Chad Daybell’s attorney has filed a motion to withdraw from his case and requested that the accused murderer be appointed two public defenders qualified to work the death penalty case. John Prior wrote in his motion that his client had confirmed that he cannot pay for his services and that he is withdrawing with Daybell’s …
A West Virginia man accused of murdering his 3-month-old daughter appeared in a Cabell County court on Tuesday, with a motion announcing that he has intentions to marry a woman on the witness list. Shannon Overstreet pleaded not guilty at the arraignment to charges of murder, abuse, and concealment in front of Cabell County Circuit …
A Kentucky judge has lowered the bond for one of three men charged in the disappearance and presumed death of mom of 5 Crystal Rogers. Steve Lawson, 53, appeared in court last week with his attorneys to argue that his $500,000 bond should be dropped to $20,000, WHAS reported. On Tuesday, Nelson County Judge Charles …
A homicide suspect who broke out of a northwestern Pennsylvania prison last year and evaded arrest until a pet dog played a crucial role in his capture, will serve a decades-long prison sentence. On Friday, a Warren County judge sentenced Michael Burham, 35, to serve from 25-plus years to 50-plus years after the defendant’s guilty …
A Texas man sentenced to death for three murders is now seeking a new trial, calling his 2014 conviction unfair and biased. According to The Dallas Morning News, former justice of the peace and attorney Eric Williams was sentenced to death for orchestrating a revenge plot resulting in three 2013 fatalities. Now, attorneys representing Williams …
A retired South Carolina chief justice will hear arguments later this month on whether the Colleton County court clerk tampered with the jury in disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial last year. Murdaugh was convicted of the shooting deaths of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, and sentenced to consecutive life sentences. He has …
Former horse show producer Tatyana Remley entered a guilty plea this week for solicitation to commit murder. Remley, 43, appeared in the Vista Superior Court Monday, where she received a sentence of three years and eight months in state prison, as part of a plea agreement. She was convicted of solicitation to murder after hiring …
Prosecutors in Arizona say they will seek the death penalty for a 22-year-old man accused of stabbing a 29-year-old skin care technician to death on a hiking trail last spring. Lauren Heike’s parents released a statement saying they’d learned from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office that they had filed the notice of intent to seek …
The man accused of killing rap legend Tupac Shakur in 1996 has made “credible threats to witnesses” against him and should not be granted bail until his trial next year, Las Vegas prosecutors say in a 180-page court filing. Prosecutors said in the documents filed Thursday that they learned from jailhouse interviews that Duane “Keffe …
On Tuesday, a judge sealed a motion filed by University of Idaho quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger in which he unsuccessfully sought to have his case dismissed. WFMZ reported that the reconsideration motion, which would have dismissed the charges against Kohberger, was denied last week. Kohberger has pleaded not guilty, and prosecutors proposed his trial …
After serving eight years in a Missouri prison, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is scheduled for release on Thursday. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Blanchard will be released from the Chillicothe Correctional Center on December 28, after serving time for second-degree murder. According to Missouri state law, Blanchard qualifies for early release after serving 85% of her sentence, …
