The San Diego Police Department said that Owerrie Davon Bacon Jr., 28, has been charged with murder, attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and assaulting a police service dog with a deadly …
Disturbing new details have come to light about a pregnant Los Angeles model found dead in her apartment last month. As CrimeOnline previously reported, police on September 12 were called to perform a welfare check on 31-year-old Maleesa Mooney and came upon her body while searching her apartment on South Figueroa Street. A newly released autopsy report …
A 13-year-old Florida honors student has been charged as an adult for the murder of his mother earlier this month as she slept next to his newborn half-sister. Derek Rosa was not in court on Friday to face the first degree murder charge in the October 12 stabbing death of Irina Garcia, 39. His father …
On Wednesday, authorities arrested an Oklahoma man in connection with last month’s murder of his wife. On September 20, Makayla Fay Meave-Byers was found shot twice in the head and wrapped in carpet in a drainage ditch in Pottawatomie County. Meave-Byers vanished five days before her body was found. Investigators believe her husband, Frank Byers, killed …
An 80-year-old West Virginia man has been indicted by a grand jury for the death of a 10-year-old who hasn’t been since 2000. On Wednesday, a special grand jury in Raleigh County indicted Larry Webb on first-degree murder in connection with the presumed death of Natasha “Alex” Carter, over 20 years after her disappearance. Natasha …
