An elderly serial killer who is imprisoned in New Jersey for murdering six women has reportedly confessed to strangling three teen girls in the late ’60s. Richard Cottingham, 74, is serving a 200-year sentence for killing six in New York and New Jersey between 1967 and 1980. On Friday, officials with the Bergen County Prosecutor’s …
Friends and family a murdered New Jersey college student apparently set up a fake profile that helped lure in a man suspected of assaulting and killing several people. NJ.com reports that Khalil Wheeler-Weaver is on trial for the murder of three young women, including 20-year-old New Jersey City University student, Sarah Butler. Wheeler-Weaver allegedly strangled …
The FBI says Samuel Little is the most prolific serial killer in US history. They’re now asking for the public’s help in identifying more than 90 victims. With Nancy Grace today to discuss the case: Bethany Marshall, Psychoanalyst Bobby Chacon, Former Special Agent FBI, host of FB Watch Series “Curse of Akakor” Karen Smith, Forensics …
A woman was found fatally shot in the neck in Illinois on Sunday—marking the third unsolved murder in the city in the past month, according to reports. KTVI reports that Amanda Legare, 38, was found dead on the side of the road near the intersection of Jefferson and Belleville Avenues in East St. Louis. Her …
The suspected killer, Terry Peder Rasmussen, died in 2010 while serving a prison sentence for his wife’s murder
Bobby Joe Long, who was convicted of murdering at least nine women and in the 1980s, is scheduled to be executed on Thursday after the Florida Supreme Court declined his third appeal. According to the Tampa Bay Times, the panel unanimously dismissed all seven claims Long, 65, brought forth, including a challenge to the state’s …
A Texas man who has been jailed since last year for allegedly killing an elderly woman and attempting to kill two others was indicted on 11 additional capital murder charges this week. Grand juries in Dallas and Collin Counties respectively returned six and five indictments against Billy Chemirmir, 46. Chemirmir is believed to have committed …
A Tennessee man accused of killing seven people has been charged with another murder of a man whose headless body was also discovered last month. Michael Cummins, 25, was shot by police after he killed seven people—including his parents—whose bodies were found in two homes in Westmoreland on April 27. Now, he’s been charged in …
A U.S. Border Patrol agent who reportedly confessed to killing four sex workers in Texas was indicted on capital murder charges Wednesday. Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz said Juan David Ortiz, 35, killed the four women in September because he “wanted to clean up the streets” as he felt not enough was being done to curb prostitution …
A Pennsylvania man with a history of violent behavior could be tied to as many as 16 murders, WPXI-TV reports. Authorities say Regis Andrew Brown, currently serving prison time because he killed his wife and stepdaughter, is a suspect in at least seven other killings and may have knowledge of up to eight additional homicides. …
“BTK Killer” Dennis Rader claims in a just-released interview that a “demon” inside of him caused him to kill 10 people over a 17-year period in Wichita, Kansas. Nancy Grace explores that the 73-year-old serial killer says in the Oxygen documentary “Snapped: Notorious BTK Serial Killer.” Grace’s experts include medical examiner Dr. William Morrone, Southern …
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — A career criminal accused by authorities of raping and killing six women in the 1970s yelled “I am not guilty!” to a jury at the start of his trial Friday for two of the killings. Rodney Halbower also yelled “I have never raped or murdered in my life!” to the …
