Murder & Mayhem

A drug dealer who was the target of a botched raid that killed Breonna Taylor has been offered probation in a plea agreement. More

October 19, 2021

Texas nurse William George Davis was convicted of capital murder in the deaths of four patients who died after prosecutors say he injected them with air following heart surgeries. More

October 19, 2021

Prosecutors charged Montana man Bradley Don Nagel with killing his girlfriend by running over her in his pickup truck during an alcohol-fueled argument in a grocery store parking lot. More

October 19, 2021

New York prosecutors have gone to a grand jury seeking to indict millionaire Robert Durst for the death of his former wife Kathie. More

October 19, 2021

Attorneys resumed questioning potential jurors in trial of three white men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery -- several pool members say they know defendants or people close to the case. More

October 19, 2021

A Utah laboratory will examine DNA evidence from a string of killings committed in Atlanta during the 1970s and 1980s. More

October 19, 2021

A judge in South Carolina denied bond Tuesday for attorney Alex Murdaugh on the second set of charges he has faced since finding his wife and son dead last June. More

October 19, 2021

Families of the 17 people killed in the 2018 Florida high school massacre most of the wounded and others traumatized have reach $25 million settlement with Broward County school district. More

October 18, 2021

Milwaukee police searched Monday for a 3-year-old boy after his mother was killed and the man suspected in her slaying was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. More

October 18, 2021

Jury selection got underway to find jurors in the trial of three white men charged with fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery as he was running in their Georgia neighborhood. More

October 18, 2021

Julian Lamont Gordon Jr. and James Deanthony Reed arrested police looking for others in drive-by shooting that killed a 13-year-old Alabama boy who was playing with his iPad in his bedroom. More

October 18, 2021

A granddaughter and her boyfriend have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of an 88-year-old Virginia woman. More

October 18, 2021

The Polk County Sheriff's Office is searching for a man accused of killing his 74-year-old aunt in Florida. More

October 18, 2021

A convicted murderer has been charged with the slaying of a woman whose body was found in a canal after being missing for three weeks. More

October 18, 2021

Jury selection could last two weeks or more. Once a jury is seated, the trial itself could reportedly take more than two weeks. More

October 18, 2021

Robert Durst was hospitalized after contracting COVID-19, days after he was sentenced in a two-decade-old murder case. More

October 17, 2021

Nikolas Cruz plans to plead guilty to killing 14 students and three staff members at a high school in Parkland, Florida. More

October 15, 2021

Attorney for South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh who discovered wife and son dead said Murdaugh is resigned that he will serve time in prison for stealing millions of dollars. More

October 15, 2021

Framed photo on wall of Travis Riddle's restaurant shows sheriff arresting gray-bearded white man with hands cuffed -- a reminder that justice still waits to be served in slaying of Arbery. More

October 15, 2021

Robert Durst was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without a chance of parole for the murder of his best friend more than two decades ago. More

October 15, 2021

The New York City police officer accused of fatally shooting one woman and wounding another while off duty has been identified as Yvonne Wu. More

October 15, 2021

Former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter said she meant to use a Taser when she shot and killed Daunte Wright. More

October 14, 2021

Robert Durst was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole for the murder of his best friend more than 20 years ago. More

October 14, 2021

Judge refused to allow Jackie Ray Childers Jr. -- a man charged with murder after his aunt died of a heart attack after a Christmas home invasion -- to get out of jail while awaiting trial. More

October 14, 2021

A prominent South Carolina lawyer has been charged with stealing insurance settlements meant for the sons of his late housekeeper, state police said Thursday. More

October 14, 2021

The real estate heir faces a mandatory term of life in prison without parole for the first-degree murder of his best friend, Susan Berman. More

October 14, 2021

Kenyan Olympic runner and two-time world championship bronze medalist Agnes Tirop was found dead at her home Wednesday with stab wounds. More

October 14, 2021

Mark Gooch showed no emotion when the verdict was announced. He stood in a military stance, with one hand resting over the other behind his back. More

October 14, 2021

By PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate on trial in the 1984 killing of a 12-year-old Colorado girl wasn’t even remotely considered a suspect to law enforcement until his obsession with the crime and incessant visits to talk with police about it provided clues that turned […] More

October 13, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared ready to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. More

October 13, 2021