A 12-year-old Texas girl has been accused of shooting her 38-year-old father last Tuesday evening before turning the gun on herself. Both survived, and now investigators are alleging the girl and a friend reportedly plotted to kill both of their families and pets before running away to Georgia together.
Ten years after the release of instant horror classic Scream, the film served as inspiration for the gruesome murder of 16-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddart. Hired to housesit for family members, the teen was killed in a quiet country home in Pocatello, Idaho. Tucked away out of view from neighbours, Cassie's attackers saw her as the perfect target.
Preliminary charges were filed Thursday against Bolanle Fadairo, 38, of Houston, Texas following the Tuesday murders of Michael Essien, 38, and his 2-year-old son Micah.
Thousands got out of their homes Tuesday night to protest the death of Amini and the violence of the morality police who have been terrorizing women for decades. Protests ranged from the capital Tehran to more traditionally conservative strongholds like Mashad.
Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison on charges of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. Lane plead guilty in February to federal charges of violating George Floyd’s civil rights.
The former Kansas City officer, Roger Golubski, 69, who had long been suspected of raping and terrorizing Black women while on duty, was arrested Thursday for sexually assaulting two women multiple times from 1998 to 2002.
Baltimore Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn approved a motion by prosecutors Monday to overturn Adnan Syed’s murder conviction in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee. Syed’s case gained national attention after it was focused on the podcast Serial.
"They are not going to let me go, love you," the message from her mother was sent to Amanda Bearden’s Venmo account on Sept. 10, along with $2,400 by her mother, Deborrah Collier. "There is a key to the house in the blue flower pot by the door."
Music executive and manager Chaka Zulu was recently charged with murder after a June shooting which he was injured. Zulu, whose legal name is Ahmed Obafemi, is the longtime manager of rapper Ludacris.
59 years ago this week, 4 little black girls were killed and many others were injured in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. The event would serve as the catalyst for the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965, but victim’s families and survivors would wait 40 years to see the perpetrators of this crime behind bars.
Thirty-year-old Erin Merdy has been arrested and charged with three counts of second-degree murder after she allegedly drowned her three children near Coney Island in New York City.
After pleading not guilty to the death of Christe Chen, Bradley Dawson appeared in court on Tuesday and was denied bail. Dawson was accused of murdering Chen on their honeymoon in Fiji, where Chen was discovered with multiple head and body traumas.
A red hand over the mouth has become the symbol of a growing movement, MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women), which stands for all the voices that have not been heard by media, society, and the government. It stands for the oppression and untold stories of Native women who we have lost and keep losing.
Mark David Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon in 1980, was denied parole for the 12th time after his most recent appearance in front of the New York parole board.
Rapper PnB Rock, born Rakeem Allen, was shot and killed during an attempted robbery Monday afternoon at Roscoe’s Chicken ‘N Waffles restaurant in Los Angeles, California.
Hell's Kitchen is known for its famous restaurants these days, but if you look closely enough, you will see evidence of its dark past: the fingerprints of the Capeman, the Torso Serial Killer, the Butcher of Times Square, and the Cannibal Chef.
The Cecil County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a murder-suicide which took place last Friday in Elk Mills, Maryland. The victims have been identified as Tara Milligan, 37, Nora Milligan, 11, Finn Milligan, 8, and Teresa Milligan, 4.
In Philadelphia, February 1957, a college student came across a box discarded in the woods, which held the body of a malnourished boy between the age of three and seven. The cause of death appeared to be blows to the head. While several major theories have been developed as to who the boy was and what happened to him, his case remains unsolved after over sixty years.
The New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation is still seeking assistance to help solve a 26-year-old cold case.
As the front woman for Seattle-based rock band The Gits, Mia Zapata was building herself a promising career before she was killed on July 7, 1993. Her killer would walk free for ten years before finally being linked to her brutal murder.
