Man Charged In Body-In-Freezer Killing
Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged an 18-year-old man with murdering his mother, whose dismembered body was found in a freezer.
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Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged an 18-year-old man with murdering his mother, whose dismembered body was found in a freezer.
Authorities have identified a woman whose butchered body was found in a freezer in Maywood. Coroner's officials say 42-year-old Miralda Espinoza died of asphyxia and neck compression.
A Hawthorne man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for beating his 2-year-old stepdaughter to death.
A 19-year-old male allegedly killed his mother and put her remains in the freezer in their Maywood apartment before telling police about the crime and leading them to her body.
A school janitor told investigators he went home and got a gun before returning to an elementary school and killing the principal who he thought had fired him several hours earlier, authorities said Thursday.
A man who hit a wagon containing two children and dragged it for a mile, killing a 1-year-old girl, has been convicted of murder and drunken driving.
A man standing with another male was shot and killed Wednesday in Compton when two men walked up and one pulled a trigger in what detectives believe may be a gang-related killing.
A Death Row inmate who murdered 10 women in South Los Angeles over a decade is now facing four new murder charges.
Authorities have arrested dozens of members and associates of one of Southern California's oldest gangs and indicted many of them on racketeering and drug-related charges.
In the months before his wife was murdered in Mexico, former "Survivor" producer Bruce Beresford-Redman was caught cheating with a co-worker and running up huge bills on phone sex lines, according to Mexican extradition documents filed Monday in Los Angeles federal court.
The body of a man was discovered Saturday morning near a Costa Mesa high school and police said that he may have been killed at another location.
A memorial fund had been established to help two young children of a 33-year-old Lake Elsinore woman who was allegedly killed by her boyfriend, according to the sheriff's department.
Anaheim police Wednesday arrested a Cerritos man on suspicion of fatally shooting an acquaintance visiting from South Korea.
An East Los Angeles man was convicted Thursday of second- degree murder in the fatal icepick stabbing of his ex-girlfriend, whose body was found in her car in Winnetka.
A grand jury report says Dr. Kermit Gosnell kept baby body parts in jars on shelves and killed live-born, late-term babies by severing their spinal cords with scissors.
A man who allegedly killed his 10-month-old daughter during a fight with his wife is being held on $5 million bail after his arrest in Mexico.
A California man who moved in with his elderly mother to protect her from crime has been killed in the woman's home.
The body of a homeless man has been found with multiple stab wounds outside a post office near downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row area.
Officials say decreases in homicides in the Compton Station area are among the most notable successes in the annual report.
Police are honing in on the identity of a woman who was found dead in a ditch more than 40 years ago.
Two Garden Grove gang members will likely spend the rest of their lives in prison for gunning down a rival and his girlfriend in Garden Grove in 2007.
A Long Beach judge has shaved 150 years off the sentences of two teenage killers, giving them a chance for parole in 50 years.
A 14-year-old Pomona boy was arrested Tuesday for allegedly stabbing his 73-year-old grandfather to death.
The former police detective arrested in June of 2009 and charged in the beating and murder the wife of her ex-boyfriend hopes to move her case to trial this summer.
The husband and wife accused of killing and dismembering a Good Samaritan who allegedly came to their aid, both pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a murder charge.
