Columbus Police are investigation after three women were found shot to death in a home on the city’s south side Saturday afternoon. Sgt. James Fuqua told WBNS that officers were called to the home shortly before 4 p.m. by a 911 caller who reported finding friends inside in medical distress. Police arrived, and the women …
A Georgia couple awas arrested this week and charged with murder in the death of their 8-month-old daughter. Columbus Police began an investigation in late September after they were called about a deceased child, WTVM reported. They found the infant had been placed on a mattress on a love seat and rolled off, becoming wedged …
An 8-year-old Ohio boy who was the subject of an AMBER Alert in June before he was found dead in an attic weighed 35 pounds when he died, according to a recently-released autopsy report. On June 27, Martonio Wilder’s body was reportedly discovered in a trash bag in the attic of his Columbus home. His …
Three Ohio teenagers were charged this week with the murder of 29-year-old mom who died trying to stop them from stealing her SUV with her 6-year-old child sleeping inside. Gerald Dowling, 19, and two 16-year-olds were arrested Wednesday for the July 11 death of Alexa Stakely, the Columbus Dispatch reported. Alexa Stakely, a school district …
An Ohio woman pleaded guilty this week to the aggravated murder of her 4-month-old son and was sentenced to at least 20 years in prison. Melissa Thorp, 40, entered the guilty plea on Thursday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. Judge Julie Lynch then handed down the sentence of life in prison with the possibility …
An Ohio mom was killed early Thursday morning when she tried to stop thieves from stealing her car. Alexa Stakely, a 29-year-old school district speech and language pathologist, had just worked her second job as awaitress and was picking her 6-year-old child up from the babysitter’s home, the Columbus Division of Police said. She placed …
An Ohio man has been charged with aggravated arson after a woman was found dead in an apartment fire in southeast Columbus last week. Edith Saintilus, 53, was found dead as firefighters extinguished the June 27 blaze at Columbus Park Apartments, WBNS reported. Columbus Police said that arson investigators found “a number of circumstances” that …
An Ohio woman took a last minute plea deal in the stabbing death of a teen girl last year that could see her avoid jail time. The trial of Bryanna Barozzini, 20, for the murder of Halia Culbertson, 17, in March 2023 was set to begin this week. As CrimeOnline previously reported, witnesses said that …
A 64-year-old Ohio man has been charged with the shooting death of his 60-year-old girlfriend in Columbus. Stewart Butler initially told police he shot Marchelle Freeman in self defense, but later said he shot her because he was mad that that she kicked and poked him, WSYX reported. He told police the grabbed his gun …
A Georgia couple was arrested earlier this month month on child abuse charges after their 2-month-old son was found unresponseve in their home. The boy was taken to Martin Army Community Hospital by the parents, 26-year-old Scott Sartin and 24-year-old Jada Sartin, and he and his twin sister were later admitted to Children’s Hospital of …
A patient and former three staffers at a state-run Ohio mental health facility were indicted this week on charges related to the beating death of another patient at the facility in 2022. According to The Associated Press, a 24-year-old patient at Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare in Columbus attacked the 57-year-old victim on July 23, 2022, …
An Ohio woman has pleaded guilty to two federal counts of kidnapping a minor in the case of a set of twin infants who were in the back seat of a car she stole from outside a Columbus pizza restaurant. The prosecution and defendant Nalah T. Jackson, 25, agreed to a recommended sentence of 20 …
