Alex Murdaugh’s personal banker was sentenced to 7 years in federal prison on Friday for his role in the convicted murderer’s multi-million fraud schemes. US District Court Judge Mark Gergel’s sentence was less than the prosecution sought, and more than the defense sought. Gergel said that witnesses on Russell Laffitte’s behalf said “a lot about …
Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann appeared at his second court hearing in New York court Tuesday, and stood stone-faced as prosecutors handed over evidence. “This is a 13-year case, so as you see we have a great deal of information, evidence, photographs, reports to provide to the defense counsel,” Suffolk DA Raymond Tierney …
Police say the shooting of a Tennessee hand surgeon was a targeted event. Dr. Benjamin Mauck was shot to death in front of a nurse, in an exam room. Larry Pickens, 29, was later arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Staff at the Campbell Clinic Orthopedics say they recognized the shooter from previous appointments. Mauk was …
Months before her disappearance, Madeline Kingsbury reportedly sent text messages to her friends, describing disturbing comments made by her ex-boyfriend, who is now suspected of killing her. According to newly-released warrants obtained by KARE 11, 26-year-old Kingsbury told friends that her former boyfriend, 29-year-old Adam Fravel, told her that if she didn’t behave, she would …
Smirking “Cult mom” Lori Vallow, in full hair and makeup for her latest prison mugshot, has been transferred to her new home at the Pocatello Women’s Correctional Center in Idaho. As CrimeOnline reported, Idaho District Court Judge Steven Boyce sentenced Vallow to life without parole Monday for the murders of her children, Tylee Ryan, 15, …
A witness is describing the terrifying moment that armed gunmen kidnapped an American woman and her young child last week in Haiti, the Associated Press reports. On Thursday, New Hampshire native Alix Dorsainvil and her daughter were abducted from a small clinic near Port-au-Prince. Authorities have been tight-lipped about the situation, but one patient who was …
The Georgia woman who allegedly masterminded a plot to murder her husband was battling him in court amid contentious divorce proceedings over custody of their three children, millions of dollars in family assets and access to a private jet, according to Fox News. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 36-year-old Lindsay Shiver was arrested last month in …
A 22-month-old South Carolina toddler has passed away after a dresser fell on her while she played at her grandparents’ home. According to DailyMail, the incidence happened on July 30 as Ja’Laya Bryan climbed a dresser in her grandparents’ Calhoun Falls home, causing the furniture to topple on her and trap her underneath. Anderson County …
A New Jersey mother of two is dead after her ex-husband allegedly shot her and her dog before turning the gun on himself, NJ.com reports. Around 5:10 a.m. Saturday, authorities in Ocean County received a 911 call from Kimberly Hoffman reporting that someone was attempting to break into her apartment in Little Egg Harbor. Officers …
New York Police are searching for a 27-year-old Goldman Sachs analyst who disappeared over the weekend after attending a concert at a Brooklyn venue. John Castic left The Brooklyn Mirage at about 3 a.m. after a performance by electronic music group Zeds Dead, Fox News said. Castic’s friend Sara Kosteca wrote on Facebook that she’s …
A day after her mother begged the public and the media to leave her daughter and family alone, a retired neighbor of Alicia Navarro in Montana said that the now 18-year-old “hung her head” and looked “like she was crying” when FBI agents raided the apartment where she’d been living. Navarro was 14 when she …
Asa Ellerup, the wife of accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann, returned to the couple’s Massapequa Park home this week and was stunned at the destruction left behind by the nearly two weeks investigators spent meticulously searching the residence. Ellerup, 59, filed for divorce shortly after Heuermann’s arrest for the murders of three of …
