Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer convicted of killing a man in his own apartment when she mistakenly thought it was her unit, lost her first round of appeals this week. Botham Jean was sitting on his sofa eating ice cream on September 6, 2018, when Guyger, still in uniform, entered his apartment. She …
A Texas jury deliberated for more than seven hours on Friday before sentencing Otis McKane to death for killing San Antonio Police Detective Benjamin Marconi in 2016. The jury took just 25 minutes last month to convict McKane, and he promptly attacked a bailiff who tried to handcuff him after the verdict, as CrimeOnline previously …
A 19-year-old British woman sobbed in court Friday when a judge sentenced her to nine years in prison after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter for leaving her toddler daughter alone for nearly a week while she celebrated her 18th birthday. Paramedics who responded to Verphy Kudi’s apartment after she returned on December 11, 2019, found …
On Thursday, a Texas appeals court upheld the murder conviction of a former police officer who is serving a 10-year sentence for fatally shooting her upstairs neighbor in his own apartment in 2018. Ex-Dallas cop Amber Guyger, 32, argued that she was not culpable of murder because she mistakenly believed she was in her own …
A judge has ruled that surveillance video footage and evidence taken from the home of a NYPD traffic cop accused of killing his son will be permitted in court. Michael Valva, a former member of NYPD, and his girlfriend fiancee Angela Pollina are both charged with murder in the death of Michael’s 8-year-old son Thomas …
Idaho prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for Chad Daybell, according to a notice filed Thursday in the 7th Judicial Court District. Daybell is charged with first degree murder in the deaths of his first wife, Tammy Daybell, and two of his second wife’s children, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow. Their …
Three other former Minnesota police officers who are charged in George Floyd’s May 2020 death asked on Tuesday to have their federal trial separated from their ex-colleague, Derek Chauvin, who is currently serving a 22-year sentence. According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, attorneys for Thomas Lane, 37, J. Alexander Kueng, 26, and Tou Thao, 34, filed …
An Iowa judge on Monday denied a request for a new trial for the man convicted of killing jogger Mollie Tibbetts in 2018. At a lengthy hearing last week, Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s attorneys argued for a new trial after two witnesses told authorities they heard another man admit he killed the 20-year-old Tibbetts and that …
Robert Long, a Georgia man who confessed to killing numerous Asian people earlier this year, could still get the death penalty despite taking a plea deal to spare his life. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Long pleaded guilty Tuesday morning during a hearing at the Superior Court of Cherokee County in Canton, to the murders of …
Convicted killer Cristhian Rivera’s defense lawyers argued in court Tuesday that he should be afforded a new trial, claiming other witnesses pinned Mollie Tibbetts’ murder on others. The prosecution argued that there is no doubt that the real killer has been apprehended. Rivera, who was found guilty this year of murdering 20-year-old Tibbetts in 2018, …
A man attacked a bailiff inside a Texas court on Monday after he was found guilty of fatally shooting a police officer in 2016. KENS reported that it took a jury 25 minutes to unanimously convict Otis McKane, 36, of San Antonio police Detective Benjamin Marconi’s capital murder. McKane, who was speechless after the verdict, …
A South Carolina jury convicted Nathaniel Rowland of first-degree murder on Tuesday, in connection with the death of 21-year-old University of South Carolina student, Samantha Josephson. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Columbia Police arrested Rowland in March 2019 for Josephson’s murder. According to police, Rowland’s car was spotted on security footage in the parking lot of …
