Murder & Mayhem

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

ISLANDTON, S.C. (AP) — A mother and son from a prominent South Carolina legal family were found shot and killed on their family’s land, and authorities said they have made no arrests in the double homicide case. Deputies in Colleton County found the two dead from gunshots on property near Islandton around 10 p.m. Monday, […] More

June 9, 2021

The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in the case of Mohamed Noor. More

June 9, 2021

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man was charged Tuesday with murder in a road rage shooting that killed a 6-year-old boy on a local freeway last month. Prosecutors in Orange County, California charged Marcus Anthony Eriz, 24, with murder in the death of Aiden Leos. Eriz was […] More

June 8, 2021

DENVER (Scripps News Denver) – The man Longmont police named as a suspect nearly three years ago in the March 2018 disappearance of Rita Gutierrez-Garcia has been charged with her kidnapping and murder, according to court documents. Juan Jose Figueroa, 32, faces counts of first-degree murder after deliberation, felony murder and second-degree kidnapping in connection with the […] More

June 7, 2021

rosecutors have accused a suburban Milwaukee woman of killing her friend by poisoning her with eyedrops. More

June 7, 2021

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy accused in a teenage girl’s slaying is facing a charge of evidence tampering, authorities say. State Attorney R.J. Larizza said in a news release that Crystal Lane Smith, 35, was arrested Saturday morning in St. John’s County. She was later released on $25,000 […] More

June 7, 2021

Prosecutors have accused 20-year-old Chrystul Kizer of killing 34-year-old Randall Volar III in 2018. More

June 4, 2021