True Crime thread / for Adults only

[Buzz]

MH370: Search for long-missing Malaysia Airlines fight to resume

The Boeing 777 with 239 people on board vanished in 2014 in one of the greatest aviation mysteries.

www.bbc.com

 

[Winnipeg]

It is quite a mystery, I remember when it happened and there was so much speculation about the cause......it would be good to know what happened but it sounds like a wild goose chase (I hope I am wrong BTW).

WRT hazing, the case in Texas sounds truly horrific. I doubt this is condoned by the university and by the national sigma chi chapter.

 

[ilovepaydays]

Dr. Salvador Plasencia was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for illegally selling ketamine to actor Matthew Perry.

Dr. Plasencia didn’t sell the particular ketamine that killed Perry, but still……

 

[Buzz]

Simi Valley police say married couple's son is suspect in their deadly double shooting

The son of a Southern California radiologist has been identified as the suspect in a Nov. 30 double shooting that killed the doctor and his wife, police said Tuesday.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Buzz]

Suspect charged in unsolved Gilgo beach murder of mother and child.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15357527/Suspect-charged-murder-mom-toddler-long-linked-Gilgo-Beach-serial-killer-case.html

 

[ilovepaydays]

UPDATE: Alex Murdaugh will be appearing before the South Carolina Supreme Court on February 12, 2026 to request a new trial for the murder convictions of his wife Maggie and son Paul.

Alex also has a 40 year sentence after he pled guilty to financial crimes.

UPDATE: Oh, Lordy - This just happened!

Is Alex going to get a new trial because of this?

 

[ilovepaydays]

Update for Utah v. Tyler Robinson: A judge has ruled that Robinson can wear civilian clothing but must be kept in restraints during pretrial hearings.

The next court date for Robinson is January 16. He hasn’t entered a plea yet - is this length of time common in a capital murder case?

UPDATE - Utah v. Tyler Robinson: Robinson is expected to make his first in person court appearance today at 2pm ET. Here is the Court TV YouTube link to the stream.

It seems like this hearing will be a review of the “case status” and Robinson’s defense team will argue about limiting future media access.

 

[Coco]

Karen Reed's suv is being auctioned off.

 

[ilovepaydays]

UPDATE - Utah v. Tyler Robinson: Robinson is expected to make his first in person court appearance today at 2pm ET. Here is the Court TV YouTube link to the stream.

It seems like this hearing will be a review of the “case status” and Robinson’s defense team will argue about limiting future media access.

Oops! Six minutes into the hearing, the judge closed it off to the public & press. Sorry!

 

[ilovepaydays]

UPDATE - Utah v. Tyler Robinson: Robinson is expected to make his first in person court appearance today at 2pm ET. Here is the Court TV YouTube link to the stream.

It seems like this hearing will be a review of the “case status” and Robinson’s defense team will argue about limiting future media access.

Oops! Six minutes into the hearing, the judge closed it off to the public & press. Sorry!

Here’s a very good summary of yesterday’s hearing.

I’m not sure one way or another if the judge will allow full media & public access to the trial.

The next hearing will be in mid-January. Robinson still hasn’t entered a plea yet. Is that common for capital murder cases like this?

 

[Buzz]

Toronto police identified the serial killer responsible for the murder of three women in the 80s and 90s.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tps-update-historical-homicides-9.7012021

 

[BlueRidge]

Is anyone following the Brown University shooting closely? What happened with the "person of interest?"

Was the "person of interest" just someone in the vicinity who had guns?

Do they have no idea who the shooter is now?

 

[Prancer]

Was the "person of interest" just someone in the vicinity who had guns?

I don't think we have any information on that person--although several news sources revealed his real name.

Do they have no idea who the shooter is now?

Not much help, but: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/w...truggling-to-find-the-brown-university-gunman

 

[BlueRidge]

Along with there being no suspect or motive in the Brown shootings, there is also no suspect or motive in the shooting death of prominent professor from MIT at his apartment in Brookline MA.

MIT professor's killing remains a mystery as police launch homicide investigation

Nuno Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, was shot Monday night at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Buzz]

A 62 year old man have been arrested after marrying a 16 year old girl. Apparently he married her in Alabama with her parents consent. But once both crossed the border into Tennessee he was arrested.

Giles County man charged following marriage with teenage girl

A 62-year-old man in Giles County was recently taken into custody and charged with aggravated statutory rape for a relationship involving a 16-year-old girl.

www.yahoo.com

 

[ilovepaydays]

UPDATE: Pastor John-Paul Miller, Mica Miller’s widower, has apparently remarried. And the whole story keeps getting more ?.

