CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A North Carolina jury on May 31 found Christopher Palmiter, stepfather of missing Cornelius girl Madalina Cojocari, guilty of failure to report the disappearance of a child to law enforcement. The Mecklenburg County jury took 15 minutes after Palmiter’s weeklong trial to reach a verdict, according to FOX 8 Greensboro. “He was the person in the role …
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NASHVILLE – A California man who teamed up with his brother to massacre their parents in a Los Angeles mansion in 1989 made rare public remarks Sunday when he called into a true crime conference from prison and revealed he has aspirations for freedom despite a sentence of life without parole. Joseph Menendez, who goes by his middle name Lyle, …
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Long Island, New York, investigators have linked a fifth alleged victim to Rex Heuermann, the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer who was accused last year of murdering four women and dumping their bodies along a remote highway more than a decade ago, sources tell Fox News Digital. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment but acknowledged that Heuermann …
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NASHVILLE – Gabby Petito’s mom and stepmom torched Brian Laundrie’s mother over the weekend with matching T-shirts they hope will raise money for domestic violence victims and missing persons awareness. The fiery message is a swipe at Roberta Laundrie’s so-called “burn after reading” letter, in which she pledged to help her son with a shovel and garbage bags. Nichole Schmidt …
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – “Doomsday mom” Lori Vallow’s sister, Summer Shiflet, on Saturday spoke out publicly for the first time since an Idaho jury convicted Chad Daybell in his triple murder case on Friday. Shiflet’s comments came at CrimeCon 2024 — a true crime convention that brings victims, law enforcement and other criminal justice experts together to share their stories — …
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An Indiana serial killer’s property was littered with 10,000 “burnt and crushed” skeletal remains that kept many of his victims faceless for decades. Herb Baumeister, a successful businessman who was a married father with three children, is believed to have killed at least 25 victims from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. He hunted mostly gay men in the …
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Chad Daybell, husband of so-called “cult mom” Lori Vallow, was sentenced to death in Idaho on Saturday, two days after he was found guilty of murdering her two youngest children and his first wife in 2019. On Thursday, a jury convicted Daybell on all counts, including murder, conspiracy to commit murder, insurance fraud and grand theft. Daybell, 55, and Vallow, …
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NASHVILLE — Gabby Petito’s mother Nichole Schmidt shocked a packed auditorium Friday when she said she forgave Brian Laundrie, her daughter’s boyfriend and suspected killer. “I speak for myself here when I say Brian, I forgive you,” she said. “I needed to release myself from the chains of anger and bitterness, and I refuse to let your despicable act define …
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Michelle Troconis was sentenced to 20 years with the sentence suspended after 14-and-a-half years on Friday in a Connecticut courtroom, having been found guilty of conspiring tomurder Jennifer Dulos, the estranged wife of Troconis’ then-boyfriend,Fotis Dulos. She will serve her final five years on probation. Family and friends of both Jennifer Dulos and Troconis delivered statements to the Connecticutcourt ahead …
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A California judge on Friday rejected a request by the man convicted of killing Polly Klaas to vacate a death sentence imposed on him. Santa Clara County Judge Benjamin Williams declined to “vacate the jury verdict” in the sentencing of Richard Allen Davis. Davis was convicted in 1996 for the 1993 killing of Klaas, 12, after kidnapping her from her …
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