In 2012 father of five Srgt. Vincent Goslin returned safe from a tour in Afghanistan only to be murdered near his home. Tonight’s episode of Dateline, “Evil Was Waiting” investigates the story of who gunned him down on a dark Kentucky road. Vince and his wife were driving on a remote road on February 3,…
63-year-old self-published romantic thriller writer Nancy Brophy wrote books like The Wrong Husband (Wrong Never Looked So Right) and seemingly tongue-in-cheek essays like one titled “How To Murder Your Husband.” Now, Nancy’s been arrested for allegedly doing just that. “As a romantic suspense writer, I spend a lot of time thinking about murder and,…
Tonight’s episode of Dateline on NBC delves into the case of Brittani Marcell, who was brutally attacked with a shovel in her home in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2008. He left a single drop of blood, but invegistaors were unable to find a DNA match in their database. Five years later, Marcell underwent hypnosis and…
When Chris Watts was arrested for the murder of his pregnant wife and two daughters, it was revealed that he was having an affair at work. It turns out Watts may have led an extensive double life and possibly had many affairs behind his wife Shan’ann Watts’ back. This week a man spoke to Ashleigh…
It’s been four long year since the gripping true crime podcast Serial took the world by storm and fostered a million more true crime podcasts trying to fill the void it left in audio entertainment. Even Serial podcast itself hasn’t bene able to live up to the fervor it initially unleashed with its inaugural season….
Last week Colorado resident Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife and allegedly murdered his two daughters after admitting to his wife he was having an affair with a coworker. He disposed of his wife’s body in a swallow grave oil field owned by Anadarko Petroleum, the company he worked for. He put his daughters’ bodies…
On the morning of June 21, 2018 8-year-old Curtis Gilbert Collman III was hungry for breakfast, but there was no food in the house. He did search for it, however, and instead found granules of meth on the table, which he thought might be breakfast cereal. The amount of meth the boy ate was staggering…
A 30-year-old mother has been arrested and charged with murder after drugs in her system were allegedly transferred to her 11-week-old baby via breast milk in a middle-of-the-night feeding. Samantha Whitney Jones, of New Britain Township PA, has been formally charged with criminal homicide, following an autopsy that concluded her infant, R.J., “died from a…
A 32-year-old Montana man has been apprehended after leaving a five-month-old baby in alone the Montana mountains for at least nine hours because — as the prosecution in his case put it — “the baby was very heavy.” Francis Carlton Crowley later broke down in court after hearing the charges against him read aloud. According…
Samantha Mears, a 19-year-old Montana woman with a history of domestic violence, has been arrested and charged with six new crimes after ambushing her boyfriend and forcing him to have sex with her while she held a machete to his throat. KTVQ out of Billings MT appears to have been the first to report the…
Earlier this year, prominent Atlanta attorney Tex McIver was found guilty of murdering his wife, Diane McIver, with a single gunshot from the backseat of the car in which the couple was riding on their way home one confusing September night. Despite the verdict, the trial that ended in a life sentence for the 75-year-old…
A Georgia mom who let pedophiles rape her kids for cash over an undisclosed period has been sentenced to two decades in prison. Morgan Summerlin, 25, took her five- and six-year-old daughters to the homes of two different men, who “would then rape and molest them” in exchange for several hundred dollars, plus unspecified drugs….
