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‘6 Years Free!’: Evidence revisited six years after ‘Foxy Knoxy’ Amanda Knox released from jail following flatmate’s brutal murder

 ‘6 Years Free!’: Evidence revisited six years after ‘Foxy Knoxy’ Amanda Knox released from jail following flatmate’s brutal murder
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On Nov. 1, 2007, Meredith Kercher, a British exchange student studying abroad in Italy, was senselessly murdered inside a Perugia cottage. Her Italian flatmates were away celebrating, and her fellow exchange student roommate, Amanda Knox, was out with her boyfriend. On Nov. 2, Italian detectives found Kercher stabbed to death inside her locked bedroom. The …

Steven Avery
Famous Murder Cases
October 3, 2017

Motion denied! Steven Avery loses bid for new trial

A Wisconsin judge wrote a six-page memorandum decision on whether Steven Avery, the centerpiece of the popular Netflix docuseries, Making a Murderer, should be granted a new trial in connection with the 2005 murder of freelance photographer, Teresa Halbach. The judge announced on Tuesday that Avery failed to meet the legal standard for another trial. …

Friday Crime Stories: Child killer Susan Smith’s prison mischief & Florida police say they caught a ‘killer clown’
Famous Murder Cases
September 29, 2017

Friday Crime Stories: Child killer Susan Smith’s prison mischief & Florida police say they caught a ‘killer clown’

Notorious child killer Susan Smith has been misbehaving in a South Carolina prison, where she is serving a life sentence for the deaths of her two sons, according to People magazine’s Steve Helling. Helling joins Nancy Grace, Crime Stories contributing reporter Mary Ellen Hopkins, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan from Jacksonville State University, and co-host …

SEE IT: Photos of remains found in search for Natalee Holloway released
Famous Murder Cases
September 21, 2017

SEE IT: Photos of remains found in search for Natalee Holloway released

Oxygen has released photos of bone fragments that may belong to missing Natalee Hollway, who disappeared on a high school graduation trip to Aruba in 2005. The Oxygen docuseries The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway has chronicled the search for her possible remains and the difficult process of identifying them. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a tipster …

BREAKING: Arrest made in 25-year-old murder of Massachusetts woman
Famous Murder Cases
September 18, 2017

BREAKING: Arrest made in 25-year-old murder of Massachusetts woman

Investigators have made an arrest in a cold case murder that has gone unsolved for a quarter of a century. MassLive.com reports that Gary E. Schara has been arrested and charged with the murder of Lisa Ziegert, who was killed in 1992 in Agawam. She was 24 years old at the time of her murder. District Attorney …

CrimeOnline Evidence Locker: Watch the Scott Peterson interrogation tapes
Famous Murder Cases
July 24, 2017

CrimeOnline Evidence Locker: Watch the Scott Peterson interrogation tapes

Laci Peterson vanished on Christmas Eve, 2002, and although it’s been almost 15 years since the Modesto mom-to-be disappeared, the hurt and pain still lingers for her family and friends. Interrogation tapes released earlier this year show her husband, the infamous convict Scott Peterson, casually mentioning what Laci did before she went missing, which further infuriated …