Killer Parents

Alex Murdaugh wanted Curtis Smith to kill him so his surviving son would get his $10 million life insurance policy, state agents said. More

September 15, 2021

According to federal authorities, the charges against Matthew Coleman make him eligible for the death penalty. More

September 10, 2021

District Judge Steven Boyce made the decision Wednesday to extend Lori Vallow Daybell’s time in a state mental hospital by at least 180 days. More

September 9, 2021

The South Carolina Supreme Court indefinitely suspended the law license of prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh on Wednesday. More

September 8, 2021

A New York woman is accused of causing the death of her newborn baby after giving birth inside her home in October 2020. More

September 8, 2021

Alex Murdaugh found the bodies of his wife and son after family members said he had been away checking on his mother and ailing father. More

September 7, 2021

Prosecutors in southeastern Wisconsin have charged a former professional clown with killing his newborn daughter 30 years ago. More

August 30, 2021

Officers were called to the location by a neighbor who reported a foul odor. More

August 26, 2021

Police accused James Hamilton and Brittany Gosney of dozens of crimes in connection with the Feb. 27 death of Gosney's son, James Hutchinson. More

August 25, 2021

According to court documents, officers observed bruising on Zeus' chest, stomach, and other areas of his body the morning he was found dead. More

August 19, 2021

The court documents reveal Matthew Taylor Coleman admitted to authorities that he killed his two children. More

August 12, 2021

Police in Indiana found Skylea Carmack’s body in a shed in September 2019. More

August 10, 2021

Court TV’s Chanley Painter joins host Vinnie Politan to discuss new recordings of the 'Doomsday Cult Mom' Lori Vallow Daybell. More

August 5, 2021

The grand jury indictment for Samantha Moreno Rodriguez, who is accused of killing her son in Las Vegas and dumping his body, has been released. More

August 4, 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

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

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 trial of a woman charged in relation to the death of her missing 5-year-old son has been set for February 2022. More

July 20, 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 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

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

BALTIMORE (Scripps News Baltimore) — A suspended Baltimore City Police officer has been charged with the murder of his 15-year-old step-son. Eric Glenn Banks Jr., 34, was initially arrested July 6 at his home on Stoney Point Way in Curtis Bay, after police discovered the body of Dasan James “DJ” Jones stuffed inside an attic […] More

July 15, 2021

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A Tulsa man pleaded guilty Tuesday to allowing his young daughter and son to die of heat exposure in his pickup truck while he slept after using cocaine. Dustin Dennis, 32, pleaded guilty to child neglect in federal court in Tulsa for the June 2020 deaths of Tegan Dennis, 4, and […] More

July 13, 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

By Katie McLaughlin CHANDLER, Ariz. (Court TV) — Lori Vallow Daybell is facing charges that she conspired with her brother to murder her fourth husband, Charles Vallow. That is in addition to the charges the so-called Doomsday Cult Mom already faces, which include the murders of her children — Tylee and JJ — as well […] More

July 2, 2021

A child's body was found inside a freezer at a Virginia home and police have arrested that child's parents. More

July 1, 2021

Liam Husted's body was found by hikers near the Mountain Springs trailhead off State Route 160 between Las Vegas and Pahrump on May 28. More

June 30, 2021

BOISE, Idaho (Scripps News Boise) – Lori Vallow has been indicted on first degree murder charges in the death of her ex-husband. A Maricopa County Grand Jury in Arizona charged Vallow with one count of Conspiracy to Commit First Degree Murder in the death of Charles Vallow.    The indictment states, “Lori N. Vallow, […] More

June 29, 2021

A man charged in the death of his 13-year-old son in Colorado nearly a decade ago seemed uninterested in the search for the boy after he disappeared, a witness testified Monday. More

June 29, 2021

The older brother of a 13-year-old boy who disappeared in Colorado in 2012 confronted his father about photos of him eating feces from a diaper months before his younger sibling went missing, the boy's brother testified Thursday. More

June 25, 2021