The Dana Rosendale Ohio cold case, and its reopening, three decades later, as a murder investigation, is one of the most famous in the state’s history. Now, NBC’s Dateline offers its own investigation into the fascinating case, including the reconsideration of details that didn’t add up after Rosendale’s death in 1982. The 30+ year-old crime…
Was Bring It‘s Coach John Conner arrested? Only a few weeks after revealing his HIV diagnosis and attempted suicide, the Lifetime network reality TV star has been apprehended for a number of crimes–chief among them the alleged rape of a 17-year-old boy subsequent criminal exposure to HIV. In revealing his HIV diagnosis, Conner explained that…
Did the JonBenet case get solved? It’s the question literally millions of viewers are asking, thanks to a slew of JonBenet specials taking a fresh look at the infamous murder of the six-year-old beauty pageant contestant. The 20th anniversary of JonBenet’s murder is fast approaching, and no fewer than a half-dozen networks are offering intense…
The JonBenet 2016 investigations are in full swing, thanks to the JonBenet Ramsey murder’s 20th anniversary and a string of new evidence in the cold case. No fewer than three full-length specials about the case have premiered in the past few weeks, with one more set to debut soon, and at least one high-profile participant–JonBenet’s…
The Chris Brown standoff latest news involves a peaceful end to the ten-hour stalemate between Brown and the LAPD over what the singer’s rep says is a “demonstrably false” charge. Brown was arrested on one count of suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon following an altercation at his home; the details of that altercation…
Is Narcos a true story? How much of it is real? Questions of the Netflix original series’ veracity have intrigued viewers since its debut, thanks in large part to a steady stream of realistic, but fictional portrayals of criminal enterprise. But Narcos, unlike The Wire or Breaking Bad, doesn’t just draw inspiration from real-life–it gets…
The Chris Hansen net worth question is one of increased interest lately, thanks to the journalist’s return to TV with Killer Instinct on Investigation Discovery. The heralded broadcaster’s first major project since To Catch A Predator sees him eschewing hidden camera tactics in favor of more one-on-one interviews–often with surprising results. Hansen’s multi-year absence from…
Is DB Cooper dead or alive? How might DB Cooper have died? Is DB Cooper even real? Where is he now? And where is DB Cooper’s money? One of the most infamous, brazen, and puzzling thefts in US history has baffled authorities for decades and given rise to a whole legion of amateur sleuths, all of whom…
Can OJ Simpson be tried again with new evidence? The question came up earlier this year, thanks to the revelation that a knife had been found on OJ’s former Brentwood property–and it’s being raised once more, thanks to the 22nd anniversary of Nicole Brown and Andrew Goldman’s murders, and the slew of OJ-related television programming that’s…
Is Dark Woods Justice real? It’s the question skeptical reality TV fans find themselves asking about Discovery’s newest entry in the true crime / police genre, and it’s nice to be able to say that the show definitely delivers an intriguing new take on a familiar premise. As it turns out, the “Dark Woods” of Washington…
This week’s Karen King arrest update is a busy one, as the Love and Hip Hop Atlanta star has been active on social media following her booking on three charges last week. The trio of charges for which Karen was arrested all stem from a 2015 shoplifting charge pursuant to which she allegedly committed forgery and identity theft. In case…
Lyndon Baines Smith, Karen King’s ex and the victim of the beating and kidnapping for which she and her sons Sas and Scrapp DeLeon were arrested in 2012, has spoken at length about he and Karen’s relationship for the first time. In a wide-reaching interview with James Camper, Smith discusses he and Karen’s history, the…
We’re about quarter of the way through Season 5, but many viewers are still asking themselves: Who is Karen King from Love and Hip Hop Atlanta?The intriguing new cast member made quite an entrance earlier this year, thanks to our article on her criminal record–which features an appearance on America’s Most Wanted for allegedly beating an ex-lover and leaving him for dead…
