For years, Scott Peterson said he didn’t kill his pregnant wife Laci or their unborn son, Conner. But prosecutors say he did and that the evidence is “overwhelming.” Peterson, convicted in 2004, returned to the headlines this year after the Los Angeles Innocence Project announced it would take up his latest appeal. He also broke...
The number of homicides in major American cities through the first six months of Biden’s last year in office is plunging compared to the same time period during former President Trump’s administration, a report says. Data from the Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA) is showing a 13% drop in homicides among 66 cities from January...
A North Carolina sheriff issued a new warning Wednesday as the manhunt for an escaped convicted murderer, Ramone Jamarr Alston, dubbed the “Christmas Day Killer,” entered its second day. Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood said he grew up with the escapee’s father and has known him for a long time. “He was a troubled child,...
A Michigan father of two was shot and killed Saturday after a confrontation with his neighbor turned deadly, police said. The violence unfolded just before noon in a quiet residential neighborhood in Canton. One neighbor told FOX 2 the neighborhood had never had an episode like this in the more than three decades he had...
Idaho prosecutors have formally objected to University of Idaho students murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s motion to change venue and have his trial moved out of Latah County, where the slayings took place. The filing, signed by Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson and Ingrid Batey, a special assistant attorney general for the state, was made public...
A Philadelphia man has pleaded guilty to stabbing and killing his neighbor after the neighbor threatened him over his loud snoring. Christopher Casey, 56, of Upper Morland, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court on Aug. 7 to 11.5 to 23 months in county jail followed by three years’ probation after pleading guilty to the manslaughter...
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to take on Alex Murdaugh’s appeal based on jury tampering allegations. Murdaugh, 56, was convicted in 2023 for killing his wife and son on a family hunting estate in 2021 as a means to get access to life insurance funds as his ever-growing stack of financial crimes...
FIRST ON FOX: A deputy district attorney in Los Angeles has filed a complaint against his bosses for an alleged “extensive retaliation campaign” that derailed his career and saw him suspended without pay and punished further for “misgendering” a convicted child predator and killer – the latest in roughly two dozen whistleblower lawsuits. “For the...
Johnny Wactor’s mother, Scarlett Wactor, and family and friends asked citizens for help finding the suspects responsible for murdering the late actor. The “General Hospital” star was shot and killed May 25 when authorities claimed Wactor and a co-worker interrupted thieves attempting to steal the catalytic converter from his vehicle parked in downtown Los Angeles....
A man was stabbed in the abdomen outside the Randall’s Island migrant shelter in New York City, just two weeks after a deadly shooting unfolded at the same site. At approximately 10:33 a.m. on Sunday, officers responded to a 911 call for an assault at Randall’s Island Field 82, within the confines of the 25th...
