VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuanian police say a 14-year-old boy has admitted killing a 13-year-old girl he met through Facebook. Police spokeswoman Dalia Petrauskiene says the girl from the town Alytus was murdered after arranging on the popular social networking site to meet the boy, who lives in the capital, Vilnius. Her half-naked body was found […]
Via KHOU.com: Addressing the media outside a Houston courtroom Monday, local activist Quanell X questioned whether a woman accused of capital murder in the abduction and death of a 12-year-old Houston boy acted alone. Mona Nelson,44, appeared in court to hear her rights Monday morning. Prosecutors say she kidnapped, killed and dumped the burned body […]
(via khou.com) PEARLAND, Texas – A Pearland student is facing murder charges in the death of an 18-year-old classmate who went missing Tuesday afternoon. Police said Hermilo Vildo Moralez, 19, was identified as a person of interest in the disappearance of Josh Wilkerson Tuesday after officers noticed Moralez loitering in the area of Wilkerson’s […]
HOUSTON – In a press conference Friday afternoon, family members and police spoke out about a good Samaritan who was gunned down trying to save a woman from an armed purse-snatcher at a Chevron station. They said 24-year-old student Samuel Irick, who gave his life for a complete stranger, was a hero. Irick was […]
(via khou.com) HOUSTON – Houston police believe they’ve solved at least one of the strangulation murders of three area women since June. They plan to charge Lucky Ward, 46, with capital murder in the death of 52-year-old Retia Faye Long. She was found dead on Sept. 30 in a stairwell behind the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred […]
CNN’s Randi Kaye reports on the start of the trial related to the ninja-style murder of a Florida couple.
Via CNN.com: After deliberating for about four hours over two days, a jury Tuesday convicted a 47-year-old man of capital murder in the deaths of three members of a Connecticut family in a 2007 home invasion. Steven Hayes was convicted on 16 of the 17 charges against him in connection with the deaths of Jennifer […]
Torrie Lynn Emery, 23, of Pontiac, was ordered held without bond by 50th District Judge Preston Thomas. She is charged with second-degree murder, assault with intent to commit great bodily harm and child abuse. The charges stem from a crash at Woodward Avenue and Rapid Street on Wednesday afternoon. Emery is accused of following a […]
Reyna Chicas, 32, is the leader of the “cult-like” group missing in Southern California, officials say.
A Connecticut doctor whose wife and two daughters were killed in a 2007 home invasion took the stand Tuesday to testify against one of the accused killers, recalling horrific details of being beaten and tied up by his alleged captors while fearing for the well-being of his family.
It’s been nearly two years since the horrific murders of her mother, brother and nephew and singer Jennifer Hudson is still searching for closure.
The government-ordered inquest by two former FBI officials found that agents of the State Bureau of Investigation repeatedly aided prosecutors in obtaining convictions over a 16-year period, mostly by misrepresenting blood evidence and keeping critical notes from defense attorneys. The Associated Press obtained the review of blood evidence in cases from 1987 to 2003 in […]
