A Tennessee jury has found child killer Megan Boswell guilty on all three first-degree murder counts in connection with the death of her daughter, Evelyn Boswell. In addition to the murder charges ,a Sullivan County jury also convicted Boswell on multiple other counts, including aggravated child abuse and aggravated child neglect, according to WJHL. Boswell …
On Wednesday, a Florida judge postponed the child sex trial for the man charged in last year’s slaying of 13-year-old Madeline Soto. CourtTV reported that Stephan Sterns, 38, waived his appearance at all pre-trial hearings, meaning he was not in court when his lawyers asked to postpone his February 24 trial because they had not accessed …
The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Karen Read can be retried for her boyfriend’s murder, despite a mistrial last year. In July, a jury failed to reach a verdict on two charges — murder and leaving the scene of a fatal accident — against Read. Though some of the jurors expressed, after the …
Luigi Mangione, who allegedly killed a UnitedHealthcare executive last year, officially accepted almost $300,000 in donations for his legal defense on Monday. In a statement issued to The Independent, the December 4 Legal Committee said Mangione, 26, will accept $292,000 in donations that the group raised via GiveSendGo. The committee said it would continue to …
A Texas man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping a 13-year-old girl at gunpoint and driving her to California while repeatedly raping her learned his fate this week in federal court. Steven Robert Sablan, 63, was sentenced to 35 years in prison, KTLA reported. The teen girl was rescued on July 9, 2023, when she flashed …
A Florida man was sentenced to two life terms and 132.5 more years for the murder of a Sarasota County motel housekeeper in 2021, along with other counts including battery and property damage. Tina Strader’s husband found her badly beaten and stuffed into a closet at the Rodeway Inn where she worked in 2021, as …
A Florida jury has acquitted 17-year-old Collin Griffith in his mother’s killing, two years after admitting to fatally shooting his father in self-defense. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Griffith faced accusations of stabbing to death his mother, 39-year-old Catherine Griffith, in September 2022. During a 911 call, he claimed she “fell on a knife” amid a …
Prosecutors ripped into the latest attempt by attorneys for convicted Delphi killer Richard Allen to have his conviction set aside, saying in their response to the defense’s “motion to correct errors” that none of the information they included was new and all had been in the hands of defense since well before the trial. Allen …
Sean “Diddy” Combs was scheduled to appear in a New York federal court on Monday, but the hearing was postponed for two weeks. Sources told WNYW that Combs’ court hearing was postponed at the last minute. This comes amid reports that he was transported to the hospital on Thursday for an MRI on his knee, …
An Alabama woman who pleaded guilty to a murder-for-hire plot had her sentence reduced by a federal judge after the intervention of the target of the plot. Rebecca Elizabeth Murphy, 36, pleaded guilty in US District Court in September ro conspiracy to commit murder for hire and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, …
Charges were dropped this week against an Indiana couple accused of killing their two children and burning their bodies in a firepit, but prosecutors vow to refile the charges. A judge on Wednesday approved the prosecutors’ motion to drop the charges without prejudice, meaning they can be filed again. But an attorney for Steven Valle …
