Murder & Mayhem

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

Attorneys for convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide how to handle disagreements over mental illness-related evidence between capital defendants and their attorneys, an issue that has played a role throughout his case over the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation. More

March 2, 2022

Former detective Brett Hankison testified in his own defense about his actions during the police raid that left Breonna Taylor dead. More

March 2, 2022

The adoptive parents of two missing toddlers have been charged with their murders, according to authorities. More

March 2, 2022

Taylor Schabusiness has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, and third-degree sexual assault. More

March 2, 2022

“Wrong is wrong and right is right,” Marcus Ransom told The New York Times in an interview published Tuesday. “No matter what it is, you’ve got to have consequences. No one is above laws.” More

March 1, 2022

Prosecutors allege Chrystul Kizer shot Randall Volar in the head at his Kenosha home, burned his house down and stole his BMW in 2018. More

March 1, 2022

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WLEX) — A year after the murder of Kobe Persley, his family renews calls for justice. More

March 1, 2022

The man accused of murdering 32-year-old Jordan Morgan last week was arrested early Monday morning. More

March 1, 2022

A second jury selection is set to begin Tuesday for the trial of a Connecticut man accused of killing his wife, whose Fitbit activity tracker is expected to be a key piece of evidence against him. Prospective jurors will be questioned in Rockville Superior Court for the murder case of Richard Dabate More

February 28, 2022

For the first time, family members of Mason Dominguez are speaking publicly about the 4-year-old child's murder. The man accused of killing him and leaving his body in a freezer, Brandon Toseland, was in a relationship with Mason's mother at the time of the murder. More

February 28, 2022

The high court isn't being asked to decide whether Chrystul Kizer is guilty, only if she can argue at trial that the law protects her from criminal liability. More

February 28, 2022

Three former Minneapolis police officers convicted of violating George Floyd's civil rights face federal sentences that one expert says could range from less than five years in prison to as much as the 25 years prosecutors are seeking for their former colleague Derek Chauvin. More

February 25, 2022