The 16-year-old stepbrother of Florida teen Anna Kepner appeared in court Friday, following allegations of his involvement in her death aboard a Carnival cruise ship. According to NBC 6 Miami, the stepbrother arrived Friday morning at the James Lawrence King Federal Justice Center in Miami. The courtroom locked after the teen’s arrival, who appeared before …
An Oklahoma grandmother was sentenced Monday to two life sentences without parole for the murders of two Kansas women during a custody exchange in 2024. Tifany Adams pleaded no contest last year to multiple charges related to the murders of Veronica Butler and Julian Kelley, KFOR reported. In addition to the life sentences, she was …
An Idaho white supremacist who killed two men after escaping prison during a hospital shootout in 2024 was sentenced to two consecutive life terms for the murders. Skylar Meade and fellow white supremacist Nicholas Umphenour went on a 36-hour crime spree after the hospital shootout that happened after Meade cut up his own face, prompting …
A Michigan mother and her son will stand trial on upgraded charges in the death of his girlfriend, 17-year-old London Thomas. Jalen Pendergrass, and his mother, 49-year-old Charla Pendergrass, have now been charged with first degree murder in Thomas’s death after a 4-hour preliminary hearing on Thursday, WXYZ reported. Thomas was last seen April 5 …
A Minnesota man pleaded guilty last week to killing and dismembering his pregnant sister because he was angry that she was pregnant and “no longer innocent.” Jack Joseph Ball, 24, pleaded guilty to first degree murder and first degree murder of a fetus, the Dakota County Attorney’s Office said. He had also been charged with …
A former MMA fighter pleaded guilty last week to second degree murder in the death of his 5-year-old daughter, who was found dead stuffed into a pack-and-play so small she lay in it in a fetal position. That’s where Charlotte Buskey spent her last days, locked in the bedroom with no food, no water, and …
A Michigan man accused of killing a prominent Detroit neurosurgeon abruptly took a plae deal this week, two days into jury selection for his trial. Desmond Burks, initially charged with first degree murder, pleaded guilty to second degree murder, larceny, using a computer to commit a crime, and a weapons charge, WXYZ reported. He faces …
Attorneys for a former Massachusetts police office accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend — and staging it to look like a suicide — are to argue Tuesday to move the trial to Rhode Island. Attorneys claim that Matthew Farwell cannot get a fair trial in Massachusetts, Boston25 reports. Farwell was federally indicted in 2024 for …
A Kansas judge suspended proceedings after ruling that former news anchor Angelynn Mock, accused of murdering her mother, is mentally unfit to stand trial. A psychologist’s report, provided to the Sedgwick County Court Tuesday, stated that a doctor found Mock, 48, incompetent to stand trial for the stabbing murder of her mother, 80-year-old Anita Avers. …
A Pennsylvania man charged in a horrific case of child abuse that killed his 12-year-old daughter has entered into a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. Rendell Hoagland, 54, pleaded guilty to first degree murder, conspiracy, kidnapping, and other charges in the May 2024 death of Malinda Hoagland, the Chester County District Attorney’s Office …
The trial of a former IRS officer accused of killing his wife and another man got under way Tuesday with opening statements and testimony from the prosecution’s star witness — the Brazilian au pair Brendan Banfield was having an affair with at the time of the murders. Prosecutors contend that Banfield stabbed his wife to …
Barry Morphew was arraigned Monday afternoon and pleaded not guilty to the murder of his wife, Suzanne Morphew, on Mother’s Day 2020. A judge set a jury trial to begin in October, according to Colorado Public Radio. Morphew was arrested in June in Arizona, where he had been living after a judge dismissed a previous …
