Murder & Mayhem

Ten years after a man was found shot to death inside a Nashville apartment, his killer remains on the run. More

August 2, 2022

A wealthy dentist accused of fatally shooting his wife in the heart with a shotgun at the end of an African safari was found guilty of murder and mail fraud on Monday. More

August 2, 2022

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Family members from three of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s 17 victims gave heartrending testimony Monday about how their 2018 deaths at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have affected their lives, detailing lost loves, lost moments and even fading memories.    The sister of student […] More

August 1, 2022

Yaser Said, who was convicted of killing 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said on New Year’s Day in 2008. More

August 1, 2022

Fabian Gonzales was convicted in the 2016 death of Albuquerque girl Victoria Martens, who was strangled, dismembered and set on fire in the bathtub of her mother’s apartment on her 10th birthday. The jury deliberated less than four hours before returning with guilty verdicts on all charges: reckless child abuse resulting in death, tampering with evidence and conspiracy to tamper with evidence. More

August 1, 2022

A former chiropractor convicted of killing four people in a small North Dakota town and sentenced to life behind bars has died in prison. More

August 1, 2022

Thirty-seven years later, authorities are still trying to identify the remains of some of their victims. More

August 1, 2022

Since most of the worst U.S. mass shooters were killed by themselves or police during or immediately after their attack, it is rare for anyone outside government to see such surveillance videos or police and autopsy photos. More

August 1, 2022

Tou Thao, who held back concerned bystanders as Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck, got 3 1/2 years. J. Alexander Kueng, who pinned Floyd's back, got three. And Thomas Lane, who held Floyd's feet and asked twice about rolling the Black man on his side, got 2 1/2. For some Floyd family members and activists, the penalties were too small — and a bitter reminder of a justice system they say does not treat all people equally. More

July 29, 2022

The case against Letecia Stauch, the Colorado woman accused of killing her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon Stauch, has hit another roadblock. More

July 29, 2022

Charter Spectrum is paying $7.37 billion for "systemic safety failures" and punitive damages in the robbery and stabbing death of an 83-year-old Texas woman. More

July 29, 2022

Four men have been charged with murder for hire, conspiracy to kidnap resulting in death and kidnapping resulting in death. More

July 29, 2022

The verdict for an Ohio woman convicted of luring her ex-husband's former partner to their death has been overturned. More

July 28, 2022

“I did not kill my wife. I could not murder my wife. I would not murder my wife,” Lawrence “Larry” Rudolph told jurors Wednesday. More

July 28, 2022

.Broward County sheriff’s Detective Nick Masters read hundreds of searches and comments Cruz made starting seven months before the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre as prosecutors try to prove he planned it. More

July 27, 2022

SALINAS, Calif. (Scripps News San Luis Obispo) – More witnesses were expected to take the stand Tuesday morning in the case against Paul and Ruben Flores, but that didn’t happen. Shortly after Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jennifer O’Keefe took her seat in the courtroom, she announced the trial would be postponed until next Monday. […] More

July 27, 2022

The last two former Minneapolis police officers to be sentenced for violating George Floyd's civil rights are scheduled to learn their penalties Wednesday. More

July 27, 2022

Jurors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz got their first view Monday of the AR-15-style rifle he used to murder 17 students and staff members four years ago at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. More

July 25, 2022

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