Murder & Mayhem

Jury selection begins Monday on charges Nikolas Cruz attacked a Broward County jail guard nine months after the Feb. 14, 2018, shootings. More

October 4, 2021

Jury recommends Stanley Ford be sentenced to life in prison instead of the death penalty. More

October 1, 2021

Jeffrey Burnham -- a man wanted in the killings of three people in Maryland -- has been arrested in West Virginia. More

October 1, 2021

Ahmaud Arbery's mental health records can't be used as trial evidence by the white men who chased and killed the 25-year-old Black man as he was running in their neighborhood a judge ruled. More

October 1, 2021

The NV Supreme Court ruled that Wilber Ernesto Martinez Guzman should be tried separately in two counties where murders took place. More

October 1, 2021

An arrest warrant has been issued for a suspect accused of killing another Albuquerque man after the victim's service dog was shot and wounded for reportedly barking at the gunman. More

September 30, 2021

Girlfriend of Jason Thornburg - man who police say confessed to killing her his roommate and 3 people whose bodies were found dismembered in burning dumpster in Texas was reported missing. More

September 30, 2021

A trial date has been set for the East Tennessee mother charged with murder in the death of her 15-month-old daughter. More

September 30, 2021

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Murder charges were dismissed Thursday against a man who spent 15 years in prison for the fire-related deaths of five children in suburban Detroit, the climax of an investigation that found misconduct by police and prosecutors. Juwan Deering will not face a second trial, Oakland County […] More

September 30, 2021

David & Mia Swan were shot multiple times, but investigators say there’s no evidence anyone broke in or stole anything from their home. More

September 30, 2021

A serving London police officer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a woman he tricked into his car using his police identification and COVID-19 laws. More

September 30, 2021

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The brother of a U.S. Air Force airman on trial in the death of a Mennonite woman testified Wednesday that the defendant asked him to remotely scrub information from his cellphone shortly before he was arrested and later charged with kidnapping and murder. Samuel Gooch’s testimony […] More

September 29, 2021

EATONTON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia prisoner found guilty of murder in the 2017 killings of two guards on a transport bus was sentenced Wednesday to serve life in prison without parole. After taking only a few hours last week to convict Donnie Rowe of malice murder and other crimes, jurors could not agree on […] More

September 29, 2021

Prosecutors have charged a man and his father in connection with three slayings in Southern California between 2014 and 2018. More

September 29, 2021

Stewart Weldon changed his not guilty plea to guilty on 39 charges during a hearing at Hampden County Superior Court in Springfield. More

September 29, 2021

Doctors determining whether Ahmad Alissa -- man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket -- is mentally competent to stand trial getting more time to finish their evaluation. More

September 28, 2021

Federal court turns down Dylan Roof request for new hearing to challenge his death sentence and conviction in 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation. More

September 28, 2021

Cara Lee Rintala's wife, Annamarie Cochrane Rintala was found strangled in the basement of the couple's Granby home in 2010. More

September 28, 2021

For the past century, the Murdaughs have steered much of the legal world in this remote corner of South Carolina. More

September 28, 2021

A man already sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to fatally shooting four people at a massage business outside Atlanta is set to enter a plea to shooting four others on the same day at two spas inside the city. More

September 28, 2021

CORONA, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting two young people inside a Southern California movie theater last July has pleaded not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity, to two counts of murder. Joseph Jimenez, 20, did not speak during Monday’s hearing at the Riverside Hall of Justice, letting his attorney […] More

September 27, 2021

SHREVEPORT,La. (AP) — A woman accused of throwing two of her children into a Louisiana lake has been extradited from Texas to Louisiana, where she faces a murder charge that could send her to jail for life. Ureka Black, 32, of Shreveport, is accused of throwing her 5-year-old and 8-month-old sons into Cross Lake on […] More

September 27, 2021

COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Law enforcement officials on Monday said the gunman who killed one person and wounded 14 others at a Tennessee supermarket before killing himself had been asked to leave his job at the grocery store earlier that day. In a news release, Collierville police say UK Thang had moved to the upscale […] More

September 27, 2021

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Investigators have several “promising leads” in the shooting death of Utah sophomore cornerback Aaron Lowe, the Salt Lake City police chief said Monday as family and friends mourned the football player killed less than a year after teammate Ty Jordan died in an accidental shooting. Lowe was shot at a […] More

September 27, 2021

John Hinckley was 25 when he shot and wounded the 40th U.S. president outside a Washington hotel on March 30, 1981. More

September 27, 2021

The court said that five men abducted an unidentified man after a dispute at a bar with the main defendant, in the village of Lasko. More

September 27, 2021

The recent revelations surrounding Murdaugh involved two lawsuits that said he tried to manipulate the legal system. More

September 27, 2021

Ken Middleton was sentenced to life plus 200 years in the shooting death of his wife, Kathy Middleton, at their Blue Springs home on Feb. 20, 1990. More

September 27, 2021

Police said they identified Coley McCraney as a suspect after using genetic genealogy techniques on crime scene DNA. More

September 27, 2021

Janet Hinds was convicted of driving under the influence when she hit and killed a police officer in a 2019 crash. More

September 25, 2021