Crimes

Johnson’s family has long-suspected the teen was killed by classmates and theorized that their parents conspired with school and law enforcement officials to cover up his death. If authentic, the audio may be one of the first significant clues to emerge since the case’s reopening earlier this month by the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators declined to comment on what's said in the audio but confirmed they’re now tracking down the individual who allegedly sold the tape to Johnson’s mother. https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/kendrick-johnson-case-audio-confession-probed-as-possible-hoax

The bodies of Gene Siller, Henry Valdez and Paul Pierson were all found on the green at the Pinetree Country Club on Saturday afternoon. Siller, the club’s golf pro, was shot to death near the 10th hole when police say he came upon a crime in progress. Police later found Valdez and Pierson bound and shot to death in the bed of a pickup truck parked on the green. Investigators say a white pickup truck drove onto the 10th hole Saturday around 2 p.m. The suspect was driving the truck and there were two dead bodies in the truck bed, according to police. Siller was shot in the head on the 10th green. Two of the three men found shot to death on a Cobb County golf course July 3 had been bound and gagged with tape before being placed in the...

Woman gunned down in her driveway in 'monstrous' attack caught on video: 'We need justice for Liz' After a young woman was gunned down in her own driveway in a crime caught on surveillance video, Houston authorities are pleading for help to get her "callous killer off our streets." Elizabeth Barraza was setting up a garage sale when she was attacked on Friday, Jan. 25, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said at a Wednesday news conference. At about 6:55 a.m., the killer drove up to her home, walked up the driveway and engaged Barraza in conversation before pointing a pistol at her and shooting her multiple times, the sheriff said. Barraza was hospitalized and died the next day, the sheriff said. Barraza's killer -- a "coward" --...

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/11/21/us/waukesha-car-parade-injured-dead/index.html Multiple victims have been transported from the scene to area hospitals via ambulance and others were taken by officers, after a red SUV drove through the Waukesha Christmas Parade, Waukesha Police Chief Daniel P. Thompson said in a press conference. The Waukesha Police Department has sent a push alert to cellular phones in the area asking those "within a ½ mile radius of the 5 points downtown" to immediately shelter in place. People were seen on the ground injured after the incident, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel intern Kaylee Staral, who was at the parade, told CNN's Pamela Brown Sunday night. About "20 to 30 minutes into the parade a red SUV came...

I don't know if this warrants a case thread but it's outrageous. These three men were all found WITH ID, and at least two had been REPORTED MISSING. They still tossed them in pauper's graves and didn't notify their families. https://www.wapt.com/article/ben-crump-three-buried-in-hinds-county-potters-field/46190955 Mothers of 3 missing men found buried in pauper's graves speak out A nationally known attorney is representing three Mississippi families who learned months after their sons died that they had been buried in pauper's graves with markers with nothing more than a number. Attorney Ben Crump has been hired by the family of 39-year-old Jonathan David Hankins, who was reported missing to the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office in July...

TX – Roland Zepeda Jr (age 36) is awaiting trial for assaulting an elderly man to get views on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Snapchat. The assault happened on February 25, 2023, at Home Depot in Richardson, TX, a suburb of Dallas. The case is active in Dallas #F-23-45336. • Find the documents here Smart Search - DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS COURTS PORTAL • Search for Zepeda, Roland Mr. Zepeda is currently out on bail re: the above case. The terms of his bail are: • Commit no new offenses – which he has violated • Do not post any prank videos – which he violated • No alcohol/illicit drugs • No possession of deadly weapon • No contact/communication with victim • No victim family contact • Appear for all court...

June 21, 2023 https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/06/21/dcf-takes-custody-of-four-children-found-in-apartment-with-alcohol-drugs-sex-toys-healey-says/ Four children who were found in a disturbing South Boston apartment alongside a dead man over the weekend have been taken into state custody as officials investigate why they were in the presence of alcohol, drugs, and sex toys, Gov. Maura Healey said Wednesday. A Boston Fire Department incident report said first responders found the children, who are 5 to 10 years old, on Saturday morning in “extremely unsanitary conditions” and in a back bedroom where an adult male was in the process of hiding them. First responders were initially called to the Mary Ellen McCormack Housing complex on...

On December 1, 2017, at approximately 7:00 pm, deputies with the Park County Sheriff's Office were dispatched to a house fire located at 3763 County Road 43 in Bailey, Colorado. It was reported in a 9-1-1 call that people were inside the residence causing damage. At least one male was on the property. After the fire was extinguished at the residence, Maggie Long's remains were discovered by fire rescue personnel. The El Paso County Coroner's Office later ruled her death a homicide. Long was 17 years old at the time of her death. Investigative efforts at the scene revealed a physical altercation took place between Long and her assailants before the fire started. The suspects stole a Beretta handgun, an AK-47-style rifle, 2,000 rounds of...

https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/attorneys-claim-lmpd-officers-killed-26-year-old-emt-in-botched-police-raid/article_4bb33de6-704e-11ea-bb3c-4785530c8830.html Attorneys claim LMPD officers killed 26-year-old EMT in 'botched' police raid But an attorney for Kenneth Walker claims police conducted an improper raid, which led to officers shooting an innocent woman eight times, killing her. The woman, 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, was a certified EMT working at two local hospitals. Defense attorney Rob Eggert said police burst in Taylor's home without announcing their presence and fired at least 22 times, with bullets going into neighboring apartments, and “it was incredible that Mrs. Taylor was the only one killed.” “Had Breonna Taylor...

