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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January 12, 2026 7 mins

A jealous ex-husband will be hauled back to Ohio to face charges, and the needle, for the Ohio execution death of a beloved dentist & his wife. 

A monster father is convicted for committing a decade of death, slaughtering his 5 infant children and then tossing them out like trash. One baby boy was found stuffed in a sunken cooler.  Plus, a tyke's telephone trouble leads to a pardon by police. Jennifer Gould reports.&n...

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A So Cal woman unleashed by a judge after killing a cyclist allegedly murders two more innocent people in a high-speed hit & run. 

A stalker ex-husband is indicted in the smothering chemical execution ambush - that melted a mom of threes insides. Plus, Cali cops on the hunt for a "less attractive" Jason Statham. Jennifer Gould reports. 

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An arrest warrant has been issued for an Emmy-winning actor/director & husband of a 'Little House on the Prairie" icon. He's wanted for alleged child sex abuse of two brothers on a TV set. 

A marriage fix turns into a sex assault horror when a patient is straddled & licked by her therapist. Plus, a Louisiana woman trades a mermaid tail for jail! Jennifer Gould reports 

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An arrest ends a ten-day manhunt in the killings of an Ohio dentist and his wife, a case that left two young children alive inside the home where their parents were shot to death. Drew Nelson reports.

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A Florida sheriff is calling it a betrayal of trust after deputies say the executive director of an assisted living facility stole jewelry from elderly residents and sold it at pawn shops. At least three inmates are dead and more than a dozen others are injured after a violent disturbance at a medium-security prison near Augusta. Drew Nelson reports.

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In a surprising turn of events on Monday, a federal judge announced plans to conduct an evidentiary hearing to assess whether the seizure and search of Luigi Mangione's backpack at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, during his arrest was conducted legally.

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A boy wakes up from a coma and tells his mother he was shot on purpose by his 10-year-old friend. A Florida man is behind bars after police say a woman was killed and her body was left on a popular South Florida beach. Drew Nelson reports.

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A four-year-old boy is recovering after being shot in the face during what police say was a violent breakup dispute in south Phoenix, Arizona. “Dad, why can’t I see?” are the last words an eleven-year-old girl spoke to her father after she was shot in the head while sitting in the front passenger seat of her family’s car in California. Drew Nelson reports.

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Anne Brassart, age 45, from Turlock, was convicted of second-degree murder and felony child neglect in relation to the death of her daughter, Daniellé Pires

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The 61-year-old actress deleted her account after the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) issued an arrest warrant accusing Busfield, 68, of engaging in illegal sexual behavior with two minors.

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A fourteen-year-old is under arrest in Florida after deputies say he tried to kill his former friend’s whole family by setting their home on fire while they were asleep. A self-driving car turns a dangerous situation in Arizona after driving onto active rail tracks, forcing its passenger to flee as a train approaches. Drew Nelson reports.

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A forty-year-old New Jersey man is under arrest after police say he threw a rock into a school bus on the New Jersey Turnpike, fracturing the skull of an eight-year-old girl. An arrest warrant is now active in New Mexico after police accuse West Wing actor Timothy Busfield of sexually abusing child actors on the set of a TV show. Drew Nelson reports.

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A 24-year-old man from Mississippi has been charged with the murder of six individuals, including his father, brother, uncle, a 7-year-old cousin, a church pastor, and the pastor's brother, during a violent spree across three locations on Friday night, according to law enforcement officials.

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Franklin County Municipal Court records indicate that Michael McKee, aged 39, faces two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of Spencer and Monique Tepe.

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The 1st District Court of Appeal has decided to hold oral arguments in the case of Charlie Adelson, who is seeking a retrial after being convicted for his role in the 2014 murder-for-hire of law professor Dan Markel.

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Prosecutors in Idaho are requesting that the state Supreme Court maintain Lori Vallow Daybell's life sentence for the murder of her two children and her conspiracy to kill her husband's ex-wife, systematically countering all five constitutional arguments presented in her appeal.

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Harvey Weinstein is considering a guilty plea to address an unresolved rape charge and potentially avoid a third trial in New York, as mentioned by a judge on Thursday.

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The families of the four University of Idaho students who were tragically killed by Bryan Kohberger have filed a lawsuit against Washington State University (WSU).

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Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse revealed that more than 100 human remains were found at the residence of 34-year-old Jonathan Gerlach.

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We begin with a troubling and unresolved mystery from Huntsville, Alabama, where a high-profile murder remains unsolved three years after it occurred — leaving family members and investigators still searching for answers.

Federal authorities say they disrupted a planned New Year’s Eve attack in North Carolina, allegedly inspired by the Islamic State group, before it could be carried out.

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