A court in Hong Kong on Monday adjourned the trial of a 29-year-old British banker charged with killing two women until later this month to allow for the suspect to undergo a psychiatric assessment.
After three gruelling days of cross examination of the defense's expert witness, the murder trial of the man known as "Blade Runner" would resume on May 5.
More than 100 people suspected of Mafia involvement in Italy were arrested Friday as police launched two separate operations near Rome and in the country's southern Calabria region.
The Bardstown, Kentucky police department, which was mourning the ambush killing of one of its officers, has received threats that more men will be targeted, which has prompted an investigation by the FBI and state police, the police chief said Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. The department said that they received a written threat last week that "there are more to come." This threat comes a month after Bardstown Officer Jason Ellis was killed while he was headed home from work,
Authorities in northwest Ohio say a 29-year-old man chased and fatally shot his 20 -year-old ex-girlfriend in her car before barricading himself in his home and committed suicide.
Turkish police on Sunday detained a man, authorities identified only as Ziya T, wanted for the killing of a 33-year old Staten Island mother, Sarai Sierra, in Istanbul.
Two men armed armed with machine gun and a handgun opened fire in a bar on the outskirts of the Mexican tourist resort of Cancun on Thursday, killing six people and wounding five, the office of the state's attorney general said.
Two fifth-graders had were held on $100,000 bond each after being charged with conspiracy to commit murder at their school in Washington state in their complicated plot to kill other students.
Reeva Steenkamp, the 30 year old model who was shot four times to death in the early morning at paraolympian Oscar Pistorius' house, had a socially-conscious heart and a bright future
The investigation into who killed the Staten Island mother vacationing in Istanbul, Sarai Sierra, is focused on a homeless man who was seen in the seedy neighborhood of the city where her body was found, news reports said.
Jodi Arias, who is charged with killing her lover Travis Alexander out of malice, broke down in tears on Monday, describing her relationship with the victim who she said merely sought to satisfy Travis Alexander's "deviant" sexual urges and how he once beat her, kicked her in the ribs, and broke her finger, as reported by the Associated Press
New reports suggest that Steve Hodel, the author of "Black Dahlia Avenger" teamed up with retired police Sgt. Paul Dostie in hopes of seeking new evidence to Elizabeth Short's -the Black Dahlia.
The day included court testimony that Arias was kept away from her dead lover Travis Alexander's Mormon friends, and that their affair was kept by secret by him.
