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...
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...
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...
As a child, Michael Franzese suspected his father was in the mafia. “My dad took me and my mom one day to my grandmother’s house on Long Island,” the Brooklyn native recalled to Fox News Digital. “I was probably four or five years old at that point. We hadn’t seen him for a couple of...
Rusty Yates, whose ex-wife Andrea Yates drowned their five children one by one in 2001, has reportedly forgiven the notorious killer mom and even speaks with her on a monthly basis. Yates, 59, regularly calls Kerrville State Hospital in Texas –a facility for criminals who are deemed incompetent to stand trial or found “not guilty...
Nineteen-year-old Melissa Witt was abducted, then murdered on her way to an Arkansas bowling alley to surprise her mother in December 1994.Nearly 30 years later, her killer has still not been apprehended. Investigators would find blood and signs of an apparent struggle in the Fort Smith Bowling World parking lot and in Witt’s abandoned car....
Imagine finding out the cousin you’d spent some of the best moments of childhood with grew up to be a serial killer. That’s what happened to Edna Cowell Martin, Ted Bundy’s cousin, in the 1970s, she says in her new memoir, “Dark Tide.” Martin, 72, is the first of Bundy’s relatives to write a book...
Laci Peterson’s mom revealed in a new interview that she had uneasy feelings about her former son-in-law Scott as soon as she met him – years before he would be convicted of killing his pregnant wife and dumping her remains in the San Francisco Bay. “I remember, before I met Scott, Laci telling me all...
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...
