By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Days before sentencing, Bill Cosby’s trial judge denied a defense motion to step down from the sex assault case because of what Cosby’s team called a long-ago grudge with a pretrial witness. Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill has seen the case through two trials, hard-fought pretrial hearings and 15 defense lawyers …
The suspected gunman who opened fire in a Middleton, Wisconsin, building on Wednesday was fatally shot by police, the Chicago Tribune reports. Middleton Police Chief Chuck Foulke told the newspaper that the suspect was fatally shot by police. Three more people were injured after the unidentified suspect opened fire at WTS Paradigm, a software company in …
Authorities in Massachusetts are investigating after a reported road rage incident Wednesday left a female pedestrian dead and the male driver who allegedly ran her over fighting for his life. Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan said officers responded to the Watertown intersection of Galen and Watertown at 11:20 a.m and found a woman and …
A Pennsylvania woman is facing murder charges after her 2-year-old son was found mysteriously dead, and an investigation revealed he had ingested the powerful narcotic painkiller vicodin. Lehigh Valley Live reports that Jennifer Clarey of Bucks County has been charged with criminal homicide following the late August death of her 2-year-old son Mazikeen Curtis. According to court …
An English woman has been sentenced to six years in prison after stabbing her cheating husband during an alcohol-fueled rage February 28. Deborah Rose, of Kent, England, screamed, “I’m gonna kill you” before attacking her husband, John Rose, after he “boasted” about being involved with another woman, the Daily Mail reports. The woman was reportedly …
Prosecutors in the Chris Watts family murder case have asked a judge to seal the autopsy reports for his pregnant wife and two young daughters who were found dead last month in a sensational case that has captured national and international media attention. KUSA reports that prosecutors filed a motion in the 19th Judicial District …
LAREDO, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the arrest of a Border Patrol accused of killing four women (all times local): 4:15 p.m. A Texas prosecutor says a Border Patrol agent targeted a vulnerable community when he killed four women. Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz spoke Monday about the allegations against 35-year-old Juan David …
Reality is sinking in for family murder suspect Chris Watts as he remains on suicide watch in a Colorado jail. Watts was arrested last month and charged with the murder of his pregnant wife Shanann Watts and their young daughters Bella and Celeste. According to an arrest affidavit, Chris Watts admitted to killing his wife …
A days-long search that began last week in anticipation of finding clues into the disappearance of a missing Australian woman, who is the subject of a true-crime podcast listened to by millions, has turned up nothing, police say. Lynette Dawson vanished without a trace at the age of 33 in 1982, leaving behind two young …
An inmate housed in a Florida prison reportedly strangled his cellmate, mutilated his body, and came to the prison’s cafeteria wearing the man’s ear as a necklace before guards realized something was wrong. Sources revealed to the Miami Herald that the unnamed inmate at Columbia Correctional Institution killed Larry Mark, 58, (pictured) Thursday morning in the annex, …
A Fort Worth Police officer died following a gunfight with armed robbers during a surveillance operation on Thursday night. Fox News reports that Officer Garrett Hull died within a day of being shot at Los Vaqueros Bar in Forth Worth. Hull and a group of 10 officers had been at the bar conducting surveillance as …
Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers is not only about the killing of Jessica Chambers, but about how her brutal murder — indeed unspeakable in its violence and cruelty – brought national attention and tore apart a small Mississippi town of just over 500 people. Jessica was 19 years old when volunteer firefighters found …