The LHHATL Tommie criminal record story is true–and the source confirming it is none other than Tommie herself! After our Tommie mug shot extravaganza went viral last week, VH1 sat the newest Love and Hip Hop Atlanta cast member down for an interview–one in which she acknowledged that “Tommie” is a stage name, and that the alias attributed to her…
When is Scrapp from LHHATL getting out of prison? The 28-year-old hasn’t featured too prominently on Love & Hip Hop Atlanta’s fifth season, largely because he was imprisoned for part of the show’s filming schedule. We previously reported on the drug trafficking charges for which Scrapp was sentenced; now, we know when to expect Scrapp–real…
Another day, another set of rumors about a new Love & Hip Hop Atlanta cast member! Before the dust could even settle on news of the alleged criminal history of LHHATL‘s Tommie (whose real name may or may not be Atasha Jefferson) came a second report, this one leveling some pretty strong allegations against Tia Becca, and complete with a Tia Becca…
News of the 2012 Karen King assault has captivated Love & Hip Hop fans since Season 5 premiered. Now, the victim of that assault has spoken up, and he does not have kind words for Karen King, sons Sas and Scrapp, or the entire Love & Hip Hop franchise. As we reported several weeks ago, Karen and her two sons–along with…
Earlier this week, Love & Hip Hop Atlanta fans were surprised by a report which appeared to detail a secret identity for Tommie, one of several new additions to the show’s cast. According to that report–none of which has been confirmed–Tommie’s real name is Atasha Jefferson, and the lengthy list of Atasha Jefferson arrest records includes…
A New York man is in custody and faces up to 250 years in prison on child pornography charges after catfishing his own daughter into sending him a series of nude photos. The daughter, whose name has been withheld in order to protect her privacy, had been led to believe she was communicating with a teenaged…
The Fulton County Medical Examiner ruled that Bobbi Kristina’s death was caused by a combination of “drug intoxication and water immersion,” according to her official autopsy. The official cause of Bobbi Kristina’s death has been a source of great controversy since a judge sealed the coroner’s records last autumn, pending a criminal investigation into any involvement…
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Why was Dasha Polanco arrested? Polanco, best-known for playing Dayanara “Daya” Diaz on Netflix’s hit series Orange is the New Black, found herself in real-life handcuffs following allegations that she beat up a teenaged girl in New York. The alleged altercation took place on the 29th of July, but Polanco was only brought up on charges…
An arrest has been made in the case of Wednesday’s Albuquerque road rage shooting, which left a four-year-old girl dead and a grieving family searching for answers. Though they have 32-year-old Tony Torrez in custody, police are still trying to uncover the shooter’s motive. Tuesday afternoon, four-year-old Lilly Garcia and her seven-year-old brother were traveling home from…
A Florida couple has been arrested and charged with a bevy of crimes after a SWAT team called to their mobile home was forced to wait outside while the couple had sex. Why would a SWAT team wait, you ask? And what did the couple look like? It is a sordid tale. Florida couple Ryan…
Jade Hatt, 21, was spared jail time in the U.K. after the father of the 11-year-old boy she was on trial for sleeping with told the judge that Jade really shouldn’t be blamed. Instead, he said his “sex hungry son” was responsible for the inappropriate relationship. In a surprising turn of events, the father also…
A Florida man disemboweled his girlfriend during rough sex when the girlfriend cried out an ex-husband’s name. According to the police report the Florida man admitted he turned into a “monster” after the girlfriend said the name. Florida man Fidel Lopez, 24, of Broward County FL, is accused of killing girlfriend Maria Nemeth, 31, by pulling out her intestines….
Police believe 16-year-old Kendal Ball died of alcohol poisoning in July after his mom and stepfather had him to drink an excessive amount of liquor “to teach him a lesson.” According to court documents obtained by People, Paulette and Joseph Richardson provided their teenage son with alcohol after Kendal expressed his desire to start drinking….
