On the night of May 19, 1983, Diane Downs entered an emergency room with her three children, Christie, 8, Cheryl, 7, and Danny, 3, in a blood-spattered car. What she would initially claim to be a roadside attack would quickly become one of the most infamous cases in the Pacific Northwest.
40 years ago, Dorothea Puente had everyone fooled into thinking she was a kindly grandmother. Friends, tenants at her boarding house, social workers and the police all bought her act. In reality, she was much younger than she appeared, and far from kind. Preying upon the elderly, unhoused people and alcoholics, Dorothea assumed no one would search very hard for her victims.
Two brothers, Jonathan Ritchie, 21, and his brother, Josiah Ritchie 19, have been arrested on charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and other weapon-related offenses for the murder of 63-year-old Debra Derrick.
Angelina Barini will spend the next 30 years of her life in prison for fatally drugging four men in 2019.
More than three decades after 11-year-old Melissa Tremblay was killed in Massachusetts, 74-year-old retired corrections officer Marvin McClendon Jr. of Alabama, has been arrested in connection with her death.
Robert Feldman, 59, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Tuesday for the 2015 killing of his wife 45-year-old Stacy Feldman.
Prosecutors in Florida plan to seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a Daytona Beach couple back in March.
Authorities in Chester County, Pennsylvania, are investigating an apparent murder-suicide that left two adults and one child dead.
8-year-old April Tinsely was walking home from a friends house to pick up an umbrella when she was tragically abducted, raped, and murdered by John D. Miller on April 1, 1988.
Authorities in Wisconsin are classifying the death of Lily Peters as a homicide after her body was found in a wooded area by a walking trail on Monday morning.
Police in San Jose, California are investigating the kidnapping of a 3-month-old baby who they say was taken while his grandmother was unloading groceries on Monday.
Ashton Brown, 26, along with her two children, Bella Ewing-Meeks, 4, and Brixtyn Ewing-Meeks, 8 months, were shot and killed by Brown’s boyfriend and their father, Aschod Ewing-Meeks, 26, before he turned the gun on himself.
China Record, a 4-year-old girl from Baton Rouge, Louisiana is dead after her grandmother forced her to drink a bottle of whiskey while the child’s mother watched.
A Florida woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for trying to hire a hitman and pay him in bitcoin to murder her ex’s spouse.
Dontia Clark, 20, was fatally shot in her apartment on April 10, one day after finding out she was 8-weeks pregnant with her first child.
Authorities have arrested 44-year-old David Bonola in connection with the homicide of Orsolya Gaal, the 51-year-old woman whose body was found in a duffel bag in Queens over the weekend.
This week marks the 29th anniversary of the siege at the Branch Davidians compound in Waco, Texas. What would occur over a 51-day standoff would end with the deaths of 80 people, which included 24 children.
In April of 2006, local authorities were called to the scene of a triple homicide in a family home on a quiet street in Medicine Hat, Alberta. When they realized the Richardson’s 12-year-old daughter was missing from the scene, police issued an Amber Alert. After uncovering some disturbing evidence, the girl quickly went from missing person to person of interest.
10-year-old Zoe McCue died this past Easter Sunday in a house fire allegedly started by her brother on purpose in Loganville, Georgia.
Corinna Slusser was last seen in the early morning hours of September 20, 2017 at the Haven Motel in Rego Park, Queens, NY.
