Retired Pa. Pastor Charged With Killing First And Second Wives On Trial
Arthur "A.B." Schirmer, 64, is charged with killing Betty Jean Schirmer in 2008 and staging a car accident to cover it up.
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Arthur "A.B." Schirmer, 64, is charged with killing Betty Jean Schirmer in 2008 and staging a car accident to cover it up.
A New Jersey man who allegedly beat and strangled his wife to death during an argument last year has been indicted on murder charges.
Philadelphia ends the year with 329 homicides. That's the highest number in the last four years. But Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey sees signs of hope amid the statistics.
Mothers in Charge held their annual Evening of Healing in Center City Thursday night to remember the more than 300 murder victims in Philadelphia in 2012 as well as those from years past.
Joshua Stephenson, 27, allegedly got into an argument with the victim on Christmas Eve at a residence on the 1200 block of West 2nd Street.
The trial has resumed Tuesday after the judge questioned jurors about media coverage of Gino DiPietro's slaying last week.
Authorities say a gun buyback program in Camden this month brought in a record number of weapons.
A suburban Philadelphia prison guard allegedly shot and killed his wife then went to a police station to calmly turn himself in while still wearing his blood-stained clothes.
The decision to play Sunday's Chiefs game was ultimately left up to the players.
Two men are in custody in connection with the murder of a 28-year-old man last Friday in North Philadelphia.
The Upper Merion man accused of murdering a 10-month old girl and her grandmother in a failed abduction attempt last month is scheduled for a court appearance in Montgomery County this morning.
For the second time in two weeks, an innocent victim has been gunned down in the crossfire on a Philadelphia street.
The city of Camden, once dubbed the 2nd most dangerous city in America, set a grim record on Friday. The city recorded its 59th murder, breaking the previous record of 58 in 1995.
Jurors in Montgomery County deliberated for about three hours before convicting 20-year-old Brandon Pierce of Norristown of first-degree murder and other charges in the July 2011 death of Dominique Devlin.
The family of victim of Nicole Ayers along with a prosecutor argued that Stephen Headley should spend more than 30 years in prison.
Warren H. Pennick, a 54-year-old from Lansdale, was arrested after walking into the Lansdale Police Station on Oct. 31 and confessing to the crime.
A 61-year-old Indian woman found slain in a suburban Philadelphia apartment where she was babysitting her granddaughter while visiting her family died of cuts to her neck and chest, a coroner said Thursday. The 10-month old girl remains missing.
Saanvi has been missing since Monday. Authorities believe she was abducted from her home in the Marquis Apartments in King of Prussia where her grandmother was found dead.
Clayton is rocked by the sensless killing of 12-year-old Autumn and the arrest of two brothers charged with first degree murder. A constant stream of mourners have visited the location where her body was found behind the suspects' home.
Eyewitness News spoke exclusively to a man coming out of the East Clayton Avenue home where two teens were charged with the murder of 12-year-old Autumn Pasquale.
A second man has turned himself in to face murder and related charges in a fatal shooting last month on a Pennsylvania bike trail.
A judge has granted a delay in the trial of an eastern Pennsylvania woman who could face the death penalty if convicted of killing the father of her four children just hours before a scheduled custody hearing.
Forty-six-year-old William Ward entered the plea Monday in Lehigh County Court to a first-degree murder charge in the June 2011 slaying of 29-year-old Trisha Sadler.
Authorities say a Chicago Bears fan who came to Jacksonville for the Bears-Jaguars football game had his throat slashed inside a bar.
Why would someone on trial for committing a crime want to argue that he was drunk when he did it? That sounds like two bits of bad judgment, but it can be a defense under the law.
