Crime Alert Hourly Update

Christopher Scholtes, the father who admitted to the murder of his 2-year-old daughter by leaving her in a hot vehicle, has passed away on the day he was to turn himself in.  

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Dateline Washington, D.C. The “Subway sandwich trial” opens with prosecutors arguing that a former Justice Department employee crossed the line from protest to crime when he threw a sandwich at a federal officer. Former American Idol contestant Randy Madden, 45, is arrested in California on suspicion of having sex with a minor. Drew Nelson reports.

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The FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement are expanding their search for 10-year-old Gabrielle Patricia Terrelonge, who vanished from South Florida months ago. Police in Columbus, Ohio, have charged a 15-year-old girl and 17-year-old boy after the body of their newborn baby was found buried in a shallow grave in the city’s North Linden neighborhood. Drew Nelson reports.

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Federal authorities are investigating whether a suspected child sex trafficking operation in Bibb County, involving victims as young as 3, is connected to a violent gang with origins in Southern California that has ties to the Mexican Mafia.

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Authorities in Washington State have confirmed the recovery of the remains of an Indigenous woman, Mary Ellen Johnson Davis who went missing in November 2020.

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A Cleveland TV news reporter who once told other people’s stories becomes the subject of her own. Two Massachusetts men are charged after allegedly setting off a commercial firework inside Harvard Medical School. Drew Nelson reports.

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Remember Chris Hansen? The former NBC Dateline reporter is still at it—this time teaming up with Maryland deputies to catch alleged child predators in a first-of-its-kind sting operation. Police in Texas and California have cracked separate Lego theft rings. Drew Nelson reports.

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A man from Wisconsin is potentially facing a ten-year prison sentence after fatally striking a retired priest with his pickup truck while taking "selfie" photos on Snapchat, according to prosecutors.

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Authorities responded to the couple's home after her 77-year-old husband called for assistance, reporting that his wife had unplugged his oxygen, and physically restrained him.

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Texas teacher Chelsea Spillers, 33, is found dead inside her home, and her half-naked husband is nabbed hours later for her murder. The sister of a Houston, Texas man found hanging and burned under a freeway overpass says her brother was murdered—and she’s begging for justice. A South Carolina death row inmate who once taunted investigators with messages written in his victim’s blood has chosen to die by firing squad. Drew Nelson reports.

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