An 18-year-old Florida man has been arrested for a traffic accident last year that killed a 66-year-old woman. Alexis Maratinez Alonso was charged with vehicular homicide, the Naples Police Department said. Police said he was driving 66 mph on US 41 in Naples on December 15, 2023, and sped up to 81 mph in order to beat a traffic light that was changing to red. He passed several cars that were slowing for the light and sped through the light after it changed to red, slamming into the passenger side door of an Audi and seriously injuring the occupants, including Mary McNamara, who died a week la ..read more

An amended complaint against the man accused of killing and dismembering Sade Robinson earlier this month provides detailed descriptions of the movements of her cell phone, along with video and witness evidence tracking Maxwell Anderson at several of the locations mentioned in the complaint. The complaint does not mention a “sex dungeon” in Maxwell’s basement reported by The New York Post, quoting a single, unnamed source it said was a “police source.” Amended Complaint 6626c5cdaf4cd by kc wildmoon on Scribd The complaint says that clothing Robinson was seen wearing earlier in the evening, be ..read more

Police in Philadelphia are searching for a 14-year-old girl who was reportedly abducted by an unknown man while she was a on a Facetime call with her mother. Investigators say the incident took place at the intersection of K Street in Venango Street in the Kensington neighborhood just before 5 p.m. Thursday, WPVI reported. The girl was grabbed from behind by an unknown man, they said. The victim is described as 5 feet 2 inches tall, Hispanic, with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a navy shirt and pants and black Nike shoes. No further information was released, including pho ..read more

The fifth suspect arrested in the death of two Kansas women who disappeared in the Oklahoma panhandle on March 30 admitted that he was involved in planning their murders. According to an affidavit, Paul Grice also admitted during a police interview on Tuesday “that he participated in the killing of [Veronica] Butler and [Jilian] Kelley and their subsequent burial,” The Oklahoman reported. Butler, 27, and Kelley, 39, were headed to Texas County, Oklahoma, on the morning of March 30 to pick up Butler’s children for a scheduled visitation from their grandmother, Tifany Adams, the mother of the ch ..read more

A Nevada man charged with killing his girlfriend’s toddler son three years ago has agreed to plead guilty to first degree murder and assault on a protected person. Terrell Rhodes appeared in court Thursday to enter his plea and faces 20 years to life on the murder charge, KLAS reported. Judge Jacqueline Bluth set a sentencing date of July 30 and told attorneys they could argue at that time whether the sentence on the murder charge and the assault charge should be served consecutively or concurrently. Rhodes was initially charged with first degree murder in 2-year-old Amari Nicholson’s death, b ..read more

According to court documents, the elaborate plan to kill Veronica Butler and Jillian Kelly began with a simple lie, the day before the murders. Tad Cullum, the boyfriend of grandmother Tiffany Adams,  had asked the owner of the property he rented for cattle grazing, if he could do some work in the pasture, with his skid steer.  Picture a heavy-duty front-end loader, with lift arms that can attach to various tools, especially ones for digging. Cullum reportedly said he wanted to cut down a tree, remove a stump, and bury some concrete. The intent was that if the hole was discovered, i ..read more

The judge overseeing the murder case against Bryan Kohberger has lifted his order temporarily stopping a defense survey of potential jurors aimed at aiding its case for a motion for a change of venue. Public defender Anne Taylor hired a jury consultant to conduct the surveys, which consisted of several questions about the case. The surveys were to cover three Idaho counties — Latah, where the murders of four University of Idaho students took place in November 2022, and two other, larger counties where the defense would like the trial moved, as CrimeOnline reported. Kohberger is charged with ki ..read more

A Louisiana man was sentenced to 50 years in prison and physical castration after admitting on Wednesday to impregnating and repeatedly raping a 14-year-old girl. The victim went to authorities in 2022, claiming Glenn Sullivan Sr., 54, had raped her multiple times when she was 14 and impregnated her as a result. DNA testing confirmed Sullivan fathered the girl’s child — which also corroborated the rape, according to WBRZ. Investigators said that Sullivan threatened to harm the victim and her family if she told about the sexual assaults. In certain cases, convicted rapists in Louisiana can be s ..read more

This episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan is a look at the death and autopsy of John Wilkes Booth. Booth shot Abraham Lincoln from behind around 10:15 p.m. on April 14, 1865. He died the next morning, April 15, at 7:22 a.m. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will uncover the track that Booth took as he tried to escape, and finally being shot himself. The farmhouse of Dr. Samuel Mudd, where both John Wilkes Booth stopped to have his broken leg set after shooting President Abraham Lincoln, is shown near Beantown, current day Waldorf, Md., March 1, 1961. Booth and accomplice David Herold ..read more

The search for bodies in a remote Long Island area of New York entered its third day on Thursday, with authorities suggesting a potential link to the infamous Gilgo Beach murders. Dozens of officers from Suffolk County, NYPD, and state troopers were seen scouring the woods near Manorville with cadaver dogs, New York Post reports. A mobile command unit operates from the Manorville Fire Department headquarters, overseeing the somber search. The focus remains on a segment of Otis Pike Preserve along Schultz Road and Wading River Manor Road, although officials have yet to disclose what prompted th ..read more