Killer Spouses

A Florida man was found guilty of first-degree murder on Friday after prosecutors said he hired a hitman to gun down his pregnant wife five years ago. More

May 9, 2022

Andrew Wilhoite is accused of killing his cancer-stricken wife and dumping her body in a creek. He is currently being held without bond. More

May 6, 2022

Russell Laffitte now faces 21 charges of fraud, conspiracy and computer crimes, state police announced Wednesday. More

May 5, 2022

Richard Guichelaar, who strangled his pregnant wife, a well-liked teacher in the Grand Rapids area, was sentenced Thursday to at least 33 years in prison. More

April 28, 2022

A physical therapist from Connecticut was convicted of killing his wife, three children and the family dog in Florida. A jury found Anthony Todt guilty of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of animal cruelty. More

April 14, 2022

A Colombian man who has been on the lam for nearly three decades since he was convicted in absentia of killing his wife has been located in a Boston suburb, the FBI said Wednesday. More

April 14, 2022

Romance author Nancy Crampton-Brophy is accused of killing her husband in 2018. More

April 1, 2022

According to a probable cause affidavit, Andrew Wilhoite told investigators he threw a gallon-size cement flowerpot at his wife after she charged at him. More

March 28, 2022

Pamela Smart was denied a sentence reduction hearing more than 30 years after the trial that inspired books and a Nicole Kidman movie. More

March 23, 2022

Leticia Smith, suspected of killing husband Antoine Smith at their Southern California home in 2015, was arrested in Mexico. More

March 22, 2022

New documents filed in the Doomsday Couple case reveal Chad Daybell wants prosecutors disqualified from his case, but he doesn't want the public to see the details. More

March 16, 2022

An indictment made public Wednesday accuses Cory Fleming of working with Murdaugh to defraud the sons of Gloria Satterfield. More

March 16, 2022

A North Carolina man has been sentenced to up to 31 years in prison for killing his wife in front of their kids after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. More

March 2, 2022

A second jury selection is set to begin Tuesday for the trial of a Connecticut man accused of killing his wife, whose Fitbit activity tracker is expected to be a key piece of evidence against him. Prospective jurors will be questioned in Rockville Superior Court for the murder case of Richard Dabate More

February 28, 2022

Maryland man will serve the rest of his life in prison for murdering his wife and lying about how it happened. Keith Smith falsely told police he, his daughter and wife, Jacquelyn, were heading home from celebrating a birthday in Baltimore, when a panhandler robbed and stabbed her to death. More

February 28, 2022

Richelle Nice, juror at the heart of convicted murderer Scott Peterson's retrial bid, swore she had no animosity toward him until she heard evidence he killed his pregnant wife. More

February 25, 2022

Scott Peterson's chance for a new trial in the murders of his pregnant wife and unborn son hinges on whether a California juror who helped send him to prison was biased because she was a domestic violence victim. More

February 24, 2022

Missouri man convicted of killing his wife, burying her body and lying to authorities about her whereabouts pleaded guilty Tuesday to child abuse charges involving the couple's young daughter. Joseph Elledge had originally pleaded not guilty to child abuse, child endangerment and domestic assault. More

February 22, 2022

PALM SPRINGS, Fla. (Scripps News Tampa) — A Palm Springs, Florida woman was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder after she stabbed her husband more than 140 times and bludgeoned him with a meat cleaver, police said. According to a Palm Springs police report, Ricardo Green, 41, called 911 on the evening of Feb. […] More

February 21, 2022

An Ohio father can fight the adoption of the children whose mother he killed, after a divided state Supreme Court said there was a good reason he hadn't been in touch with them since the slaying: He was following a judge's order not to contact them. More

February 14, 2022

A juror in Scott Peterson's two-decade-old murder trial will be granted immunity before testifying at a hearing that could determine whether a new trial is granted, authorities said. More

February 8, 2022

A judge on Monday delayed for three months a hearing on former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson's request to toss out his murder conviction in the killing of his third wife after his attorney said he needed more time. More

February 7, 2022

As Drew Peterson's appeals against his murder conviction repeatedly failed, it seemed the former suburban Chicago police sergeant might fade from the news. But a decade after a jury convicted him in the slaying of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, Peterson has been given something from the judge who sentenced him to 38 years in prison: Another day in court. More

February 4, 2022

Brandon Isabelle was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his girlfriend and their two-day-old infant. More

February 2, 2022

Relatives of Robert Durst's first wife, who disappeared in 1982, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against his second wife. More

February 1, 2022

Closing arguments are scheduled Wednesday in the double murder trial of a man charged in the shooting deaths of his wife and mother-in law in a home near Philadelphia in which two small children were also present. More

January 25, 2022

A Missouri man who was convicted last year of killing his wife and burying her body will face another trial this year on charges that he abused the couple's young daughter. Joseph Elledge has pleaded not guilty to three felonies involving his daughter, who was 1-year-old when her mother was killed. More

January 25, 2022

Missouri man who pleaded guilty to stuffing his wife's body in a freezer has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Larry Dinwiddie was sentenced after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Cynthia Dinwiddie. More

January 25, 2022

A woman accused of fatally shooting her husband in front of their two children inside the family's truck nearly two years ago is set to go to trial in March. The second-degree murder trial of Kathleen Jourdan, 33, is set to begin March 3 and is expected to be held over five days. More

January 24, 2022

Lynlee Renick was sentenced after a jury convicted her of killing her snake-breeder husband with the help of her ex-boyfriend. More

January 24, 2022