Following a lengthy trial in Boise, Idaho, Chad Daybell was sentenced to death Saturday for first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the killings of Tammy Daybell, Joshua “JJ” Vallow, and Tylee Ryan. Additionally, he was convicted of insurance fraud. The jury returned guilty verdicts on Thursday, as CrimeOnline reported. JJ, 7, and …
A day after finding Chad Daybell guilty in the murders of his first wife and two of his stepchildren, a Utah jury on Friday returned to deliberations to decide whether to sentence him to death. The jurors heard emotional statements from family members of all three victims and closing arguments from the prosecution and defense …
A Connecticut judge on Friday sentenced Michelle Troconis to 20 years in prison for helping her boyfriend with the murder of Jennifer Dulos, a mother of 5 who disappeared after dropping the children off at school in 2019. Judge Kevin Randolph said that Troconis’s sentence would be suspended after she serves 14 1/2 years, and …
The second woman charged with killing a pregnant teen and ripping her unborn child out of the womb was sentenced on Thursday after she accepted a plea deal for the crime. Desiree Figueroa, 29, apologized to the court, WGN reported, saying she could “never apologize enough for what I did.” Figueroa pleaded guilty to murder …
Attorneys in the case of the graduate student accused of slaughtering four University of Idaho students in 2022 returned to court Thursday for another round of hearings, most centering on the defense’s contention that prosecutors have not given them all the information they’ve requested. Anne Taylor, public defender for Bryan Kohberger, called a police department …
An Idaho jury on Thursday found Chad Daybell guilty of killing stepchildren J.J. Vallow and Tylee Ryan in addition to his wife, Tammy Daybell. J.J. Vallow and Tylee Ryan, 7 and 16, were found buried on Chad Daybell’s property nine months after their disappearances; Ryan’s remains were dismembered and charred, while J.J. was in a …
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein rolled into a Manhattan court in a wheelchair Wednesday as prosecutors said they may have more claims of sexual misconduct before his retrial on rape and sexual assault charges. An appeals court overturned Weinstein’s 2020 conviction, which sent him to prison for 23 years, in April, as CrimeOnline reported. The …
A California judge has denied all but one request for new DNA testing from convicted murderer Scott Peterson’s new defense team on Wednesday. Peterson was convicted and sentenced to death in 2004 for the murders of his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn child, as CrimeOnline reported. He was initially sentenced to death but got …
Jurors will begin deliberating in New York on Wednesday to determine whether Donald Trump falsified business records to cover payments for the silence of an adult film actress about a sexual encounter. While the national media has incessantly called it a “hush money trial,” the payment the former president made to Stephanie Clifford, who performs …
One of six people charged with kidnapping and killing a Utah woman in 2021 has pleaded guilty and implicated his co-defendants. Charging documents say Conzuelo “Nicole” Solorio-Romero, 25, was taken forcibly from her home in Kearns on February 6, 2021, by Orlando Esiesa Tobar, 29, and Jorge Rafael Medina-Reyes, 21, KUTV reported. She was taken …
