A 21-year-old Arizona man received a hefty prison sentence last week after pleading guilty to gunning down a couple when his purchase of a classic sports car from them fell through. Alexander Smith pleaded guilty to two counts of first degree murder and one count of burglary and was sentenced to two consecutive life terms …
An Arizona man faces multiple charges after his girlfriend told police she had escaped from a shed where he’d held her while assaulting her for several days. Police received a 911 call late in the afternoon on July 2 from a home in the neighborhood where Timothy James Wood, 36, lived, KTVK reported. The woman …
Arizona officials have arrested a group of four 5th grade girls in a plot to kill a boy at a Surprise charter school and stage it to look like a suicide. A recently released police report said the 10- and 11-year-old girls made the plan during lunch and recess on October 1, 2024, KPHO reported. …
A man wanted for killing his mother and stepfather in Arizona earlier this week was shot and killed by Missouri state troopers on Tuesday. The Snowflake-Taylor Police Department responded to a welfare check call on Sunday night and found Cynthia Templeton, 53, and Troy Templeton, 62, dead from apparent gunshot wounds, KNXV reported. Police were …
An Arizona jury deliberated for 30 minutes on Thursday before finding Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of conspiring to kill her niece’s ex-husband in 2019. It’s the third jury to find the so-called “cult mom” guilty of serious crimes. An Idaho jury convicted her in the deaths of two of her children and her fifth husband’s …
A convicted Arizona con man was tracked down in Utah and charged with the murder of his former neighbor earlier this year. Court documents say the body of 82-year-old Linda Baran was found on February 11 in the backseat of her car in her garage, KPHO reported. Furniture inside the home showed signs of a …
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 …
Lori Vallow Daybell rested her case last week without calling any witnesses or presenting any evidence to support her contention that she did not conspire with her brother to kill her fourth husband in 2019. Daybell, who opted to represent herself in the Arizona trial after being convicted in Idaho of the murders of two …
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 …
A Phoenix man has been charged with gunning down his brother, a prominent attorney, in the brother’s driveway on Friday morning. Christopher Eaves, 49, was arrested when he returned to the crime scene with his parents later that morning while Phoenix Police were on scene investigating, KTVK reported. In court on Saturday, Eaves argued with …
Attorneys for an Arizona teenager have filed notice of their intent to sue the city of Phoenix and three of its police officers for a violent alteracation that broke the then-16-year-old boy’s wrist, cut his face, and saw the officers inform his father that he could essentially do anything he wanted to the boy and …
A 3-year-old Arizona boy is dead and his 23-year-old father has been charged in his death. South Tucson Police responded to a call about a shooting Wednesday morning, KGUN reported. Later, police said the boy had died and Anthony Noriega was arrested and charged with negligent homicide and domestic violence endangerment. No details about the …
