A Wisconsin jury deliberated for about 20 minutes before returning a guilty verdict for a man accused of killing a 19-year-old woman and distributing her body parts at several locations near Milwaukee. Maxwell Anderson, son of a prominent insurance executive, was found guilty of first degree homicide, mutilating a corpse, arson, and hiding a corpse …
Testimony resumed Friday in Karen Read’s murder retrial at Norfolk Superior Court in Massachusetts. As CrimeOnline previously reported, prosecutors alleged that Read, 45, intentionally backed her Lexus SUV into her boyfriend, Boston police Officer John O’Keefe, in a drunken rage early January 29, 2022, after dropping him off outside a home on Fairview Road in …
A retired ER doctor and former medical director took the stand Monday in Karen Read’s murder retrial. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Read, 45, a former adjunct professor at Bentley University, faces second-degree murder and other charges related to the death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe. Prosecutors alleged that Read hit O’Keefe with …
The first trial in connection with the murder of a Kentucky mom who disappeared in 2015 has ended less than a week after it started, with a jury finding Steven Lawson guilty of conspiracy to murder and tampering with physical evidence. The jury, which deliberated about 2 1/2 hours before returning the verdict, recommended 17 …
A crash reconstructionist returned to the stand Wednesday in Karen Read’s second murder. Read is accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, by running him over with her Lexus SUV. She’s currently on trial at the Norfolk Superior Court in Massachusetts. Crash reconstruction expert Judson Welcher endured cross-examination Wednesday from Read’s defense …
Massachusetts jurors heard a series of profanity-laced voicemails Tuesday that Karen Read left for her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, in the early morning hours of January 29, 2022—the same day prosecutors say she struck and killed him with her SUV. According to CBS News, prosecutors played the messages during the tenth day of …
A jury last week convicted a Colorado man of first degree murder for his part in a night of teenaged rock-throwing that killed a woman as the landscaping stone he hurled crashed through her windshield and struck her. Two co-defendants pleaded guilty for their parts in the April 19, 2023, incident that killed Alexa Bartell, …
An Arizona jury has returned a verdict of guilty for Lori Vallow Daybell in her trial for conspiracy to kill her fourth husband in 2019 — the incident that began a series of deaths and attempted murders that saw her and her fifth husband ultimately convicted of killing two of her children and his first …
The sentencing trial of a man guilty of killing a Houston family of three has come to a close. On March 24, moments before opening statements were given at 30-year-old Xavier Davis’s trial, he pleaded guilty to the murders of Donyavia Lagway, 29, Gregory Carhee, 35, and Harmoney Carhee, 6. Davis’s guilty plea immediately moved …
A Pennsylvania judge was found guilty this week of attempted murder and aggravated assault stemming from the February 20, 2024, shooting of her ex-boyfriend at his home in Susquehanna Township. Sonya McKnight, a Dauphin County magisterial judge, was found guilty of shooting the victim in the head while he was sleeping, according to the Cumberland …
The Arizona trial began Monday for Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho mom who was convicted nearly two years ago in the murders of two of her children and her doomsday writer fifth husband’s first wife. Vallow Daybell is charged in Maricopa County with conspiracy to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, and the attempted murder …
An Ohio man was sentenced last week for killing his girlfriend two years ago and leaving her then-10-year-old son at home with the body while he occasionally brought the boy food. Kandawaswika Kahari, 22, pleaded guilty last December to aggravated murder, felonious assault, and gross abuse of a corpse, WCMH reported. According to the Franklin …
