Nichole Schmidt said on Friday that she has forgiven Brian Laundrie, her daughter Gabby Petito's boyfriend and suspected killer, but offered no such sentiment to his mother, Roberta.
Model Alena Shikhova, who did a photo shoot with alleged slasher who allegedly killed one and stabbed six in two states, said she felt "weird energy" from him a year ago
A judge ordered that families of victims of a Mexican cartel ambush of three moms and 14 kids be paid $4.64 billion, which was considered symbolic at the time.
Jared Tarant Smith-Bracy, 22, of Bay Minette, Alabama, has been indicted on four counts of capital murder in the killings of his grandparents, brother and a family friend.
About 1.5 hours of 911 dispatch reveals wild chase of Massachusetts slashing suspect, how civilian tips helped police, and the escalating danger of chasing a homicide suspect.
Michigan State Police Detective Sergeant Brian Keely was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder for driving an unmarked SUV into a 25-year-old Kentwood resident.
Splendora, Texas, police have arrested international fugitive Leo Acosta Sanchez, 21, who is wanted for murder. She was living illegally in the United States.
Escaped Louisiana inmates Avery Guidry and Travon Johnson have been captured after being spotted in a dumpster behind a Dollar General store in Hammond.
The third week of Karen Read's murder trial ended with testimony from an ATF agent reading "flirty" texts he exchanged with Read just weeks before her boyfriend died.
Suspect Jared Ravizza, who is accused of stabbing six people on Saturday, is reportedly being considered as a suspect in a separate homicide in Connecticut.
British authorities have arrested a 17-year-old boy believed to have stabbed two women at Durley Chine Beach in Bournemouth, England. One woman died, Dorset Police say.
Christa Pike, who became Tennessee's only death row inmate after butchering her romantic rival in 1996, is the subject of a new "Mean Girl Murders" episode.
Defense attorneys for Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four college students in Idaho, are asking a judge to order the prosecution to share more evidence in their case.
Anthony Martinez was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder in the starvation death of his son, Deshaun. An autopsy found the six-year-old weighed just 18 pounds when he died.
Ali Abulaban, a California TikTok star accused of killing his estranged wife, Ana Abulaban, and her lover in October 2021, took the stand Wednesday to testify in his own defense.
Utah mom of three and children's book author Kouri Richins, who is accused of fatally poisoning her husband in 2022, is speaking out for the first time since Eric Richins died.
Police searching Rex Heuermann's house could be seeking evidence tied to cases outside of New York, which could have a major impact on his case, experts say.
Michael Bruyette, a Florida man previously convicted of murder in Massachusetts, is running for city council in Palm Bay. He wants to give more resources to police.
Expelled University of Arizona graduate student Murad Dervish, 48, was convicted Tuesday of the fatal 2022 shooting hydrology professor Thomas Meixner.
Newly-filed court documents are revealing new gruesome details surrounding the investigation into the murders of two Kansas women who went missing after a trip to Oklahoma.
A parole opportunity for former Los Angeles Police Detective Stephanie Lazarus was delayed this week. Lazarus was convicted in 2012 of killing Sherri Rasmussen 26 years prior.
52-year-old Missouri inmate Christopher Dunn, who has maintained his innocence in the first-degree murder he was convicted of, will have his claim heard in court this week.
The ringleader of a trio of arsonists, who sent a Colorado home on fire and killed an entire family, sought revenge for a stolen iPhone but hit the wrong house
A U.S. fugitive and convicted sexual predator fled to Canada while on bail and killed at least four women, according to Canadian law enforcement, who believe he killed more.
Defense attorneys for Kouri Richins, the Utah children's book author accused of fatally poisoning her husband, Eric Richins, in 2022, are now requesting a withdraw from her case.
Police have returned to the Massapequa Park home of suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann, who has been jailed since last year in Gilgo case.
