The parents of a 2-year-old girl who was killed and buried in the California wilderness more than a year ago have been arrested and accused of beating the toddler to death and trying to dispose of the evidence. Riley Royal, 28, and his wife, Amanda Royal, 24, were taken into custody on Tuesday and charged...
A 35-year-old man in Georgia who said he had “fun” being the “guest of honor” during his own murder trial will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing the mother of his child and her husband in front of his own daughter during a custody exchange. A jury in Newton County...
A dad in Colorado and his 17-year-old son are accused of murdering the teen’s mother just hours after she informed them she was filing for full custody of the boy’s younger brother, according to local authorities. Both Charles Martinez, 43, and his son, Hevon Martinez — who was charged as an adult this week with...
An Ohio teen learned his fate for the killing of a 14-year-old boy shot 13 times in the back after leaving the killer’s girlfriend’s house. Steven Sopko, 17, was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison with parole possible after 31 years for killing Braylon Hardges, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced in a...
A 44-year-old woman in Ohio has been arrested for allegedly killing her own mother, fatally stabbing the 72-year-old woman as she was sitting in a recliner. Mekeshia Lattimore was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with one count of murder in the slaying of Minnie Lewis, authorities announced. According to a news release from...
A Maryland daughter who allegedly witnessed the aftermath of her mother murdering her grandmother testified that the defendant used a chainsaw to cut up the remains and burned them on a grill before setting a small fire that neighbors helped put out before firefighters arrived. Candace Craig, 46, is on trial for murdering her mother,...
Authorities in Montana have a person in custody they believe murdered a man found dead with “chop wounds” inside a tent in a killing initially reported as a bear attack. The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday in a Facebook post that a suspect in the slaying of 35-year-old Dustin Kjersem is in jail on...
Video footage released by police in Washington state this week shows a pair of alleged killers strolling up to a family home — pausing for a moment as a neighbor drives by — before opening fire on the residence and killing a mother of five. Carolynn Williams, 45, was in the middle of getting her...
A convicted murderer and self-proclaimed “serial killer” who once declared in court that he was “Michael Myers” will spend the rest of his days behind bars for killing his pregnant girlfriend and her unborn child. Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Carolyn L. Addison on Thursday ordered Joshua Dotson to serve a sentence of 102 years...
More than two years after a Labor Day weekend boat crash killed a 17-year-old girl in Florida, the real estate developer operating the boat with 12 teen girls aboard while celebrating his daughter’s birthday now faces a homicide case that could put him in prison for a decade and a half. George Pino, now 54,...