Teenage Suspect in Ridgeway Murder Charged with 17 Counts
Courtesy Westminster Police Department(DENVER) — The 17-year-old who allegedly confessed to the murder of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway was formally charged as an adult Tuesday in Jefferson County, Colo., court.Austin Sigg was charged with 17 counts. E…
Oregon Barista Murder Suspect Had Child Porn: Records
Clint Heichel and his wife, Whitney, are seen in her Facebook profile picture. -Facebook(NEW YORK) — The neighbor charged with killing missing Oregon barista Whitney Heichel allegedly told police he was mugged the day she went missing, according to n…
Prosecutors: DNA Links Suspect to Jessica Ridgeway’s Murder
Courtesy Westminster Police Department(GOLDEN, Colo.) — Prosecutors in court said they have a confession and DNA tying a 17-year-old college student to the kidnapping and murder of Jessica Ridgeway after sources told ABC News that human remains were f…
Two Kids Killed in NY Identified; Nanny in Police Custody at Hospital
Comstock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The New York City Police Department has released the names of two children who were allegedly stabbed to death by their nanny in the family’s Upper West Side apartment.The bodies of 6-year-old Lucia Krim and 2-year-old …
Teacher’s Aide Fired for Revelation of Role in Grisly 1965 Killing
Indiana State Prison| BCLUW Yearbook(CONRAD, Iowa) — An Iowa teacher’s aide has been fired from her job following the revelation that she was a member of an Indiana family notorious for torturing and killing a girl in their basement in 1965.”A week ag…
Police ‘Certain’ Jessica Ridgeway Case Linked to Attempted Jogger Abduction
The Ridgeway Family(DENVER) — Authorities hunting for the person who killed and dismembered 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway said Tuesday there is a “definitive link” between her case and the attempted abduction of a jogger in the same area earlier this y…
Murdered Barista Whitney Heichel Was Raped, Shot Several Times
Clint Heichel(GRESHAM, Ore.) — The young Oregon barista Whitney Heichel. who vanished on her way to her job at a Starbucks, was sexually assaulted before she was shot “multiple” times, according to charges filed Monday against the man arrested in her …
Newport Beach Murder: Husband Says Another Man Killed Wife, Forcing Him to Bury Body
Orange County Sheriff’s Department(NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.) — A prominent California real estate investor who pleaded not guilty to killing his wife for financial gain now claims another man did the killing and forced the real estate mogul to bury the b…
Cops Search Sea for Missing UNH Student, Believed Strangled
Comstock/Thinkstock(PORTSMOUTH, N.H.) — A New Hampshire martial arts instructor was held without bail Monday, accused of strangling or suffocating college sophomore Elizabeth Marriott, whose body remains missing, and which authorities believe was dump…
Utah Doctor Charged with Drowning, Drugging Wife Will Face Trial
Hemera/Thinkstock(PROVO, Utah) — A Utah judge has decided that a once prominent doctor who was recently freed from prison for identity fraud will now stand trial for the murder of his wife, calling his actions surrounding her death “evidence of a guil…
US Embassy Security Staffer Murdered in Yemen
STR/AFP/GettyImages(SANAA, Yemen) — A U.S. embassy security team leader from Yemen was reportedly gunned down on his way to work Thursday in the Yemeni capital.Qassem Aqlan, who headed a team tasked with protecting the American compound in the unstabl…
Pregnant Texas Mom Confesses to Killing Infant Sons
Brazoria County Sheriff’s Department(HOUSTON) — A 20-year-old Texas mother who is now pregnant with her fourth child has confessed to killing two of her infant children, according to police, who said that she told them she thought she “had too many ki…
Tennis Ref’s Daughter Calls Affair Accusations ‘Completely Made Up’
Comstock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The family of Lois Goodman, the U.S. Open tennis referee charged with killing her husband with a coffee cup, has denied that she was having an affair at the time of his death, calling the accusation “completely made up….
Tennis Ref’s Daughter Calls Affair Accusations ‘Completely Made Up’
Comstock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The family of Lois Goodman, the U.S. Open tennis referee charged with killing her husband with a coffee cup, has denied that she was having an affair at the time of his death, calling the accusation “completely made up….
Manhunt in Red Bulls Youth Soccer Coach’s Mutilation and Murder
ABC News / NYPD(NEW YORK) — Police are searching for a man wanted for the grisly murder and mutilation of a New York youth soccer coach.Surveillance video that shows the man authorities believe stabbed Michael Jones numerous times in the chest and nec…
Bathtub Bride’s Suspected Killer on the Run, Maserati Found
Comstock/Thinkstock(BURBANK, Ill.) — The manhunt for a Chicago man suspected of killing his wife on their wedding night and leaving her in a blood-soaked bathtub may be headed to Mexico.Burbank, Ill., police have been on the trail of Humberto “B…
‘Black Widow’ Killer, 77, Charged with Poisoning New Husband
Hemera/Thinkstock(CAPE BRETON, Nova Scotia) — An elderly woman known as the “Black Widow” for killing her first husband has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly poisoning her current husband.Melissa Ann Weeks, also known as Melissa Ann F…
Alleged Houston Killer Used Past Tense in "Dr. Phil" Interview
ABC | Houston Police Dept.(HOUSTON) — Mark Castellano, the Houston computer technician who has been charged with killing his ex-girlfriend, Michelle Warner, referred to her in the past tense during an interview with TV talk-show host Phil McGraw two d…
Ga. Man Sentenced in Flight Attendant’s Murder, Stabbing of Her Child
Hemera/Thinkstock(MARRIETA, Ga.) — Waseem Daker, the man convicted last week of murdering a Georgia woman and repeatedly stabbing her 5-year-old son, was sentenced Monday to life in prison, plus 47 years.Karmen Smith was killed in her home in 1995. He…
Boyfriend Charged in Beating Death of New York College Student
ABC News(BROCKPORT, N.Y.) — The boyfriend of a college student who was found beaten to death in her upstate New York dorm room has been charged with murder. Clayton Whittemore, 21, allegedly admitted to causing the death of his girlfriend, who has not…