Murder & Mayhem

Opening statements were set for Tuesday in the trial of a man charged with killing former NBA player Lorenzen Wright. More

March 15, 2022

The Kentucky man accused of murdering attorney Jordan Morgan is also being charged with an unrelated crime in Kenton County. More

March 15, 2022

An Orange County judge permanently blocked police from releasing pictures and body camera video related to the investigation of Bob Saget’s death. More

March 14, 2022

Prosecutors reportedly plan to drop the second-degree murder charge filed against an unlicensed security guard who shot and killed a man outside of competing rallies in Denver in October 2020. More

March 14, 2022

Jury selection begins in Memphis today in the trial of Billy Ray Turner, accused in the 2010 shooting death of NBA player Lorenzen Wright. More

March 13, 2022

Parents of Gabby Petito claim in a new Florida lawsuit that Brian Laundrie told his parents he had killed her before he returned home alone from their ill-fated western trip in a converted van. More

March 11, 2022

Wisconsin officials have destroyed the rifle Kyle Rittenhouse used to shoot three people during street protests in Kenosha in 2020. More

March 11, 2022

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A judge was set to consider a request Friday to move the trial of a man accused of driving his SUV into a suburban Milwaukee Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring scores more.   Attorneys for Darrell Brooks Jr. filed a change-of-venue motion last month asking that the trial either be moved or […] More

March 11, 2022

The attorney for the woman accused of killing and dismembering a man at a Green Bay home has filed a motion to have the defendant evaluated for mental competency. More

March 11, 2022

Richmond Police Department Sgt. Kelli Fraze said investigators never bought David Sparks’ story, describing him as “stone cold.” More

March 11, 2022

Investigators said the remains were found near a "gator-infested canal bank" about three miles inside the park. More

March 11, 2022

Harvey Marcelin’s previous convictions were for killing live-in girlfriends, according to court documents. More

March 11, 2022

Jury found James Dean Cloud guilty of several counts of first-degree murder, kidnapping and carjacking in 2019 Yakama Reservation mass homicide. More

March 10, 2022

DENVER (Scripps News Denver) — A Grand Junction man was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison for distributing deadly fentanyl-laced pills, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced. Christopher Huggett, 30, began selling counterfeit pills that appeared to be oxycodone in 2017, according to the plea agreement. The pills contained […] More

March 10, 2022

Colorado man Alexander Albayero sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing a man outside an Aurora nightclub. More

March 10, 2022

By Katie McLaughlin Tara Grinsted’s alleged killer is finally headed to trial 16 years after her murder. Justice for the former beauty pageant contestant and popular high school history teacher may never have come had it not been for Payne Lindsey. Lindsey is the creator and host of “Up and Vanished,” a podcast credited with […] More

March 9, 2022

A Florida woman who was found dead in her septic tank may have been alive when she was placed there, Martin County's sheriff said Tuesday. More

March 9, 2022

IRWIN COUNTY, Ga. (Court TV) — The man who confessed to killing Tara Grinstead in 2005 is now pleading not guilty as he prepares for trial five years after his indictment. Ryan Alexander Duke, 36, is charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, burglary, and concealing a death in connection with Grinstead’s death.  […] More

March 8, 2022

A North Carolina man has been charged in the shooting death of his ex-wife 12 years ago, authorities announced Thursday. More

March 7, 2022

Julia Enright lured the Westminster man to the treehouse with the intent to kill him as a “gift” for her boyfriend, prosecutors said. More

March 7, 2022

A Florida woman's body was found inside the septic tank of her home, and her handyman has been arrested. More

March 7, 2022

Advocates have been pushing for Brendan Dassey to be freed but ran out of options in the courts after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal. More

March 7, 2022

Trezell West and Jacqueline West, adoptive parents of two California boys who reported missing in 2020, pleaded not guilty to killing them. More

March 4, 2022

The Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. More

March 4, 2022

William "Marcus" Wilson, charged with murder and aggravated assault in the death of a teenage girl, was denied immunity from prosecution. More

March 4, 2022

Police said the mother claimed responsibility for the attack but didn't give a reason why it happened. More

March 4, 2022

Baltimore County Police detectives are still working to solve a murder from 26-years ago. Wednesday marked the anniversary of when 23-year-old Jody LeCornu was found shot to death inside her vehicle in Towson, Maryland. More

March 3, 2022

Orrin and Orson Wests’ biological family learned more about events leading up to their deaths. The family said it’s been a difficult time for them learning that the West boys were dead for three months before being reported missing. More

March 3, 2022

After missing for more than a year, Orrin and Orson West, who were first reported missing in December 2020 from California City, are believed to be dead. More

March 3, 2022

Not Guilty – those were the words Curtis Reeves heard just hours after the jury was charged with determining his fate. More

March 3, 2022