A 23-year-old Texas man was arrested after a standoff early Friday morning and charged with killing his father, a beloved teacher and coach at Westbrook Intermediate School in Friendswood. Nicholas Leggio has been charged with murder in the death of 65-year-old David Liggio and burglary after he tried to hide in a garage several blocks …
Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers finally spoke to the media Friday afternoon, hours after their client was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the murders of his wife and son, and said they plan to appeal the verdict. Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin cited Judge Clifton Newman’s “erroneous decision” to allow testimony about Murdaugh’s multi-million financial …
The search warrants for both Bryan Kohberger’s white Hyundai Elantra and his parent’s home have been unsealed. The documents show a knife, a Glock 22 .40 caliber handgun with three empty magazines, a pocket knife, black face masks and gloves, numerous articles of dark clothing, and criminology books among the list of items detectives seized. …
Three people were reportedly found fatally shot at a Texas home on Friday in what is being investigated as a double-murder suicide. A woman reportedly placed a distressed 911 call in which shots were heard. Afterward, Houston police responded to the home and forced entry before discovering the bodies of a man and a woman …
A British court heard how a neonatal nurse allegedly tried three times to kill a baby born prematurely in June 2016. According to iTV, Lucy Letby, 33, hugged the baby’s mother after the first murder attempt. The baby boy has hemophilia and was born weighing 3 pounds, 11 ounces, and Letby allegedly tried to kill …
A 17-year-old accused of raping intoxicated LSU sophomore Madison Brooks prior to her death last month has been booked in the East Baton Rouge adult jail, while a nearby bar that reportedly served minors alcohol before the incident has been shut down. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 17-year-old Desmond Carter is facing first and third-degree rape …
UPDATE A 2-year-old Ohio boy has been found safe in Evanston on Friday, and the woman accused of taking him is currently in police custody, according to NBC 5. Original Story Hamilton County law enforcement in Ohio issued an AMBER Alert Thursday after a woman living with his babysitter reportedly took him. According to police, …
A Pennsylvania street preacher known as “The Sparrow” has been found alive in Puerto Rico, over 20 years after she mysteriously vanished. According to ABC 6, Patricia Kopta vanished from Pittsburgh in 1992. Her husband said she never said a word about leaving, although she talked about Puerto Rico before and the warm weather. “I …
The rape and murder of a 23-year-old Georgia woman in 1989 has been solved with the help of genealogical DNA. Larry Padgett, 59, was arrested earlier this week in Loogootee, Indiana, where he now lives, for the murder of Mary Louicile Willfong, whose body was found by deer hunters on November 21, 1989, along Johnstonville …
An investigation is under way regarding autopsy photos that were leaked to the public in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial. After sentencing Murdaugh to life in prison, Judge Clifton Newman revealed that the court was made aware of autopsy photos that were somehow shown to the public. Parties involved in the case have requested an …
The jury’s initial poll of its members showed nine guilty, two not guilty, and one not sure. Forty-five minutes later, it was unanimous — disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh was guilty of gunning down his wife Maggie and son Paul on June 7, 2021. Craig Moyer, a carpenter who served on the jury, told …
Experts are calling Thursday a great day for justice after a South Carolina jury found disgraced former attorney Alex Murdaugh guilty of murder. “It’s as if the mind is tricking the eye; you see a beautiful seemingly happy family,” CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace said on Fox Nation following the verdict. “A man with so much…millions of …
