Latest Crime & Trial News

R. Kelly has been returned to the federal jail in downtown Chicago ahead of his trial on child pornography and obstruction-of-justice charges. More

July 13, 2022

Seven years after a man was shot and killed in the driveway of his Tennessee home, his killer remains on the run, and his family is still waiting for justice. More

July 13, 2022

By Judge Ashley Willcott TOLEDO, Ohio (Court TV) – When defendant Shawnte Hardin was indicted on 44 counts (37 on October 14, 2021 and seven on December 12, 2021) and pleaded not guilty, a jury trial date was set. Hardin is accused of running a phony funeral home, including abuse of a corpse, providing funeral […] More

July 13, 2022

A man executed more than two decades ago has been identified through DNA testing as the person who killed a Texas girl in 1979, authorities have announced. More

July 13, 2022

"He had my mom's phone and he said, 'Put the camera on, I got something for you,'" said Gabriela Lagos, the wife of suspect Guillermo Silva. More

July 13, 2022

A Virginia judge on Wednesday rejected an effort by actress Amber Heard to set aside the $10 million judgment awarded against her in favor of her ex-husband, Johnny Depp. More

July 13, 2022

A lawyer for disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh said investigators have indicated they intend to pursue murder charges against him for the deaths of his wife and son. More

July 12, 2022

Twitter sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday, trying to force him to complete his $44 billion takeover of the social media company More

July 12, 2022

Three people were charged in an alleged conspiracy involving the handwritten lyrics to “Hotel California” and other Eagles hits. More

July 12, 2022

Indiana man Edward Bagwell is accused of dismembering his girlfriend with a chainsaw and putting her remains in trash bags after she died while they were smoking meth. More

July 12, 2022

Casey White was indicted on a murder charge for the shooting death of Vicky White. The pair's disappearance from an Alabama jail sparked a national manhunt that came to a bloody end in Indiana where Casey White was captured and Vicky White died. More

July 12, 2022

Georgia man Eric Tuininga sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a girl while a missionary in Uganda. More

July 12, 2022

 The Jan. 6 committee revealed Tuesday that Donald Trump has attempted to contact a witness who was in discussions with the panel about its investigation of the former president and the 2021 attack on the Capitol. More

July 12, 2022

Police across Southern California are seeking a lone gunman wanted in connection with at least three robberies at 7-Eleven stores where two people were killed and three wounded. More

July 12, 2022

Former Indiana police officer Aaron J. Strong has been charged with civil rights violations, alleging he used excessive force during three arrests, including by kicking a man in the head and shooting another with beanbags at close range. More

July 12, 2022

Rhode Island woman Sarah Jane Cavanaugh, 31, who authorities say pretended to be a decorated Marine Corps veteran with cancer to fraudulently collect about $250,000 in veterans benefits and charitable contributions, agrees to plead guilty. More

July 12, 2022

The footage from a hallway camera inside the school shows the gunman entering the building with an AR-15 style rifle and includes 911 tape of a teacher screaming, “Get down! Get in your rooms! Get in your rooms!” More

July 12, 2022

Police say a suspect admitted to hanging an Ogden man over the weekend, and killing another man in Spanish Fork last week as part of a "purge." More

July 12, 2022

A family fight over the home of a woman who moved into an assisted living facility left two people dead, and another wounded, police said. More

July 12, 2022

A Mexican drug cartel accused in the gruesome killings of nine women and children from an offshoot Mormon community must pay $1.5 billion to the families, a federal judge from North Dakota ruled. More

July 12, 2022

Jury selection for Ruben Flores, charged as an accessory in Kristin’s 1996 disappearance, got underway Monday. More

July 12, 2022

“Yellowstone" actor Q’Orianka Kilcher has been charged with illegally collecting nearly $97,000 in disability benefits while working on the TV show. More

July 12, 2022

The man who opened fire at Glendale's Westgate Entertainment District in 2020 has been sentenced. More

July 12, 2022

In court papers filed Monday, Depp's lawyers dispute arguments from Heard's team that the jury's verdict was nonsensical and unfounded. More

July 12, 2022

31-year-old Colorado woman arrested for sexual assault of 13-year-old boy is pregnant. More

July 11, 2022

A Cuyahoga County judge ruled Cleveland man Charles Jackson was wrongfully imprisoned after he spent over 27 years in prison before his murder conviction was dismissed in 2019. More

July 11, 2022

Beverly McCallum, accused in the 2002 fatal bludgeoning of her husband in Michigan, was ordered held on $10 million bond following her return to the U.S. from Italy. More

July 11, 2022

Texas woman Brandy Bottone contests HOV lane violation by telling cop her unborn daughter counts as a person. More

July 11, 2022

Robert John Lanoue, 70, was charged in the 1982 killing of 5-year-old Anne Pham, who disappeared while walking to kindergarten. More

July 11, 2022

A judge has consolidated hundreds of lawsuits alleging physical and sexual abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center, more than two years after the first case was filed. More

July 11, 2022