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...
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...
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...
A Las Vegas attorney weighed in as the start of the trial of the former Las Vegas-area politician accused of killing an investigative journalist began on Monday with jury selection. Robert Telles, a former Democrat Clark County administrator of estates, has remained jailed since his arrest in September 2022, days after Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter...
Federal prosecutors have asked a court to toss Alex Murdaugh’s appeal on federal financial crimes as the convicted killer and fraudster seeks a sentence reduction, according to court documents. They argued that he signed away his right to appeal the sentence as part of his plea deal, when he admitted to scamming 27 victims and...
Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman who was accused of killing her police officer boyfriend with a vehicle in January 2022, was back in court Friday for a hearing discussing her defense team’s motion to dismiss. Attorney Martin Weinberg argued for Read in court on Friday. Attorneys Alan Jackson and David Yannetti previously argued that two...
The family of French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet has filed a wrongful death suit totaling $50 million after the June 2023 implosion of the OceanGate Titan explorer submersible.77-year-old Nargeolet was one of the five onboard the Titan submersible which imploded while descending to explore the Titanic wreckage in the North Atlantic on June 18, 2023. All...
In a painful perversion of justice, the U.S. agreed to a plea deal with terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his two accomplices that spares them the death penalty for the murders of nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001. The long-suffering family members of the victims expected and deserved justice, but many will be...
A Missouri man was freed from prison Tuesday after his murder conviction was overturned after 34 years behind bars, despite the state attorney general’s efforts to keep him there. “I never gave up because my family never gave up,” Christopher Dunn said from the steps of the downtown St. Louis courthouse. “It’s easy to give...
FIRST ON FOX – Members of a synagogue in Los Angeles have filed a lawsuit against three major protest groups for organizing a “riot” that “violently blocked Jews” from their place of worship last month. “Targeting Jewish families on their way to exercise their religious freedom at a house of worship is abhorrent and has...
