These matrimonial-shattering cases take the vow “until death do we part” to a new horrific level.
HARLAN, Iowa (AP) — A Kansas man has asked an Iowa judge to let him engage in a sword fight with his ex-wife and her attorney so that he can “rend their souls” from their bodies. David Ostrom, 40, of Paola, Kansas, said in a Jan. 3 court filing that his former wife, Bridgette Ostrom, […] More
January 15, 2020
Pamela Smart is serving a sentence of life without parole for plotting with a teenage student to murder her husband. More
January 9, 2020
Judge Bruce Kyle sentenced Mark Sievers to death for the first-degree murder of his wife Teresa and a 30-year-sentence for conspiracy. More
January 3, 2020
This episode covers the Hammer Killing Murder trial, the murder conviction appeals of Adnan Syed and the upcoming sexual assault trial of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. More
December 5, 2019
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors charged a southwest Missouri man Wednesday with second-degree murder, alleging he killed his wife in 2015 by hitting her in the head with a hammer and strangling her before stowing the body in a freezer at a storage unit. Fifty-seven-year-old Larry Dinwiddie, of Marshfield, was also charged with abandonment […] More
December 2, 2019
CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo. (AP) — A jury on Monday convicted a Colorado rancher of beating his fiancée to death while their 1-year-old daughter was in a nearby room, then burning the body and persuading his on-and-off girlfriend to help clean up the blood and cover up the crime. Patrick Frazee, 33, was convicted of first-degree […] More
November 18, 2019
CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Jurors on Monday began deliberating the case of a Colorado rancher charged with beating his fiancee to death with a baseball bat while their child was nearby. Patrick Frazee is charged with murder in the death of 29-year-old Kelsey Berreth, whose disappearance nearly a year ago drew national attention. In […] More
November 18, 2019
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a woman after finding her husband’s corpse in a freezer in a bedroom inside her southwest Missouri home, where it may have been stored for nearly a year. Barbara Watters, 67, of Joplin, was charged Wednesday with abandonment of a corpse, a felony that is punishable by up […] More
November 14, 2019
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A judge will hear arguments Monday in a dispute involving the 1-year-old daughter of a Chinese woman who has been missing for more than three weeks, with the woman’s parents and the mother-in-law of her jailed U.S. husband seeking guardianship. An attorney for Ke Ren and Xiaolin Ji, who are the […] More
November 4, 2019
BY KELLY KENNEDY | ASSOCIATED PRESS When Georgia authorities pulled over a Florida driver during the weekend, they made a gruesome discovery in the back of the truck — the body of his decomposing wife. Casei Jones and her four children had been missing from their Florida hometown for over a month, and the discovery […] More
September 20, 2019
Taking the stand in his own defense, Todd Mullis faces tough questions about what's heard on his 911 call. More
September 20, 2019
A corn rake is the central focus as Todd Michael Mullis stands trial for murder. But what exactly is a corn rake? More
September 17, 2019
Dr. Yazeed Essa was convicted of murdering his 38-year-old wife Rosemarie Essa by placing cyanide in her calcium caplets. The victim’s family thought Essa was a loving husband – but it was soon revealed that he was living a double life. When police were closing in on him, he left behind two small children […] More
August 14, 2019
