Murder & Mayhem

A North Carolina man has been sentenced to death for the 2019 murder of his teenage daughter, according to the local prosecutor's office. More

June 6, 2022

A grand jury indicted Ryan Duke on six counts including concealing a death, hindering apprehension of a criminal, concealing facts and evidence tampering in the death of Tara Grinstead. More

June 3, 2022

The state agency investigating the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde has determined that the commander facing criticism for the slow police response was not carrying a radio as the massacre unfolded. More

June 3, 2022

Parents of victims and survivors of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde will appear before a House committee next week in an effort to bring home the devastation of America's gun violence epidemic. More

June 3, 2022

MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. (Scripps News San Luis Obispo) — Opening statements in the Kristin Smart murder trial are set to take place in July. Paul and Ruben Flores have been awaiting trial since a judge last September ruled to move forward with the charges against them. Paul is facing a single count of murder in […] More

June 1, 2022

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two court-appointed prosecutors declined Wednesday to charge a Wisconsin sheriff’s deputy in the 2016 fatal shooting of a man sleeping in a park. More

June 1, 2022

Two Minnesotans filed federal civil rights lawsuits Tuesday against the city of Minneapolis and Derek Chauvin, alleging they were traumatized when the former police officer used his "signature move" of kneeling on their necks — the same way that he killed George Floyd. More

May 31, 2022

Documents filed May 18 show that state prosecutors declared their intent to seek the death penalty against 34-year-old Keoki Hilo Demich. More

May 31, 2022

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Scripps News Tallahassee) — A decision has been reached in the retrial of Katherine Magbanua. A jury in a Leon County courtroom found Magbanua guilty of first-degree murder, guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and guilty of solicitation to commit murder Friday night. Magbanua was charged with first degree murder, conspiracy to commit […] More

May 31, 2022

Judge rules that delaying Lori Vallow Daybell's trial to January 2023 will not violate her right to a speedy trial. Vallow and husband Chad Daybell are charged with murder, conspiracy and grand theft in connection with the deaths of 7-year-old Joshua "JJ" Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan. They pleaded not guilty and could face the death penalty if convicted. More

May 27, 2022

“The defendant had all the motive to kill Jonathan, because for him, Jonathan was a man who had just started seeing his wife,” prosecutor Benjamin Agati said during closing arguments. More

May 27, 2022

CLARKSTON, Mich. (Scripps News Detroit) — Two teens face the possibility of life in prison for the murders of two Highland Township, Michigan teens. Jesse Wright and Steven Morrow, both 18 years old, have been charged. The murders happened Saturday morning at a mobile home community in White Lake Township. Investigators say Cameron Duckworth, 19, […] More

May 26, 2022

SALT LAKE CITY (Scripps News Salt Lake City) — After nearly half a century, the Salt Lake City Police Department were able to finally solve a cold case murder. The department announced Thursday it had closed the homicide case involving the death of 39-year-old James Bednarik in 1974. Police said the suspect, 75-year-old George B. […] More

May 26, 2022

By: Erin Miller NORFOLK, Va. (WTKR) – For 22 years, Alondo Adam’s family has been left without answers. They don’t know who killed him, in his Norfolk home or why, but now his case has been re-opened.   “Whoa. Londo was funny. lovable. He loved his family,” said Shannon Bishop Burrus, Alondo’s older sister, as she […] More

May 26, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of randomly murdering a fellow passenger on a New York City subway train has made his first court appearance. More

May 26, 2022

A jury in Portland convicted a self-published romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy -- who once wrote an essay titled "How to Murder Your Husband" — of fatally shooting her husband, chef Daniel Brophy. More

May 25, 2022

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The search continues for a Texas woman suspected in the fatal shooting of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in Austin. Authorities issued a murder warrant last week for 34-year-old Kaitlin Marie Armstrong. More

May 25, 2022

19-year-old Marcus McGee's killers remain on the run 14 years after he was shot at a Nashville Swifty Gas Station. More

May 24, 2022

A Kentucky woman pleaded guilty to the murder of her newborn baby during a court appearance Monday. More

May 24, 2022

The body of professional cyclist Anna Moriah "Mo" Wilson, 25, of San Francisco, was found May 11, and Austin police issued a murder warrant for Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, 34. More

May 23, 2022

BALTIMORE COUNTY (Scripps News Baltimore) — Baltimore County Detectives are still working to solve the 2009 homicide of Daniel Ho Coverston. These detectives are interested in hearing from people who frequently visited the area near the Alameda Shopping Center where a payphone was located.   They think the person who made the call from that […] More

May 23, 2022

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz hit a new stumbling block when a potential juror wore a T-shirt potentially prejudicial to his case. More

May 23, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay $7 million to a man who spent 23 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit. Comptroller Brad Lander announced the settlement Monday with Grant Williams. He was exonerated last July in the 1996 shooting of Shdell Lewis outside a Staten Island public housing complex. Williams’ lawyer, Irving Cohen, says the settlement will help his client try to get back on his feet. He had unsuccessfully appealed his conviction for years before Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon’s office agreed to review it and eventually joined him in asking a court to dismiss his conviction. During the DA's review, Williams was paroled in 2019. More

May 23, 2022

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s former top law enforcement officer, who served jail time for leaking secret investigative files and lying about it, appeared in court Monday as she faced the prospect of more time behind bars after she was arrested for drunken driving in March. Kathleen Kane, the first woman and first Democrat to […] More

May 23, 2022

A jury on Friday found a man accused of killing a popular high school teacher who vanished from her rural Georgia hometown in 2005 not guilty of murder. More

May 20, 2022

Ryan Duke faces an automatic sentence of life in prison if he's convicted of murder in the death of Tara Grinstead. More

May 20, 2022

A capital murder suspect who authorities say went on the lam for 10 days with the help of an Alabama jail official was ordered to provide a DNA sample to prosecutors. More

May 20, 2022

Thomas Schultz told the police dispatcher, "We are in an impossible situation with no way out. Please send someone to secure the residence." More

May 20, 2022

The remains of Rita Gutierrez-Garcia, who went missing in 2018 after a night out in Colorado have been recovered and formally identified. The man charged with her kidnapping and murder, Juan Jose Figueroa, will plead guilty. More

May 19, 2022

Charges have been filed against an Adams County, Colorado Sheriff’s Office sergeant and a woman after a 3-year-old died in a shooting. Summons have been issued for Brett Eskam and Elaine Eskam on six counts of unlawful storage of a firearm. More

May 19, 2022