Nancy Grace takes on Dan Abrams on GMA over kayak murder, after surprise ‘cheap plea deal’
Trials
‘The kayak sunk, Dan! Do you argue that the kayak went underwater?’
Murder
July 25, 2017
Police arrest husband for assault and murder on one-year wedding anniversary
A Georgia man appeared in a Gwinnett County court on Monday for the death of his wife on their one-year wedding anniversary. The Gwinnett Daily Post reports that Walter Lowe, 51, turned himself in to authorities over the weekend after his wife of one year, Erica Powell, 46, was found with a gunshot wound to her head. According to …
Child Abuse
July 24, 2017
‘Disgusting and horrendous’: Wife who raped children with husband gets prison
A woman who admitted to raping children and helping her husband do the same will spend time behind bars. Holly Greiner, 31, was sentenced Monday to five to 15 years in prison and an additional 15 years of probation after confinement, York Dispatch reports. The sentence comes after Greiner pleaded guilty to two counts of involuntary …
Family Crime
July 24, 2017
Teen bludgeoned mom to death with hammer: Police
Police have arrested a Maryland teen and charged him with murder after he allegedly beat his mother to death with a hammer last week. Andrew Zaragoza, 16, has been charged as an adult in connection with the July 20 death of 56-year-old Donna Zaragoza, according to The Baltimore Sun. Zaragoza does not have a criminal record …
Family Crime
July 24, 2017
Breaking: Woman pleads guilty in fiancé’s kayak death in Hudson River
A New York woman whose fiancé died while on a kayaking trip admitted to pulling the drain plug on his kayak in a guilty plea to negligent homicide. ABC 7 reports that Angelika Graswald pleaded guilty on Monday to the lesser offense, two years after she was charged with felony second-degree murder in the May 2015 drowning …
Sex Offenders
July 24, 2017
‘The devil did it’: Man blames devil after caught in bed with little boy
A San Antonio man, arrested for indecency with a child, said that the “devil” did made him do it when confronted on Sunday. NBC San Antonio reports that around around 5 a.m. on Sunday morning, in an apartment on the city’s South Side, a little boy’s mother walked in and caught Stefan Stewart, 29, and her son, in a …
Family Crime
July 24, 2017
Sherri Papini neighbors say they ‘never’ saw her jogging before kidnapping and now lives as total recluse
Neighbors of Sherri Papini’s say that it was very rare to see the mother of two out jogging like she was the day she was allegedly kidnapped by a pair of women police still have not located. The Daily Mail spoke to Papini’s father-in-law and her neighbors for a new report exploring Papini’s life as a …
Murder
July 24, 2017
Monday Crime Stories: Dylan Redwine’s mom talks about father arrest for son’s murder & Dalia Dippolito’s prison bound
The arrest of Mark Redwine for the 2013 murder of his 13-year-old son Dylan has been four years coming, but it is no surprise to the boy’s mother. Elaine Hall has fought hard to convince investigators that her ex-husband killed her son and hid his bodies on a Colorado mountain. Dylan didn’t want to board …
Trials
July 24, 2017
Trucker charged in horrific immigrant-smuggling case that left 10 dead
By NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The driver of a broiling tractor-trailer found packed with immigrants outside a Walmart in San Antonio was charged Monday in the deaths of 10 of his passengers and could face the death penalty over the hellish journey. In outlining their immigrant-smuggling case against James Matthew Bradley Jr., …
Famous Murder Cases
July 24, 2017
CrimeOnline Evidence Locker: Watch the Scott Peterson interrogation tapes
Laci Peterson vanished on Christmas Eve, 2002, and although it’s been almost 15 years since the Modesto mom-to-be disappeared, the hurt and pain still lingers for her family and friends. Interrogation tapes released earlier this year show her husband, the infamous convict Scott Peterson, casually mentioning what Laci did before she went missing, which further infuriated …
Juveniles
July 24, 2017
Texas family asks for help in desperate search for missing teen girl
A 17-year-old San Antonio girl has been missing for almost two weeks, and her family is asking the public’s help in locating her. As reported by local NBC affiliate News 4 San Antonio, Kalista Kluetz, a rising senior at Marshall High School, was last seen on Wednesday, July 13 walking home with friends on the …
Court
July 24, 2017
‘The damage has been done’: Parents of critically ill baby Charlie Gard say window of opportunity to save baby’s life is closed
By CAROLINE SPIEZIO, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The parents of critically ill baby Charlie Gard wept as they dropped their legal bid Monday to send him to the United States for an experimental medical treatment, acknowledging that the window of opportunity to help him had closed. Charlie’s mother, Connie Yates, hugged her husband Chris Gard …