Last night A&EE’s Biography network aired A two-hour documentary called “Mary Kay Letourneau: Autobiography” about the controversial decades long relationship that began when May Kay was a 34-year-old teacher and her now-husband was a 12-year-old student in the sixth grade. “[It] sounds young, I get it,” the now 56, says about Vili Fualaau, who is…
Jacqueline Ades was shocked to hear that she’d sent the man she’d stalked, threatened, and harassed for months 65,000 text messages. She thought the number would be much higher. “Love is an excessive thing,” the 31-year-old told reporters at a press conference Friday about her arrest after a long, escalating campaign to harass a man…
The Danielle Locklear murder was widely believed to be a “crime of passion” when her killers were found guilty at trial. But the heat-of-the-moment strangling that left a fifteen-year-old girl dead also left her family searching for answers in spite of their legal victory. Now, four years after her murder, a new Dateline episode attempts…
Drug mule puppies?!?!? The Opiate Crisis looms large over the United States, but it’s really a worldwide, human problem. However, the following heartbreaking news story proves that humans aren’t the only victims of heroin (and other opiate/opioid) abuse. Veterinarian Andrés López Elorza was arrested in Spain in 2013 and 2015 for surgically implanting puppies with…
Atasha Jefferson’s extensive mug shot collection got a little bit bigger this week, with the addition of the two LHHATL Tommie new mug shots taken following the star’s arrest on battery charges. Tommie is being charged with two separate counts stemming from a February incident in which she’s said to have attacked an employee at…
In an incredibly tragic story that only becomes more distressing, the murderer of Morgan Freeman’s granddaughter E’Dena Hines claims in court that E’Dena revealed an “inappropriate sexual relationship” she had with Freeman. 30-year-old Lamar Davenport was in a troubled relationship with E’Dena before he stabbed her 25 times outside of her apartment. In addition, Lamar’s…
James Shaw Jr. is dealing with a sudden rash of media attention after he successfully disarmed the Nashville Waffle House shooter outside of Nashville. “I was completely doing it just to save myself,” 29-year-old Shaw said during a news conference regarding the Sunday morning shooting. “I did save other people, but I don’t want people…
A 23-year-old substitute teacher was arrested last week for initiating a “fight club” in a Montville, Connecticut math classroom. There is cellphone video footage of Ryan Fish egging students to slap each other. His motive? He just wanted to be liked. “I’m an idiot,” he told police on his arrest warrant, where he was charged…
The Pablo Ibar 2018 trial — the fifth time Pablo will be tried for the triple homicide known as the Casey’s Nickelodeon Murders — was scheduled to begin weeks ago. But new developments for both the prosecution and defense pushed Pablo’s trial back yet again. And a new complication has just arisen, in the form…
There’s finally a happy ending for Cleveland kidnap victim Michelle Knight. The resilient women announced on a taping of Dr. Phil set to air April 24th that she got married two years ago. “It’s so good to see you… I got really good news for you,” the 36-year-old tells Dr. Phil in a preview clip…
32-year-old Robin Spielbauer was a mother of two, a divorcée — and, largely unbeknownst to her, involved in a love triangle that would eventually culminate with her murder along a quiet stretch of road in Amarillo, Texas. The investigation into the “Helium Road murder” — or “The Pink Gun Mystery,” as the Dateline episode devoted…
News of Love & Hip Hop New York star Safaree Samuels robbed at gunpoint broke when the man himself shared it in a shaky interview with Angie Martinez immediately following the incident. Shortly thereafter, police engaged in a high-speed chase after the suspects, who allegedly nabbed more than $183,000 in jewels and cash. Safaree, who…
Murder Chose Me‘s Rod Demery is a legendary figure in Shreveport, Louisiana, thanks to his superhuman success as a homicide detective. Lately, Rod’s been weighing the “dilemma” of “where he would be most effective” with his efforts at improving the city — but is Rod Demery running for mayor of Shreveport? The notion may sound…
The Casey’s Nickelodeon murders remain unsolved despite 24 years’ worth of accrued evidence against the two main suspects. Pablo Ibar (pictured above, following his most recent arrest in 2016) and Seth Penalver have been the focus of seven separate trials, one hung jury, two death sentences, and two successful appeals, but neither man has been…
Vili Fualaa crashed his SUV into two cars last month. According to TMZ, his estranged wife Mary Kay Letourneau arrived at the scene of the February 2nd crash and convinced cops to not go through with a field sobriety test because Fualaa’s attorney was on the way. He did have a blood test performed at…
The drama of Corey Feldman’s life continues to get ratcheted up. In the latest segment, Corey tweet a scary story about being stabbed by a syringe when he was in his car. The assailant reportedly opened his door and tried to inject him with something. He said LAPD were on the case of an attempted…
