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...
Detroit authorities on Wednesday announced an arrest in the fatal April 2023 shooting of 57-year-old neurosurgeon Devon Hoover. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said that Desmond Burks, 34, is charged with first-degree premeditated murder, felony murder, larceny of over $20,000, using a computer to commit a crime and felony firearm possession in connection with Hoover’s...
A pathologist’s controversial ruling that Ellen Greenberg, a 27-year-old Philadelphia woman whose death by 20 stab wounds was a suicide, will receive a new review after Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments from her parents and their attorney. The family learned the court had agreed to hear their case on Tuesday, Greenberg’s mother, Sandee...
Susan Smith is approaching her first shot at parole this fall, 30 years after she drowned her two young sons, but reports of her romances from behind bars show she still sees humans as “disposable,” one expert said. Smith, now 51, is scheduled for her first parole hearing on Nov. 4, three decades to the...
Twenty years after he was convicted for the murder of his wife and unborn child, Scott Peterson hopes that further DNA testing of evidence could win him a retrial —but a former California prosecutor with knowledge of the case said his chances are “unlikely.” In an order filed on July 24, a judge decided that...
When Kim Mager sat across from Shawn Grate, she was expecting to interact with another sex offender, one of many from her decades-long career. Mager, a 30-year veteran of the Ashland City Police Department in Ohio, had no idea she was face-to-face with a serial killer. She interrogated him for 33 hours over eight days....
A former ballerina at the center of the highly publicized “Black Swan murder” case has been convicted of manslaughter. Ashley Benefield, 33, was found guilty by a jury in Manatee County, Florida on Tuesday night. The manslaughter conviction is a step-down from the second-degree murder charge originally issued against Benefield after the death of her...
Yulanda Williams was 12 years old when her family joined the People’s Temple – a religious cult that led to the deaths of more than 900 followers. But before Williams and her family found themselves at the center of “a living nightmare,” the church appeared to be a utopia, a safe haven in San Francisco...
A Minnesota detective’s routine monitoring of a crime-infested chatroom led to the arrest and conviction of a U.K. man who made plans to stalk and murder popular English TV personality Holly Willoughby. In October 2023, the detective had been looking into an online chat called “Abduct Lovers” through Kik, an instant messaging app that allows...
