Delve into the chilling realm of crime, where murder, mystery and chaos reign, and the ultimate battle for justice that follows.
An Arkansas man was arrested and charged with capital murder Tuesday in the death of his 5-month-old son. Hot Springs police said Cody Webb, 35, was booked into Garland County jail and is being held without bond. More
December 21, 2021
An online petition has gathered millions of signatures calling for leniency for a 26-year-old truck driver who was sentenced to 110 years in prison for vehicular homicide in an explosive accident at the base of a Colorado mountain highway that killed four people in 2019. More
December 21, 2021
Twenty-five years after JonBenet Ramsey was killed, police say they are looking at "genetic DNA testing" to see if it can be used to help solve the case. The 6-year-old was found dead in the basement of her family's Boulder home on Dec. 26, 1996, bludgeoned and strangled, several hours after her mother called 911 to say her daughter was missing and a ransom note had been left behind. Her death was ruled a homicide, but nobody was ever charged in the case. More
December 21, 2021
Police in northern Illinois are investigating the apparent shooting deaths of a man and his two young sons as a triple homicide and are searching for the man's missing vehicle. Officers found the bodies of Andrew Hintt, 31, and his two sons, 5 and 7. More
December 21, 2021
A month after his acquittal on murder charges, Kyle Rittenhouse was given a standing ovation at a conservative group's conference in Phoenix where panelists discussed the 2020 deadly shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin. More
December 21, 2021
Jurors weighing the case of the suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Black motorist Daunte Wright asked the judge after a full day of deliberations Tuesday what they should do if they can't reach a verdict. More
December 21, 2021
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has not said whether he will posthumously pardon Floyd this year for a 2004 drug arrest in Houston. More
December 21, 2021
A Buffalo man has pleaded guilty to charges for fatally shooting a victim inside his apartment in June 2021.The Erie County District Attorney's Office announced 23-year-old Franklin Andrews pleaded guilty in Erie County Court to one count of manslaughter in the second degree and one count of criminal possession of a firearm. More
December 20, 2021
Kim Potter, a former police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, is charged with manslaughter in the April 11 shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black motorist. Here are some key moments in the case: More
December 20, 2021
The federal judge presiding over the upcoming hate crimes trial of three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery said Monday she plans to summon a jury pool of roughly 1,000 people scattered across an expansive area that covers 43 Georgia counties. More
December 20, 2021
The suburban Minneapolis police officer who says she meant to use her Taser instead of her gun when she shot and killed Black motorist Daunte Wright made a "blunder of epic proportions" and did not have "a license to kill," a prosecutor told jurors on Monday shortly before they began deliberating in her manslaughter trial. More
December 20, 2021
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Police in Virginia say the discovery of four bodies at two different locations in the state are the work of a serial killer who used a shopping cart to transport his victims’ bodies after meeting them on dating sites. At a press conference Friday, Fairfax County […] More
December 17, 2021
The 10 people killed at the Astroworld music festival in Houston all died from compression asphyxia during a massive crowd surge in which attendees were packed so tightly that many could not breathe or move their arms, officials announced Thursday. More
December 16, 2021
A man has been convicted of fatally stabbing his neighbor at a southeast Washington motel in a fight over barking dogs. Earnace Beasley Jr. denied stabbing William Bepler, 38, during the May 9, 2020, confrontation. But jurors in Beasley's Benton County Superior Court trial didn't believe him, returning a guilty verdict Wednesday for first-degree murder during a burglary. More
December 16, 2021
More than five years after a St. Louis man visiting New Orleans to plan his wedding was shot and left to die in an armed robbery, a suspect has been arrested and charged, authorities announced Thursday. More
December 16, 2021
A fourth victim of a fatal stabbing incident in Delaware has died, authorities said Thursday. New Castle County Police said detectives were notified that Donald Grier, 68, was pronounced dead shortly after midnight. Grier had been hospitalized in critical condition since the Dec. 3 stabbing at a townhome in Townsend. More
December 16, 2021
A teenager who told investigators that he mistook his brother for a deer when he shot him has been charged with a gun crime, authorities in western Michigan said Thursday. More
December 16, 2021
Prosecutors on Thursday rested their case against Kim Potter, the suburban Minneapolis police officer charged in the shooting death of Black motorist Daunte Wright,. More
December 16, 2021
Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal count alleging he willfully deprived George Floyd of his rights during the May 25, 2020, arrest that led to the Black man's death. He also pleaded guilty to an unrelated but similar count stemming from the use of force against a then-14-year-old boy, who is also Black, in 2017. More
December 15, 2021
Kim Potter's use of deadly force against Daunte Wright was not appropriate, a use-of-force expert testified Wednesday at the former suburban Minneapolis police officer's manslaughter trial, undercutting a defense argument that she would have been justified in shooting Wright even if she didn't mean to. More
December 15, 2021
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Broward County, Florida, school district will pay more than $26 million to the families of 17 people killed and some of those injured in the 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Board members approved the two legal settlements on Tuesday. A total of $25 million […] More
December 15, 2021
Prosecutors nearing the end of their case have drawn on testimony from Potter’s former colleagues to portray an officer whose intended use of a Taser would have violated department policy despite her extensive training. More
December 15, 2021
Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has pleaded guilty to federal charges of violating George Floyd’s civil rights. More
December 15, 2021
A grand jury in Texas has returned a capital murder indictment against a man authorities have said confessed to killing five people, including three whose dismembered bodies were found in a burning dumpster earlier this year. Jason Thornburg, 41, was indicted Monday on a charge of capital murder in the deaths of David Lueras, 42, Lauren Phillips, 34, and Maricruz Mathis, 33. More
December 14, 2021
Skeletal remains found nearly 40 years ago have been identified as those of a guitarist who once played with the R&B group The O'Jays and also co-wrote a few of their songs, investigators said. Authorities used DNA and genealogical research to identify the remains of Frank "Frankie" Little Jr., which were found in a garbage bag in a wooded area behind a business in Twinsburg in 1982. More
December 14, 2021
A woman who helped her father cover up his wife's 2018 murder with a tale of a knife-wielding panhandler has been sentenced to five years in prison. Valeria Smith was sentenced Monday, two years after pleading guilty to acting as an accessory after the slaying of Jacquelyn Smith. More
December 14, 2021
A man convicted of the random slaying of a stranger while he was under the influence of drugs in Pennsylvania last year has been sentenced to decades in prison. Stephen Jones, 28, of Brecknock Township was sentenced Tuesday to 35 to 80 years after pleading guilty in Lancaster County to third-degree murder, robbery and a weapons violation, LNP newspaper reported. More
December 14, 2021
The trial of a Minnesota police officer charged in the shooting death of Daunte Wright opened its second week of testimony on Monday with an assistant medical examiner. More
December 14, 2021
A judge in coastal Georgia has set a sentencing date early next year for the three men convicted of murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. More
December 14, 2021
The family of Frederick Rice wants answers as to how and why a murder trial that began last week was dismissed just days after it began due to a violation that rose to the level of a "Brady" violation. More
December 13, 2021
