Crystal Bonvillian
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Holly Clouse: Missing Texas infant found alive more than 40 years after parents’ murders
Harold Dean Clouse Jr. and his wife, Tina Linn, were brutally slain in 1980 and their 1-year-old daughter abducted. On Tuesday, Texas cold case detectives found Holly Marie Clouse, now 42, alive and well in Oklahoma, where she has a husband, children and grandchildren. → Read More
Man charged in 1981 killing of Pennsylvania high schooler found bludgeoned near train tracks
Three years after she vanished without a trace, Denise Pierson's remains were found about 300 yards from the home of one suspect, a serial rapist who died in prison in 2013. A second suspect, Wayne Anthony Walker, was charged last week with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy. → Read More
Colorado mom who faked years of daughter’s ‘terminal’ illnesses pleads guilty in girl’s death
When Olivia Gant succumbed to multiple "terminal" illnesses in 2017, those following her journey mourned the end of her short, painful life. When her older sister was brought to a Colorado hospital the following year, however, a much more sinister reality emerged. → Read More
Harmony Montgomery: Arrest made in connection with New Hampshire girl missing since 2019
Adam Montgomery, age 31, of Manchester, was arrested Tuesday and charged with the felony assault of his daughter, Harmony Montgomery, who was last seen alive in October 2019. The girl, now 7, was reported missing last week. → Read More
North Carolina trooper hits, kills trooper brother, detained driver while responding to traffic stop
Trooper James Horton was responding to a Rutherford County traffic stop just before 9 p.m. Monday, in which his brother, Trooper John Horton, had pulled over a driver. → Read More
85-year-old woman to be paroled in 1973 death of young stepson, killing of husband 2 decades later
Sylvia Ipock White’s release date has been set for Dec. 2, 2022. White, of Kinston, was convicted in 1993 of hiring two men to kill her husband, Billy Carlyle White Sr. She was also convicted in the 1973 murder of her young stepson, Billy Carlyle White II, who suffocated on a plastic bag. → Read More
Florida man charged with murder after missing woman’s body parts recovered from bay
Robert Lee Kessler, 69, of Lutz, is charged with second-degree murder and abuse of a human body in connection with the killing of 47-year-old Stephanie Crone-Overholts. → Read More
Cops: Senegalese family killed in Denver arson were mistakenly targeted over theft of cellphone
Djibril Diol, 29, and Adja Diol, 23, were killed Aug. 5, 2020, alongside their 3-year-old daughter, Khadija. Djibril Diol’s sister, Hassan Diol, 25, and her infant daughter, Hawa Baye, also died in the fire. → Read More
Police: Squatters buried body of Las Vegas homeowner, took over house, finances
Squatters who entered Lucille Payne's home and found the 82-year-old dead decided to cut up her body and bury it in her yard before draining her finances and living in her house. → Read More
Brooklyn woman accused of ‘execution-style’ shooting nabbed in Florida, cops say
Claudia Banton, 42, was arrested in Jacksonville by members of the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force. Banton is accused of gunning down Delia Johnson, 42, as Johnson stood talking to friends Aug. 4 on a Brooklyn street. → Read More
Car, human remains found in 1998 missing persons case of Arkansas mom and infant
Samantha Jean Hopper, 20, and her 1-year-old daughter, Courtney Holt, vanished Sept. 11, 1998, from Russellville, where she planned to drop off her daughter and continue to a concert with a friend. Hopper was eight months pregnant at the time. → Read More
Former NASA exec found guilty of killing neighbor over dog poop, noise and trash complaints
Michael Hetle, 54, of Springfield, Virginia, was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder in the March 3, 2020, death of 24-year-old Javon Malik Prather. The deadly shooting and its aftermath were captured on Hetle's doorbell camera. → Read More
Warrants: Alex Murdaugh ‘coordinated’ payout in housekeeper’s death, kept $3 million
Murdaugh, 53, of Hampton, S.C., is accused of misappropriating funds stemming from the death of Gloria Harriott Satterfield, the Murdaugh family’s longtime housekeeper and nanny. Satterfield, 57, died in February 2018 following a fall at the Murdaugh home. → Read More
Divers find SUV of missing Ohio mom, 2 children on river bottom after nearly 20 years
Stephanie “Van” Nguyen’s 1997 Nissan Pathfinder was pulled Wednesday from the Ohio River in Aurora, Indiana. She and her two children, Kristina Nguyen, 4, and John Nguyen, 3, vanished in April 2002. → Read More
Man exonerated after 16 years on Louisiana’s death row dies of COVID-19
New Orleans native Damon Thibodeaux, 47, died Aug. 31 in a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. He lived 3,260 days as a free man after being cleared of the 1996 rape and murder of 14-year-old Crystal Marie Champagne. → Read More
Louisiana man caught on video faking Tesla hit-and-run in gas station parking lot
Arthur Bates Jr. learned a valuable lesson last week: If you mess with a Tesla, it just might tattle on you. → Read More
Laci Peterson murder: Convicted killer Scott Peterson returns to court in bid for new trial
Peterson, 48, attended the court hearing via video from San Quentin State Prison, where he is serving a life sentence in the murders of Laci Peterson and the couple’s unborn son, Conner. Laci Peterson, 27, vanished from the couple’s Modesto home on Christmas Eve 2002. → Read More
2 Colorado cops arrested after bodycam footage shows one pistol-whipping unarmed Black man
“I can tell you we’re disgusted. We’re angry,” Aurora police Chief Vanessa Wilson said. “This is not police work. We don’t train this. It’s not acceptable.” → Read More
Vegas police solve 32-year-old cold case with smallest amount of DNA evidence to date
Authorities announced July 21 that a Texas forensics lab had taken a tiny amount of genetic material — the equivalent of fewer than 15 human cells — and identified the alleged killer of 14-year-old Stephanie Isaacson. → Read More
Babysitter charged with murder after violently shaken baby dies of injuries 35 years later
Terry McKirchy, 59, was indicted on a first-degree murder charge earlier this month in Broward County, where the crime took place in 1984. She is accused of killing Benjamin Dowling, who was 5 months old when he was injured. → Read More