Texas police are searching for the remains of 25-year-old Julie Mott after her body was stolen from a San Antonio funeral home just hours after friends and family gathered to say goodbye. “We just want our daughter’s remains returned so that we can have some closure to our grief,” dad Tim Mott said in a…
Wedged between tweets about makeup, Kim Kardashian posted a series of messages about her disgust with gun safety laws in the United States. Have u heard of the heart breaking story about David Conley who slaughtered his ex girlfriend & her entire family! Her 6 kids,husband & her! — Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) August 13,…
The March murder of former Food Network Star contestant Christie Schoen Codd shocked and enraged fans the world over. Now, if the prosecutor in the case has his way, justice will be served in the form of the death penalty. Last week, the Buncombe County NC District Attorney filed a notice of intent to seek the…
Investigators believe Alabama bigamist Christopher Henderson and his first wife, Rhonda Carlson, started the Tuesday house fire that killed Christopher’s 9-months-pregnant second wife, Kristen Henderson, along with Henderson’s her 8-year-old son, her mother, and her 1-year-old nephew. AL.com reports that Christopher and Rhonda were formally charged with capital murder yesterday, after surveillance footage showed them…
Sundance TV’s Loredana Nesci, 47, was found dead in her home on Wednesday morning after police received a call from a “distraught male,” who was later identified as the father of her child/longtime partner, Robert Reagan, 51. He was arrested for suspected murder. “I am terribly sorry to have to inform so many of you…
A Florida man has been indicted and will go to court after a fight over dog poop in his front yard turned deadly. Omar Rodriguez’s victim died of two gunshot wounds following the altercation last month. According to the Miami Herald, Rodriguez, 66, of Kendall FL, became violent during an argument with neighbor Jose Rey…
A Florida man has been arrested and charged with a bevy of crimes after an extensive undercover operation revealed his theft of more than $2 million in simple, fun Lego products. The Florida man, Ignatius M. Pollara, 49, hails from Tamarac FL, but didn’t limit his thievery to the greater Miami area–he told authorities that…
The cemetery theft of over 150 veterans’ headstones has led to the dismissal of an employee who often bragged about taking them. Kevin Maynard, a Rhode Islander and former worker at the state’s Veterans’ Cemetery, has pleaded guilty to taking the headstones over a period of years. Maynard, 59, pleaded guilty to only one…
We’re halfway through the year, which means we’re also halfway through the annual harvest of crazy Florida crime stories! So far, 2015’s provided a pretty solid crop. Here are the top five Florida crime stories of the year–so far. Click each headline to see the full story! 5. Florida woman stops traffic to masturbate…
A Central American woman has been arrested and treated for a potentially deadly infection after getting caught with several pounds of cocaine in breast implants. Breast implants…that were already inside of the woman. Paola Deyanira Sabillon, 22, of Honduras, was detained at El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, after security noticed her acting nervously while standing…
He wasn’t wearing a cape, or tights, or pants of any kind–and he couldn’t break the handcuffs–but for one brief, shining moment, Florida man Joshua Masciarelli was, indeed, Superman. In his own heart, anyway. Masciarelli, 23, of Tampa FL, was arrested this weekend for a handful of slight but meaningful crimes. Police found the Florida man…
Charles Cotton, a Texan member of the NRA’s board of directors, has come under fire for suggesting that the pastor of the church is to blame for the Charleston massacre that left nine people dead this week. Charles Cotton made the comments in a since-deleted thread on TexasCHLForum.com, a gun rights message board he runs…
A New Zealand criminal used a fake name when apprehended by police. Unfortunately for him, the name he used belong to an actual wanted man. According to the New Zealand Herald, a 23-year-old man was pulled over late Friday night just outside of Whangarei. When officers approached his car, the man gave a false name, instead…
Police in Scottsdale AZ have put out an APB for a man who recently broke stride in the middle of a late-night walk with his dog to stop and relieve himself. That wouldn’t be a problem, except that the Scottsdale man in question decided that it would be a good idea to urinate…
Two women and the six-year-old son of one are the subject of a viral video phenomenon after footage of their near-epic Wal-Mart fight has been shared online by multiple witnesses. The Wal-Mart fight took place at a store in Beech Grove IN, which, surprisingly, is within the greater Indianapolis metropolitan area. It began, as…
This is one of those articles where the headline gets it exactly right. Without further ado: A New Jersey man named Bacon has been arrested in fight over sausage. Thomas Bacon, 19, of Madison NJ was arrested recently after attacking another person in his home. According to the Madison PD, Bacon became enraged when…
