An Illinois woman is accused of trying to asphyxiate her two young kids by using natural gas before attempting to take her own life. Officers discovered an unconscious Tracy F. Johnson, 38, lying on the floor of her Hoffman Estates home Tuesday afternoon. A 5-year-old girl and 2-year-old boy were located nearby, according to WMAQ. …
A Spartanburg, South Carolina, mom was arrested after she allegedly hit her 6-year-old son who gave his grandmother a Mother’s Day card instead of her. Shontrell Yurmeish Murphy, 30, hit the child “really hard a few times” in the back, front, and side of his head on Thursday, the victim’s sister said in an arrest warrant …
A South Carolina woman allegedly shot her father to death but told police he was killed by an intruder. According to The Post and Courier, Robert Simpson, who lived in a wealthy section of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, was shot to death early Tuesday morning in his bedroom, while his wife and other family members were …
Tad Cummins reportedly told authorities that he had sex with a 15-year-old student he allegedly abducted numerous times. Prosecutors are now pushing for a statutory rape charge against the former teacher. Special Agent Utley Noble with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) testified in a Nashville, Tennessee, courthouse on May 12 that Cummins, 50, told …
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A cocaine dealer who dragged an overdosing dermatologist out of his apartment and left her to die last year received a five-year prison sentence on Thursday. As Crime Online previously reported, dealer James (Pepsi) Holder, 61, and HBO executive Marc Johnson, 52, confessed to leaving Dr. Kiersten Rickenbach Cerveny, 38, in the vestibule of Holder’s Manhattan apartment …
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A Lizton, Indiana, man is accused of leaving his octogenarian mom to literally rot in a mattress full of urine and feces on the floor of his home. Responders arrived at the home early Monday and found Mark Kincaid’s elderly mother severely dehydrated, naked, and stuck to the mattress, according to the IndyStar. Court documents obtained …
Cincinnati Public Schools have released video footage from school surveillance cameras showing a bullying incident that an 8-year-old boy’s family believes prompted his suicide. Cincinnati News, FOX19-WXIX TV As Crime Online previously reported, Gabriel Taye’s mother found him dead by hanging in his bedroom on January 26. Two days prior, Gabe was a victim of …
LISA CORNWELL Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — An 8-year-old boy shown on surveillance video being knocked to the floor unconscious at school two days before he killed himself told staff he had fainted and never said he had been bullied or assaulted, a school spokeswoman said Friday. Gabriel Taye’s mother didn’t learn of the bullying …
An 18-year-old Utah man accused of filming his 16-year-old friend when she killed herself reportedly left a chilling message to another friend weeks beforehand, stating it would be “awesome” to watch someone die. Tyerell Przybycien was arrested on Saturday after he allegedly bought rope and a can of air duster for a teenage girl who told …
The suspect’s lawyer called the plea deal “an amazing outcome”
