A mother was found dead in a ditch after her child reported her missing and the woman’s boyfriend was arrested.

An Indiana man is accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend in the back, before covering her body in blankets and leaving her corpse to decompose on his living room floor.

A South Carolina man reportedly killed his former partner and her two daughters in a fit of rage before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life.

Brandon Shaw, 35, reported Sierra Kathleen Henderson Ashburn, 28, missing the morning of Wednesday, May 6, according to a statement from the Surry County Sheriff’s Office.

Later that same day, detectives from the sheriff’s office drove out the couple’s Mount Airy home to follow up with Shaw and began asking him questions about the disappearance, The Mount Airy News reports.

Authorities said Shaw provided “details” that led them to find Ashburn’s body buried on the property.

Last week, 38-year-old therapist Amie Harwick died from blunt force trauma after a violent encounter at her Hollywood home involving an ex-boyfriend.

Jury selection has begun in the trial of a Colorado rancher suspected of killing his flight instructor fiance and burning her body on his property.

A Mississippi city has fired a police officer charged in the killing of a woman with whom he was romantically involved.