Murder & Mayhem

The discovery appears to end a 17-day search across three states for the missing toddler. Her mother, Megan Boswell, is in custody. More

March 9, 2020

HAINES CITY, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man was arrested Saturday, March 7, after he killed a married couple while they slept and enlisted his stepdaughter to help bury the bodies in a swamp, authorities said.  The Polk County Sheriff’s office started getting strange calls last week about a 19-year-old woman trying to sell a […] More

March 9, 2020

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A judge on Friday reduced bail to $1 million for the mother of two missing children after her lawyer contended at her first hearing in Idaho that the amount had been set too high because of media attention. Wearing faded orange-and-white striped jail garb and bright […] More

March 6, 2020

Prosecutors say Robert Durst decided to kill his best friend, Susan Berman, after she revealed she had spoken with detectives. More

March 6, 2020

By Court TV Staff The FBI is requesting more information about the woman dubbed the ‘cult mom.’ She is awaiting extradition to Idaho to face charges in the disappearance of her two young children. 46-year-old Lori Vallow was arrested on felony charges of child abandonment in the disappearance of her two kids, JJ, 7, and […] More

March 5, 2020

Robert Durst is on trial for killing his best friend, Susan Berman, but prosecutors say he also killed his first wife in 1982. More

March 5, 2020

Lori Vallow will be sent from Hawaii to Idaho to face charges in the disappearance of her two children, J.J. Vallow and Tylee Ryan. More

March 4, 2020

Robert Durst is charged with his friend, Susan Berman's, death, but his first wife and neighbor in Texas will also factor into the trial. More

March 4, 2020

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The adult niece of an Idaho woman whose two children have been missing for five months is cooperating in the FBI’s investigation into the disappearance, undergoing three interviews with agents and surrendering her computer, the niece’s lawyers have said. Melani Pawlowski was accused by her ex-husband of […] More

March 3, 2020

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The stepmother of a Colorado boy missing for over a month was arrested Monday in connection with his disappearance and presumed death, authorities said. Letecia Stauch was arrested in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and is expected to be extradited to Colorado on charges including first-degree murder of a child in […] More

March 3, 2020

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Columbia man accused of killing his Chinese wife pleaded not guilty Monday to abuse charges related to the couple’s child but a plea in his wife’s death was delayed. Joseph Elledge is charged with first-degree murder in the killing his wife, Mengqi Ji, who has not been seen since early October. A […] More

March 3, 2020

Jury selection is scheduled to begin for the trial of Richard Dabate, who is accused of killing his wife, Connie Dabate. More

March 2, 2020

A jury has been seated to hear the trial of millionaire Robert Durst, who is charged with murdering his best friend, Susan Berman. More

February 28, 2020

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge is expected to give a death sentence Friday to a man prosecutors call “The Boy Next Door Killer,” who was found guilty of the home-invasion murders of two women. A Los Angeles jury recommended the death penalty in October for 44-year-old Michael Thomas […] More

February 28, 2020

MAGNOLIA, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man was given four death sentences by a jury on Thursday, hours after he spoke in court and blamed the devil for his actions the night eight people were shot to death. Willie Cory Godbolt, 37, was convicted Tuesday of the May 2017 slayings of eight people. Four of […] More

February 28, 2020

Danny Welte was convicted of second-degree murder for shooting his estranged wife hours after they buried their son. More

February 27, 2020

Lori Vallow was ordered to be held on a $5 million bond as the search continues for her missing children, J.J. and Tylee. More

February 27, 2020

Court documents from Megan Boswell’s arraignment accuse her of initially telling state investigators that Evelyn was with the child's father. More

February 26, 2020

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and JAMES MARTINEZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — White supremacist mass murderer Dylann Roof staged a hunger strike this month while on federal death row, alleging in letters to The Associated Press that he’s been “targeted by staff,” “verbally harassed and abused without cause” and “treated disproportionately harsh.” The 25-year-old Roof, who […] More

February 25, 2020

  A Milwaukee man is facing life in prison in a road rage incident that left a corrections officer dead. Matthew Lee Wilks, 35, is accused of fatally shooting 46-year-old Tracey Smith on Aug. 30, 2019, in front of her teen son. Investigators say Tracey Smith was teaching her 17-year-old son to drive when they […] More

February 24, 2020

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Jurors told a judge they can’t reach a verdict in the double murder trial of a Tampa ice cream man. The jury of nine women and three men wrote a note to Hillsborough Circuit Judge Christopher C. Sabella on Friday morning, saying “The jury is hung. This is not going to […] More

February 21, 2020

Detectives learned Amie Harwick had recently expressed fear about an ex-boyfriend and had previously filed a restraining order against him. More

February 19, 2020

By MICHAEL REZENDES Associated Press EASTHAM, Mass. (AP) — The notorious crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger terrorized Boston from the 1970s into the 1990s with a campaign of murder, extortion, and drug trafficking, then spent 16 years on the lam after he was tipped to his pending arrest. In 2013, Janet Uhlar was one of […] More

February 18, 2020

The Los Angeles Fire Department took Dr. Amie Harwick to a nearby hospital, where she later died from her injuries, police said. More

February 18, 2020

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — A jury on Thursday convicted a man of second-degree murder in the death of a Nebraska college student whose body has never been found. Joshua Keadle was found guilty of killing 19-year-old Tyler Thomas, who disappeared in December 2010 after she left a party near Peru State College in southeastern Nebraska. […] More

February 14, 2020

Ezra McCandless was sentenced to life in prison with an opportunity for supervised release after 50 years for the murder of Alex Woodworth. More

February 10, 2020

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A woman who accompanied her older boyfriend during a string of killings recounted in the Bruce Springsteen song “Nebraska” is seeking an official pardon, saying she was 14 years old at the time and that he had threatened to kill her family if she didn’t obey. Caril Ann Fugate, who is […] More

January 30, 2020

By CHRIS EHRMANN and DAVE COLLINS Associated Press FARMINGTON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man charged with murdering his estranged wife was hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday after being found unresponsive in a vehicle inside his garage, authorities said. Fotis Dulos was found when officers went to his house in Farmington because he was late […] More

January 29, 2020

Donald Wayne Hartung is charged with murdering his mothers and two half-brothers, whose bodies were found days later, buried under clothes. More

January 29, 2020

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo. (AP) – A woman who was having an affair with a Colorado man convicted of beating his fiancee to death with a baseball bat and burning the body was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison. Krystal Lee, 33, acknowledged in February 2019 that she helped clean up the bloody crime scene […] More

January 28, 2020