WINONA, Minn.—The former boyfriend of a Minnesota woman whose body was found hidden in a rural area of the state was charged Friday in her death. Adam Fravel, 29, was charged with second-degree murder. The charge comes two days after a deputy found the body of Madeline Kingsbury, who would have turned 27 on June […]
Florida’s Supreme Court has ordered that the judge who oversaw the sentencing of the Parkland massacre gunman be removed from another death penalty murder case. The judge was found to have shown an actual bias by expressing unfair sympathy towards prosecutors. Judge Elizabeth Scherer had overseen proceedings against Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz, a case which […]
ROCKVILLE, Conn.—A Connecticut man was sentenced Thursday to 65 years in prison for the 2015 killing of his wife, who prosecutors say was wearing a Fitbit exercise activity tracker with data that contradicted his statements to police. Richard Dabate, 46, of Ellington, was convicted by a jury in May of murder and other charges. He […]
A Portland jury has found a romance novelist who wrote a piece on how to murder one’s husband guilty of murdering her husband. On May 25, Circuit Judge Christopher Ramras announced the guilty verdict of romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy, who also happened to author a blog post titled “How to Murder Your Husband.” After […]
In an unexpected turn of events, a man who admitted to investigators that he killed a high school history teacher and burned her body was found not guilty of murder by a jury. On May 20, Ryan Duke shivered in tears as Judge Bill Reinhardt announced his verdict: the jury found him not guilty of […]
As the search continues for a fugitive inmate and the Alabama corrections officer who allegedly helped him escape, new details are emerging about the pair’s relationship and the officer’s apparent preparations for their getaway. The investigation has illuminated what authorities believe to be a romantic relationship between Vicky White, assistant director of corrections in Lauderdale […]
SALIDA, Colo.—An unused .22-caliber round was found next to the bed of a Colorado woman who disappeared last year and whose husband is charged with killing her, and a tranquilizer gun and accessories were also found in the couple’s home, investigators testified Monday. Prosecutors also showed body camera footage of Barry Morphew with deputies at […]
FARMINGTON, Conn.—The lawyers for Fotis Dulos, the Connecticut man accused of murder after his estranged wife Jennifer Dulos disappeared, will be banned from discussing the case for 40 years, according to probate court settlements. They must also return more than half the $250,000 retainer Dulos gave them shortly before his death. Probate Judge Evelyn Daly […]
A West Virginia man is accused of murdering his girlfriend’s 15-year-old daughter, law enforcement said. Andy J. McCauley Jr. was arrested and charged in Riley Crossman’s murder, the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department said. Riley has been missing since May 8, when her mother learned she did not attend school, the sheriff’s department said in a […]
A California man who allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend in broad daylight before fleeing was arrested in Mexico and brought back to the United States on April 24 to face murder charges. Thalia Flores, 25, was in a car in the parking lot of a discount store in Chino with another unidentified male when Julio Cesar […]
Police have cracked a cold case with DNA found on the razor of the man they say raped and killed two women more than four decades ago in California. DNA from a razor used by Arthur Rudy Martinez matches that left by the attacker at both crime scenes in the late 1970s, the San Luis […]
NORFOLK, Va.—An 80-year-old New York man has been arrested on charges that he killed two young women in a beach cottage nearly half a century ago in Virginia, police said on April 9. Ernest Broadnax was arrested in New York City on Monday and faces two counts of second-degree murder and one count of rape […]
