The Virginia sheriff’s deputy who killed the mother and grandparents of a California teen he catfished shot himself with his service weapon after a chase with law enforcement 200 miles from the murder scene. Investigators’s say 28-year-old Austin Lee Edwards “catfished” the 15-year-old daughter of Brooke Winek, 38, posing as a 17-year-old boy, as CrimeOnline …
A Texas woman was found guilty Friday of hiring carnival worker to kill her son and daughter-in-law in 2013. Prosecutors said that Ruth Ann Comer wanted her son and his wife dead to cover her tracks after the unsolved murder of her boyfriend, Jerry Collins, a year earlier. Bexar County Prosecutor Lauren Scott argued that …
A 77-year-old Atlanta woman was stabbed to death on Saturday, apparently when she interrupted a suspect trying to steal her Lexus SUV. Eleanor “Ellen” J. Bowles was found dead by her son, who arrived home for the holidays, at her home in Atlanta’s tony Buckhead neighborhood, just a mile from the Georgia governor’s mansion. Atlanta …
A 2-year-old boy kidnapped by his non-custodial father in September was recovered in Puerto Rico this week and two people were arrested. The U.S.Marshals Service said that London Stephens picked up the boy from a daycare facility in Oakwood, Georgia, on September 28. He was supposed to return him to the facility on October 3, …
A 21-year-old Colorado man has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of two women and a man at a home in Aurora on Friday. Christopher Martinez was arrested Saturday morning at at about 5:30 a.m., 24 hours after family members first contacted police for a welfare check at the residence, the Aurora …
A key figure in the bombing of an airplane 34 years ago that killed 270 people, including 190 Americans, has been taken into custody to face prosecution, ABC News reports. On Sunday, the Justice Department announced that authorities detained Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi in connection with the 1988 attack. “The United States has …
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace says the FBI made the right move by creating a website where digital data can be shared in connection with the University of Idaho murders that left four students dead last month. “It can be a Ring doorbell, it can be video from your car, it can be your cellphone–anything,” Grace told …
A California woman is on trial for allegedly killing her former stepfather after she discovered naked images of herself on his computer, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Jade Janks, 39, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Thomas Merriman, 64, who was found dead in January 2021 at his apartment in Solano Beach, California. “This was …
The wife of a convicted killer is urging the public to stop accusing her husband of murdering the four University of Idaho students who were stabbed to death last month, telling the Daily Mail that the harassment is endangering her family. The plea comes after the woman’s husband, 39-year-old James Curtis Leonard, was arrested this …
A northeast Alabama man has been arrested and charged with killing his 62-year-old mother. DeKalb County emergency officials responded to a home in Collinsville Tuesday night and found Sandra Jelks dead in her living room, WDEF reported. Jelks was the mother of a DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office employee, so Sheriff Nick Welden asked deputies in …
A Florida woman was arrested this week on charges of child neglect and animal cruelty after deputies saw the “deplorable conditions” of her home, which include trash, fecal matter, urine, rotten food, rats, and a variety of insects. The Citrus County Sheriff’s Office said it arrested Shannon Marie Morgan, 38, on Wednesday after they received …
State Attorney: “Every incident of alleged elder exploitation or abuse touches our heart and never fails to shock us. It seems particularly harder to understand when the alleged perpetrator of the exploitation is a daughter, or a son or another blood relative”
