Delve into the chilling realm of crime, where murder, mystery and chaos reign, and the ultimate battle for justice that follows.
George Floyd died because his breathing was restricted as he was restrained while handcuffed and facedown, a lung expert testified Monday at the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating Floyd's civil rights. More
February 7, 2022
The first 50 jury pool members were to report for questioning Monday to determine if they're able to serve as fair and impartial jurors. More
February 7, 2022
Convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery will now stand trial on federal hate crime charges. More
February 7, 2022
A man who shot and killed four people at a Waffle House in 2018 received a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. More
February 5, 2022
Travis Reinking was sentenced to life in prison without parole for a deadly 2018 Waffle House shooting just miles outside Nashville, Tenn. More
February 5, 2022
Travis Reinking was found guilty on four counts of first-degree murder Friday by a jury that rejected his insanity defense. More
February 4, 2022
Federal prosecutors have charged a 21-year-old Baltimore man with setting a home on fire with his ex-girlfriend and two other people still inside. More
February 4, 2022
The Minneapolis mayor imposed a moratorium on no-knock warrants Friday, two days after a SWAT team entered a downtown apartment and killed Amir Locke, a Black man who his parents said was "executed" after he was startled from a deep sleep and reached for a legal firearm to protect himself. More
February 4, 2022
As Drew Peterson's appeals against his murder conviction repeatedly failed, it seemed the former suburban Chicago police sergeant might fade from the news. But a decade after a jury convicted him in the slaying of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, Peterson has been given something from the judge who sentenced him to 38 years in prison: Another day in court. More
February 4, 2022
Travis McMichael reversed his plan to plead guilty in the federal case days after a U.S. District Court judge rejected terms of a plea deal between defense attorneys and prosecutors that was met with passionate objections by Arbery’s parents. More
February 4, 2022
The man who initiated the deadly chase that ended in the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery won't plead guilty to a federal hate crime in the 2020 killing of the unarmed Black man, according to a legal filing late Thursday. More
February 3, 2022
A federal judge in Baltimore on Thursday dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. filed by the family of a rideshare driver who was killed by a passenger in 2019. More
February 3, 2022
Travis Reinking posted videos to YouTube before the killing where he spoke about unknown people who he believed were breaking into his home. More
February 3, 2022
A breakthrough in the multi-year investigation into the case of a missing Baltimore woman. On Thursday morning, the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office announced the arrest of Michael Robertson in connection to the disappearance of Akia Eggleston. It was May 3, 2017 when Eggleston was last seen or heard from. More
February 3, 2022
Karen Read is accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her car, leaving the scene and then returning hours later. More
February 3, 2022
Brandon Isabelle was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his girlfriend and their two-day-old infant. More
February 2, 2022
A former student at a private college in Virginia was arraigned Wednesday on murder charges, a day after authorities say he returned to his alma mater and fatally shot two campus officers. Police identified the gunman in Tuesday's shooting at Bridgewater College as Alexander Wyatt Campbell, 27. More
February 2, 2022
Four men have been charged in the overdose death of actor Michael K. Williams, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. More
February 2, 2022
The penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be delayed until April after prosecutors told the judge Wednesday that they needed more time to interview the mental health experts who are expected to testify on his behalf. More
February 2, 2022
Travis Reinking had written Oprah Winfrey asking for help determining whether Taylor Swift was communicating with him through the Internet. More
February 2, 2022
The federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s rights was abruptly suspended Wednesday after one of the defendants tested positive for COVID-19. More
February 2, 2022
A gunman shot and killed two campus officers at a private college Tuesday, prompting a protracted campus lockdown and search before the suspect was apprehended, state police and school officials said. More
February 1, 2022
One student was killed and another critically injured in a shooting Tuesday afternoon near the front entrance to a suburban Minneapolis school, police said. Police Chief Jay Henthorne said the students were shot outside South Education Center in Richfield, a suburb just south of Minneapolis. More
February 1, 2022
Relatives of Robert Durst's first wife, who disappeared in 1982, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against his second wife. More
February 1, 2022
A former lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was arrested Tuesday after police say he emailed an 800-page document and posted videos threatening violence against the school had previously sent messages saying he would "hunt" and kill a professor, court documents show. More
February 1, 2022
CINCINNATI (Scripps News Cincinnati) — Two Columbus men were convicted on charges related to a murder-for-hire plot in Colerain Township in July 2017. James Echols, 26, was found guilty of 22 charges – including aggravated murder and murder – while Michael Sanon, 24, was found guilty on one charge of attempted murder. Autum Garrett, 22, […] More
February 1, 2022
New York man who killed a 4-year-old boy with a rock in 1993 when he was 13 years old has been released from prison after being granted parole last October, authorities said Tuesday. Eric M. Smith, 42, was released from the Woodbourne Correctional Facility on Tuesday after serving 28 years for the murder of Derrick Robie. More
February 1, 2022
Kayla Shaw was waiting at Waffle House for her order when a plate glass window shattered inward as shooting started. More
February 1, 2022
Jury questioning has been delayed for the trial of a former Kentucky police officer involved in a botched raid that killed Breonna Taylor. More
February 1, 2022
By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The chief medical examiner who deemed George Floyd’s death a homicide testified Tuesday that nobody pressured him to include anything in his autopsy report, as defense attorneys at the trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating Floyd’s […] More
February 1, 2022
