Latest Crime & Trial News

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Indiana man who was one of three Republican candidates who advanced in the primary for a township board position, has withdrawn after being charged with murder in connection with the death of his wife.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

Former University of Kansas soccer goalie Regan Noelle Gibbs has been killed and her husband Chad Joseph Marek has been charged with first-degree murder in her death. More

May 18, 2022

A judge sentenced a white Wisconsin man -- Clifton A. Blackwell -- to a decade in prison for throwing acid in a Latino man's face in a racist attack at a Milwaukee bus stop. More

May 18, 2022

Dayton R. Jones, who was charged by federal prosecutors with producing child pornography after former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin issued a commutation for state sex crime convictions, has been sentenced to eight years in prison. More

May 18, 2022

Amber Heard's sister, Whitney Heard Henriquez, testified that she found herself in the middle of fights between her sister and Johnny Depp. More

May 18, 2022

A former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd. More

May 18, 2022

Prosecutors in Texas said Monday that they will seek the death penalty for a man who authorities have said confessed to killing five people. More

May 18, 2022

A murder charge against 75-year-old Jane Dorotik was dismissed this week as she was getting ready for a second trial. More

May 18, 2022

"The bodies were staged. We don't know what that means. Disturbing details. It mentions it was a bloody brutal crime," podcast creator Aine Cain said. More

May 18, 2022

Lucille Hultgren’s killing was the only cold case in the town of 25,000 people 30 miles south of Sacramento, authorities said. More

May 18, 2022

The inquiry will be the second in three years into scientific evidence that all four of Kathleen Folbigg’s children may have died of natural causes. More

May 18, 2022

Members of the Californian rock band Eagles of Death Metal provided emotional testimony Tuesday about the night Islamic State group extremists stormed their Bataclan theater concert, killing scores of people in France's worst attack in generations. More

May 17, 2022

Ryan Duke, on trial for the murder of Georgia teacher Tara Grinstead -- who vanished in 2005 -- says he gave a false confession. More

May 17, 2022

The lawyer for a New Hampshire man accused of killing his wife's co-worker after he discovered they were texting — and then forcing her to behead him — told jurors at the start of his trial Tuesday that his wife is the one to blame for the death. More

May 17, 2022

Prosecutors charged California church shooting suspect David Chou with one count of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder. More

May 17, 2022

Lawyers for Johnny Depp questioned the truthfulness of Amber Heard's claim that Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle. More

May 17, 2022

Prosecutors say Ulrich was angry about his medical treatment at the clinic when he opened fire, killing Lindsay Overbay and wounding the others. More

May 17, 2022

A judge entered a not guilty plea on Richmond murder suspect Shannon Gilday's behalf during a continued arraignment Monday morning. More

May 17, 2022

Authorities have said a man dressed all in black opened fire at the salon, then drove off in a maroon minivan. More

May 17, 2022

Brittanee Drexel was last seen April 2009 when she was walking between hotels in Myrtle Beach. More

May 17, 2022