Delve into the chilling realm of crime, where murder, mystery and chaos reign, and the ultimate battle for justice that follows.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida jury recommended life in prison without parole for a man convicted of killing his girlfriend and special-needs daughter and trying to kill his son. The jurors deliberated in Tampa about three hours to decide whether to impose the life sentence or the death penalty on Ronnie Oneal III […] More
June 25, 2021
By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose dying gasps under Chauvin’s knee led to the biggest outcry against racial injustice in the U.S. in generations. The punishment handed […] More
June 25, 2021
Kenneth Love II was shot and killed while guarding a marijuana dispensary on June 2, 2020. More
June 24, 2021
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Information gathered by agents investigating the death of a mother and son from a prominent South Carolina legal family has led state police to review a nearby unsolved hit-and-run death from six years ago. What that information is and why it might be connected to the […] More
June 23, 2021
ST. ANTHONY, Idaho (Scripps News Boise) — A trial date was set Wednesday for Chad Daybell who is accused of killing three people, including Tylee Ryan and Joshua “JJ” Vallow. During a virtual conference meeting, Judge Steven Boyce agreed to schedule Daybell’s jury trial to begin on Nov. 8, the East Idaho News reports. […] More
June 23, 2021
There are new changes to the defense strategy for the woman accused of playing a role in Florida State Law professor Dan Markel's death nearly seven years ago. More
June 23, 2021
By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man linked to the 2018 death of a 10-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and sexual abuse of a minor, authorities said. Peter Vance Wilson entered his plea Monday in the death of Ashley Johnson Barr in the remote Inupiat town of […] More
June 22, 2021
The penalty phase of the trial of 32-year-old Ronnie Oneal III is set to begin Wednesday. More
June 22, 2021
TAMPA, Fla. (Scripps News Tampa) — On Monday afternoon, a Riverview man was found guilty of murdering his girlfriend and 9-year-old daughter in 2018. Ronnie Oneal III, 32, was found guilty of killing Kenyatta Barron and Ron’Niveya Oneal. He was also found guilty of trying to kill his son, who was eight years old at […] More
June 21, 2021
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — State police released a number of additional reports Monday on the shooting deaths of a mother and her son from a prominent South Carolina legal family, but they contained little new information and a number of passages blacked out. Paul Murdaugh, 22, and his mother, Maggie, […] More
June 21, 2021
Chester Vegas Sr. is accused of murdering his wife inside a Louisiana restaurant decades ago. More
June 21, 2021
Police believe missing Colorado woman Jepsy Kallungi was strangled and buried by her husband. More
June 21, 2021
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans man has been charged with killing an off-duty university police officer outside a high school basketball game where he’d shown up without a mask.John Shallerhorn, 35, was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder in the Feb. 26 death of Martinus Mitchum, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office […] More
June 18, 2021
WACO, Texas (AP) — A judge denied a request to suppress the confession of a woman accused of helping kill and dismember Spc. Vanessa Guillén, who was missing for about two months before her remains were found. U.S. District Judge Alan D. Albright rejected to toss Cecily Ann Aguilar’s confession after 2.5 hours of testimony […] More
June 18, 2021
A rare and intense situation played out in court as Ronnie Oneal III questioned his son. More
June 18, 2021
Jury selection for the trial of Mark Redwine, who is accused of murdering his 13-year-old son, began Monday. More
June 17, 2021
The group accused of beating a man to death behind a grocery store allegedly did so because they thought he beat his pregnant girlfriend. More
June 17, 2021
Alexander Jackson was found at the home suffering from a gunshot wound to the foot and taken to a local hospital for treatment. More
June 17, 2021
ISLANDTON, S.C. (AP) — State police have released a brief timeline of events as part of their investigation into the shooting deaths of a mother and son from one of South Carolina’s prominent legal families. On Tuesday, the State Law Enforcement Division released an update into their probe of the deaths of Paul Murdaugh and […] More
June 16, 2021
BIG SPRING, Texas (AP) — Authorities have arrested a man in the death of a 13-year-old West Texas girl who was reported missing more than a decade ago, a police spokesman said. Texas Rangers arrested Shawn Casey Adkins on Monday on a murder charge in the killing of Hailey Dunn, said Sgt. Fred Biddle, a […] More
June 16, 2021
LAS VEGAS (Scripps News Las Vegas) —The California woman accused of murdering her son and dumping his body at a trailhead near Las Vegas will have a virtual hearing on her advisement this coming Thursday, June 17th at 10:30 am ET. Samantha Moreno Rodriguez, 35, was taken into custody on June 8th in Denver, Colorado, […] More
June 15, 2021
Ronnie O'Neal is accused of murdering his girlfriend and their daughter. More
June 15, 2021
A jury found Joseph Daniels guilty of murdering his missing 5-year-old son. More
June 14, 2021
Authorities charged 33-year-old Christopher Collin Demmon this week with malice murder in the killing. More
June 14, 2021
YORK, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania judge declined to dismiss some charges and suppress part of a statement by a woman accused of keeping her maternal grandmother’s remains in a freezer for a decade and a half and continuing to receive the dead woman’s Social Security checks for a portion of that time. The York […] More
June 14, 2021
ISLANDTON, S.C. (AP) — A longtime prosecutor in South Carolina has died just days after his grandson and daughter-in-law were found dead on the family’s land in Colleton County in a shooting investigators have said little about. The announcement of Randolph Murdaugh III’s death came from his law firm Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick […] More
June 11, 2021
Robert Durst was hospitalized for an unspecified medical issue, delaying his murder trial in Los Angeles, California. More
June 10, 2021
Dallas police said late Wednesday that Darriynn Brown, 18, will face the new charge for the death of Cash Gernon. More
June 10, 2021
By Katie McLaughlin FREEMONT COUNTY, Idaho (Court TV) – An Idaho district judge has signed an order that will send Lori Vallow Daybell to a state mental health facility. In the meantime, her husband Chad Daybell has entered a plea of Not Guilty in court today. Just moments ago, he appeared before District Judge Steven […] More
June 9, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A more detailed trial schedule for three former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting in the death of George Floyd has been set for next March, according to an order made public Wednesday. Last month, a judge pushed the trial of Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao out to next March, in part […] More
June 9, 2021
