Latest Crime & Trial News

An Iowa woman was sentenced to life in prison after she was convicted of murdering her estranged husband's girlfriend, Tracy Mondabough. More

May 7, 2021

CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo. (Scripps News Denver) — In his first court appearance Thursday morning, Barry Morphew, who’s accused of first-degree murder in the Suzanne Morphew case, was read his rights and told he was allowed to have “civil contact” with his daughters if they wanted to interact with him.   Barry, 53, was arrested Wednesday near […] More

May 6, 2021

PODCAST: It’s been almost two years since 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts disappeared while on an evening jog, setting off an enormous search that made national news. A month after her disappearance Cristhian Rivera, a local dairy farm worker who was in the country illegally, was arrested, allegedly confessed to her murder and […] More

May 6, 2021

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Nearly two decades after an Australian woman was convicted of killing her four children, dozens of scientists are backing the claim that they may have died of natural causes. Australian law says Kathleen Folbigg is one of the nation’s worst female serial killers who smothered her […] More

May 6, 2021

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday allowed former reality TV star Josh Duggar to be released as he awaits trial on charges that he downloaded and possessed child pornography. Magistrate Judge Christy Comstock ordered Duggar, 33, confined to the home of family friends who have agreed […] More

May 6, 2021

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A jury in Italy convicted two American friends in the 2019 slaying in Rome of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small-time drug deal gone bad, sentencing them to the maximum life in prison. More than 12 hours after deliberations began, the jury of […] More

May 6, 2021

CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo. (Scripps News Denver) — Barry Morphew, the husband of missing Colorado mother Suzanne Morphew, has been arrested in Chaffee County on multiple charges, including first-degree murder, almost a year after Suzanne was first reported missing, according to court documents. Barry, 53, was arrested Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder after deliberation, tampering […] More

May 5, 2021

A St. Paul man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for his role in the arson fire that burned a Minneapolis police station during protests over the death of George Floyd. More

May 5, 2021

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (Scripps News Colorado Springs) — Court documents released on Monday, May 3, show Letecia Stauch requested a state attorney be appointed to her case, after waiving her right to counsel and deciding to represent herself. In the motion filed on April 28, Stauch writes that she does not want an attorney […] More

May 5, 2021

Garrett Rolfe was fired in June, a day after he shot Rayshard Brooks in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant. More

May 5, 2021

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A trial is underway for a 61-year-old man facing a first-degree murder charge in the death of a U.S. Navy recruit who was strangled and dumped in an overgrown field in central Florida 37 years ago. Thomas Garner of Jacksonville has pleaded not guilty to killing Pamela Cahanes. He was arrested […] More

May 5, 2021

Derek Chauvin, convicted of killing George Floyd, has asked for a new trial saying the trial court abused its discretion. More

May 5, 2021

A jury in Rome on Wednesday began deliberating the fates of two young American men who are charged with killing an Italian police officer. More

May 5, 2021

Prosecutors in New York have consented to DNA testing of evidence from the 1992 trial of so-called “Fatal Attraction” killer Carolyn Warmus More

May 5, 2021

The Army says 21 people have faced disciplinary action in connection with the death of Spc. Vanessa Guillén. More

May 4, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — One of the jurors who convicted Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd on Monday defended his participation in a protest last summer in Washington, D.C., following online speculation about his motives for serving on the jury and whether it might be grounds for appeal. >>>WATCH FULL TRIAL ON DEMAND: MN v. DEREK […] More

May 4, 2021

The California Supreme Court on Monday reversed the death penalty for a woman who killed her four young daughters and tried to kill her son by setting their house on fire 23 years ago. More

May 4, 2021

A man accusing Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey of sexually abusing him in the 1980s when he was 14 cannot proceed anonymously in court, a judge ruled Monday. More

May 4, 2021

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida police officer who gunned down a Black motorist whose car had broken down six years ago could legally be convicted of both manslaughter and attempted first-degree murder, a state appeals court ruled April 28. The court said that unusual combination did not constitute double jeopardy. >>>WATCH FULL TRIAL […] More

May 3, 2021

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ordered Puerto Rican boxer Félix Verdejo held without bail after he was charged in the death of his 27-year-old pregnant lover whose body was found in a lagoon. Verdejo is charged with kidnapping and carjacking resulting in the death of Keishla Rodríguez and with […] More

May 3, 2021

“Game of Thrones” actor Esmé Bianco sued Marilyn Manson on Friday, alleging sexual, physical and emotional abuse. More

May 3, 2021

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The woman who returned Lady Gaga’s stolen French bulldogs was among five people arrested in connection with the theft and shooting of the music superstar’s dog walker, Los Angeles police said Thursday.   Detectives do not believe that the thieves initially knew the dogs belonged to the pop star, the Los Angeles Police […] More

April 30, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge ordered the government Thursday to explain why guards repeatedly flashed light into Ghislaine Maxwell’s cell overnight, an action her lawyers say may have led to a bruise over one eye as she awaits trial in an alleged sex trafficking conspiracy with ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District Judge Alison J. […] More

April 30, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — The long-running federal investigation into Rudy Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine moved back into public view Wednesday when federal agents seized electronic devices from the former mayor’s home and office. The search was the latest development in an inquiry that overlapped with the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump, who was accused of pressuring the leaders […] More

April 29, 2021

A jury found James Addie guilty of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the shooting death of his secret fiancée, Molly Watson. More

April 29, 2021

James Addie seemingly had a perfect life – married for twenty-three years with two children, a son and a daughter. But he also had a secret – a mistress he’d been seeing for seven years and was due to marry two days after her body was discovered in a ditch with a bullet in the back of her head. More

April 29, 2021

Janice Christensen was raped and stabbed to death while running on August 10, 1987. More

April 29, 2021

The Justice Department brought federal hate crimes charges Wednesday in the death of Ahmaud Arbery. More

April 29, 2021

Federal agents raided Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan home and office on Wednesday, seizing computers and cellphones in a major escalation of the Justice Department’s investigation into the business dealings of former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. More

April 28, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS (Court TV) — The sentencing hearing of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is scheduled for June 25, 2021, at 2:30 pm ET, according to Spenser Bickett, Hennepin County Court PIO. Chauvin was convicted of three counts in the death of George Floyd: Unintentional Second-Degree Felony-Murder, Third Degree Depraved Mind Murder and Second-Degree Manslaughter. […] More

April 28, 2021