UPDATE: John-Paul Miller has now been indicted for federal charges of cyberstalking Mica and giving false statements to federal investigators.

 

[BlueRidge]

They are now investigating whether there is a connection between the Brown shooting and the shooting of the MIT professor in Brookline MA.

Authorities said Thursday that they’re looking into a connection between last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and one two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

That is according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss an investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity. Two of the people said investigators had identified a person of interest in the shootings and were actively seeking that individual.

Police investigate links between Brown shooting and killing of MIT professor

Sources say person of interest identified in attack at university and death of prominent physicist 50 miles away

www.theguardian.com

 

[Karen-W]

Both AP and Fox News are reporting that the suspect in the Brown University has been found dead at a storage facility in Salem, NH.

Man suspected in shooting at Brown University has been found dead in New Hampshire, AP source says

A man who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others at Brown University has been found dead in New Hampshire storage facility, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

apnews.com

 

[BittyBug]

The shooter was apparently a Portuguese national and a student at Brown (even though he was in his late 40's) so maybe that's the tie to the MIT professor who has killed, since he was Portuguese.

 

[Karen-W]

The shooter was apparently a Portuguese national and a student at Brown (even though he was in his late 40's) so maybe that's the tie to the MIT professor who has killed, since he was Portuguese.

Just listened to both the Providence and Boston press conferences.

He was a grad student at Brown from fall 2000-spring 2001, took a leave of absence and then withdrew the following year. He and the MIT professor attended the same university physics program in Portugal and they did know each other.

The tipster the Providence investigators were looking for yesterday came forward within an hour of that press conference, but he had posted his TWO encounters with the shooter (several hours before and then afterward) on Reddit either Sunday or Monday, then he called the Providence tip line the next day after other Redditers encouraged him to do so. The investigators were aware of the Reddit tip but apparently had no way to contact this guy (who may or may not have been a homeless person or possibly a low-level employee at Brown or a former Brown student).

The difference in competency levels between the Providence and Boston authorities was STARK. And the President of Brown as well as their security/police chief should be fired. There is no excuse for not having cameras working and stronger building security.

 

[BlueRidge]

Wow. Just reading this news about the Brown/MIT professor shooter.

 

[ilovepaydays]

So……I hate to feel like I need to ask this, but are they SURE that both shootings were done by this same person? I’s wondering this because there’s been so much incompetence.

 

[BittyBug]

They have camera footage of the same car in both neighborhoods around the time of each shooting. The perp and the MIT professor were both Portuguese nationals of the same age who went to school together and both were physics majors, so he certainly looks good for the MIT killing. And the perp is on camera in numerous locations around Brown at the time of the incident, plus he went to Brown. So yes, it certainly looks like he's responsible for both incidents. Now the question is why.

 

[Karen-W]

So……I hate to feel like I need to ask this, but are they SURE that both shootings were done by this same person? I’s wondering this because there’s been so much incompetence.

Yesterday Paul Mauro was reporting on Fox that his sources were telling him they found the shooter's DNA on the live bullets found at the scene at Brown, so I'd guess they're able to match that now since the alleged shooter's is dead & won't have a trial.

 

[ilovepaydays]

They have camera footage of the same car in both neighborhoods around the time of each shooting. The perp and the MIT professor were both Portuguese nationals of the same age who went to school together and both were physics majors, so he certainly looks good for the MIT killing. And the perp is on camera in numerous locations around Brown at the time of the incident, plus he went to Brown. So yes, it certainly looks like he's responsible for both incidents. Now the question is why.

Yesterday Paul Mauro was reporting on Fox that his sources were telling him they found the shooter's DNA on the live bullets found at the scene at Brown, so I'd guess they're able to match that now since the alleged shooter's is dead & won't have a trial.

Thanks for the additional clarification. It’s just wild that he felt more comfortable going to a subreddit first and discussing this than going straight to law enforcement.
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FYI, Court TV will be airing a special on the latest updates in the Reiner family murder investigation at 8pm ET. It will also stream on their YouTube channel here.

 

[Karen-W]

Thanks for the additional clarification. It’s just wild that he felt more comfortable going to a subreddit first and discussing this than going straight to law enforcement.

What's even wilder is that apparently he was living in the basement of the building on Brown's campus where the shootings occurred. I'd be pulling my kid out of Brown immediately after hearing that. That campus seems to have less security than my college did 30+ years ago.