A Department of Justice report released on Thursday identified multiple missteps in police’s response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 students and two adults. The 600-page report determined that “cascading failures of leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy, and training” allowed gunman Salvador Ramos, 18, to remain barricaded in a fourth-grade …
A Georgia mother is pleading for assistance in finding her 16-year-old child who vanished after an apparent emotional breakdown. According to police, Hydi Cain was last seen on January 7 at her Fayetteville home at around midnight. Her mother, Sidney Fyffe told CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace that she had been talking to Hydi about her recent …
A Massachusetts woman who allegedly killed her three children last year pleaded not guilty to murder charges on Wednesday. WFXT reported that Lindsay Clancy, 33, remains hospitalized due to concerns she may harm herself. As a result, the judge waived Clancy’s appearance and her lawyer entered the plea on her behalf. Last January, Clancy allegedly …
Video footage capturing the arrest of a 73-year-old Florida grandmother, Donna Adelson, has been released after police nabbed her trying to flee the country. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Donna Adelson faces charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and solicitation of first-degree murder in connection with the 2014 killing of her daughter’s husband, …
A disturbing scene unfolded in Union, New Jersey, on Wednesday, after officials discovered a man, a woman, and two children deceased inside a residence. While the official cause of death is pending, investigators told The Messenger that the victims were all family members who lived in the home. Initial reports indicate police believe that the …
In a recent development, a New York judge has rejected the motion to dismiss the case against Daniel Penny, a U.S. Marine indicted last year in connection with the chokehold death of a subway performer. On Wednesday, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley denied Penny’s motion, which sought to dismiss charges of manslaughter and criminally …
“Burner” phones connected to accused serial killer Rex Heuermann showed hundreds of contacts with sex workers in the years before his arrest last year, a newly filed court document says. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the 60-year-old Manhattan architect was charged with the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes earlier this week, adding the fourth of the so-called …
Police in Georgia are searching for a Buckhead woman with medical issues, who hasn’t been seen since Wednesday night. According to Fox Atlanta, 70-year-old Michele Fitzgerald was last seen on January 17 at around 9 p.m., at 2501 Peachtree Road NE in Buckhead. Atlanta police said Fitzgerald has both dementia and cancer and takes medication …
Police in Las Vegas this week arrested a 36-year-old woman for posing as an attorney and accepting fees to help clients “file documents” for divorces, legal reviews, name changes, and adoptions. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Cenia Poulsen defrauded multiple victims since January 2022. She has been charged wih forgery, theft, preparing or …
Art Guty Jr. told police conducting a welfare check, after Nicole Zambrano had been reported missing, that he hadn’t heard from her since before Christmas.
A federal judge in Chicago has sentenced Heather Mack, who admitted conspiring with her then-boyfriend to kill her mother in Bali in 2014, to 26 years in prison. Mack, 28, was convicted in the beating death of Sheila von Wiese-Mack in Indonesia and served seven years in prison there, but US District Judge Matthew Kennelly …
Earlier this month, a Florida woman was arrested last week for allegedly trying to pass off a dog’s urine as her own during a court-ordered drug screening. The Smoking Gun reported that Jessica Beatty, 48, was arrested on December 28 for possession of drug paraphernalia and driving with a suspended license. As part of her …
