Cory Hill is an alleged killer from Florida who has been charged with the murder of his estranged wife Shakeira Rucker
According to police reports Shakeira Rucker was last seen on November 11 2023 when she told her family she was going out. Rucker would not be seen again. Her body would be found in a storage container in Orange County Florida
Cory Hill who was already in jail charged with four counts of attempted murder after firing a gun at an ex girlfriend and her family has now been charged with the murder of Shakeira Rucker.
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The estranged husband of a woman whose body was found in a storage unit in Orange County, Florida, has been charged with her murder, authorities said.
Shakeira Yvonne Rucker, a 37-year-old mother of four, was reported missing after her family told the Winter Springs Police Department they last saw her on November 11, CNN previously reported.
Rucker’s family reported she left her home for “an unknown destination,” possibly with her estranged husband, Cory Hill, police said at the time.
Florida law enforcement officials last month said her disappearance was being investigated as a homicide after her body was found in a storage unit registered to Hill.
“The Office of the State Attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit has formally filed charges against Cory Hill for the murder of Shakeira Rucker,” prosecutors said in a statement Friday. “Hill remains in jail under a no bond status stemming from his November arrest of Attempted Second Degree Murder and other charges against his ex-girlfriend and her family.”
Hill, 51, was booked in the Orange County Jail on November 13 for an unrelated shooting, CNN previously reported. He was charged with four counts of attempted murder after allegedly shooting at a former girlfriend and her family on November 12, according to Orange County Sheriff John Mina.
“Hill now faces an additional charge of Second Degree Murder (With a Firearm) for the death of Ms. Rucker,” prosecutors said Friday. “Ms. Rucker’s body was found in a self-storage facility at 2400 Wiggins Road in Apopka after someone complained about a smell coming from inside a unit registered to Cory Hill.”
When deputies opened the unit, they found a woman later identified as Rucker dead from apparent gunshot wounds, Mina said.
Rucker’s family has set up a GoFundMe page for her four children, ages 7 through 18.
Prosecutors said they will seek a first-degree murder indictment in Rucker’s homicide.
“Due to procedural rules, the State is limited to filing a Second-Degree Murder charge by Information prior to presenting the case to the Orange County Grand Jury,” the statement said.
CNN has reached out to the public defender listed as legal representation for Hill for comment.
Shannon Overstreet is an alleged killer from West Virginia who has been charged with the murder of his daughter Angel Overstreet who has been missing for over two years.
According to police reports Angel Overstreet was just three months old when she disappeared back in May 2021. Now police in West Virginia have enough evidence to charge Shannon Overstreet with murder, death of a child by a parent by child abuse, and concealment of a deceased human body. Police did not release what they have in terms of evidence
Shannon Overstreet was easy to find as he is serving a two to ten year sentence in a West Virginia prison for striking his mother in the head and signing her name to a check and cashing it
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A West Virginia prison inmate whose infant daughter has been missing for more than two years has been indicted on murder and other charges, authorities said.
A grand jury in Cabell County indicted Shannon Patrick Overstreet on charges of murder; death of a child by a parent by child abuse, and concealment of a deceased human body, Huntington police said Friday in a news release.
Without elaborating, the statement said investigators collected evidence indicating Overstreet was responsible for the death of Angele Nichole Overstreet and for concealing and disposing of her remains.
The girl was 3 months old when she last was seen in May 2021. Her disappearance led to an investigation involving the Huntington police department, the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, and state police and other agencies from West Virginia and Kentucky.
Overstreet is serving a sentence of two to 10 years at the Huttonsville Correctional Center after acknowledging that the state had enough evidence to convict him of malicious wounding and forgery related to striking his mother in the head and signing her name to a check and cashing it. These crimes happened the same month that his daughter last was seen, The Herald-Dispatch reported.
Police in May 2021 asked for the public’s help in locating the baby. West Virginia Child Protective Services reported her missing after checking with Overstreet regarding custody issues in Kentucky. Overstreet told them at the time he had given the girl to workers with the agency two weeks earlier, but investigators were unable to substantiate a custody exchange.
A Cabell County grand jury has indicted a man in connection with the death of his three-month-old daughter.
Shannon Patrick Overstreet is charged with death of a child by a parent, guardian or custodian or other persons by child abuse; murder; and concealment of a deceased human body.
Three-month-old Angel Nichole Overstreet was last seen on May 2, 2021. Huntington police searched for the little girl for months.
“We are very concerned for the safety and well-being of the child,” former Huntington Police Chief Ray Cornwell said not long after the little girl’s disappearance. “We are unable to determine her location, whereabouts or well-being, and that’s what we’re focused on right now.”
Police searched the home of Shannon Overstreet’s mother early in the investigation.
