Crystal Bonvillian
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Alabama police ID ‘Baby Jane Doe’ found slain in 2012, arrest father, stepmom
For more than 13 years, Sherry Wiggins faithfully paid child support to the father of her daughter, Amore Joveah Wiggins, whom she lost custody of in 2009 when Amore was 3. In December, the Maryland woman faced every mother’s worst nightmare: She learned her daughter was dead — and had been for more than a decade. → Read More
Genealogists help solve mystery of ‘Christmas Tree Lady’ found dead in cemetery in 1996
When a groundskeeper at a Virginia cemetery stumbled upon the body of a woman — and an eight-inch Christmas tree — near some infant graves in December 1996, Fairfax County investigators were left with an enduring mystery. That mystery has been solved, authorities announced Thursday. → Read More
Former soldier charged in 1982 rape, murder of California 5-year-old abducted on way to school
Anne Pham vanished Jan. 21, 1982, in the time it took her to walk fewer than 1,000 feet to her Seaside elementary school. On Thursday, convicted sex offender Robert Lanoue, who lived around the block from the Pham family in 1982, was charged in connection with her rape and murder. → Read More
Baltimore man gets 41 years for killing, dismembering daughter after lifetime of abuse
As a younger man, Lawrence Banks spent 15 years in prison for throwing his then-7-month-old daughter through a glass door during an argument with her mother. On Monday, he was again sent to prison for killing and dismembering that same daughter more than four decades later. → 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
Does Washington-area ‘Shopping Cart Killer’ have additional victims? Police fear so
Four women reported missing since August are the suspected victims of a serial killer working in Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C. “He preys on the weak. He preys on the vulnerable. And he does unspeakable things with his victims,” Fairfax County police Chief Kevin Davis says. → Read More
Florida cops offer $25,000 reward for info on ‘feckless coward’ who raped 7 women in ‘80s, ‘90s
Leslie Renald Lagrotta, 61, is wanted in connection with the rapes of at least seven women in Orlando and Volusia County in the 1980s and 1990s. He has been tied to the crimes by DNA and a palm print left at a 1988 crime scene. → Read More
Tennessee woman charged after newborn’s remains found in storage unit rented for 27 years
A cooler was the only thing inside the storage unit, the contents of which had recently been auctioned off. The contents of the cooler were heartbreaking. → Read More
Frankie Little Jr.: John Doe found in trash bag in 1982 identified as one-time O’Jays guitarist
Police in Ohio have identified partial human remains found nearly 40 years ago as belonging to one-time O’Jays guitarist Frank “Frankie” Little Jr. Workers at a Twinsburg machine shop stumbled upon the musician's skull in February 1982. → Read More
Man citing dual custody battles kills both women, self while streaming on Facebook Live
Rajaee Black, 44, killed his former girlfriend, Tara Labang, 41, in her Baltimore home before driving 30 minutes away to Columbia, where he gunned down his 42-year-old ex-wife, Wendy Black, before turning his gun on himself. Black streamed on Facebook Live between shootings. → Read More
Suspect in Georgia girl’s killing has history of abuse charges, was suspect in another child death
When Alabama deputies went Monday evening to the vacant Phenix City home where Jeremy Williams once lived, they made a gruesome discovery — the body of a missing Georgia 5-year-old. → Read More
Man serving 295 years in prison charged in woman’s 1996 murder at California pizza shop
Danny Lamont Hamilton, 51, has been charged with the murder of Priscilla Ann Lewis, 21, of Vallejo. Lewis was found raped, beaten and drowned in the toilet of a basement restroom shared by Four Corners Pizza-N-Pasta and three other businesses. → Read More
Bones found in submerged car linked to Auburn University student missing since 1976
Kyle Clinkscales, 22, vanished without a trace the night of Jan. 27, 1976, as he drove from LaGrange, Georgia, to the campus 35 miles away. His 1974 Ford Pinto was pulled from a creek Tuesday in rural Chambers County, Alabama. → Read More
Man executed for wife’s murder confessed to 2007 murder of missing sister-in-law
David Neal Cox, 50, was executed by lethal injection Nov. 17 in Mississippi. Two days later, his lawyers hand-delivered a letter he'd written confessing to the murder of Felicia Warren Cox, who vanished three years before Cox killed his wife. → Read More
Nevada’s ‘Jane Arroyo Grande Doe’ IDed as 17-year-old New Mexico girl slain in 1980
The girl found slain Oct. 5, 1980, in an undeveloped desert area of Henderson has been identified through DNA and genetic genealogy as Tammy Corrine Terrell, 17, of Artesia, New Mexico. Terrell was last seen alive in Roswell a week before her murder. → Read More
Fire Island John Doe: Genetic genealogy IDs second Alaska cold case victim in 6 weeks
Troopers said Wednesday that a man found slain in 1989 on Fire Island, west of Anchorage, has been identified as Michael Allison Beavers, 40, who was reported missing by his wife in January 1980 after he failed to come back from a Seattle business trip. → Read More