Latest Crime & Trial News

Convicted California lawyer Michael Avenatti wants leniency at sentencing for defrauding former client Stormy Daniels of hundreds of thousands of dollars. More

May 20, 2022

Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a conservative political activist, was more involved than previously known in efforts to overturn Biden's victory and keep Trump in office. More

May 20, 2022

A report by Business Insider said SpaceX paid the woman $250,000 in severance in 2018 in exchange for her agreeing not to file a lawsuit over her claim. More

May 20, 2022

A jury on Friday found a man accused of killing a popular high school teacher who vanished from her rural Georgia hometown in 2005 not guilty of murder. More

May 20, 2022

The parents of accused Oxford school shooter Ethan Crumbley want their son's 22-page journal excluded as evidence because they believe it would improperly sway a jury against the parents. More

May 20, 2022

Ryan Duke faces an automatic sentence of life in prison if he's convicted of murder in the death of Tara Grinstead. More

May 20, 2022

A capital murder suspect who authorities say went on the lam for 10 days with the help of an Alabama jail official was ordered to provide a DNA sample to prosecutors. More

May 20, 2022

Thomas Schultz told the police dispatcher, "We are in an impossible situation with no way out. Please send someone to secure the residence." More

May 20, 2022

Isaiah Lee, the man charged in an on-stage attack of comedian Dave Chappelle, has pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder of a roommate in a stabbing that occurred at a Los Angeles transitional living facility. More

May 19, 2022

Former Virginia Tech football linebacker Isimemen David Etute, accused of fatally beating a man he met on an online dating site and had initially believed to be a woman, pleaded not guilty to a second-degree murder charge. More

May 19, 2022

Happy, by species, is an Asian elephant. But can she also be considered a person? That question was before New York's highest court in a case over whether a basic human right can be extended to an animal. More

May 19, 2022

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (Scripps News West Michigan) — Investigators with Homeland Security arrested a registered sex offender from South Carolina Tuesday, after they say he traveled to Michigan to sexually assault a teenage girl he had been communicating with online and over the phone with for years. Christopher James Masterson, who is currently 35 […] More

May 19, 2022

The remains of Rita Gutierrez-Garcia, who went missing in 2018 after a night out in Colorado have been recovered and formally identified. The man charged with her kidnapping and murder, Juan Jose Figueroa, will plead guilty. More

May 19, 2022

Colorado police officer Stephanie Landreneau was arrested following an investigation into allegations she was using department and personal equipment to keep tabs on her estranged husband as he was having a relationship with another officer. More

May 19, 2022

Charges have been filed against an Adams County, Colorado Sheriff’s Office sergeant and a woman after a 3-year-old died in a shooting. Summons have been issued for Brett Eskam and Elaine Eskam on six counts of unlawful storage of a firearm. More

May 19, 2022

Despite the hours of television already devoted to the story, this new series, starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette, offers a fresh perspective by fleshing out Kathleen and the personal lives of the five children who were forever affected. More

May 19, 2022

Surgical assistant Mir Asadullah Naqvi has been arrested in Montgomery County, Maryland for allegedly sexually assaulting a patient. More

May 19, 2022

A teacher at Dundalk High School in Maryland is accused of choking at least two of his students. Baltimore County Police announced second-degree assault charges against 30-year-old Andrew Rader. More

May 19, 2022

Former respiratory therapist Jennifer Hall is charged with first-degree murder in the death of a patient in Missouri 20 years ago. More

May 19, 2022

The trial for Johnny Depp's libel suit against ex-wife Amber Heard returned to the themes of Depp's jealousy and substance abuse. More

May 19, 2022

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket appeared briefly in court Thursday after a grand jury indicted him on a first-degree murder charge. More

May 19, 2022

A tree trimmer in rural Northern California was found guilty in a series of throat-slashing attacks that left three people dead, prosecutors announced Wednesday. More

May 19, 2022

The so-called "Black Widow of Las Vegas" was released from prison in 2019 and, at last report, was living with her family in Illinois. More

May 19, 2022

A 21-year-old Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since Moscow invaded Ukraine pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing an unarmed civilian. More

May 19, 2022

Court TV’s Chanley Painter reflects on her experience in the courtroom during the dramatic cross-examination of Amber Heard. More

May 19, 2022

Shortly before he opened fire, the white gunman accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket allowed a small group of people to see his detailed plans for the attack, which he had been chronicling for months in a private, online diary. More

May 18, 2022

A Chicago mother has been charged with child endangerment after a gun in her second grader's backpack accidentally discharged at school, injuring a 7-year-old classmate. More

May 18, 2022

Andrew Wilhoite, Indiana man who was one of three Republican candidates who advanced in the primary for a township board position, has withdrawn after being charged with murder in connection with the death of his wife. More

May 18, 2022

Eleven attempted murder charges were dropped and ex-convict Lee Frank Wilson pleaded guilty to a single felony charge in a deadly shootout at a Las Vegas lounge that killed a man and injured at least 12 others. More

May 18, 2022

Convicted murderer Gonzalo Lopez, who escaped from a prison transport bus in Texas last week, got out of his restraints and a cage before stabbing the driver and is still on the run. More

May 18, 2022