In June 2021, investigators were led to a remote pond on property Shannon Overstreet owned in Carter County, Kentucky.
According to the Friday new release from Huntington Police, investigators were able to collect evidence indicating Shannon Overstreet was responsible for his daughter’s death “as well as being responsible for concealing and disposing of her remains.”
Kaitlin Cyrus and her boyfriend Jovannie Vega are two accused killers from New York who have been charged in the murder of her three year old son
According to police reports emergency personel were called to a home where they would find the three year old boy in horrific shape. The three year old was rushed to the local hospital however his condition was so poor he was airlifted to a trauma center. Unfortunately the little boy would die from his injuries
According to reports two days before the incident Jovannie Vega would throw the little boy against a wall and slammed him down on the floor several times. The three year old, Kayden Flowers, suffered a broken leg, broken arm, lacerated liver and fatal swelling of the brain
Both Jovannie Vega and Kaitlin Cyrus have been arrested and charged with murder as well as a host of other charges
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The three-year-old boy who was severely beaten in Massena has died. Now his mother and her boyfriend are charged with manslaughter.
Village police say the toddler, Kayden Flowers, died shortly after 9 a.m. Thursday at the University of Vermont Medical Center.
His mother, 23-year-old Kaitlin Cyrus, and her boyfriend, 24-year-old Jovannie Vega, were arrested on Tuesday on felony counts of assault and reckless endangerment.
On Thursday afternoon, the couple was arraigned in Massena Town Court on additional counts of first-degree manslaughter.
According to court documents, Vega allegedly threw the toddler against a bedroom wall and slammed him onto the ground several times.
The boy suffered a broken leg and arm, lacerated liver, brain bleed, severe brain swelling, and loss of brain function.
Kaitlin Cyrus is accused of allowing Vega to engage in ongoing physical abuse of the child. She allegedly failed to seek medical attention for her son for about 48 hours after he was injured, according to court documents.
“I’m in my 20th year of law enforcement and this was the worst case I’ve ever seen,” said Massena Police Chief Jason Olson.
Village police said the child was beaten Tuesday morning at the home Cyrus and Vega shared at 16 Francis Street, Lot 44. When asked about the court papers which said Cyrus failed to seek medical attention for her son for 48 hours, police declined to comment further.
Cyrus and Vega have been held without bail in the St. Lawrence County Jail since their arrest on Tuesday.
According to police, the toddler’s father lives in Massachusetts.
A 3-year-old child whom police say was beaten and neglected by two Massena residents this week has died, and the couple charged Tuesday now face felony first-degree manslaughter counts. Other charges are pending.
Kayden Flowers died at 9:02 a.m. Thursday at the University of Vermont Medical Center, where he had been airlifted on Tuesday.
With a crowd of about 30 people gathered outside the Massena Police Department on Main Street, Jovannie Vega, 24, and Kayden’s biological mother Kaitlin Cyrus, 23, were arraigned separately by Massena Town Justice Joseph Brown on the manslaughter charge Thursday afternoon. Both pleaded not guilty and were sent back to the St. Lawrence County jail, Canton, without bail. Kayden’s biological father resides in Massachusetts, according to Massena Police Detective Michael J. O’Brien.
Attorneys had asked Brown to release Kaitlin Cyrus under the supervision of the probation department and to set reasonable bail for Vega.
They had been held at the county jail without bail since their arraignment by Brown Tuesday on felony charges of first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault and first-degree reckless endangerment. Cyrus had also been charged with reckless assault.
O’Brien said they had responded to a 911 call at 8:37 a.m. Tuesday. Police said no complaints of abuse had been made to the department prior to this week’s incident.
In his written statement, O’Brien said Vega had thrown Kayden into the bedroom wall and slammed him several times onto the ground at their home at 16 Francis St., Lot 44. Cyrus is accused of allowing Vega “to engage in ongoing physical abuse of the three-year-old victim” and “failed to seek aid and did not seek medical attention for said child for approximately 48 hours” after the incident, O’Brien wrote.
Kayden suffered a broken femur, broken arm, lacerated liver, brain bleed, severe brain swelling and loss of brain function.
“Said actions ultimately caused the death of the three-year-old victim,” O’Brien wrote.
Patrick Scott is an alleged killer from Indiana who has been charged with the murder of missing seventeen year old Valerie Tindall
According to court documents seventeen year old Valerie Tindall told her parents that she was leaving for work, she worked for Patrick Scott in a landscaping position, and was not seen from again. That was back in June 2023
Police dogs were searching the area looking for Valerie Tindall when they alerted to the smell of human decomposition close to the property owned by Patrick Scott. A further search would reveal human remains that were later identified as Valerie Tindall
Patrick Scott would be arrested and reportedly told police that he had killed the missing teenager by strangling her with a belt as according to him she attempted to blackmail and seduce him. After killing Valerie Tindall Scott would put her remains in a homemade box and buried her
Patrick Scott has been charged with murder
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A 59-year-old man suspected in the June disappearance of a 17-year-old neighbor has been charged with murder after human remains were found buried in a pit on his central Indiana property.