Mexico's "most powerful and ruthless" cartel - The Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG)- operates in all 50 state and is competing with a rival cartel in the US, the DEA said
A 21-year-old college student is accused of driving under the influence while causing a crash that killed a high school senior days away from graduating.
A female school was killed by an "armed intruder" on the campus of Kennesaw State University north of Atlanta on Saturday. A suspect has been detained.
Billy Chemirmir, suspected of smothering 22 elderly Texas women to death over a two year period, is the subject of a new docuseries "Pillowcase Murders."
Two LA mothers on opposite sides of the embattled criminal justice system – one grieving the loss of her two sons, the other trying to get her conviction for killing them overturned.
Jeremiah Estel Blair, 19, shot both of his parents in their shared Arizona home early Monday morning, telling police he did so because he was "upset over his upbringing."
Utah squatter suspected of killing a 19-year-old farmer admitted to shooting the teen in the head as he pleaded guilty to 2nd-degree murder in Brigham City.
Mario Fernandez, a suspect in Jared Bridegan's killing alongside codefendent Shanna Gardner, allegedly wrote "good luck!" on a check to a hit man in April 2022.
A former top LA prosecutor facing 11 felony charges has the same defense lawyer as a convicted killer whose trial she oversaw, which has sparked conflict-of-interest concerns.
Shanna Gardner, who is accused of killing her ex-wife, Jared Bridegan, with help from her second husband allegedly wrote 'good luck!' on a check to a hitman in April 2022.
Georgia man Michale Edwards allegedly strangled Briana Winston, burned her body then enlisted his wife and family to help him cover his tracks, Clayton County Police said this week.
A German court has convicted a 34-year-old man of murder and attempted murder for a fatal stabbing on a train in Brokstedt last January, authorities say.
The former interior minister of Gambia has been convicted by Switzerland’s top criminal court for crimes against humanity, resulting in a 20-year prison sentence.
Women and children at young as 7 are being used as Mexican cartel assassins, private investigator said, adding that "the bad guys don't look like bad guys."
Dr. Cyril Wecht, a famed forensic pathologist and former Allegheny County medical examiner, died 'peacefully' Monday at the age of 93, according to Pennsylvania officials.
Kazakhstan’s Supreme Court has convicted a former government official of torturing and brutally murdering his wife and sentenced him to prison, officials say.
Prosecutors say a boatload of evidence shows Scott Peterson killed his wife and unborn son – so much so that his quest for new DNA testing doesn't matter.
The murders of three surfers in Mexico, including an American who was engaged to be married in August, "is eerily similar" to a 2020 murder of San Diego couple, a private investigator said.
The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office announced that 15 people were wounded and three people were killed at a May Day event in Stockton, Alabama on Saturday.
The Ohio police officer who was killed in the line of duty Saturday night has been identified as 23-year-old Jacob Derbin, according to local media reports.
Florida authorities have identified the remains of Mary Alice Pultz, a woman who was last seen by her family in 1968. Her skull was found at a St. Johns County beach in 1985.
A transgender woman with a criminal past is accused of running over a 64-year-old man with a car twice before fatally stabbing him, and it was caught on video.
Colorado mom Suzanne Morphew disappeared from a Mother's Day bike ride four years ago in 2020. Four years later, her unsolved case is back in the spotlight.
A Colorado who was part of a group that threw rocks at cars last year -- killing a woman -- has pleased guilty to several charges as part of plea deal.
Eddie Ray-Jr. Johnson of Garden City, Michigan, pleaded no contest to manslaughter Friday in the 2019 shooting death of Detroit Police Sgt. Elaine Williams.
Kailie A. Brackett has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for the 2022 murder of Perry, Maine, resident Kimberly Neptune, who was stabbed nearly 500 times.
A 75-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison for the 2005 killing of a U.K. police officer during an armed robbery. Piran Ditta Khan fled to Pakistan after committing the crime.
