NEW YORK — A New York City man has been accused of stabbing a man to death and dismembering him after a drug dispute and keeping his remains in a Brooklyn apartment refrigerator for two years, prosecutors said Friday. Nicholas McGee, 45, was charged with murder, robbery, concealment of a human corpse and tampering with […]
Local sheriffs are investigating after they discovered human remains inside luggage on a property in a rural area outside San Antonio. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office received a call Thursday morning for a suspicious package at the property. People feeding animals while the property’s owners were out of town had noticed the luggage in the […]
What Happened? Federal investigators discovered a human remains trade with connections to Harvard Medical School and have arrested people in several states. According to prosecutors, the defendants were part of a nationwide network of people who bought and sold remains stolen from the medical school and an Arkansas mortuary. One of those charged, 55-year-old Cedric […]
The University of California Police Department has opened an investigation after a human skeleton was found on the UC Berkeley campus, officials say. UC Berkeley police were alerted to the skeleton Tuesday, according to a statement shared with CNN. The “skeletonized” human remains were found “in a building which has not been occupied for many […]
AURORA, Ind.—DNA testing has confirmed that a bone found in an SUV pulled last fall from the Ohio River in Indiana is from an Ohio woman who vanished in 2002 along with her two young children, authorities said Tuesday. Dearborn County Coroner Cameron McCreary learned Friday the bone had been confirmed as belonging to Stephanie […]
Partial human remains found in a garbage bag nearly 40 years ago have been identified as belonging to Frank “Frankie” Little Jr, a member of the R&B band The O’Jays, according to police. The Twinsburg Police Department in Ohio announced the news on Tuesday, saying DNA from relatives was used to help identify the remains […]
The FBI on Thursday evening confirmed that the human remains discovered in a Florida wildlife park on Wednesday belonged to those of manhunt suspect Brian Laundrie, who is a person of interest in the death of his ex-girlfriend Gabby Petito. “On October 21, 2021, a comparison of dental records confirmed that the human remains found […]
YUCCA VALLEY, Calif.—Searchers in Southern California have found a body in the Yucca Valley desert, two months after Lauren Cho disappeared in the area. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department announced Sunday that the human remains were found in rugged terrain in the open desert on Saturday. Now the coroner’s office is working to identify […]
Police are investigating after human remains were found in a large plastic container last week in a New Jersey neighborhood near New York City. Police were called around 10:30 a.m. to Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, Friday to investigate reports of a suspicious container in the street when they found the remains, according to a statement […]
Metro Nashville Police said that they found possible human remains at the explosion site and that the motive behind the incident is still unclear. “We have tissue that we believe could be [human] remains and we’ll just have that examined,” Chief of Police John Drake told reporters during a press conference on Friday afternoon. He […]
A 25-year-old man died on Sunday after falling off a cliff at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Arizona, the National Park Service (NPS) said. While authorities were recovering the man’s body, they also discovered human remains unrelated to the victim’s fatal fall, according to a press release from NPS. Witnesses told NPS that the […]
Bags of human remains were found near the waterfront in Seattle on Friday afternoon, police report in a statement. The Seattle Police Department responded to a call about a suspicious bag found on a beach in the West Seattle area, the statement said. Affiliate KOMO said the initial call reported a foul odor coming from […]
Human remains found in a landfill on Monday are believed to be those of a North Carolina woman who went missing in late January while “dumpster diving,” the Burlington Police Department said.
Kimberly Hancock, 49, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of her former sister-in-law, Deborah Elaine Deans, who went missing in 2004, after a detailed tip to a crime-fighting Facebook page led investigators to a shallow grave on the woman’s property in the small town of Spring Hope.