Patrick Scott of Arlington appeared Thursday in Rush County Circuit Court for an initial hearing. Scott also is charged with obstruction of justice and false informing.
He was ordered jailed without bond. A public defender has been appointed to represent him, court records show. A person who answered the phone at the Rush County Public Defender’s office said Thursday that the office had no comment on the case.
Valerie Tindall told her parents on June 7 that she was going to work. She worked for Scott who owned a lawn mowing business, according to court documents which detailed that Tindall met Scott and he drove her back to his home early that afternoon.
Arlington is about 30 miles southeast of Indianapolis.
Tindall later was reported missing.
On Oct. 11, cadaver-sniffing dogs indicated the smell of decomposition in a pond near Scott’s property, but a search failed to turn up anything. One of the dog handlers told police that water is known to hold odor and that the smell could have come from runoff into the pond.
Police on Tuesday found a large dirt pile and debris on Scott’s property. Using shovels, they dug up a rectangular box wrapped in tarp. Inside the box were human remains which included fingernails painted with orange polish, documents said.
Police said that a photo posted to social media on June 7 showed Tindall with orange-colored nails.
The Associated Press left messages Thursday with Rush County Coroner asking if the remains had been identified as those of Tindall.
Sheriff Allan Rice told reporters the remains likely belong to Tindall.
“This is not the outcome we had all hoped for, but I want to stress to the public that this case is far from over,” Rice said Wednesday. “Justice will be sought.”
Scott was arrested Tuesday and told investigators he strangled Tindall with his belt in the bedroom of his home when she tried to blackmail and seduce him, according to court documents.
Shena Sandefur told WRTV-TV that her daughter worked for Scott and that the family trusted him.
“She and him had a bond. They were friends,” Sandefur said. “She worked for him, but she also hung out with his family. His granddaughter was her friend, and we went places with them.”
Court documents reveal that Patrick Scott, the neighbor and boss of missing teenager Valerie Tindall, reportedly admitted to officers that he killed the 17-year-old girl on June 7 — strangling her with a belt and then burying her in a homemade box in his backyard.
Patrick Scott, 59 of Arlington, was arrested on Tuesday evening after federal agents and local authorities descended upon his property in a concentrated search for the missing teenager who hadn’t been seen alive since June 7.
Previous reports detail how Scott was not only a trusted neighbor to Tindall and her family, but that the teenager worked for him as part of his landscaping company; mowing lawns in the summer.
On Wednesday, the Rush County Sheriff’s Department announced that Scott had been arrested on a preliminary charge of murder after human remains were found on his property. On Thursday, the Rush County Coroner positively identified the remains as those of Valerie Tindall.
Newly released court documents reveal that officers uncovered two homemade boxes made of 2x4s and oriented strand boards during the search of Scott’s property on Tuesday. Originally a source told FOX59/CBS4 that the human remains were found in a barrel. Court documents detail that the remains were actually found in one of the buried homemade boxes.
According to the documents, an officer observed the human remains located within the box and described “instantly” spotting orange fingernails on the deceased body. Police said the fingernail color matched a photograph found on social media of Valerie Tindall posted on June 7.
Inside the second homemade box were VHS tapes and miscellaneous paperwork.
Scott was taken into custody after the discovery of the human remains and questioned by police. During this questioning, Scott reportedly admitted to killing Valerie. He said his wife and daughter “don’t know nothing” about the killing and told officers he strangled Valerie with a belt; a belt Scott said he continued to wear after.
“I put it around her neck and I held onto it until she quit,” Scott allegedly described to police.
Investigators found records of Scott purchasing the 2x4s and the oriented strand boards at the Home Depot in Greenfield the day after Valerie vanished on June 7. He later told police he did purchase the boards to make the box he put Valerie’s body in. He said prior to making the box, Valerie’s body was in his office.
After making the box, Scott told officers he wrapped her in plastic, put her in the box and screwed it shut, then wheeled it out of his office on a dolly. He then put the box in a hole and went to work with a shovel to cover it up. Scott told officers the second box had been in the hole since July and that he used it to “put s*** in.”
When police asked if Scott hated Valerie, he said no and told officers the two had done all sorts of things together outside of working; like shopping and going out to eat.
Patrick Scott claimed he hadn’t planned to kill Valerie and that it “just kind of happened.” Scott also made claims that he thought Valerie was going to seduce him or try and blackmail him into buying her a new car.
