Crime Alert Hourly Update

Crime Alert Hourly Update

Nancy Grace and the CrimeOnline team deliver hourly updates on breaking crime news as it happens! The latest in trial coverage, missing persons, active investigations, and so much more!

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December 26, 2025 6 mins

A fight over a football game ends with two parents dead & a 13-year-old girl fighting for her life. Officials say the drunk dad was angry when his wife tried to change the channel.

An angry mom is facing child abuse charges for attacking a teen she thought assaulted her son on a cruise ship. Plus, a stolen coin collection leads to carnage. Jennifer Gould reports. 

 

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A quick-thinking kid foils a burglary in progress in a real-life "Home Alone" moment. The 7th grade hero calls the cops on the home intruder - landing him in cuffs days before Christmas. 

A DUI driver wipes out 3 members of a family coming home from a holiday party; the sole survivor a 3yo boy left orphaned. Plus, Santa learns the hard way not the 'sleigh' the speed limit. Jennifer Gould reports. 

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A grandmother shopping for Christas gifts at Barnes & Noble is stabbed to death by a deranged madman who just arrived in town. He claimed he killed her because, "she was the closest person to him."

A man is shot in the back and killed like prey in a random bow & arrow attack. The suspected then sets his own place on fire triggering a police showdown. Plus, a botanical blunder at a kid's holiday party ends w a mom cuffed bef...

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A man and woman discovered Melodee’s body on Dec. 6 while taking pictures in Wayne County, Utah, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said at a Tuesday news conference.

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A young Arizona mother of five is shot to death in the street, one of her children snatched, and her ex-boyfriend later dies by suicide after a standoff with police in Phoenix. A Texas woman is arrested in connection with the shooting death of her husband in Stafford just before Christmas more than two decades ago. Drew Nelson reports. 

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Paige Bohne, 22, gave her daughter a "handful of melatonin gummies" and then held the child's head in a couch until she stopped moving because the toddler "wouldn't take a nap".

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A thirteen-year-old girl is shot and killed in North Carolina just days before Christmas, leaving a family shattered and three teenagers jailed, who were total strangers to the victim. A dozen men are arrested in New Jersey after police say they tried to meet a child for sex during “Operation Bad Santa.” Drew Nelson reports.

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A Florida mother is killed, a thirteen-year-old girl survives a gunshot to the face, and a family is destroyed just days before Christmas in a murder-suicide. A father in New Jersey is dead after prosecutors say he was randomly shot in the back with a bow and arrow while walking home, an attack caught on chilling surveillance video that ends with a fiery standoff. Drew Nelson reports. 

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Capt. Ben Miller from the Lincoln Police Department confirmed that the body of 30-year-old Jerica Hamre was located on a farm situated just north of Oxford.

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The Jeffersontown Police Department, in collaboration with the Kentucky State Police and the Drug Enforcement Administration, executed a significant drug operation resulting in the seizure of 55 pounds of methamphetamine disguised as Christmas presents.

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A man is jailed in Washington State after police say an attempted kidnapping at an apartment complex soccer field ends when an eleven-year-old girl fights back and escapes by kicking her attacker in the groin. A Long Island, New York man is held on high bond after prosecutors say he raped and robbed a twelve-year-old boy he met through a dating app. Drew Nelson reports.

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A nonprofit posts bail for an Ohio repeat offender despite warnings from his family to let him stay locked up. And just days later, the suspect is accused of killing a man at a Cleveland transit station. A Detroit police officer is injured after accidentally shooting himself in the foot while trying to shoot a dog at a call on the city’s west side. Drew Nelson reports.

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A man from Michigan has been arrested after security footage revealed him trying to persuade children at a residence in northern Scott County to let him in by falsely claiming their parents were injured outside.

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The victim, identified by her family as Jaleeyah Tune, was fatally shot around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, December 21, in Goldsboro while walking home with her sister. 
Texas woman behind bars after shooting her husband over a cell phone. 

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Two Florida teens indicted in connection with the death of Danika Troy, a 14-year-old Pace girl found murdered earlier this month. A reserve police officer and his wife have been arrested and charged with subjecting their biological and foster children to “cruel and unusual punishment.” A man charged with shooting his grandfather dead two years ago at the behest of his mother has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder a...

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The body of Melody Buzzard found in rural Utah with multiple gunshots to the head. DNA testing reveals a match for her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, who is arrested and charged for the murder of her daughter, 

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In Maine, a 14-year-old Windham High School student accused of creating a hit list of people he is targeting while researching how to get weapons!

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A state trooper in Delaware is killed while working an overtime shift at the DMV after stepping into gunfire to protect others. Santa Claus is pulled over for speeding on an Ohio road, not in his sleigh, but a silver Ford Escape. Drew Nelson reports.

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A former elementary school teacher in Wisconsin is sentenced to prison after a sexual relationship with a fifth-grade student is exposed through thousands of text messages. A former Broadway child actor in New Jersey is stabbed to death inside her home as police charge her boyfriend with murder. Drew Nelson reports.

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Responding officers found the victim, Rita Loncharich, unresponsive inside the store with a knife lodged in her back, as noted in the probable cause affidavit from the Palm Beach Gardens Police Department.

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