Murder & Mayhem

The former Louisville officer facing trial, Brett Hankison, was not charged in Taylor’s shooting death and faces lower-level charges. More

January 28, 2022

Thursday marks two years since 11-year-old Gannon Stauch was reported missing by his stepmother, Letecia Stauch. Now, she is accused of his murder, along with a number of other charges. More

January 27, 2022

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the brutal slayings of two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001. Donald Grant, 46, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was declared dead at 10:16 a.m. More

January 27, 2022

By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Three officers on trial for allegedly violating George Floyd’s civil rights were trained to use the least amount force necessary and had a duty to intervene against inappropriate force, the commander of the Minneapolis police training division at the time […] More

January 27, 2022

ATLANTA (Court TV) — Felony terroristic threat charges have been dismissed against disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly’s ex-manager in Georgia. James Mason, 56, allegedly called Kelly’s ex-girlfriend Jocelyn Savage’s father in 2018 and threatened him. More

January 27, 2022

Police have arrested two people in connection to the 2017 murder of a Maryland mother of two. More

January 27, 2022

Kueng, Lane and Thao are accused of depriving Floyd of his civil rights while acting under government authority in the killing that triggered worldwide protests and a reexamination of racism and policing. More

January 27, 2022

A Louisiana woman accused of throwing two of her children into a lake has been indicted on charges of murder and attempted murder. More

January 26, 2022

The issue of whether George Floyd was suffering from the disputed condition of "excited delirium" the day he was killed resurfaced Wednesday at the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with depriving him of his civil rights. More

January 26, 2022

The reduction of a 110-year prison sentence to 10 years by Colorado's governor for a trucker convicted of killing four people in a fiery interstate crash is hurting prosecutors' efforts to negotiate sentences in other cases, according to two district attorneys. More

January 26, 2022

Atlanta police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old man in the shooting death of a 6-month-old baby a day earlier. Grayson Fleming-Gray was shot just after 2:30 p.m. Monday while riding in a vehicle, police said. Mayor Andre Dickens announced the arrest during a news conference Tuesday afternoon, praising police for their quick work in making an arrest. More

January 25, 2022

Closing arguments are scheduled Wednesday in the double murder trial of a man charged in the shooting deaths of his wife and mother-in law in a home near Philadelphia in which two small children were also present. More

January 25, 2022

A Houston man accused of stabbing a police dog and wanted for questioning in the death of his father, whose body was found hidden in his home's garage, was arrested Tuesday after evading capture for several hours, according to authorities. More

January 25, 2022

By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Prosecutors at the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights played videos Tuesday that showed the Black man gasping for air as bystanders warned that fellow Officer Derek Chauvin was killing him. […] More

January 25, 2022

A Missouri man who was convicted last year of killing his wife and burying her body will face another trial this year on charges that he abused the couple's young daughter. Joseph Elledge has pleaded not guilty to three felonies involving his daughter, who was 1-year-old when her mother was killed. More

January 25, 2022

The TikTok star accused of murdering his wife and another man was back in court Monday. More

January 25, 2022

Police said Travis Reinking, 32, was naked save for a green jacket when he opened fire inside the restaurant. More

January 25, 2022

Former officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao are broadly charged with depriving Floyd of his civil rights while acting under government authority. More

January 25, 2022

Lauren Smith-Fields, 23, was found dead after a man she had met recently online called police on Dec. 12 to say he awoke to find Smith-Fields unresponsive. More

January 25, 2022

ST. PAUL, Minn. (Court TV) — Three former Minneapolis police officers have been found guilty on federal charges in relation to the May 2020 death of George Floyd. J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas K. Lane and Tou Thao, who were with Derek Chauvin when he killed George Floyd, were convicted of violating Floyd’s civil rights. DAY 21 […] More

January 25, 2022

A woman accused of fatally shooting her husband in front of their two children inside the family's truck nearly two years ago is set to go to trial in March. The second-degree murder trial of Kathleen Jourdan, 33, is set to begin March 3 and is expected to be held over five days. More

January 24, 2022

The gunman who killed 17 at a Florida high school four years ago had no expectation of privacy when he posted disturbing photographs to a public Instagram account before his rampage and prosecutors can use them in his upcoming penalty trial, a judge ruled at a hearing Monday. More

January 24, 2022

Lynlee Renick was sentenced after a jury convicted her of killing her snake-breeder husband with the help of her ex-boyfriend. More

January 24, 2022

J. Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao are broadly charged with depriving Floyd of his civil rights while acting under government authority. More

January 24, 2022

The boyfriend of slain cross-country traveler Gabby Petito admitted killing her in a notebook discovered near his body in a Florida swamp, the FBI announced Friday.It was the first time authorities squarely pinned the blame for Petito's death on Brian Laundrie, though he was the prime suspect all along. More

January 21, 2022

A federal judge closed his courtroom to the public Friday to hear attorneys debate whether "racially insensitive" text messages should be allowed as evidence in the hate crimes trial of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery. More

January 21, 2022

A closed hearing in the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers in George Floyd's killing was canceled Friday after prosecutors and the media objected, the second time in just days that access to the proceedings became an issue. More

January 21, 2022

The 23 new charges issued by the state grand jury covered new victims, but similar schemes, prosecutors said. More

January 21, 2022

Steve Shand was charged Thursday with human smuggling after seven Indian nationals were found in the U.S. and the discovery of the bodies. More

January 21, 2022

Under long-standing federal court rules, the proceedings are not being livestreamed or broadcast to the public. More

January 21, 2022