“I just knew she wasn’t going to blackmail me,” he allegedly told an officer.
When asked if it bothered him that he killed Valerie, Patrick Scott reportedly said, “Well, I wasn’t too crazy about it.”
Valerie’s last known location, according to cell phone records, wasn’t far from Scott’s home. Her last phone activity was shortly before 1 p.m. on June 7. Previous reports detail how Scott gave inconsistent stories about last seeing Valerie and ended up being charged with false informing in June.
Court documents reveal that police searched Scott’s property with cadaver dogs on Oct. 11, with the dogs giving a positive indication of the presence of human remains within a pond on Scott’s property. However, a search of the pond didn’t uncover any remains.
Officers later spoke to the dog handlers and learned that water is known to hold scent and that wind could have carried the scent toward the pond. Police noted in their report that on Oct. 11 the wind was coming from the direction of Scott’s property where the homemade box would eventually be found.
Police reportedly ordered a topography study to also search for possible water run-off that drained into Patrick Scott’s pond along with ordering a flyover of the property as investigators attempted to zero in on the possible reason the cadaver dogs indicated possible human remains on Oct. 11.
During a flyover conducted on Oct. 12, police noted “multiple areas of obvious ground disturbance.” Search warrants were requested on Nov. 27 leading to nearly 40 federal agents and local law enforcement officers descending upon his property on Nov. 28.
The two buried homemade boxes were found underneath a pile of miscellaneous debris, according to the court documents. Previously, witnesses reported seeing Scott tear down and burn his garage at 2 a.m. not long after Valerie vanished.
Police said that when the box was uncovered, officers immediately noted the smell of decomposition despite the box being wrapped in a tarp with duct tape used on the seams.
Patrick Scott was officially charged with murder on Thursday, two days after the human remains were found on his property. He also is charged with obstruction of justice.
Nineteen year old Ariel Cruz has been charged with the murder of missing twenty one year old college student Idania Campos
According to court documents Idania Campos would drop off her sisters at school and was not heard from again. Ariel Cruz who had been at the family home over the weekend consoling the family over missing Idania Campos. However when the family discovered the body of Idania Campos in the trunk of their vehicle Ariel Cruz was soon arrested
Once Ariel Cruz was in custody he would confess to the murder of Idania Campos
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An arrest has been made after a family made a devastating discovery while looking for a loved one who disappeared on Tuesday. A 21-year-old woman’s body was found inside the trunk of her own car in Houston, Texas.
According to court records, 19-year-old Ariel Cruz has been arrested and charged with murder. Documents say he shot and killed his girlfriend, Idania Campos.
Family members told ABC Houston affiliate KTRK that Cruz was at the scene, consoling the family, for most of the day on Tuesday while police investigated. They described Cruz as a good friend of the woman, and said he was at the family’s house over the weekend. Houston police described the victim as Cruz’s girlfriend.
According to Cruz’s bail motion, he killed the woman because she broke up with him in the past.
The family said Cruz was taken into custody for questioning, and investigators called them early Wednesday morning to say he had confessed to his girlfriend’s death and was charged with murder
He was booked into the Harris County, Texas Jail around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. His bond was set at $600,000.
Houston police said the woman’s family tracked her phone to the Meyerland area on Tuesday, leading them to her car.
Investigators asked anyone who lives in Meyerland, to check their security cameras between 8:20 a.m. and 1:40 p.m. Tuesday.
The woman’s family told HPD they couldn’t get ahold of her after they last saw her in bed around 7 a.m. and the woman’s mother last spoke to her around 8:20 a.m.
The victim shares her phone’s location with a friend, so her family used that information to track her phone down. That’s when they discovered her parked car.
The family called police, but investigators said nothing seemed suspicious and the car didn’t look like it had been broken into. The victim’s phone was just sitting inside.
HPD officers took a missing person’s report and left the scene.
“Of course, if the family thought she was in the car, of course they would have made forced entry, but at this point, they just thought it was left there. Nobody at that point thought she was inside the trunk,” Lt. Alias Smith said
Meanwhile, the woman’s family stayed at the scene and called a locksmith to get inside the car. HPD said it was taking the locksmith a while to arrive, so the victim’s father decided to break a window to get inside the car around 5:40 p.m.
The family popped the trunk, and that’s when they discovered the woman’s body. HPD then returned to the scene.
Investigators said they found blood in the trunk. HPD said the victim had signs of trauma to her face, but noted that they didn’t find any shell casings at the scene.
Police did not immediately identify the victim.
Smith said it’s her opinion that the woman was killed somewhere else and then left in her car on Indigo Street. Police said her family lives about 30 minutes away from the area.
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