Murder & Mayhem

Robert Durst took the stand to reflect on happy moments in his life in New York with two women prosecutors allege he would later kill. More

August 11, 2021

James Anthony Gray's first trial ended with a mistrial and his conviction in the second trial was overturned because of how police got his confession. More

August 11, 2021

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for the suspect in a 2018 Florida high school massacre told a judge Tuesday that the news media and public should be barred from all pretrial hearings, saying Nikolas Cruz’s right to an impartial jury will be irrevocably harmed if certain evidence is revealed […] More

August 10, 2021

Lawyers for convicted murderer Scott Peterson are denying reports of their client's potential participation in another high-profile murder case in California. More

August 10, 2021

Robert Durst took the stand at his California murder trial Monday and immediately denied killing his best friend. More

August 9, 2021

Elizabeth Carserino had been hired by the victim's family to be a live-in caretaker, More

August 9, 2021

Seth Donald is accused of murdering his grandfather in 2019. He allegedly sent a video of the murder to family members. More

August 6, 2021

Prosecutors have announced they intend to seek the death penalty against Chad Daybell when he goes on trial for the murders of Tammy Daybell, Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow. More

August 6, 2021

KY Attorney General Daniel Cameron responded to criticism saying the decision was in the jury's hands, not his. More

August 5, 2021

An issue with a juror forced an early ending to court and delayed Robert Durst's highly-anticipated testimony. More

August 5, 2021

By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — An educator who taught the children of U.S. military personnel at an Army base in Germany is accused of sexually assaulting two young students, court records show. Stefan Eberhard Zappey has been a civilian employee of the U.S. Department of Defense, assigned to an elementary school […] More

August 5, 2021

“The voices said my friends and family were going to be killed," Joseph Jimenez reportedly said in a interview at a jail where he is being held. More

August 5, 2021

Joseph Elledge's defense attorneys argued the tapes were hearsay and should not be admitted during the trial. More

August 5, 2021

Real estate heir Robert Durst is expected to take the stand in his own defense at his Los Angeles murder trial. More

August 4, 2021

LAWRENCEVILLE, Va. (AP) — An inmate at a Virginia prison has been killed in his cell in an apparent attack by another inmate, correctional officials said. The 63-year-old inmate was pronounced dead on Tuesday night at the Lawrenceville Correctional Center, the Virginia Department of Corrections said in a news release. This incident is being investigated […] More

August 4, 2021

The grand jury indictment for Samantha Moreno Rodriguez, who is accused of killing her son in Las Vegas and dumping his body, has been released. More

August 4, 2021

CORONA, Calif. (AP) — A man charged with fatally shooting two young people inside a Southern California movie theater last week was accompanied by three friends who told investigators they were alarmed because they believed he had brought a gun into the cinema, a newspaper reported. Police records obtained by the Orange County Register and […] More

August 3, 2021

The judge presiding over Robert Durst's murder trial in Los Angeles denied the request for a mistrial because of his health issues. More

August 3, 2021

By Grace Wong, Court TV MORTON COUNTY, N.D. — A second day of jury selection is underway for a North Dakota chiropractor charged in a quadruple homicide that shocked the tight-knit community of Mandan, west of Bismarck. The judge has qualified 20 jurors to advance to the final round of jury selection, when a panel […] More

August 3, 2021

Juanita Koilpillai's 23-year-old son has been charged with her murder. More

August 3, 2021

Police said 14-year-old Steven Butler III was a victim of blunt-force injuries.  More

August 3, 2021

Investigators believe Tara Strozier was tortured, killed and her body weighted down then left in the pond. More

August 3, 2021

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge on Monday rejected a convicted man’s request for a new trial in the 2018 killing of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, whose body was found in a cornfield weeks after she disappeared while out for a run near her small hometown. Judge […] More

August 2, 2021

GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri grand jury indicted a man and woman on a first-degree murder charge alleging they strangled a woman and dismembered her body, the Jackson County prosecutor announced Monday. Kansas City-area residents Michael Hendricks, 40, and Maggie Ybarra, 30, are charged with killing 32-year-old Kensie Renee Aubry. The grand jury […] More

August 2, 2021

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press CANTON, Ga. (AP) — A man accused of killing eight people, mostly women of Asian descent, at Atlanta-area massage businesses pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday in four of the killings and was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. Robert Aaron Long, 22, still faces the death […] More

July 30, 2021

By Katie McLaughlin, Court TV ST. ANTHONY, Idaho — Prosecutors in Idaho have dropped the destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence charges against Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell.  The husband and wife were indicted in May on charges including first-degree murder for the deaths of Chad’s first wife, Tammy Daybell, and Lori’s children, […] More

July 30, 2021

Baltimore police arrested the deceased children's aunt, 33-year-old Nicole Johnson. More

July 30, 2021

In the months after her husband’s death, Lori Vallow Daybell aroused suspicions among relatives who told investigators that she believed a demon had overcome her estranged spouse. More

July 30, 2021

Robert Durst's attorneys asked for an emergency hearing, citing the defendant's health problems as cause for a mistrial. More

July 30, 2021

Chester Lilly has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of his neighbor, Travis Peters. More

July 30, 2021