Murder & Mayhem

Attorneys for D'Monterrio Gibson are calling for a federal hate crimes probe of the attempted shooting of the driver in Mississippi. More

February 11, 2022

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (Scripps News Colorado Springs) — An affidavit reveals new details about the events that led up to the disappearance of Kara Nichols. According to the affidavit, Paul Nichols reported his daughter missing to Deputy Ayyad with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office on Oct. 14, 2012. He went on to state that […] More

February 10, 2022

Authorities searching the apartment where Amir Locke was killed said a no-knock warrant was necessary to protect the public. More

February 10, 2022

Three former Minneapolis police officers on trial for violating George Floyd's civil rights should have intervened to stop fellow Officer Derek Chauvin when he had his knee on the Black man's neck, the head of the Minneapolis Police Department's homicide unit testified Thursday. More

February 10, 2022

Court TV’s Ted Rowlands joins host Vinnie Politan to preview FL v. Curtis Reeves, the case of the Movie Popcorn Murder Trial. More

February 10, 2022

Gregory and Brandon case were arrested last week, days after D'Monterrio Gibson accused them of chasing him and shooting at him. More

February 10, 2022

A toxicologist testified Wednesday at the federal trial of three former officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights that it wasn't drug use, heart disease nor an agitated state known as "excited delirium" that caused Floyd's death after officers pinned him to the pavement in May 2020. More

February 9, 2022

Jury selection is moving swiftly in the trial of a former Kentucky police officer involved in the botched drug raid that left Breonna Taylor dead. More

February 9, 2022

Police believe they found the remains of 19-year-old aspiring model, Kara Nichols, nearly 10 years after she went missing. More

February 9, 2022

On Wednesday, Baltimore Police confirmed that they arrested 31-year-old Demetrick Lewis for the murder of his cousin, 33-year-old Shanlette Lewis. Prior to Demetrick Lewis' arrest, Shanlette Lewis' death had been ruled a homicide when she died following an assault. More

February 9, 2022

The judge overseeing the federal trial of three former officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights dismissed a juror Wednesday because his son is ill. More

February 9, 2022

A country music singer who was a finalist on TV's “American Idol” has been charged with driving under the influence resulting in death,. More

February 9, 2022

A Missouri man who has insisted for more than 20 years that he was wrongly convicted as a teenager of killing his mother has been granted parole. More

February 9, 2022

Authorities arrested Amir Locke's 17-year-old cousin in connection with the homicide investigation that led police to the Minneapolis apartment where a SWAT team officer fatally shot Locke while conducting a search warrant, police said Tuesday. More

February 8, 2022

Several potential jurors in the hate crimes trial of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery said in court Tuesday that they believe problems with racism in America are exaggerated and questioned whether there should be special charges or punishments for crimes motivated by race. More

February 8, 2022

U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins said Monday that, if instructed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, she would attempt to reinstate the death penalty against convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. More

February 7, 2022

A caravan of vehicles drove through Minneapolis demanding justice in the death of Amir Locke, the 22-year old Black man who was fatally shot by Minneapolis police as officers served a no-knock search warrant. More

February 7, 2022

A judge on Monday delayed for three months a hearing on former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson's request to toss out his murder conviction in the killing of his third wife after his attorney said he needed more time. More

February 7, 2022

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