Tennessee’s Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday reinstated the murder convictions of a Sumner County woman who was accused of killing twin newborns she secretly gave birth to in her parents’ home in 2011. A Sumner County judge threw out Lindsey Lowe’s convictions in 2022 and ordered a new trial, citing juror bias in the …
Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has appealed that 2022 conviction in a Los Angeles appeals court. Attorneys filed the appeal on Friday after a series of extensions to give them more time to file the documents, KCBS reported. The disgraced movie mogul was convicted in December 2022 of sexually assaulting an actress in a Los Angeles …
A South Carolina judge on Friday dismissed the case against a father and stepmother charged earlier this year with killing their 5-year-old son. Victor Turner and Megan R. Turner were charged in January in the murder of Justin Turner in 1989, as CrimeOnline reported. Investigators said that Megan Turner, then known as Pamela Turner, told …
On Monday, convicted triple murderer Chad Daybell filed a notice to appeal his conviction and death penalty sentence for killing his wife and two stepchildren in Idaho in 2019. According to East Idaho News, Daybell has asked the state Supreme Court to review his death penalty sentence, which was handed down on Saturday. He has …
Jury selection got under way this week in the trial of a Florida man accused of killing two Cape Coral women in 2019, but not until after he was given make-up to cover some of his swastika and stitch tattoos and street clothes to look more “presentable” for potential jurors. Wade Wilson, 30, is charged …
Years after she was exonerated of the brutal murder of her roommate, Amanda Knox returned to Italy this week and was found guilty of slander for accusing an innocent man of killing Meredith Kercher. Knox, 36, was sentenced to three years in prison for the false accusation of Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba in 2007, …
The special prosecutors in the New Mexico trial of actor Alec Baldwin on involuntary manslaughter charges want a judge to force “Rust” movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, already convicted on the same charge, to testify against him. Gutierrez-Reed is already on Baldwin’s witness list for his trial, set to begin July 9. Baldwin is charged in …
A judge on Monday flatly rejected a defense motion for a new trial for the 60-year-old millionaire convicted of running down two young brothers while they were walking with their family nearly four years ago. Rebecca Grossman, the 60-year-old co-founder with her plastic surgeon husband of a Losa Angeles burn center, was convicted in February …
A former Virginia police officer has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for gunning down his wife and stepdaughter and shooting at police officers who responded to the scene for his hours-long standoff. Richard Crowder, 60, pleaded guilty in February to the deaths of Diane Crowder, 53, and Carrie Czaksz, 35, in July 2022, …
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 …
