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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
Alleged love triangle was behind Texas murder of pro cyclist Moriah Wilson, affidavit reveals
Moriah “Mo” Wilson was in Austin for a race earlier this month when, after meeting up with a former lover for a swim, the 25-year-old was gunned down. U.S. marshals are now hunting for the prime suspect in the case — the man's live-in girlfriend, Kaitlin Armstrong. → Read More
Michigan man who killed 13-year-old after raping mom gets 50 to 150 years in double homicide
“Didn’t God know how much I’d miss her, Mama?” Adrie Dembowske's little sister asked after the teen's murder last April. Sentenced last week in a separate double homicide, convicted murderer Isaiah Gardenhire's earliest release date is in 2096, when he would be 115 years old. → 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
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
When a hired hitman voiced concern about killing Sylvia White's husband in 1992, the soon-to-be widow had a chilling response. “It’s not that hard to do. I had a stepchild. I put a bag over it until it stopped breathing. It was better off,” she said. → 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
Love triangle ends in murder of Southwest Airlines worker at Texas airport, cops say
Bernard Walter Christmann, 50, of El Paso, is charged with murder in the Nov. 19, 2021, homicide of 49-year-old Juan Anzaldo, a Southwest Airlines employee at the El Paso International Airport, seen at right. Anzaldo was killed in an employee parking lot. → Read More
Pregnant Florida library worker killed after pulling gun on biker she intentionally hit with car
Sara Nicole Morales, 35, of Orange City, was shot multiple times Nov. 20 in a confrontation outside her home. → 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
FBI seeking info on possible suspect in 1995 disappearance of Arkansas 6-year-old Morgan Nick
Morgan Nick was gone in the blink of an eye, or in the flash of a firefly. → Read More
DNA on beer cans leads to suspect in 1996 death of Florida store clerk stabbed 73 times
Kenneth Robert Stough Jr., 54, of Eustis, was arrested Tuesday in the 1996 cold case murder of 31-year-old Terence Paquette, 31, of Orlando. Paquette, the manager of a Lil' Champ convenience store, was stabbed 73 times in the store's bathroom. → Read More
Teen hitchhiker killed in Alabama crash identified through genetic genealogy after 60 years
The identification of 15-year-old Daniel Paul “Danny” Armantrout is the oldest case involving the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to be solved using DNA and genealogy. → 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
Human remains found in SUV of missing Ohio mom, 2 children pulled from river after 20 years
Human remains have been found in Stephanie “Van” Nguyen’s 1997 Nissan Pathfinder, which 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
‘Young and stupid’: South Dakota woman convicted of leaving baby to freeze in ditch in 1981
Theresa Bentaas, 60, of Sioux Falls, entered an Alford plea on a charge of manslaughter Friday. Bentaas essentially agreed that a jury of her peers would likely find her guilty of giving birth to her son Feb. 27, 1981, and leaving him, with his umbilical cord and placenta still attached, in a ditch to freeze. → Read More
Dating app serial killer caught with help of victim’s friends is sentenced to 160 years behind bars
Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, 25, of Orange, N.J., was sentenced Wednesday in the 2016 murders of Sarah Butler, 20, Robin West, 19, and Joanne Brown, 33, as well as the attempted murder, kidnapping and sexual assault of Tiffany Taylor, who survived. → Read More
Slain Instagram influencer Alexis Sharkey’s husband kills self as cops serve murder warrant
Thomas Sharkey was wanted in the Nov. 27 murder of 26-year-old Alexis Leigh Robinault, who was known on social media by her married name, Alexis Sharkey. The beauty influencer's body was found Nov. 28 in a ditch outside of Houston. → Read More