A devastating tragedy struck early Thursday morning in Queens, New York, as 37-year-old DJ Travanti Rankine was fatally shot during a Fourth of July party. The incident occurred around 5 a.m. at a house located on Montauk Street near 119th Road in St. Albans, leaving Rankine’s family and friends in shock and mourning. Rankine, who...
In a 23-year-old cold case in Texas involving a baby discovered dead by the side of the road, a woman has been charged with manslaughter. The Texas attorney general’s office and the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office released a statement on Monday, stating that Shelby Stotts was taken into custody after DNA evidence identified her as...
In Nevada, a 28-year-old man is charged with killing the 17-month-old kid of his girlfriend by reportedly beating him to death in what the medical examiner described as one of the worst abuse instances he had ever witnessed. Following his arrest last week, Christian Moniz Rabino was charged with one count of first-degree murder and...
The 42-year-old estranged husband of a woman who was reported missing last month was reportedly apprehended by Wisconsin police after he used her credit cards fraudulently to purchase $6,000 worth of cleaning goods. According to the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office, on June 23, a family member alerted deputies to the 37-year-old Crystal Rasch’s disappearance from...
According to the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Fairfax County, Virginia, a former Army doctor was sentenced to 30 years in jail on Friday for beating his wife and tied her to a pole in their basement with duct tape. The September 2020 incident occurred approximately one month after the defendant, 61-year-old Drew Steiner, sexually assaulted and...
The Indiana State Police are asking for the public’s help in solving a 26-year-old cold case involving skeletal remains discovered in January 1998 near the Interstate 70 overpass in Vigo County. Despite numerous investigative efforts and techniques over the years, the remains remained unidentified. In a recent breakthrough, advanced DNA technology from Othram, a company...
Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb announced on Wednesday that the state is seeking an execution date for Joseph Corcoran, convicted of killing four people in 1997. Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita filed a motion on the same day requesting the state Supreme Court to set an execution date. The state’s last execution took place in 2009,...
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – Jarrell Knight, 38, from Indiana, was sentenced on June 20 to more than eight years in federal prison for distributing over 40 grams of fentanyl. Knight pleaded guilty to the charge on March 26. In March 2023, Knight sold two ounces of fentanyl to an individual in Beloit while under police...
More than two years after killing a family in Detroit, including a 5-year-old son, a man will find out his sentence on Thursday. In February 2022, Malcolm Ray Hardy entered a guilty plea to three charges of second-degree murder for the deaths of Aaron Benson, LaShon Marshall, and her son Caleb Harris. In prior court...
Ramiro Gonzales, a Texas death row inmate, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday in spite of many appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court about his 2001 murder and rape of an adolescent lady. Gonzales received a chemical injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville and was declared dead at 6:50 p.m. Following his admission...