Delve into the chilling realm of crime, where murder, mystery and chaos reign, and the ultimate battle for justice that follows.
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
Seven years after a man was shot and killed in the driveway of his Tennessee home, his killer remains on the run, and his family is still waiting for justice. More
July 13, 2022
"He had my mom's phone and he said, 'Put the camera on, I got something for you,'" said Gabriela Lagos, the wife of suspect Guillermo Silva. More
July 13, 2022
A lawyer for disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh said investigators have indicated they intend to pursue murder charges against him for the deaths of his wife and son. More
July 12, 2022
Indiana man Edward Bagwell is accused of dismembering his girlfriend with a chainsaw and putting her remains in trash bags after she died while they were smoking meth. More
July 12, 2022
Casey White was indicted on a murder charge for the shooting death of Vicky White. The pair's disappearance from an Alabama jail sparked a national manhunt that came to a bloody end in Indiana where Casey White was captured and Vicky White died. More
July 12, 2022
The footage from a hallway camera inside the school shows the gunman entering the building with an AR-15 style rifle and includes 911 tape of a teacher screaming, “Get down! Get in your rooms! Get in your rooms!” More
July 12, 2022
Police say a suspect admitted to hanging an Ogden man over the weekend, and killing another man in Spanish Fork last week as part of a "purge." More
July 12, 2022
A family fight over the home of a woman who moved into an assisted living facility left two people dead, and another wounded, police said. More
July 12, 2022
Jury selection for Ruben Flores, charged as an accessory in Kristin’s 1996 disappearance, got underway Monday. More
July 12, 2022
A Florida woman is under arrest after police said she stuffed her dead mother's body into a freezer because she wanted to continue receiving her mom's disability benefits. More
July 11, 2022
Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane await sentencing for their convictions on federal civil rights charges. More
July 8, 2022
The mayor of Uvalde disputed a report that alleges missed chances to quickly end the massacre at a Texas elementary school. More
July 8, 2022
