A newly unsealed search warrant reveals a Utah detective’s suspicions that Kouri Richins’ mother may have been involved in planning the death of Richins’ husband, Eric. Kouri Richins is accused of lacing a Moscow Mule she made for her husband with five times the lethal amount of fentanyl in March 2022, as Crime Online has …
Indiana’s Special Judge Fran Gull discussed two separate issues Monday in connection with the Delphi murder case against Richard Allen, including a push by Allen’s law team to drop murder charges. During the court hearing Monday in Fort Wayne, Allen’s attorney, Andrew Baldwin, argued that murder charges should be dropped against his client, claiming police …
A former California fertility doctor was sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison for murdering his wife and staging it to look like she fell down the stairs. E. Scott Sills, 58, was found guilty in December in the murder of Susan Sills, 45, as CrimeOnline reported. Sills was arrested in 2019, more …
An Ohio judge ruled last week that an interrogation video cannot be shown at the trial of a man who allegedly confessed to killing his three sons last year. Judge Richard Ferenc ruled that Chad Doerman’s rights were violated when Detective Michael Ross failed to read him his Miranda Rights verbatim, according to court documents …
An Idaho judge issued a series of orders last week as the start date of Chad Daybell’s trial for the murders of two of his wife’s children and his first wife rapidly approaches. Daybell’s trial is set to begin on April 1 in Ada County, Idaho, where Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted last year on …
Scott Peterson appeared in a California court on Tuesday amid claims that DNA evidence will exonerate him in his wife and unborn son’s murders. The Los Angeles Times reported that the Los Angeles Innocence Project is backing Peterson’s case. Paula Mitchell, executive director of the nonprofit organization, argued in court that Peterson’s rights were violated …
A New Hampshire judge has approved the request made by Harmony Montgomery’s biological mother to declare the 5-year-old girl as legally deceased. Crystal Sorey appeared at the Nashua District Court Monday, urging the judge to recognize Harmony as legally dead so that she can be appointed as the administrator of Harmony’s estate. Sorey’s basis for …
The biological mother of Harmony Montgomery requested a judge to declare her daughter legally deceased, with plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the state of New Hampshire. In a probate court hearing in Nashua this week, Crystal Sorey urged the court to recognize Harmony as legally dead and to appoint her as the …
The man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022 has asked the Idaho Supreme Couty to review a trial ruling denying their request to toss a grand jury indictment. According to KTVB, Bryan Kohberger’s attorneys confirmed during a February 28 hearing that the matter had been introduced to the state Supreme Court, …
The woman in charge of weaponry on the set of Alec Baldwin’s western movie was found guilty Wednesday of involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The jury deliberated for less than three hours after getting the case Wednesday afternoon before returning the verdict. The jurors found Hannah Gutierrez-Reed not guilty of tampering …
A Texas man was convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole in the death of his girlfriend, who was pregnant with their twin boys at the time. Darionne Burley was found shot to death on June 29, 2020, in the passenger seat of Maurice Kelso Smith’s vehicle in Mansfield, where he left the …
A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to life in prison last week for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl and the rape of a second victim afterward. Jason Shackelford, 40, pleaded guilty to first degree murder, rape of a child, two counts of rape, three counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, four counts of …
