Murder & Mayhem

Barry Morphew has pleaded guilty to forgery for casting his missing wife's 2020 election ballot for then-President Donald Trump. More

July 22, 2022

Investigators have confirmed that remains unearthed in a Florida junk yard 41 years ago match a missing teenager, the victim of a serial killer now imprisoned for life in California. More

July 22, 2022

Prosecutors on Friday showed jurors photos of the horrific damage the bullets fired by Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz's AR-15 rifle did to some of his 17 victims, causing extensive wounds to their heads, bodies and limbs. More

July 22, 2022

A federal judge sentenced former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. More

July 21, 2022

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz walked casually into a sandwich shop minutes after he murdered 14 students and three staff members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago, showing no signs of stress or nervousness, video played at his penalty trial Thursday showed.    Cruz […] More

July 21, 2022

When the shooting began at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Mario Jimenez’s son was in the classroom next door. The 10-year-old saw his teacher and a friend hit by bullets that passed through the wall. Now, Jimenez worries the boy will never again feel secure in a classroom. More

July 20, 2022

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Teachers gave heart-wrenching testimony Wednesday in the penalty trial of Nikolas Cruz, with one recalling how a boy in her Holocaust studies class correctly answered a question seconds before he became one of 17 people murdered during the school shooter’s rampage four years ago.    Ivy Schamis, […] More

July 20, 2022

Kaitlin Armstrong, accused of killing professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson as a romantic rival, pleaded not guilty to a murder charge. The judge scheduled an October trial. More

July 20, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — The trial of R. Kelly’s manager has opened on charges that he forced the cancellation of a screening of a documentary about the singer’s sexual abuse of women and girls by calling in a threat to the crowded Manhattan theater. Prosecutor Lara Pomerantz told federal court jurors Tuesday that Donnell Russell claimed in his December 2018 phone call that someone with a gun was planning to fire on the crowd. More

July 20, 2022

By: Judge Ashley Willcott BROWARD COUNTY, Fla (Court TV) – The Parkland School Shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day in 2018 is forever branded on the hearts of most. More

July 20, 2022

WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — The disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife and son. More

July 20, 2022

ST. ANTHONY, Idaho (Court TV) — Prosecutors in the Lori and Chad Daybell murders are seeking comprehensive DNA testing on several pieces of evidence collected by the Rexburg Police Department.   The so-called “Doomsday Couple” is facing multiple charges, including first-degree murder in the brutal deaths of Lori’s two children, 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and […] More

July 20, 2022

A Utah man pleaded guilty to fatally shooting his mother and three siblings when he was 16 in 2020. Colin “CJ” Haynie, now 19, killed his his mother and one of his sisters as they returned from her school pickup, then waited for two more siblings to arrive home and killed them. More

July 19, 2022

Jurors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz viewed graphic video Tuesday of him murdering 17 people as he stalked through a three-story classroom building at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. More

July 19, 2022

WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) — Bobby East, a three-time U.S. Auto Racing Club national champion driver, has died after being stabbed this week at a Southern California gas station. He was 37. More

July 19, 2022

The man last seen with Kristin Smart, the college freshman who vanished from a California campus 25 years ago, is on trial more than a year after he was arrested on a murder charge along with his father, who is accused of helping hide her body. More

July 18, 2022

Some parents wept as prosecutor Mike Satz described in his opening statement how Cruz killed their children at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018. More

July 18, 2022

The Uvalde, Texas, gunman gave off so many warning signs that he was obsessed with violence and notoriety in the months leading up to the attack that teens who knew him began calling him “school shooter.” More

July 18, 2022

Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to sentence Thomas Lane to between 5 1/4 to 6 1/2 years in prison on Thursday for his role in the restraint that killed Floyd on May 25, 2020. His attorney is seeking 27 months. More

July 18, 2022

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz has begun. It's the deadliest U.S. mass shooting to go before a jury. More

July 18, 2022

The State will push for Cruz, who is now 23, to be put to death for his crimes, while the defense team is expected to fight for their client’s life. More

July 18, 2022

SALINAS, Calif. (Court TV) – Testimony began Monday, July 18, at the Monterey County courthouse in The Kristin Smart Murder Trial. Three months later — on Tuesday, October 18 — a  jury found Paul Flores guilty of first-degree premeditated murder. His father, Ruben Flores, was found not guilty of accessory after the fact. He had […] More

July 15, 2022

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Store associates are handing single carnations to customers as they enter the newly reopening Tops Friendly Market where 10 Black people were slain by a white gunman. Some also received gift cards Friday as the grocery store in Buffalo, New York, opened its doors. The store is part of an ever-growing list of public spaces and retail establishments where gun violence shattered a community’s way of living. Managers at Tops say they were confident that neighborhood residents overwhelmingly wanted and needed their most accessible supermarket to reopen. But some residents question whether opening two months after a tragedy is too soon. More

July 15, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was exonerated last year in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X has filed a $40 million lawsuit against New York City for the two decades he spent in prison for a notorious crime he did not commit. Lawyers for 84-year-old Muhammad Aziz filed the lawsuit Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn over Aziz’s wrongful conviction in the murder of Malcolm X. An additional complaint was filed on behalf of the estate of Khalil Islam, a second man who was wrongly convicted in the assassination. Mayor Eric Adams says city lawyers are reviewing the complaints. More

July 15, 2022

According to the Knox District Attorney General, on September 29, 2019, Berkebile and Sparks were video chatting when Berkebile convinced her to place a bullet into the cylinder of a .357 revolver during a game of Russian roulette in which he knew exactly where the bullet was located and she did not. More

July 15, 2022

Texas state Rep. Joe Moody came to the defense of Ruben Ruiz after the officer was singled out by some users on social media as an example of the bewildering inaction by law enforcement during the May 24 attack. More

July 14, 2022

The mysterious shooting deaths of a prominent South Carolina lawyer's wife and son have spun investigations revealing charges of money laundering, a narcotics ring, a staged attempt on his life and millions of dollars in stolen money. On Thursday, Alex Murdaugh was charged with murder, the latest in a steep fall that has spanned the past 13 months. More

July 14, 2022

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been charged with murder in connection with the mysterious 2021 deaths of his wife and son. The charges were announced Thursday. Murdaugh’s 52-year-old wife Maggie and 22-year-old son Paul were shot to death outside their home on June 7, 2021. Murdaugh is already jailed and facing dozens of other criminal charges. Until now, the most recent charges came in a June indictment involving an eight-year money laundering and painkiller ring. Earlier charges included accusations that he lied to police, that he tried to arrange his own death and that he stole money from clients. More

July 14, 2022

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The downfall of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh can be traced through people whose lives crossed his. There was his wife, found dead along with their youngest son in June 2021. That led to a half-dozen investigations into his finances. There is the 19-year-old woman killed in a boating crash. More

July 14, 2022

A wealthy dentist allegedly killed his wife of 34 years with a shotgun on a remote African safari in 2016 and collected nearly $5 million in insurance proceeds. More

July 13, 2022