An Indiana woman has been arrested and charged with criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon following a brawl at a cookout. The event? An eye-stabbing, with a vengeance. The cause? The oldest cause known to man: a brawl over the last rib on the plate. Sabrina Davis, 45, of Muncie Indiana, was in attendance at…
Diane Thomas, 52, is a resident of Monroe LA. Recently, police were called to her house because of a brawl Thomas and her boyfriend were having. Thomas was the aggressor–allegedly, she punched the man in the face multiple times and scratched him up with her fingernails. Then, when the arresting officer read Thomas…
A couple of weeks ago, we brought you the story of Johnny Depp condemning his dogs to death, potentially. Depp smuggled his pups into Australia so they could be with him on vacation–and broke the country’s strict laws on animal quarantine in the process. Australia gave Depp two options: 1) Send the animals back…
Quinton Wright, of Stone Mountain GA’s “The Champion School,” has been arrested for helping his middle school students use a closet at the back of his classroom for clandestine sex. Wright allegedly texted a number of interested students to let them know when the closet would be available, and to make sure that they…
It’s been a rough few months for Johnny Depp. He made a bit of a fool of himself with his drunk introduction at the Hollywood Film Awards. He placed second–behind only Adam Sandler–on Forbes’ list of the most overpaid actors in Hollywood. He married Amber Heard, but all signs point to a rocky marriage…
It’s been a bad week for children. First came the story of the 11-month-old Nebraska boy who’d been left for dead in a dumpster. Then, though that child was found and will be fine, it emerged that his five-year-old brother had been thrown into a nearby river. Now, it appears that the story of…
Dominyk Antonio Alfonseca, 23, emerged as the front runner for Stupidest Criminal of the Year this week, after he robbed a bank with a ridiculously polite note, posted photos and video clips of the robbery to Instagram, and got caught. And all of that would be pretty dumb by itself–but it’s the reason Alfonseca…
While cleaning out his car on Wednesday afternoon, a man in La Vista, Nebraska, heard a strange sound coming from the nearby dumpster. “I went and looked on the inside the dumpster and I seen a little hand with an empty water bottle moving,” the man, who asked not to be identified, told KETV. The…
Mary Katherine Pursley, a special needs teacher in the Cobb County school system with 21 years of experience, was arrested this week for putting an autistic student into a trash can to try and calm him down. Pursley was monitoring an after-school program at Mt. Bethel Elementary school when the student, a boy in the…
Former Ultimate Survival Alaska participant Jimmy Gojdics (sometimes spelled Jimmy Gaydos) was found “suffering from apparent gunshot wounds” in his home on Sunday afternoon. He was transported to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports troopers were tipped off to the shooting shortly after 3 p.m. It appears…
Shaynna Smith, 28, of Tulsa OK, has been charged with several rarely-cited crimes as a result of her recent funeral home slashing spree. It seems that Smith had it in for a deceased 38-year-old woman–whose name has not been disclosed–because the deceased once dated Smith’s current boyfriend. Smith went to the viewing allegedly to…
Chris Brown has run afoul of the law again. The troubled performer is wanted for participating in a basketball court brawl in Las Vegas last weekend, where Brown was holed up to make a series of appearances related to the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. According to police, Brown and his entourage were playing basketball at the…
A thief in Mumbai got quite literally more than he bargained for after swiping a gold necklace this weekend. Anil Jadhav took the gold chain right off a woman’s neck and led police on a merry chase before swallowing it when it became clear he would be captured. Police were not fooled, and took…
Bikini-clad grandmother Patricia Ebel (mug shot photo above) was arrested in Naples, Florida last week after she crashed her BMW with her 10-year-old grandson in the car. Patricia was caught on video failing a field sobriety test and reportedly told police she couldn’t stand on one leg on a good day. She was later charged…
Why hasn’t Bill Cosby been charged with a crime? The now-disgraced comedian has been accused of various sexual improprieties by over 40 women–yet he hasn’t been charged with any crime in a criminal court, and likely never will be. This weekend, while Bill Cosby performed a loudly-protested show in Baltimore, two more women came forward…
April Corcoran, 30, of Warren County OH, is in jail after being charged with 27 felonies involving the trafficking of her eleven-year-old daughter for heroin. According to prosecutors, Corcoran regularly drove her daughter to the Cincinnati apartment of a heroin dealer, drop the daughter off, and leave with drugs, returning several hours later to pick…
Call it Uproar: Australian Style. A Western Australian woman has been detained by police and will spend a week in jail for assaulting a police officer. Her weapon of choice? The milk from her own breast. Erica Leeder, 26, of Calista (a suburb of Perth), had been arrested for an unrelated charge and was…
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