A Virginia couple charged in the beating death of the woman’s young disabled daughter forced the girl to stand up for hours and fed her only bread and water in the days leading up to her death, a prosecutor said. Latoya Smith, 33, and Demont James Harris, 43, were denied bond as they face murder and …
Authorities in Illinois say a Chicago man obtained a firearm and fatally shot someone with it while he was out on a no-cash bond for a prior gun-related charge. According to CWB, Daryl Williams was arrested in November after residents in the neighborhood of New City reported hearing gunshots. At the time of his arrest, …
By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein was indicted Wednesday on rape and criminal sex act charges, furthering the first criminal case to arise from a slate of sexual misconduct allegations against the former movie mogul. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said the indictment brings Weinstein “another step closer to …
The 30-year-old Syracuse man ordered by a judge to move out of his parents’ home is still complaining about minor inconveniences despite making an easy paycheck for an appearance on a right-wing talk show. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Michael Rotondo has until June 1 to move out of his parents’ home after moving back in with …
Emily Glass, the last person to see 5-year-old Lucas Hernandez alive, walked out of the Sedgwick County Jail today after being booked last week on obstruction charges. According to jail records, Glass has been released “without prejudice.” We're live at the Sedgwick County Jail, where Emily Glass is about to be released. The DA says …
A former child psychologist who admitted to having more than 600 videos and pictures depicting child pornography was sentenced Friday to 6-and-a-half years behind bars in a California court. According to the Berkley Patch, prosecutors said Contra Costa child psychologist Kenneth Allen Breslin, 69, was in possession of illicit images that depicted “prepubescent children being subjected to …
Sedgwick County, Kansas, District Attorney Marc Bennett announced on Wednesday that no additional charges will be filed today against the woman to last see 5-year-old Lucas Hernandez alive. The DA announced the investigation will continue while they await the boy’s toxicology results. “This morning, investigators wi the the Wichita Police Department presented the investigation of …
Police said four people found dead Monday in a Tennessee home were victims of a murder-suicide. According to WZTV, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department said Sean Ganey shot his wife, Cassidy Ganey, her father, Kenny Adair, and her stepmother, Shelly Lorenz-Adair, before turning the gun on himself at a Murfreesboro home on Memorial Day. The Daily …
The mother of a Pennsylvania teacher shot to death in her driveway on Mother’s Day has challenged the role of the local police department handling Rachael DelTondo’s murder investigation. In an interview with the Beaver Countian, Lisa DelTondo said she thinks an outside agency should take over the homicide investigation, citing questions about the integrity …
After three months of exhaustive searching, the remains of 5-year-old Lucas Hernandez were found on May 24 under a culvert area in Harvey County, Kansas. A private investigator obtained by the boy’s father located the little Lucas, although the child was hardly recognizable. The woman who last saw Lucas alive, Emily Glass, led the PI …
Private investigator David Marshburn found the remains of little Lucas Hernandez who had been missing from his Kansas home for four months by convincing Emily Glass to lead him to the rural bridge where she had hidden her stepson’s body. Marshburn joins Nancy Grace for the first of two special Crime Stories episodes on the …
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein won’t testify before the New York grand jury that’s weighing whether to indict him on rape and other sex charges, according to a statement issued through a spokesman Wednesday. The statement said Weinstein’s lawyers decided there wasn’t enough time to prepare him to testify. They say he learned the …
