Latest Crime & Trial News

R&B singer R. Kelly has been jailed in New York City in anticipation of his sex-trafficking trial later this summer. More

June 23, 2021

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant’s widow has agreed to settle a lawsuit against the pilot and owners of the helicopter that crashed last year, killing the NBA star, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others. Vanessa Bryant, her children and relatives of other victims filed a settlement agreement notice Tuesday with a federal judge in […] More

June 23, 2021

There are new changes to the defense strategy for the woman accused of playing a role in Florida State Law professor Dan Markel's death nearly seven years ago. More

June 23, 2021

Jury selection is set to begin Wednesday for the second part of a trial in the case of a man who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper in 2018. More

June 23, 2021

Britney Spears is expected to address a judge overseeing the conservatorship that has controlled the pop star's money and affairs since 2008. More

June 23, 2021

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors did not find Michael Avenatti’s seventh request to delay sentencing a charm, saying Tuesday that the once high profile California lawyer should be forced to hear his punishment next week for trying to extort Nike for up to $25 million. In court papers, prosecutors urged […] More

June 22, 2021

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man linked to the 2018 death of a 10-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and sexual abuse of a minor, authorities said. Peter Vance Wilson entered his plea Monday in the death of Ashley Johnson Barr in the remote Inupiat town of […] More

June 22, 2021

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A former elementary school teacher in Sioux Falls has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for sexually assaulting two students. Thomas Richard Strong, 72, of Sioux Falls, was earlier found guilty of four counts of rape and one count of sexual contact with a child under 16. He was […] More

June 22, 2021

The penalty phase of the trial of 32-year-old Ronnie Oneal III is set to begin Wednesday. More

June 22, 2021

De'Rell Brown was just 25 years old when police say he was found shot in the parking lot of his Indianapolis apartment complex. More

June 22, 2021

A Colorado father killed his 13-year-old son in 2012 over photographs that triggered a fatal rage, prosecutors argued in court Monday. More

June 22, 2021

A Greek helicopter pilot is appearing in court in Athens on charges of premeditated murder over the death of his young wife. More

June 22, 2021

TAMPA, Fla. (Scripps News Tampa) — On Monday afternoon, a Riverview man was found guilty of murdering his girlfriend and 9-year-old daughter in 2018. Ronnie Oneal III, 32, was found guilty of killing Kenyatta Barron and Ron’Niveya Oneal. He was also found guilty of trying to kill his son, who was eight years old at […] More

June 21, 2021

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — State police released a number of additional reports Monday on the shooting deaths of a mother and her son from a prominent South Carolina legal family, but they contained little new information and a number of passages blacked out. Paul Murdaugh, 22, and his mother, Maggie, […] More

June 21, 2021

By TERRY TANG and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona teenager suspected of killing one person and injuring a dozen others during a 90-minute drive-by shooting spree in metropolitan Phoenix told police he believed people were after him because of his involvement in another shooting, according to court documents released Friday. Ashin […] More

June 21, 2021

Here's a look at how conservatorships operate, what's unusual about hers, and why the cry to #FreeBritney keeps getting louder. More

June 21, 2021

Greek pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos has confessed to murdering his wife and staging the crime scene as a robbery. More

June 21, 2021

Chester Vegas Sr. is accused of murdering his wife inside a Louisiana restaurant decades ago. More

June 21, 2021

Police believe missing Colorado woman Jepsy Kallungi was strangled and buried by her husband. More

June 21, 2021

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans man has been charged with killing an off-duty university police officer outside a high school basketball game where he’d shown up without a mask.John Shallerhorn, 35, was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder in the Feb. 26 death of Martinus Mitchum, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office […] More

June 18, 2021

By TOM HAYES NEW YORK (AP) — Jailed R&B singer R. Kelly will likely get to keep a new lawyer in his federal sex-trafficking case despite questions about the attorney’s texts and other communications with one of Kelly’s ex-girlfriends. Kelly, 54, is accused of leading an enterprise made up of his managers, bodyguards and other […] More

June 18, 2021

ISLANDTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina newspaper is suing the police agencies investigating the shooting deaths of a mother and son from one of South Carolina’s prominent legal families, arguing that authorities violated public records law by refusing to release 911 calls and police reports. The Post and Courier in Charleston reported that it filed the […] More

June 18, 2021

WACO, Texas (AP) — A judge denied a request to suppress the confession of a woman accused of helping kill and dismember Spc. Vanessa Guillén, who was missing for about two months before her remains were found. U.S. District Judge Alan D. Albright rejected to toss Cecily Ann Aguilar’s confession after 2.5 hours of testimony […] More

June 18, 2021

A Cleveland man will spend the next 40 years in prison for numerous crimes he committed in 2018. More

June 18, 2021

A rare and intense situation played out in court as Ronnie Oneal III questioned his son. More

June 18, 2021

Jury selection for the trial of Mark Redwine, who is accused of murdering his 13-year-old son, began Monday. More

June 17, 2021

PODCAST: Christian “Kit” Martin, the former U.S. Army major and commercial airline pilot, took the stand in his own defense this week in an attempt to convince the jury he had nothing to do with the gruesome deaths of three of his neighbors. Was he able to convincingly explain all of the evidence that implicated […] More

June 17, 2021

The group accused of beating a man to death behind a grocery store allegedly did so because they thought he beat his pregnant girlfriend. More

June 17, 2021

Lindsy Maves is accused of setting another woman on fire. More

June 17, 2021

Alexander Jackson was found at the home suffering from a gunshot wound to the foot and taken to a local hospital for treatment. More

June 17, 2021