Murders and mass killings carried out by minors depict an especially terrifying type of true crime.
Jury selection in the deadliest U.S. mass shooting ever to go to trial began Monday with preliminary screening for the panel that will determine whether Nikolas Cruz will be put to death for murdering 17 students and staff members at a Parkland, Florida, high school. More
April 4, 2022
Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz and his prosecutors argued over whether jurors who will decide whether he is sentenced to death should be allowed to tour the building where he murdered 17 people. More
March 30, 2022
Iowa teens Jeremy Goodale and Willard Miller used a baseball bat to kill high school Spanish teacher Nohema Graber; one described in social media posts how they followed her, attacked her and hid the body. More
March 22, 2022
Judge grants prosecutor's request that Ethan Crumbley, Michigan teen charged in fatal school shooting, not be named during the separate trial of his parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley. More
March 22, 2022
Chandler Halderson was convicted of all charges in the deaths of his parents, whose dismembered remains were found scattered in Wisconsin. More
March 20, 2022
Jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is on track to begin April 4,. More
March 18, 2022
Chandler Halderson was sentenced to life in prison for murdering and dismembering his mother and father in Wisconsin. More
March 17, 2022
A judge denied Chandler Halderson's request not to be present when his sentence for killing and dismembering his parents is handed down. More
March 17, 2022
Chandler Halderson, convicted of killing and dismembering his parents, has asked a judge to him skip his sentencing hearing in Dane County. More
March 15, 2022
Attorneys for convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide how to handle disagreements over mental illness-related evidence between capital defendants and their attorneys, an issue that has played a role throughout his case over the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation. More
March 2, 2022
Ethan Crumbley, 15-year-old boy accused of killing four students at a Michigan high school will remain in an adult jail while awaiting trial. More
March 1, 2022
A third federal lawsuit has been filed against Oxford Community Schools and other defendants following the deadly shooting last year on Nov. 30. More
February 25, 2022
A 16-year-old has surrendered to Baltimore police after allegedly gunning down a DoorDash driver in a robbery gone wrong. Cheryl McCormack and her fiancé were attempting to make a food delivery when their car ran out of gas. More
February 24, 2022
The Crumbleys’ attorneys have insisted the couple didn’t know their son might be planning an attack and didn’t make the gun easy to find in their home. More
February 24, 2022
The manager of a juvenile detention center says she would have concerns if a 15-year-old charged with killing four fellow students in his Michigan high school were incarcerated at her facility. More
February 22, 2022
Four years after 17 students and others were gunned down at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, families and gun control advocates pressed President Joe Biden on Monday to do more to address gun violence. More
February 14, 2022
A Missouri man who has insisted for more than 20 years that he was wrongly convicted as a teenager of killing his mother has been granted parole. More
February 9, 2022
She left work and subsequently texted Smith to say, “Andy, he’s going to kill himself. He must be the shooter.” More
February 8, 2022
A contentious court hearing is set for Tuesday morning in the criminal case of the parents of the accused Oxford high school shooter. More
February 7, 2022
The penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be delayed until April after prosecutors told the judge Wednesday that they needed more time to interview the mental health experts who are expected to testify on his behalf. More
February 2, 2022
New York man who killed a 4-year-old boy with a rock in 1993 when he was 13 years old has been released from prison after being granted parole last October, authorities said Tuesday. Eric M. Smith, 42, was released from the Woodbourne Correctional Facility on Tuesday after serving 28 years for the murder of Derrick Robie. More
February 1, 2022
Attorneys say a teenager charged with killing four students at Michigan high school will pursue an insanity defense. More
January 27, 2022
The Detroit-area high school where four students were fatally shot reopened Monday for the first time since the November attack, with the school's principal declaring "we are reclaiming our high school back." More
January 24, 2022
The gunman who killed 17 at a Florida high school four years ago had no expectation of privacy when he posted disturbing photographs to a public Instagram account before his rampage and prosecutors can use them in his upcoming penalty trial, a judge ruled at a hearing Monday. More
January 24, 2022
Jurors deliberated for just over two hours before finding Chandler Halderson guilty of killing Bart Halderson and Krista Halderson. More
January 20, 2022
Chandler Halderson was convicted of killing and dismembering his parents, whose bodies were found in wooded areas of Wisconsin. More
January 20, 2022
Oxford Community Schools Superintendent Tim Throne has posted a statement on the district’s website in an attempt to tackle some of the allegations that the district failed to heed warning signs before the shooting that resulted in the deaths of four students. More
January 20, 2022
The trial for Chandler Halderson, accused of killing his parents, is set to resume next week after he contracted COVID-19. More
January 14, 2022
Ethan Crumbley, accused of murdering four classmates in a shooting at Oxford High School, pleaded not guilty. More
January 12, 2022
The trial of Chandler Halderson, accused of killing and dismembering his parents, has been postponed because he tested positive for COVID-19. More
January 12, 2022
