PHOENIX – Convicted murderer Jodi Arias has declined to address a jury considering whether to sentence her to life in prison or death in the killing of her former boyfriend. Arias said Monday that she wanted to make comments to jurors but insisted the courtroom be cleared. She said she …
Read More »Italy convicts Pakistani woman's relatives of killing her for refusing arranged marriage with cousin
A court in northern Italy convicted the parents and an uncle of an 18-year-Pakistani woman for her murder in Italy after she refused her family’s demands to marry a cousin in their homeland. Saman Abbas’ body was dug up in November 2022 in an abandoned farmhouse near the fields where …
Read More »Federal inmate dies after 'perceived altercation' at West Virginia prison
An inmate at a federal prison in West Virginia has died after a fight at the facility, authorities said. FEDERAL INMATE CONVICTED OF DEADLY WEST VIRGINIA PRISON STABBING Andrew Davis, 39, was found with unspecified injuries from a “perceived altercation” with another inmate on Sunday at the Federal Corrections Institute …
Read More »Burning Man guest found in 'pool of blood' in suspected homicide at climax of wild desert festival: sheriff
The death of a man found in a “pool of blood” as a giant human-shaped effigy began to burn on Saturday at the annual Burning Man art and music festival in the northwestern Nevada desert is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said. The body was discovered just before 9:15 …
Read More »VIDEO: Facial reconstruction sculptor rebuilds child victim in bid to identify Jane Doe
ORLANDO, Fla. – Police stumbled across a gruesome discovery in 1973 – the remains of an unidentified teenager with two bullet wounds in her head found dumped in a landfill near Orlando, Florida. She had been dead for at least a month when her remains were recovered on Aug. 22 …
Read More »Nebraska man arrested after fatal Thanksgiving shooting of 10-year-old son
A father has been arrested in the Thanksgiving Day shooting death of his 10-year-old son. Omaha police said in a news release that officers rushed to a home late Thursday and found Kendrick McDonald wounded. He later died at a hospital, and several witnesses inside the home were questioned. DOZENS …
Read More »Illegal immigrant charged for fatally shooting 2 Texas sisters
An illegal immigrant man has been arrested for the shooting death of two sisters in their home in Dallas last week, while he also allegedly shot his daughter during the same incident. Jose Santiago Chairez, 50, has been booked into the Dallas County Jail, and faces charges of capital murder …
Read More »Suspected Texas serial killer warns police there are more victims
Suspected serial killer Raul Meza Jr. called police and said, “I think you are looking for me,” before his arrest for multiple murders. That was last May. He has been sitting in a Texas jail for allegedly strangling Gloria Lofton, 65, in 2019, and the capital murder of a former …
Read More »The Latest on Texas jail death: Sandra Bland expresses disbelief in voicemail from jail
HEMPSTEAD, Texas – The latest on the investigation into the death of a woman in a Texas jail cell (all times local): 8:30 a.m. A Texas TV station says it has obtained a voicemail from a call Sandra Bland made from jail in which she told a friend that she …
Read More »Idaho police release investigation photos of Kohberger's car and crime scene where four students died
Idaho State Police have released hundreds of photos from their investigation into the University of Idaho student murders and their perpetrator, Bryan Kohberger, including images that show the former criminology Ph.D. student’s infamous white Hyundai Elantra after it was seized from his parents’ driveway in Pennsylvania. While the exterior appears …
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