Authorities have arrested a man who they believe killed a University of Georgia law student more than two decades ago. Twenty-three-year-old Tara Louise Baker was found dead in 2001.
The death of Jackson Hole ski instructor and outdoorsman Peter Wuerslin was ruled a "homicide," after another man collided with him on the slopes of a Wyoming resort.
Chrystul Kizer pleaded guilty Thursday to reckless homicide in the 2018 death of Randall Volar, an act she initially argued was justified as he was sexually trafficking her.
Adam Montgomery was sentenced to 45 years to life in prison for murdering his 5- year-old daughter, Harmony. The convicted felon was sentenced on several other charges as well.
San Antonio police have arrested a juvenile in connection with the March 12 murder of Kaitlin Hernandez, who disappeared from a walk with a friend before she was found dead.
Burbank, California, elementary school teacher Karyn Lombardo, 57, was killed by her adult son, Kyle Lombardo, 25, in their shared home on Tuesday night, according to police.
Alabama has scheduled a second nitrogen gas execution — this time, it will be used on triple homicide convict Alan Miller, who is set to die on Sept. 26.
A woman shot and killed her husband and her sister before trying to kill her brother - but her brother was armed and killed her in a shootout, according to Kentucky State Police.
Retired Army Major Juan Carlos Rodriguez recently earned parole on condition he would assist the police in cracking down on military ties to the cartels.
A Georgia grand jury on Tuesday indicted Laken Riley murder suspect Jose Ibarra on 10 counts. Ibarra is also accused of "peeping" on a UGA staff member.
Bernard Polite has been charged with his cousin's murder days after he was identified as the gunman who appeared on video in a Pennsylvania church attack.
A former roommate of two of the University of Idaho students killed in an ambush attack in November 2022 has broken her silence as she pushes for campus safety around the U.S.
Ronald Wayne Vaughn Jr. had his conviction vacated in the 2017 shooting death of Gary Somerset after judges deemed instruction of a possible self-defense argument to be insufficient.
25-year-old Jaylin Brazier is standing trial for second-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Zion Foster, whose body has yet to be found despite an extensive search.
Russian intelligence service FSB has searched for members of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's inner circle who would participate in an operation to kidnap and assassinate him.
A Maine woman's meltdown was recorded on doorbell camera's microphone after she allegedly shot her boyfriend to death at point-blank, according to a new report.
Budding career criminals in Tennessee face a new crackdown as "blended sentencing" aims to take off the kid gloves for more serious youthful offenders.
Kelly Weeks, wife of slain Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Weeks, said suspect Terry Clark Hughes Jr. "did not have any regard for human life" at a Charlotte memorial service Monday.
Destry Jones, 20, and Damien Hinson, 18, both of Dover, have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman on the Delaware State University campus.
Texas woman Savannah Kriger told her toddler's father, Brian Kriger, to "say goodbye to [his] son" Kaiden via text in the moments before she killed the boy in a murder-suicide on March 18.
The Justice Department's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons outreach program seeks to improve communication surrounding disappearances among Indigenous communities.
Dashcam video from the night Boston police officer John O'Keefe was found dead was played in court, as first responders gave conflicting testimony about what they heard and saw
The Charlotte, North Carolina, community on Friday honored CMPD Officer Joshua Eyer, who died in the line of duty Monday along with three other officers while serving a warrant.
John Smith is serving life for killing first wife Janice Hartman. Murder charges in second wife Fran Smith's disappearance were dropped in exchange for him revealing where her body is.
Charlotte, North Carolina, shootout that left four officers dead Monday after they tried to serve a warrant was "highly unusual," according to a former U.S. Marshals task force member.
James Craig, a dentist accused of killing his wife by poisoning her protein shakes, allegedly tried to bribe a jail inmate into planting fake suicide notes at the couple's residence.
44-year-old Pennsylvania resident John Chapman has been convicted of kidnapping resulting in death in connection with the alleged 2019 killing of his girlfriend in a Nevada desert.
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