When people go to an amusement park or waterpark, especially with their children, they expect it to be safe. We put an enormous amount of trust in the designers who envision these massive constructions that create the illusion of defying physics. Most of the type we can trust that these adrenaline-inducing thrill rides just create…
In a new GQ interview Girls Trip star Tiffany Haddish spilled some piping hot tea that’s currently scorching Twitter. Now Chrissy Teigen says she knows the answer to the question that’s enthralled social media. Will the rest of ever know #WhoBitBeyonce? This past December, 2017, Haddish attended an afterparty of Jay-Z’s concert in Inglewood, California…
Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star Tommie has been arrested once more, just in time for the LHHATL Season 7 premiere. The latest chapter in the LHHATL Tommie arrested saga stems from Tommie allegedly throwing down on an employee at a Lenox Square Mall jewelry store on February 1st. As we reported at the time,…
Oklahoman Patricia Ann Spann, best known as the woman who married her daughter in March 2016, has been sentenced to two years in prison on a charge of felony incest. Bizarrely, the charge comes a decade after Patricia also married her then 18-year-old son. According to NewsOK.com, the 45-year-old Oklahoma native married her daughter, 26-year-old…
Detective Rod Demery’s brother Patrick became one of Rod’s unwitting inspirations following Patrick’s conviction on a murder charge in 1994. As we’ve written previously, Patrick Demery was stabbed friend Ronald Sherman to death while high on cocaine, then tied up Sherman’s girlfriend and daughter, stabbed them both, and raped the girlfriend. Both women survived. (Click…
Photo: Susanne Nilsson 42-year-old Viktoria Nayrova Brooklynite was arraigned Tuesday for attempted murder in a very curious case She’s charged with attempting the steal the identity of her doppelgänger by lacing her cheesecake with a tranquilizer in August of 2016. After her victim dozed off, Nayrova allegedly stole her passport and other personal items and…
Tiona Rodriguez, the New York teen mom who rose to true crime infamy after being discovered shoplifting at Victoria’s Secret with the newborn she’d just killed hidden in her bag, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison on a reduced charge. The New York Daily News reports that Tiona Rodriguez, who was discovered with…
Love & Hip Hop Atlanta‘s Tommie has reportedly had yet another public throwdown. Only this time, instead of brawling with Joseline, Tommie apparently attacked a jewelry store employee at Atlanta’s upscale Lenox Square Mall. The LHHATL Tommie jewelry store fight story breaks down like this. According to TMZ, who broke the story, Tommie and an…
Brian Roberto Varela, 19, of Martha Lake WA, has been arrested and charged on three counts after raping a teenager as she died of an overdose from drugs he gave her, then texting photos of her body to friends and breaking into her phone to conceal evidence. According to the Everett Herald, on Saturday, February…
Dateline‘s latest examines the grisly and puzzling case of Texan Sandra Melgar, whose Christmas killing of her husband Jaime made national headlines in 2012. Though Sandra wasn’t charged with Jaime Melgar’s murder for almost two years, prosecutors eventually built a strong enough case against her that the defense appeared to think Sandra Melgar’s testimony might…
A year ago yesterday, November 2, 2016, Sherri Papini disappeared while jogging, leaving her husband and son distraught. She was discovered three weeks later in the early morning of Thanksgiving Day on the side of the rode. Her hands and feet were bound. According to the Shasta County California Sheriff’s office she was painfully thin,…
Dateline’s latest episode examines what may be the most hotly contested and controversial question ever to come out of Adams County, Illinois: Did Cory Lovelace die of alcohol abuse on Valentine’s Day, 2006, or did her husband, Curt Lovelace, kill her? The Cory Lovelace Quincy Illinois case has garnered widespread attention since Curt’s first trial,…
A British Army sergeant is currently on trial for attempting to murder his wife by sabotaging her parachute, then sending her on a skydive and whistling in the corner. Per the Independent, Emile Cilliers merely “suggested” that his wife Victoria, a “highly experienced [skydiving] instructor,” go enjoy herself by leaping from an airplane, having already…
The murder of Detective Rod Demery’s mother was arguably the single most significant event in Demery’s life, and the Murder Chose Me star recently opened up about the story behind his own investigation of her murder for Dr. Oz. Demery appeared on Oz’s show earlier this year, while promoting Murder Chose Me Season 1; the…
38-year-old Thelma Williams, of Middletown OH, was arrested and charged with “making false alarms” after filming a pair of Facebook videos in which she claimed she’d been kidnapped by a mysterious masked assailant. According to WKRC Cincinnati, Williams accused “a masked man, maybe named Tony,” of breaking into her house, tying her up, and cutting…
Dateline returns for its 26th season with a two-hour premiere featuring the bizarre and troubling Cari Farver Omaha murder, which took authorities a full four years to puzzle out. The case begins with a simple missing persons report: on November 16, 2012, 37-year-old Cari Lea Farver was reported missing by her mother, Nancy Raney. Nancy…
