Latest Crime & Trial News

A victim of the Happy Face Killer has been identified nearly 30 years after her body was left near a California highway, authorities said Monday. More

April 19, 2022

James and Jennifer Crumbley have been locked up since Dec. 4, unable to come up with $500,000 each to leave custody and await trial on involuntary manslaughter charges. More

April 19, 2022

Authorities announced the arrest of a second man in connection with Saturday's shootout inside a mall in South Carolina's capital. Marquise Love Robinson, 20, was taken into custody overnight and authorities are also seeking a third suspect, Amari Sincere-Jamal Smith. More

April 18, 2022

Kim Kardashian, her mother Kris Jenner and her sisters Khloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner all sat in the front row of a Los Angeles courtroom as prospective jurors aired their feelings about the famous family and the four women, all defendants in a lawsuit brought by Rob Kardashian's former fiancée Blac Chyna. More

April 18, 2022

Sherri Papini pleaded guilty to faking her own kidnapping and lying to the FBI about it. More

April 18, 2022

A judge told jurors in the trial of an Ohio doctor charged in the deaths of 14 patients to keep working after they said they were deadlocked. More

April 18, 2022

Infowars has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the website's founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones faces defamation lawsuits over his comments that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. More

April 18, 2022

A Milwaukee woman has pleaded guilty to concealing the death of her newborn baby almost 13 years ago. More

April 18, 2022

Police say a northwest Georgia man killed his grandmother by stuffing her in a freezer while she was still alive. More

April 18, 2022

IRWIN COUNTY, Ga. (Court TV) — A judge in south Georgia sentenced Ryan Alexander Duke to the maximum sentence on Monday for concealing the death of beloved high school teacher Tara Grinstead. More

April 18, 2022

Andrew Lafey has been found guilty of murdering and torturing a woman in 2021. More

April 18, 2022

An indictment for Steven Yinger came down from the grand jury Thursday afternoon with five counts that included the murder of Jorge Diaz Johnston. More

April 18, 2022

Connerjack Oswalt was reported missing by the Clearlake Police Department on Sep. 29, 2019. He was 16 years old at the time. More

April 18, 2022

Thomas Krummen approached the scene at a high speed, driving directly at investigators and ignored commands to stop, ran over the victims legs and fled. More

April 18, 2022

A group of Tesla shareholders suing CEO Elon Musk over some 2018 tweets about taking the company private is asking a federal judge to order Musk to stop commenting on the case. More

April 18, 2022

The case of a teenage couple killed and tossed down an abandoned mine shaft culminated in murder convictions Friday for a Utah man. More

April 18, 2022

Pamela Smart is asking New Hampshire's highest court to order a state council to hold a hearing on her request to reduce her sentence. More

April 15, 2022

Body camera footage of Patrick Lyoya's fatal encounter with a Michigan police officer shows a close-up view of an intense struggle, but the video goes dark 42 seconds before the officer shoots the Black man in the head. More

April 15, 2022

South Carolina prisoner Richard Bernard Moore, scheduled to be the first man executed in the state in more than a decade, has decided to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair. More

April 15, 2022

Ohio State University will pay $2 million to settle more lawsuits brought by men who said they were sexually abused decades ago by now-deceased team doctor Richard Strauss, increasing the number of survivors who've reached settlement agreements to nearly 290. More

April 15, 2022

MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — A California judge found a teenage boy guilty Thursday in the slaying of a taco truck owner last year, The Modesto Bee reported. The boy, who was 13 at the time, walked up to the Modesto taco truck Feb. 16, 2021, and fatally shot Rafael Avila-Rodriguez in the face, Judge Rubén […] More

April 15, 2022

Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones will be getting back the $75,000 in fines he paid to a Connecticut court for failing to appear at a deposition last month in a lawsuit over his assertions that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. More

April 15, 2022

Kevin Errol Lewis, accused of fatally pushing a woman in front of a freight train in Southern California has been arrested. More

April 15, 2022

Former University of Michigan violin professor Stephen Shipps sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to transporting a girl across states lines for sex. He must also pay $120,000 in restitution to his victim. More

April 15, 2022

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Confusion reigned as jury selection in the death penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz concluded its second week with no immediate end in sight. More

April 15, 2022

Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard jurors are expected to see famous witnesses such as Elon Musk, James Franco, Ellen Barkin and Paul Bettany. More

April 15, 2022

A grand jury has indicted Kentucky murder suspect Shannon Gilday on multiple charges in the death of an ex-lawmaker's daughter. More

April 15, 2022

Lori Vallow is now in custody at Madison County Jail in Rexburg days after being deemed competent to stand trial. More

April 15, 2022

Judge Christina Snyder said the case was one of the most difficult and tragic ones she had presided over. She said Buck's "horrific crimes” were reprehensible and more than just an accident. More

April 15, 2022

A Florida family whose lives were shaken by a double shooting a decade ago is still seeking answers. It has been 10 years since Teddy Donohue and Samantha McKenna were found dead in a parked car. Both had been shot several times. More

April 15, 2022