(NEW YORK) — A man accused of luring 6-year-old Etan Patz into the basement of a convenience store with the promise of a soda in 1979 and strangling him was charged with second-degree murder on Friday, the 33rd anniversary of the boy’s disappearance.
Four witnesses — all unnamed — in the Trayvon Martin second-degree murder case are changing their accounts of what they saw on the night he was shot to death by George Zimmerman, according to reports in the Orlando Sentinel.
Police are trying to figure out why 74-year-old Sandra Layne shot and killed her 17-year-old grandson Jonathan Hoffman last Friday, just weeks before his high school graduation.
After a five year investigation, a new report concludes that Carlos DeLuna had nothing to do with the murder for which he was put to death in 1989.
According to a medical examiner’s report, a doctor diagnosed Zimmerman with a fractured nose, two black eyes and cuts on his head the day after the fatal encounter.
A jury took three days to find Jennifer Hudson’s estranged brother-in-law guilty of killing three of her relatives in a jealous rage.
(LOS ANGELES) — A former Los Angeles police detective was sentenced Friday to 27 years to life in prison for murdering the wife of her former lover 26 years ago.
Adam Mayes, hunted by police for alleged murder and kidnapping, may believe he fathered two of the children he abducted.
Fireworks erupted during the closing arguments in the murder trial of William Balfour, as both sides accused the other of failing to prove their case.
A horse groomer was found dead at Churchill Downs the morning after the Kentucky Derby.
