Murder & Mayhem

Jury selection began on Monday for George Wagner IV, who faces a potential death sentence if convicted of the murders of eight people. More

August 29, 2022

Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz's attorneys presented testimony that the mass killer exhibited violent, disruptive and troubled behavior from his earliest years and, just before his sixth birthday, witnessed his adoptive father's sudden death. More

August 29, 2022

OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney has been extradited to Florida and denied bond on a charge of second-degree murder, according to jail records. More

August 29, 2022

George Wagner IV, the first in his family to stand trial, was convicted of the murders of 8 members of the Rhoden family. More

August 26, 2022

WAUKESHA (Scripps News Milwaukee) — Darrell Brooks, the man accused of killing six people and injuring dozens in the Waukesha Christmas Parade, was back in court Friday for a motion hearing.    The hearings came after defense attorneys filed several motions, including one to suppress interrogation recordings from the night of the parade. Brooks […] More

August 26, 2022

Derek Chauvin has been moved from a Minnesota state prison where he was often held in solitary confinement to a medium-security federal prison in Arizona. More

August 26, 2022

Four years before Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people at a Florida high school, therapists at another school wrote a letter to his psychiatrist saying he was fixated on guns and dreamed of killing others and being covered in blood. More

August 25, 2022

A woman accused of a 2021 homicide in which a man was strangled and drugged has been found guilty of murder and related charges. More

August 25, 2022

The Uvalde school district fired police chief Pete Arrendondo on Wednesday, making him the first officer to lose his job over the hesitant and fumbled response by law enforcement at Robb Elementary School as a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in a fourth-grade classroom. More

August 24, 2022

Kaitlin Armstrong's attorneys pressed her right for a speedy trial when she pleaded not guilty plea to murder in July, and jury selection was scheduled to start Oct. 19. But in a hearing with defense lawyers and prosecutors, Judge Brenda Kennedy called that start date “highly unlikely.” More

August 24, 2022

A psychologist who treated Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz when he was 8 years old testified Wednesday that Cruz was a “peculiar child” who had many behavioral and developmental issues but his widowed mother seemed overwhelmed and wasn’t consistent in her discipline or in getting him treatment. More

August 24, 2022

52-year-old Eyvette Hunter is accused of “unlawfully causing the death of James Morris by intentional medical maltreatment," according to the indictment. More

August 24, 2022

By TERRY SPENCER and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz as a toddler was intellectually and physically behind other children, which caused him to isolate himself and hit and bite to get what he wanted, a daycare administrator and former neighbor testified Tuesday at his penalty trial for mass […] More

August 23, 2022

Two Atlanta police officers who clashed with Rayshard Brooks acted reasonably during the 2020 encounter, a specially appointed prosecutor said Tuesday. More

August 23, 2022

defense lawyers said the secrecy rules as Alex Murdaugh awaits a murder trial in the shooting deaths of his wife and younger son are hypocritical because prosecutors are leaking evidence to media outlets, including a video the leaker said was taken not long before the killings. More

August 23, 2022

A former Louisville police detective who helped write the warrant that led to the raid at Breonna Taylor's apartment has pleaded guilty. More

August 23, 2022

The specialty search and recovery team said they believe they found missing teen Kiely Rodni, but law enforcement has not confirmed if it is Rodni. More

August 22, 2022

Melisa McNeill, Cruz's lead public defender, is expected to give her opening statement Monday, having deferred its presentation from the start of the trial a month ago. More

August 22, 2022

South Korean police say they believe a possible relative of two children whose bodies were found in suitcases in New Zealand last week is likely in South Korea. More

August 22, 2022

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police described a hectic and dangerous miles long police pursuit in a press briefing this week. More

August 19, 2022

Prosecutors say disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, who's charged with killing his wife and son, stole nearly $420,000 from his law firm. Murdaugh faces nine additional charges — four counts of obtaining property under false pretenses, three counts of money laundering and two counts of computer crimes — in indictments. More

August 19, 2022

Richard Dabate was sentenced for the 2015 killing of his wife, whose Fitbit tracker data contradicted his statements to police. More

August 18, 2022

A handyman accused of killing a Florida woman and then hiding her body in a septic tank has pleaded guilty to murder and will spend the rest of his life in prison. More

August 18, 2022

The children were between 5 and 10 years old, had been dead for a number of years, and the suitcases had been in storage for at least three or four years, police said. More

August 18, 2022

A trial date has been set for the case against Cecily Aguilar, who is accused in connection to the death of soldier Vanessa Guillen. More

August 17, 2022

Lori Vallow Daybell was in court Tuesday for the first time since April 19, 2022, when she was arraigned on felony charges connected to the murders of her children, Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow. More

August 16, 2022

A 14-year-old boy accused of stabbing a man in the chest during an argument at a party in June has been charged as an adult. More

August 16, 2022

By MAE ANDERSON Associated Press The seemingly senseless stabbing of a young girl by two of her school friends in the Waukesha, Wisconsin, woods in 2014 made international headlines when it became known that the two perpetrators were under the sway of Slenderman, a fictional Internet demon that they had become convinced was real. But […] More

August 16, 2022

Metro Police said they believe dozens of people witnessed the shooting. In order for the case to move forward, they need those people to come forward and share information on what they saw. More

August 16, 2022

Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death. More

August 15, 2022