A Georgia man and woman accused of killing their newborn baby, then hiding the infant’s body in secluded woods behind their Covington home in 2017, are facing their first day of a trial. A jury heard opening statements Tuesday morning inside a Newton County courthouse. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Christopher McNabb is accused of aggravated …
The couple’s 17-year-old daughter told a dispatcher that she hadn’t taken a bath in a year and barely had a first-grade education
A man who once used a hatchet to save a woman being attacked in California is facing murder charges in an unrelated incident. His trial started Tuesday morning in Union County, New Jersey. News 12 reports that Caleb McGillivray, better known as “Kai,” is accused of the May 12, 2013, killing of 73-year-old lawyer Joseph Galfy. Authorities …
The trial for Bo Dukes, a man accused of helping to conceal teacher Tara Grinstead’s body, is underway continues at Wilcox County Superior Court in Georgia.
Dukes is one of two men accused of taking part in Grinstead’s death and disappearance. In 2017, he was indicted on charges of concealing a death, tampering with evidence, and hindering apprehension of a criminal.
Grinstead was last seen in 2005, in Oncilla, Georgia, leaving a party. The former beauty queen’s disappearance remained cold for over a decade until a 2017 tip led authorities to Dukes. Ryan Duke, a friend of Dukes at the time, was also arrested, and confessed to killing Grinstead and hiding her body. Duke later said he falsely confessed so he could go to jail in order to avoid retaliation from Dukes.
Opening arguments began on on Thursday in a Doylestown, Pennsylvania, courtroom, where prosecutors laid out grim details on how a slain pharmaceutical executive was purposely killed by his much younger former girlfriend, while the defense argued the suspect acted in self-defense. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that 34-year-old former exotic dancer, Jennifer Morrissey, is accused of killing …
After three trials, a California woman escaped prison time when a judge and jury deemed her insane on Wednesday, despite being convicted twice for drowning and killing her baby. The Orange County Register reports that Lucero Carrera, 33, was living in a Santa Ana home with her mother when she killed her 2-month-old daughter, Kimberly, …
A Missouri man on trial for allegedly raping a Washington University medical student said it was consensual. The victim, who said she was a virgin at the time, claimed she was awoken to the man, a stranger, on top of her in the middle of night at her St. Louis apartment. St. Louis Dispatch reports …
A little girl lost her life in 2016 after her father’s girlfriend reportedly left her inside a hot car in a Pennsylvania parking lot. After hearing two days’ of testimony and evidence including a distressing 911 call, a Pennsylvania jury must decide if the child’s death was a crime or a tragic accident. On Tuesday …
A North Carolina man accused of killing his wife admitted in court on Friday to stabbing her death after taking “too much” Coricidin cough medicine. The News & Observer reports that over 50 people packed into a Raleigh courtroom Friday morning in support of Lauren Phelps, who lost her life in 2017 when her husband, Matthew …
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — A career criminal accused by authorities of raping and killing six women in the 1970s yelled “I am not guilty!” to a jury at the start of his trial Friday for two of the killings. Rodney Halbower also yelled “I have never raped or murdered in my life!” to the …
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — A former Virginia Tech student pleaded guilty Tuesday to concealing the body of a slain 13-year-old girl, but still faces trial on a more serious charge of being an accessory to the teen’s killing. Natalie Keepers is scheduled to go on trial in September, accused of being an accessory before the …
By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco jury on Friday ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto to pay $289 million to a former school groundskeeper dying of cancer, saying the company’s popular Roundup weed killer contributed to his disease. Dewayne Johnson’s lawsuit was the first of thousands of cases filed in state and …
