First Coast Crime Stoppers and Arby’s Restaurants announced a $6,000 reward for information leading to the suspect who robbed and beat up a 74-year old woman and stole her money.
“Let’s solve this thing,” said Wyllie Hodges, executive director of First Coast Crime Stoppers. “If we don’t, someone else out there, and it could be you, could be the next victim. These kind of people don’t commit one crime and stop. He is a dangerous individual and we need to get this individual in jail.” Read the rest of this entry »

10-2-11 Update: Aaron Bassler was shot and killed by law enforcement agents just after noon Saturday, ending a grueling 36-day hunt for the Fort Bragg man charged with ambushing and killing two men in coastal Mendocino County, authorities said. Bassler, 35, had an assault rifle in hand, his finger near the trigger, when three members of a SWAT unit posted in the dense forest spotted him walking about 40 yards away along a timber road, Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman said.

MENDOCINO COUNTY, Calif. – As the search for a suspect in the murder of two North Coast men continues, authorities have announced a reward for the suspect’s capture.

The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office reported Tuesday that it has been contacted by private citizens as well as the U.S. Marshals’ Service and the Mendocino Land Trust to provide reward funds for information leading to the capture and arrest of 35-year-old Aaron Bassler. Read the rest of this entry »

11-1-11 Update: DENVER – U.S. Marshals announced on Tuesday the arrest of one of their most wanted fugitives, a man who was found guilty of sexual assault in Colorado.

Richard Heeringa, 55, was taken into custody over the weekend in Detroit. He was one of the U.S. Marshals 15 most wanted fugitives.

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Name: Richard Carl HEERINGA
Alias: Rick HEERINGA

Original Charge: 17 Counts of Sexual Assault on a Child by Person in a Position of Trust and Failure to Register as a Sex Offender
HEERINGA, convicted sex offender, is wanted in Aurora, Colorado, for failing to appear on 17 counts of sexual assault on a child. While on the run, HEERINGA was found guilty and is now facing over 500 years in prison. HEERINGA has two additional sexual assault cases pending in Colorado. Read the rest of this entry »

8-16-12 Update:WINTER HAVEN | Eleven months and six days after Orlando musician Ralph Ameduri Jr. was shot and killed in a botched robbery behind Jessie’s Lounge in Winter Haven, police said Thursday it was a 17-year-old boy who pulled the trigger.

Samuel Sweet Jr., now 18, of 688 Sunway Lane in Winter Haven, was arrested in the death of Ralph Ameduri Jr.

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6-2-12 Update: The Reward has been increased to $12,000
On September 10, 2011 Central Florida lost a local favorite music player in their community when an unknown assailant shot and killed Ralph Ameduri Jr. According to the Orlando Sentinel, the 45-year-old was best known as the bass player for The Lengendary JCs and was killed in Winter Haven, Fla. behind Jessie’s Bar on Third Street Northwest.
Winter Haven police and a local bar owner are offering a $2,500 reward for information that leads to an arrest in the deadly shooting of a popular Orlando musician. Read the rest of this entry »

8-4-11 Update: A husband and wife have been arrested in the March 24 Long Beach slaying of a medical marijuana distributor.

Marcel Mackabee was charged with one count of murder, and his wife, Rosemary Sayegh, was charged as an accessory in the shooting death of Philip Victor Williamson.

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A $10,000 reward is now being offered for information leading to the arrest of whomever is responsible for the murder of alleged medical marijuana hauler Philip Victor Williamson, whose body was discovered on March 24, 2011 in an alley in Long Beach, California.
The award was proposed by Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe. Police believe Williamson, 29, reportedly a medicinal cannabis deliveryman, could have had up to $500,000 in cash on him when he died, reports Nick Schou at OC Weekly. Read the rest of this entry »

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — Investigators with the State Fire Marshal’s Office, the Portsmouth Police and Fire Departments announced recently that two separate rewards are now being offered for information in connection with the death of an Ashland, KY man.
Donald Kidd, 51, of Ashland, Ky., was found shot to death and his car burned on May 9, 2011 in an alley near Findlay Street in Portsmouth, Ohio. Read the rest of this entry »

HILLSBORO (TX) (September 13, 2011)—Dallas Waddell, 46, whose last known address was in Whitney, is one of the state’s most-wanted fugitives, and Tuesday the reward offered for information leading to his arrest was increased to $6,000.

Waddell is wanted in Hill County for a parole violation and in connection with the burglary of a habitation. Read the rest of this entry »

Update – 9-18-12: The state is hoping a bigger reward will lead to an arrest in the murder of a Gatlinburg business woman.

More than three years ago, Shannon Hercutt was discovered at the bottom of a steep hill inside her SUV. Investigators first thought it was an accident, but an autopsy revealed she had been beaten in the head.

According to Hercutt’s family, the state is now adding $10,000 to the reward in the case, bringing the total to $35,000.

Update 8-3-12: The state had previously offered up a $10,000 reward, but Stephens says she is now adding $10,000 more, and Auntie Belham’s Realty and Nightly Rentals is chipping in another $5,000, bringing the total to $25,000.

GATLINBURG, TN – Sevier County District Attorney General Jimmy Dunn is hoping a bigger reward will help catch the killer of a Gatlinburg businesswoman.

Dunn has asked Gov. Bill Haslam to raise the original $10,000 reward to $25,000 in the investigation of Shannon Hercutt’s death which occurred on August 3, 2009.

Investigators have no new leads two years after Hercutt’s Cadillac Escalade rolled over a cliff, and her family is desperate for clues. Read the rest of this entry »

Update – September 5, 2012 – Matthew Pugh, 40, of Hamden, Conn., was charged Wednesday in the murder of Alexandra Ducsay, who was found with significant head trauma in her Milford, Conn., home on May 19, 2006, according to the Milford Police Department.

Monday, April 26th 2010 in Spring, Texas was just another day for the Lowitzer family and especially for 16 year old Alexandria Lowitzer. The day started out typically for the Lowitzer family and Ali (Alexandria), raced to the school bus as usual. She was on time for the school bus and spent a normal day interacting at school. After school things went terribly wrong.
Ali called her mom (Jo Ann Lowitzer) just before getting on the school bus for her ride home after school and told her mom she was going to walk up to work at the Burger Barn, which is less than a quarter mile away down Treaschwig Rd at Cypresswood Road (busy intersection), to pick up her paycheck. This was a new job experience for Ali which she was excited about and she wanted to see if she could work that evening. Read the rest of this entry »