On Christmas day 1929, the Lawson family was getting ready for Christmas in Stokes County, North Carolina. They were a family of 9 with the father, Charlie, age 43, Fannie, the mom, age 37, 17 year old Marie, 16 year old Arthur, 12 year old Carrie, 7 year old Maybell, 4 year old James, 2 year old Raymond, and a baby, Mary Lou.
The Bonner County Sheriff’s Office began investigating James David Russell, 39, on Sept. 10 after finding the body of David Flaget, 70, in a rural area near Clark Fork. Russell is charged with felony first-degree murder and felony cannibalism in an amended criminal complaint filed Wednesday.
On Christmas Eve, 2008, Bruce Jeffery Pardo knocked on the door of his former in-laws’ home while dressed in a Santa suit and holding a gift-wrapped package. When an eight-year-old girl answered the door, Pardo blasted her with a semiautomatic handgun. Then, the unhinged Santa entered the Covina, Los Angeles home and began indiscriminately firing through the crowd of festive partygoers.
In 2014, a man dressed as Santa robbed a bank in San Francisco while attending an event called Santacon.
On December 23, 1927, a gun-toting Santa Claus and his three bandits robbed the First National Bank of Cisco, Texas before setting off on a wild, week-long chase with the police. Although the costume was donned by a decidedly young and lanky man, the image of the beloved Christmas hero allowed this Santa to distract the bank patrons while his bandits filed into the building undetected.
Triggered by the recent 'Sex and the City' reboot, the women allege two incidents of misconduct they say took place more than a decade apart.
In 2017, a bad Santa Claus wreaked havoc on his friends during a Halloween party the he was hosting.
The historic Skid Row landmark, featured in the chilling Netflix true-crime docuseries, will house up to 600 low-income residents.
In 2011, a man dressed as Frosty the Snowman was arrested after fighting with police and kicking a police dog at a Christmas parade.
In late November, 2005, an east London man was stabbed to death in his bed by an intruder dressed in Santa gear. Sikander Shaheen, 25, was struck repeatedly by the killer, who appeared to have gained entry to Shaheen’s shared house in Green Grove Road without any sign of forced entry or struggle.
David Pettis was convicted Monday of grinding up and mixing the drug into a bowl of ice cream he gave to his wife Peggy Pettis, 64, on June 25, 2018.
Pettis called 911 on June 25, 2018 to say his wife was blue in color and not breathing.
On Christmas Day, 2011, Aziz Yazdanpanah dressed as Santa Claus and gathered with his extended family in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Grapevine. While everyone was opening presents, Yazdanpanah fatally shot his estranged wife, their two teenage children and three other relatives before turning the gun on himself.
The man was arrested from northeast Delhi’s Karawal Nagar for killing a mason with a club. The Loni Border Police also arrested the man’s wife for being an accomplice in the act.
His body was found just a few kilometres from the ramshackle white farmhouse of long-time biker Wayne (Weiner) Kellestine, who’s now in prison for murder in the deaths of eight members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
“As you know, police officers over the years gain a lot of policing experience and see a lot of unusual things,” Meech says. “I thought that I could use some of my experiences and write some fictional murder mysteries.
Officers found the bodies of two adults who had been shot, a man who they believe to be the suspect and a woman who they believe was the man’s ex-wife, in the vestibule of an apartment building, police said.
A Davison man who was convicted of killing his wife by putting heroin in her cereal has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Jason Harris, 47, of Davison, was found guilty on Nov. 17 of first-degree premeditated murder, solicitation of murder and delivery of a controlled substance causing death.
Christina Ann Thompson Harris, 36, died in September 2014. Officials said Harris prepared a bowl of cereal for his wife and laced it with a lethal dose of heroin. Her sisters never stopped fighting for justice.
A Hungarian court has ordered the extradition of Hamilton murder suspect Oliver Karafa.
An extradition hearing had been postponed multiple times, including last month with the Budapest Metropolitan Court citing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but the all-clear has now been given, according to a news release from the court saying conditions “were met.”
It's been over three-and-a-half years since Rachael DelTondo, a well-liked teacher in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, was gunned down outside her home — and there is still no arrest in the case.
There were initially several leads to follow, including the actions of an Aliquippa High School athlete named Sheldon Jeter. The night of DelTondo's murder, texts suggest that Jeter may have been trying to track her movements.
A Hawaii cold-case murder got closer to closure today when a Florida man indicted in June for the 1982 murder of a Delta Air Lines reservation clerk was extradited to Honolulu and arrested.
