CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Diana Cojocari, mother of missing North Carolina girl Madalina Cojocari, pleaded guilty Monday morning to one count of failure to report a missing child. Madalina was last seen getting off a school bus in her hometown of Cornelius, just north of Charlotte, on Nov. 21, 2022, when she was 11 years old. Public defenders changed Diana’s plea …
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MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. – Long Island police have returned to the Massapequa Park home of suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann. His wife Asa Ellerup, who filed for divorce shortly after his arrest last summer, and their adult children were not home at the time, according to her lawyer, Bob Macedonio. Investigators from both the New York State Police and Suffolk …
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Defense attorneys representing Kouri Richins, a Utah mom of three and children’s book author accused of killing her husband in 2022, have filed to withdraw from the case, citing “an irreconcilable and nonwaivable [sic] situation.” Richins, now 35, is charged with attempted murder, aggravated murder and drug possession after she allegedly poisoned her husband of nine years, Eric Richins, on …
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When Theresa Jones, a 56-year-old Louisiana mother of three and grandmother of seven, disappeared suddenly in February 2023, her daughter went on a frantic search. Ashley Deese said she learned that her mother was missing from Union Parish on February 2 last year around 7 p.m. after Jones’ boyfriend contacted Deese asking whether she had seen her mother anywhere. She …
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Barbara Mabee Abel was eager to get home after work tofind outwhy her twin sister never answered her phone call. She quickly made a horrifying discovery. It was November 1974andAbel, a single mom to a six-year-old boy, was working as a copywriter at a West Beach, Florida,radiostation. She was living with Beverly, who was born with Cerebral palsy. The women …
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Billy Chemirmir was convicted in the slayings of two elderly women at high-end Texas retirement homes and indicted for the killings of 20 more, but if one woman had not survived his attempt at smothering her, he may have never been caught. Less than a year after he was killed by his cellmate, suspected serial killer Billy Chemirmir is the …
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An Australian-American serial killer and a former FBI Top 10 Most Wanted fugitive named Christopher Wilder may still be tied to a number of unsolved murders in Florida and New York. Wilder, a millionaire race car driver and photographer known as the “Beauty Queen Killer” and the “Snapshot Killer,” died in 1984 during a shootout with New Hampshire State Police …
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The inmates accused of killing one of America’s most notorious gangsters in prison in 2018 reached plea deals this week, according to federal court filings. James “Whitey” Bulger was killed in his cell by three inmates who knew the infamous mobster was being transferred to U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia, one of the most violent federal prisons in the …
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The Utah squatter suspected of killing a 19-year-old who struck out on his own farm two years ago admitted to shooting the teen in the head on a rainy day as he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a Brigham City court Wednesday. James Brenner, 60, had long been suspected of killing the teen, but evidence was scarce until investigators …
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Mario Fernandez, husband of Shanna Gardner, the ex-wife of slain Microsoft manager Jared Bridegan, wrote “good luck!” on a check written to the hit man they allegedly hired to carry out Bridegan’s murder in 2022, a witness testified during a Wednesday bond hearing. A Duval County, Florida courtroom heard testimony from several witnesses on Wednesday during a hearing to determine …
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