Crime

A Queens handyman has pleaded guilty to the killing of a 51-year-old mother who was found dismembered in a duffel bag earlier this year. On Wednesday, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that 44-year-old David Bonola pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the slaying of Orsolya Gaal.  According to a statement …

Crews fully excavated a car that police said was buried in the backyard of a Northern California mansion 30 years ago and found no human remains, authorities said Monday. The convertible Mercedes Benz filled with bags of unused concrete was discovered last week by landscapers in the affluent town of …

A carjacking victim died Thursday evening during a wild police pursuit in Inglewood, Calif., after they were dragged from the back of their vehicle, CBS Los Angeles reports. Authorities are investigating the circumstances leading up to the incident, which began at around 5 p.m. An incident report said detectives with …

The fatal shootings of six men in California have been linked using ballistics tests and video footage, and police said during a Tuesday press conference that they are looking for a person of interest.  “We do believe we could have a potential serial killer,” Stockton Police Chief Stanley McFadden said. …

NEW YORK — A terminal at one of the New York metropolitan area’s three major airports was evacuated Thursday night following a security breach, CBS New York reports. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said that at around 9:15 p.m., someone waiting in a Transportation Security Administration …

Authorities are trying to identify a mummified body found by police in the bathtub of a northwestern Arizona home as they investigated a burglary. Bullhead City police said officers responding to a burglary in progress around 3:30 a.m. Saturday discovered 65-year-old Christine Lee Walters rummaging through items inside the house. …

Update: Memphis police confirmed Tuesday morning that Eliza Fletcher’s body has been identified. Read the latest here. Our earlier story is below. Police said Monday that a body has been found in south Memphis, an area they have been searching for Eliza Fletcher, the teacher who was abducted while jogging …

Bones found in a Southern California desert more than 31 years ago have been identified as the remains of a Los Angeles County woman. The Riverside County Regional Cold Case Homicide Team used forensic genealogy to identify the bones as those of Kathryn Coffey of Baldwin Park, the district attorney’s …

Lancaster, Texas — People are mourning the loss of Mike Hickmon, a Little League coach who many called a pillar of the Lancaster community.  “They took a great, a great person who wanted to help the community and wanted to better us as people,” friend and fellow coach Heith Mayes said. …

Two of the three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery as he jogged through a Georgia neighborhood in early 2020 were sentenced to life in prison Monday for federal hate crimes. Travis McMichael, the man responsible for fatally shooting Arbery, and his father, Greg McMichael, had already been …