Murder & Mayhem

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

ATLANTA (AP) — Investigators sought video from homes and businesses near a popular Atlanta park as divers searched a pond in their quest to solve the stabbing death of a parkgoer who was walking her dog. Katherine Janness, 40, was found dead in Piedmont Park around 1 a.m. Wednesday. Police say her dog was also […] More

July 29, 2021

We’re just weeks away from the trial of Travis and Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan – the three men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. More

July 29, 2021

Doctors said 5-month-old Benjamin Dowling had suffered a brain hemorrhage from severe shaking in 1984. More

July 28, 2021

The Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office says they have requested murder charges against Harold David Haulman III for the death of Ashley Parlier.  More

July 28, 2021

Steven Avery is serving a life sentence for the 2005 killing of photographer Teresa Halbach. More

July 28, 2021

Cristhian Bahena Rivera was to be sentenced to life in prison earlier this month for the murder of Mollie Tibbetts. More

July 28, 2021

Nathaniel Rowland was convicted of abducting and murdering Samantha Josephson, who mistook his car for an Uber ride in 2019. More

July 27, 2021

Cristhian Bahena Rivera was supposed to be sentenced on July 15 for the murder of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts. More

July 27, 2021

Judge Keith Carsons said, "I cannot ignore the brutality of your efforts to cover up that crime, or the pain it brought the family of Nicole Montalvo." More

July 27, 2021

Justo Smoker apologized to Linda Stoltzfoos’ family in court, saying he had “robbed the family of time and memories.” More

July 27, 2021

USC student Samantha Josephson was murdered after she mistakenly got into a vehicle she thought was her Uber ride. More

July 27, 2021

LORTON, Va. (AP) — The body of a 72-year-old Virginia woman who had been missing for weeks has been found, and a tenant of the woman’s has been charged with murder in her death, police announced Saturday. Fairfax County police officials said at a news conference that the suspect, Brian George Sayrs Jr., came forward […] More

July 26, 2021

“I am not sorry for something I didn’t do, and I’m not sorry for the things I did do,” he said, as he yelled towards family members in the courtroom. More

July 26, 2021

KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) — A woman convicted in the 1987 kidnapping and death of a northern Illinois businessman has been granted a re-sentencing hearing by the state’s appellate court. Nancy Rish, 59, petitioned in December 2017 for a resentencing hearing so that the court can consider evidence of domestic violence. Stephen Small of Kankakee suffocated […] More

July 23, 2021

LEVELLAND, Texas (AP) — A man charged in the fatal shooting of a SWAT officer in a small West Texas city during a standoff last week was charged Friday with assaulting a federal officer who responded to the scene, prosecutors said. Omar Soto-Chavira, 22, was charged with one count of forcibly assaulting a federal officer […] More

July 23, 2021

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court upheld on Friday most of the convictions against a Wichita woman for torturing and killing a man in a crime that the trial judge called “horrific beyond imagination.” Heidi Hillard and her husband, Jeff, were convicted of participating in the November 2016 killing of 33-year-old Scottie Goodpaster […] More

July 23, 2021

Joan Trevino is accused of drowning her 1-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son in her Nevada home. More

July 23, 2021

The woman told police that her boyfriend modified the yo-yo string to be used as a garotte because he believed the string could sever a human head. More

July 23, 2021

The bladed multi-tool resembling a double-handled knife was exhibited on the fourth day of trial for Nathaniel Rowland. More

July 23, 2021

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Attorneys in the upcoming murder trial of three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery clashed Thursday in court over limits on testimony that defendants acted in self-defense and were in a neighborhood that was on edge because of crime.    Kevin Gough, an attorney for one […] More

July 22, 2021

For our 100th episode host Vinnie Politan and Court TV’s Ted Rowlands cover the Mollie Tibbetts Murder Trial and Britney Spears' court battle to end her conservatorship. More

July 22, 2021