Inside a Duval County courtroom on Wednesday, a jury found Donald Smith guilty of numerous felony counts, including murder, rape, and kidnapping. Smith’s trial began on Monday morning with 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle’s mother taking the stand and reliving the traumatic day in 2013, when Smith took her child from a Jacksonville Walmart. The little girl …
‘He looks like a harmless old man. Little did she know what lurked beneath the surface….’
Both the defense and prosecution rested on Tuesday afternoon in the case of Florida girl, Cherish Perrywinkle, who was kidnapped, beaten, raped, and killed in 2013. The suspect on trial, Donald Smith, faces the death penalty if convicted. “He tore apart. He sucked on her breast. He made her suck his penis. He left behind …
WARNING: The trial contains graphic language and subject matter.
Prosecutors say she wanted to save her relationship with her common-law husband by passing off the child as her own
By TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman will have an anonymous jury at his U.S. trial later this year. In a written order, U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan agreed with prosecutors who argued that withholding the names of jurors was needed to address any fears that …
Georgia woman Erica White was found guilty on Monday of murdering her toddler son and taking out several credit cards using his social security number, which her and her boyfriend maxed out within months. Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that a Cobb County jury found White guilty on 16 charges, including capital murder and a number of …
By DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press CHARLOTTE, Mich. (AP) — The former sports doctor whose serial sexual abuse of girls and young women upended the gymnastics world was sentenced Monday to a third prison term of 40 to 125 years for molesting young athletes at an elite Michigan training center. Larry Nassar listened to dozens of victims …
Greywind was eight months pregnant when she disappeared in August
A Georgia woman accused of killing her disabled son with codeine and opening up numerous credits cards in his name is waiting to hear her fate as the jury decides if enough evidence was presented to convict her. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Erica White, of Austell, is facing 16 criminal charges after she allegedly poisoned her …
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A woman accused of deliberately driving off a Hawaii cliff and killing her identical twin sister was acquitted of murder Thursday. Second Circuit Judge Peter Cahill found Alexandria Duval not guilty after a trial that started Monday. Duval opted to have a judge instead of a jury decide …
Judge: “We can’t forget is this was an attempted murder.”
