The mother of an Ohio man on death row for murdering at least three women was killed Saturday evening amid a stabbing spree that also left three children injured, according to reports. Jalen Plummer, 18, was charged with aggravated murder for allegedly fatally stabbing his grandmother, Diane Madison, 67, at her Collingwood home shortly after …
The Supreme Court ordered a new trial for a Mississippi death row inmate who was tried for the same crime six times by a prosecutor accused of showing a pattern of racial bias in the jury selection process. Curtis Flowers, 49, spent 22 years on death row for the 1996 fatal shooting of four employees …
An ex-schoolteacher whose murder of a lover’s wife drew comparisons to the 1987 movie “Fatal Attraction” was released from a New York prison Monday after serving 27 years behind bars. The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision confirmed to CNN that Carolyn Warmus, 55, will be on parole for life following her …
Texas police announced last week that they charged a man with the murder of a transgender woman who was filmed in April being attacked in an unrelated incident, which was being treated as a possible hate crime. Kendrell Lavar Lyles, 33, who is currently jailed for two unrelated slayings of a man and woman (who …
Two bodies found in a remote area in Oregon were confirmed Sunday as belonging to a missing mother and 3-year-old son who were reported missing in mid-May. The Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office said searchers found Karissa and William Fretwell’s bodies Saturday in a heavily wooded region in Yamhill County. Since then, officials concluded that Karissa, …
Five men were convicted Friday for last summer’s stabbing death of a 15-year-old New York boy outside of a bodega, which was caught on video. WPIX reported that Santiago Rodriguez, 24, Joniki Matinez, 24, Jose Muniz, 21, Danel Fernandez, 21, and Manuel Rivera, 18, were found guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, gang assault, and …
Police in Connecticut announced the arrest of a Maine man in connection with the unsolved 1986 sexual assault and murder of an 11-year-old girl who was found dead after she didn’t return home from school. According to the Connecticut Post, a tactical team arrested Marc Karun, 53, on a fugitive from justice warrant as he …
A Pennsylvania woman with ties to an online cult was sentenced to prison Monday for fatally shooting her boyfriend in the head in 2017. Barbara Rogers, 42, will spend 15 to 40 years behind bars for the third-degree murder Steven Mineo, 32. Mineo and Rogers were members of “Sherry Shriner,” which police characterized as an …
‘Though I hear what my kids went through and what they endured—though as a mother, if I could personally rip his face off, I would’
A man in California who killed his business partner, his partner’s wife, and their two sons and buried their bodies in the desert in February 2010 is facing the death penalty after he was convicted of their murders on Monday. Charles Merritt, 62, was found guilty of fatally bludgeoning Joseph McStay, 40, Summer McStay, 43, …
An Illinois woman is behind bars after police say she planned out, then killed her own parents inside their Arlington Heights home on Saturday. ABC 7 reports that 43-year-old Deborah Jane Martin is accused of murdering her parents, 71-year-old Anne Martin and her husband, 72-year-old David Martin. The incident took place inside the elderly couple’s …
An Arizona woman was sentenced to life in prison last week, years after shooting her ex-boyfriend dead amid a custody dispute involving their then-infant son. Kathryn Sinkevitch, 35, is ineligible for parole for the first-degree murder of Michael Agerter. Surveillance videos captured Sinkevitch opening fire on Agerter as he pulled into the garage of his …
