A Las Vegas mom accused of decapitating her boyfriend shocked the court after reversing her guilty plea as she was about to be sentenced for his murder.
A Missouri facing first-degree murder charges after allegedly stabbing his father 50 times told authorities it was an accident, according to a criminal complaint.
The man's wife said he mentioned that he "wanted to die" and that he was in pain before he attempted to strangle her, which she said is something he says often.
A Seattle jury convicted Michele Anderson on six counts of first-degree aggravated murder for the shooting deaths of her parents, her brother and sister-in-law her, her 5-year-old niece and her 3-year-old nephew.
A Kansas man was charged on Wednesday with fatally shooting three people and critically injuring two others in a Kansas City neighborhood, prosecutors said.
72-year-old Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor who was convicted of first-degree murder for killing babies that were born alive in his clinic, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for running a 'poll mill' out of the same clinic, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as reported by CNN. Gosnell was found guilty in May.
24-year-old Itzcoatl Ocampo, an Iraqi war veteran, who had been accused of fatally stabbing four homeless men in Southern Califorinia was pronounced dead last Friday after falling ill at the Orange County Jail, CNN reported. Ocampo had been awaiting trial but died in his cell after ingesting Ajax
25-year-old Mingdong Chen has been charged in the stabbing deaths of a murder of mother and four children in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York
18-year-old De'Marquise Elkins was convicted of murder in the shooting death on March 21 of a baby who was riding in a stroller with his mother in a town in Brunswick, Georgia.
A juvenile was arrested by Spoke Washington police in connection with the beating of Delbert Belton, an 88-year-old World War II veteran. The suspect was charged with first-degree robbery and first murder
31-year-old Derek Medina incriminated himself on Facebook, posting a picture of his wife's blood-stained body on his Facebook page, and said that he killed her. Medina turned himself in to police, according to his arrest affidavit. He was charged with first degree murder
John Henry Spooner, a 76-year-old Milwaukee Wisconsin man, was convicted on Wednesday of fatally shooting his 13-year-old neighbor whom he suspected had broken into his home and stole his weapons. The trial now enters a second phase in which the defense will seek toprove that he was mentally ill at the time of the shooting.
Jodi Arias and her attorneys are returning to court on Tuesday in an effort to throw out the jury's finding that made her eligible for the death penalty. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder on May 8 in the stabbing and shooting death of Travis Alexander in Mesa Arizona. About two week ago, the jury that found her guilty of killing Alexander failed to reach a unanimous decision on whether to sentence Arias to life in prison or receive the death penalty.
