A northeast Alabama man has been arrested and charged with killing his 62-year-old mother. DeKalb County emergency officials responded to a home in Collinsville Tuesday night and found Sandra Jelks dead in her living room, WDEF reported. Jelks was the mother of a DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office employee, so Sheriff Nick Welden asked deputies in …
A Florida man and an Alabama woman have been arrested on multiple child sex crimes following a multi-state investigation aided by the FBI. The Dale County (Alabama) Sheriff’s Office said it launched an investigation after Daleville police notified deputies of a suspected sexual abuse of a child case in the county’s jurisdiction, WDHN reported. The …
Update: Four Alabama girls reported missing from their home in Alabama on Thursday have been found safe in Georgia and their father arrested. Clifton Christopher Buchanan, 34, of Sylacauga was arrested in Etowah County and charged with custody interference, AL.com reported. He’s being held without bond pending extradition proceedings. The children were reported missing after …
An Alabama man has been arrested after he beat his 14-year-old daughter for revealing his affair to her mother. The teen escaped after the beating and ran to a neighbor’s house for help, according to deputies with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, who found 39-year-old Christopher Andrighetti hiding in a bedroom closet and “covered in …
An Alabama man has been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of his estranged wife Saturday night. The Limestone County Sheriff’s Office said that Tracie Lynn Allred had already been taken to Athens-Limestone Hospital by witnesses when they arrived shortly after 10 p.m. She was pronounced dead at the hospital. Other witnesses identified …
An Alabama man told investigators that he stabbed and dismembered his girlfriend because she wouldn’t have sex with him. Blount County Sheriff Mark Moon said that 38-year-old Justin Fields has been charged with murder and abuse of a corpse in the death of Tammy Bailey, 52, AL.com reported. Fields told investigators that the couple went …
Police in Alabama are asking for help finding a 50-year-old woman last seen at a Birmingham night club. Floriselda Milla Villanueva was reported missing on October 18 by family, who said she was last seen at about 8 p.m. on October 16 at El Centenario. Villanueva is described as 5 feet tall and about 140 …
Police in south Alabama on Friday arrested an 18-year-old man they say raped, tortured, and robbed a Mobile County college student last week. Investigators say that Elijah Persons knew the victim and arranged to meet her in Semmes on the night of October 4. She was waiting in her car, detectives say, when a masked …
Florida prosecutors have dropped charges against the ex-boyfriend of a woman who was found dead, buried in a shallow grave in an Alabama barn earlier this year. Marcus Spanevelo remains in jail in Santa Rosa County, Florida, however, on an out-of-state fugitive warrant from St. Clair County, Alabama, jail records show. Cassie Carli was last …
A sleepover at a neighbor’s apartment in Alabama ended with a rescue and an arrest Sunday afternoon in Tuscaloosa. Two residents of the The Path of Tuscaloosa apartments called police just before noon and said they allowed their children — a 9-year-old boy and a 10-year-old boy — to stay overnight with a neighbor, AL.com …
Prosecutors on Tuesday laid out their case for the first of two suspects charged in federal court with kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap a minor, relating to the kidnapping and death of 3-year-old Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney in October 2019. As CrimeOnline previously reported, McKinney was kidnapped from a birthday party on October 12, 2019, in …
A 70-year-old Alabama woman was shot and killed Wednesday night when she answered a knock at the door of her Selma home. Selma Police Chief Kenta Fulford told the Selma Times-Journal that the incident took place at about 10:30 p.m. “Some unknown subject or subjects knocked on the door of 70-year-old Mandy White, and when …