Eight members of one family, the Rhodens, were killed in their Piketon, Ohio homes in April of 2016. All but one were found shot in the heads in their trailers. Their bodies were discovered by other family members. https://www.chillicothegazette.com/story/news/2019/03/30/piketon-family-murders-rhoden-wagner-pike-county-ohio/3244576002/

“As I moved closer, I could hear somebody making noise and yelling. I started to get close to the building and climbed into the debris, and I could hear him saying that he was over there, and I could see his arm sticking up through the debris and waving his hand,” Nicholas Balboa, a man from Phoenix, told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” on Thursday night. “He was just saying, ‘Please don’t leave me, please don’t leave me.’ I told him that we weren’t going to leave him,” Balboa said. “It was myself and one other person. So, we were there and we just felt like we could get to him. It didn’t feel right to just leave him, especially hearing that his voice was just so young.” Balboa was in Surfside, Florida, to visit his father when...

Putting this here. Not sure what the outcome will be.

First put forth as a death in a hot car. No arrests yet... https://people.com/crime/boy-believed-died-heat-exposure-was-actually-murdered-say-police/

A case to watch. A man died- was this criminal or a very unfortunate circumstances? Ga. lawmaker, police chief’s response to wreck under review Sept. 11, 2019 Eric Keais spent most of the last moments of his life gravely injured in a ditch. The 38-year-old house painter had been riding a bicycle when he was hit by an SUV in Cedartown, Instead of calling 911, the driver Ralph Dover III left the scene and called his friend, state Rep. Trey Kelley. Instead of calling 911, Kelley, who works as a lawyer, called the Cedartown police chief, who also didn’t call 911. All three men have said they initially thought the SUV had struck an animal, not a person. The driver and Kelley said they looked around the scene and didn’t see Keais in...

https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/pasadena-girl-killed/285-779e19b4-6927-4789-9e11-6de7f0d720b8 Manhunt underway after Pasadena girl found dead inside her home, police say An 11-year-old Pasadena girl was sexually assaulted and strangled at her home Saturday while her dad was at work, police said. She has been identified as Maria Gonzalez from Guatemala. As of Tuesday, no arrests have been made. Police said they were called to an apartment complex on Main Street near Harris Avenue at about 3 p.m. when Maria's father, Carmelo Gonzalez, called 911. He came home from work and found his daughter's body wrapped in a trash bag and stuffed in a laundry basket that was put beneath her bed. Carmelo Gonzalez told police he had left for...

June 27, 2023 Christopher Ferguson, 41, appeared via Zoom in Newton District Court for the first time since his arrest Tuesday morning in connection with the deaths of Gilda "Jill" and Bruno D'Amore, ages 73 and 74, and Jill's 97-year-old mother, Lucia Arpino, who were stabbed and beaten. Sometime overnight Saturday into Sunday, Christopher Ferguson, 41, allegedly broke into Jill and Bruno's Newton, Massachusetts, home through a window in the basement and brutally killed all three of them in what authorities say appears to be a botched, random home invasion. He lived in the neighborhood and was known to law enforcement. Jill and Bruno were killed a day – maybe even hours – before they were scheduled to renew their wedding vows for...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/missing-girl-dallas-texas-north-carolina-b2300447.html Missing Dallas teen is found locked in shed 1,000 miles from home after ‘meeting abductor online’ A missing 13-year-old girl from Dallas, Texas was found locked in a shed more than 1,000 miles away in North Carolina after she allegedly met her abductor online. The girl was found at a Lexington property on Friday, the same day Texas authorities were alerted to her disappearance, WGHP reported. North Carolina officials on Monday announced the arrest 34-year-old Jorge Camacho, who is accused of grooming the girl after they met online and later in person. Mr Camacho is alleged to have kidnapped and held her captive for “sexual...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/alabama-inmate-official-missing-vicki-white-casey-cole-white/ A sheriff's office in Alabama issued an alert Friday night after an inmate and the assistant director of corrections went missing earlier in the day. Authorities said the inmate, who was being held on capital murder charges, should be considered "armed and extremely dangerous." Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton told reporters Friday night that Vicki White, a 25-year veteran at the department, left the local detention center with Casey Cole White at 9:41 a.m. He said she told other officials she was going to drop him off at the courthouse for a mental health evaluation and then was going to seek medical attention...

https://www.onlineathens.com/story/news/local/2022/10/07/fbi-reviewing-mysterious-death-athens-woman-found-slain-mountains/8209623001/ FBI tries to help identify who killed Debbie Collier of Athens The FBI has joined the investigation into the mysterious slaying of an Athens woman whose burned and nearly nude body was found a month ago in a mountain ravine of northeast Georgia. Habersham County Sheriff’s investigators said the investigation is “very complex in nature” as they do not have suspects or a motive in the death of 59-year-old Debbie Collier, whose body was found Sept. 11. Collier was reported missing on Sept. 10 by her husband Steve Collier and her daughter, Amanda Bearden. An Athens-Clarke police officer met with them at...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/15/oklahoma-murders-white-supremacists/ Smith is among a dozen or more people who have disappeared in recent years from the wooded, unincorporated terrain outside the Oklahoma City metro area, a rural haven for drug traffickers. Some families said they’re scared to call police or even to put up “missing person” signs because they suspect the involvement of violent white-supremacist prison gangs. In April, authorities acting on a tip said they found charred piles of wood and bone on a five-acre patch of Logan County, opening one of the grisliest and most sensitive criminal investigations in Oklahoma’s recent history. Behind the 10-foot metal walls of a compound with links to the...