Murder & Mayhem

Authorities have released the arrest report for the man accused of brutally killing his girlfriend in a Las Vegas hotel room. More

July 20, 2021

Dennis Perry was convicted in 2003 largely on the testimony of his ex-girlfriend’s mother. More

July 20, 2021

Erica Stefanko was sentenced for helping her then-husband, Chad Cobb, murder his ex-girlfriend, Ashley Biggs. More

July 20, 2021

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man who was serving a life sentence for killing three people when he was 17 now has the opportunity to seek parole. District Judge Amy Eddy resentenced Steven Wayne Keefe, 53, on Friday in Great Falls, the Great Falls Tribune reported. Keefe petitioned for resentencing in 2017 based […] More

July 19, 2021

The FBI has released hundreds of pages of records from notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger's file. More

July 19, 2021

By ANDREW DALTON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — For crimes he called “vicious and frightening,” a judge on Friday gave a death sentence to a man prosecutors called “The Boy Next Door Killer” for the home-invasion murders of two women and the attempted murder of a third.    Victims’ family members wept as […] More

July 16, 2021

By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Two childhood friends named by defense lawyers as alternate suspects in the killing of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts said Friday they had nothing to do with the crime. Lawyers for Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the man convicted of killing Tibbetts, named Gavin Jones […] More

July 16, 2021

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — More than two dozen women described disturbing and dangerous encounters — including sexual assaults while they were semi-conscious and felt drugged — with the man charged with killing missing California college student Kristin Smart. Incidents with Paul Flores ranged from creepy stalking to unwanted touching to aggressive sexual behavior […] More

July 16, 2021

By PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A Colorado father was convicted Friday of second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death in the 2012 disappearance of his 13-year-old son.    Mark Redwine, 59, was indicted in 2017 in connection with the disappearance of Dylan Redwine, who was reported missing on […] More

July 16, 2021

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A Utah man who was sentenced to 30 years in prison last month in the beating death of his wife on an Alaska cruise has died, the Alaska Department of Corrections said. Kenneth Manzanares was in the department’s custody, at a facility in Juneau, when he […] More

July 16, 2021

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Two men apparently killed themselves, police said, in a suite at the Miami Beach hotel that Gianni Versace turned into his mansion, nearly 24 years to the day after the fashion designer died on the building’s front steps. Their bodies were found by housekeeping on […] More

July 16, 2021

By Katie McLaughlin, Court TV A 10-year-old Houston girl whose family was brutally murdered before her eyes on June 30 was able to stay alive by playing dead in front of her would-be assailant. She even managed to FaceTime her grandmother for help during the ordeal. The girl had been shot in the arm when […] More

July 16, 2021

By Katie McLaughlin, Court TV A former New York City police officer who allegedly forced his young son to sleep in an unheated garage in the bitter cold is fighting to keep home camera footage out of trial. Michael Valva and his fiancée, Angela Pollina, are charged with second-degree murder in the January 2020 death […] More

July 16, 2021

Prosecutors rejected claims that the Mollie Tibbett's 2018 murder could be connected to sex trafficking and other abductions. More

July 15, 2021

WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — State police told a judge that they don’t want to release more information about the slayings of two members of a prominent South Carolina legal family and, after more than a month of investigation, said they still don’t know what evidence might be important to solve the case. The State Law […] More

July 15, 2021

A jury convicted Bo Pete Jeffrey of beating his ex-wife to death on her birthday and hiding her body in their RV. More

July 15, 2021

While Bo Pete Jeffrey admitted to hiding his ex-wife's body in their trailer, he denied being the one to kill her. More

July 15, 2021

OMAHA, Neb. Scripps News Omaha) — James Fairbanks, who pleaded no contest to second-degree murder in the killing of convicted sex offender Mattieo Condoluci last year, was sentenced in a Douglas County on Wednesday morning. 3 News Now reporter, Jon Kipper was in the courtroom where a judge sentenced him to a total of 40–70 […] More

July 14, 2021

By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A judge on Wednesday delayed sentencing for the man convicted of killing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts after defense lawyers said they needed time to investigate new information pointing to other potential suspects.    Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 27, was scheduled to be […] More

July 14, 2021

The jury heard an interview where Bo Pete Jeffrey admitted to hiding his ex-wife's dead body in their camper. More

July 14, 2021

Two witnesses came forward after Bahena Rivera's testimony to say they heard another man brag about killing Mollie Tibbetts. More

July 13, 2021

By DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press WOODLAWN, Md. (AP) — Two Baltimore city police detectives were shot and a homicide suspect was killed as a U.S. Marshals’ task force served a warrant outside a mall Tuesday morning, authorities said. Members of the warrant apprehension task force were looking for a vehicle and suspect wanted in a […] More

July 13, 2021

The Wisconsin couple was reported missing by their son, Chandler Halderson, who has since been arrested for their murder. More

July 13, 2021

A neighbor reportedly found the elderly couple dead in their beds from a single gunshot wound to the head. More

July 13, 2021

Yasemin Uyar's body was found Saturday in a wooded area off an interstate, New Jersey authorities said. More

July 12, 2021

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — A drug dealer pleaded guilty Friday to murder in the death of an Illinois state trooper who was shot in the head while preparing to remove steel bars from the man’s front door. Christopher Grant pleaded guilty to a series of crimes related to the shooting of Nicholas Hopkins […] More

July 9, 2021

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A Kansas man convicted of sexual assault in the rape of a woman in suburban Denver and of assaulting and carjacking another woman has been sentenced to life in Colorado state prison. The Aurora Sentinel reports that 26-year-old Tre Carrasco was sentenced Friday by Arapahoe County District Judge Ben Leutwyler to […] More

July 9, 2021

Two of the three men found fatally shot at a suburban Atlanta golf course had their hands, legs and mouths bound with tape when police discovered their bodies in the bed of a pickup truck last weekend. More

July 9, 2021

Authorities say Kaliyha Everett intended to rob Tysaiah Donaldson when he contacted him to purchase marijuana in 2015. More

July 9, 2021

BOISE, Idaho (Scripps News Boise) Prosecutors in Maricopa County will not prosecute Chad Daybell in connection with the death of Charles Vallow.    In a letter from Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel to the Chandler Police Department obtained by East Idaho News, prosecutors listed “no reasonable likelihood of conviction” in charges of conspiracy to […] More

July 8, 2021