Sarai Rodriguez-Miranda, a 19-year-old Indiana woman, has been charged with attempted murder after poisoning a bottle of milk intended for her 11-week-old niece. According to the original story in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, the woman was upset “was angry that her mother was allowing her brother, his fiancé, and their 11-week old daughter to…
33-year-old Anthony “Fif” Soares, a long-time friend of Drake and member of Drake’s crew, was gunned down in the lobby of a Toronto high rise on September 14th. Police are still looking for the two shooters, and have released two separate security cam videos of Anthony Soares’ murder, in the hopes of identifying one or…
Police in Colorado Springs have a real mess on their hands with a flagrantly defacatory runner who’s come to be known as the Mad Pooper. According to local station KKTV, the Buddle family is resorting to a “smear campaign” to try and shame the unknown woman into stopping her trou dropping–since she’s made a habit…
This February 27-year-old Virginia mom Darla Elizabeth Hise killed her 6-year-old daughter Abigail Grace Hise with a shotgun, and new court documents reveal she did this because she thought that her children “were in danger from aliens and she thought she was going to save her daughter by sending her to heaven.” Darla, who is…
Utah couple Kristy and Kenneth Manzanares took a cruise to celebrate their wedding anniversary, but a domestic dispute led to murder. There was a murder mystery dinner happening at the same time of Kristy’s death, which lead some on board to think maybe her murder was a hoax. Many passengers heard a woman screaming and…
18-year-old new dad Daniel Mitchell decided to run away from his parental responsibilities by abandoning his two-week-old baby son in a parking lot in Northern California. Kfor.com has shocking surveillance footage shows the young man take out a baby carrier and leave the child at a shopping center. The baby is now in the hospital,…
86-year-old Doris Payne, who’s earned notoriety as an international jewel thief has been arrested again for stealing. This time, however, it wasn’t high-priced jewels, but about $86 worth of merchandise from an Atlanta-area Walmart. Payne exploits over the past six decades were examined in a 2013 documentary called The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne….
Embed from Getty Images Excessive social media use can take its toll in myriad ways, but sometimes it can have devastating consequences. In the case of 21-year-old Cheyenne Summer Stuckey, too much Facebook led to the death of her 6-month-old Zayla Hernandez. On June 13, Cheyenne made a bath for her baby girl. She says…
The employees at an unspecified fast food restaurant in Tacoma, Washington were given quite a scare this week when a 19-year-old woman pulled a gun on them for shorting her a chicken nugget. The lady first shows signs of extreme agitation when she didn’t get her drink in a timely manner because the restaurant was…
Lars Itzo always maintained that the murder of his wife, Debora Kelly, was “the worst mistake” of his life–because he pulled the trigger of the gun that killed her. The Dateline Lars Itzo episode is the first full-length, in-depth study of the couple’s marriage, the circumstances surrounding Debora’s death, and the ensuing trial, which saw…
I Am Homicide is back with its second season, and the Investigation Discovery hit is earning strong reviews and ratings alike. However, keen-eyed fans of Detective Garry McFadden have noticed one particular omission among the just-announced descriptions of the second season’s expanded offerings: unlike early seasons of Homicide Hunter or the debut of Murder Chose…
The Dateline Cara Rintala retrial episode focuses on the Annamarie Cochrane murder, the first in Massachusets history in which a woman was convicted of her wife’s murder. The case became notable also because of the two separate retrials–in other words, three total trials, spanning nearly seven years–necessary to convict Cara Rintala, who married Annamarie Cochrane…
Cash Freeman is being hailed as a hero this week, following a weekend incident in which he shot and killed an Oklahoma man drowning twin babies in a tub while the babies’ mother looked on. Freeman, of Ada OK, learned what was happening from his 12-year-old granddaughter. According to IBT, he rushed to the home…
Dateline‘s latest episode considers the peculiar and disturbing case of Gregory Owens, an outwardly mild-mannered ex-Army sharpshooter, and of a visit Gregory’s wife Rachel paid to some friends in a neighboring state one night just before Christmas in 2014. The basic facts of the case are these. Gregory and Rachel Owens settled in Londonderry NH…
A German woman known only as Gabriele P has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after decapitating her lover during what she claims was a “kinky sex game” in her Munich home. The crime actually took place nearly a decade ago, and was only discovered thanks to the drunken confession of Gabriele’s accomplice. According…
Dateline‘s latest takes a long look at the unusual and ultimately tragic case of Linda Watson. Originally believed to be a missing person abducted from her home in August of 2000, Linda was actually murdered by her husband, former Tucson firefighter David Watson–but she wasn’t the only member of her family to fall victim to…
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