HORROR: Teenagers in love found slain, bound in abandoned mine shaft
Trials
“We had every scenario run through our heads, but for the events that truly took place, words can’t even describe it”
Violent Crime
April 6, 2018
Gun seller recalls meeting YouTube shooter in January: ‘I wish we could look into someone’s soul’
A employee at the San Diego, California, store where a woman purchased a semiautomatic handgun used in the tragic shooting at YouTube’s headquarters Tuesday says the January transaction was wholly unremarkable. According to The Mercury News, Nasim Aghdam, 39, purchased a 9mm Smith & Wesson pistol at The Gun Range on Jan. 2, and picked …
Juveniles
April 6, 2018
URGENT: Endangered missing child in Louisiana
Louisiana police are asking the public’s help in locating a missing four-year-old boy in Claiborne Parish. The Louisiana State Police announced in a press release that Rondreiz Cortez “Junior” Phillips , 4, has been missing since Thursday. He is considered endangered. Rondreiz is a black male, about 3 feet tall and 45 lbs., with black hair …
Sex Crimes
April 6, 2018
OUTRAGE! Four men sentenced to PROBATION for gang-rape of teen girl
Two Colorado brothers who partook in the brutal gang-rape of a 13-year-old girl will not spend a day behind bars. According to KKTV, Tommy Williams, 20, and Clarence Williams, 19, (pictured left to right) were recently sentenced to probation for the December 2016 attack involving the girl. Tommy pleaded guilty to sexual assault on a child …
April 5, 2018
Woman walks into 7-Eleven, puts device on counter and threatens to blow everyone up: Prosecutors
A Virginia woman is facing felony charges after police say she threatened to detonate an explosive device in a convenience store earlier this week. According to WAVY, 33-year-old Crystal Mostek is accused of walking into a 7-Eleven store near the Bayside Area of Virginia Beach Wednesday night with what turned out to be a dummy …
Trials
April 5, 2018
Bar staff shares blame when drunk driver plows into car, killing mother and infant daughter: Prosecutors
Following the death of a Texas woman and her infant son earlier this year, four individuals now face criminal charges related to what authorities say was a fatal DUI crash. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 20-year-old Veronica Rivas was initially arrested in late February on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. She was accused …
Murder
April 5, 2018
Stepdad beat slain toddler so violently that her stomach was ‘literally ripped apart’: Prosecutor
Prosecutors have accused a Queens, New York, man of beating his 3-year-old stepdaughter so barbarically that her stomach was shred to pieces during the fatal attack. Marc Jenkins, 32, appeared in court Wednesday on charges that he beat Bella Edwards to death on Monday afternoon. According to the New York Daily News, authorities believe Jenkins …
Family Crime
April 5, 2018
Devonte Hart’s mothers were not wearing seatbelts when SUV went over cliff; police ‘don’t know’ if missing children were in the car
The agencies investigating the fatal SUV plunge that killed at least five family members have corrected a key detail of the investigation’s findings — saying now that Jennifer and Sarah Hart were not wearing their seatbelts when their vehicle went over a cliff from the Pacific Coast Highway into the Pacific Ocean late last month. …
Missing
April 5, 2018
Police: Missing CDC worker drowned; no sign of foul play
By BEN NADLER, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An employee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who was reported missing more than seven weeks ago was found drowned in a river not far from his house, with no sign of foul play, authorities said Thursday. Timothy Cunningham’s body was found Tuesday partially submerged in …
Sex Crimes
April 5, 2018
Mormon church leader accused of raping woman in 1984; victim says church ignored ‘red flag sexual improprieties’
A woman reportedly filed a lawsuit against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), accusing the then-president of the LDS Missionary Training Center (MTC) of raping her in 1984. According to The Salt Lake Tribune, McKenna Denson filed the lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Salt Lake City, Utah. In it, she claims that the church …
Violent Crime
April 5, 2018
‘You are going to pay!’ Angry ex sets boyfriend on fire with torch, locks him inside apartment: Police
A Florida woman is behind bars after police say she tried to kill her boyfriend with a lit torch inside her Altamonte Springs apartment on Monday. Click Orlando reports that 38-year-old Shivon Perez is facing a felony attempted homicide and arson charges after she allegedly lit her boyfriend, Bradley Atkins, on fire with a torch, then …
Technology and Crime
April 5, 2018
New charges for Facebook Live ‘accidental’ shooter
The woman accused of shooting a friend in the head while they were recording a Facebook Live video is facing additional charges. ABC 13 reports that Cassandra Damper has been charged with aggravated assault with reckless serious bodily injury after the gun she was holding fired a bullet into Devyn Holmes’s head early Sunday morning. …
