"Stand your ground" tested in trial over NFL star's death
A prosecutor called defendant Cardell Hayes a killer, while his attorney said he acted in self-defense when he shot the unarmed Smith eight times on April 9
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A prosecutor called defendant Cardell Hayes a killer, while his attorney said he acted in self-defense when he shot the unarmed Smith eight times on April 9
Police say the victim was helping her mother unload groceries when the family was robbed and shot
Barbara Diaz, was found Friday stabbed to death in her driveway, and her husband turned himself in not long after
Tennessee law enforcement officials allege that Joel Guy attempted to dissolve his parents' bodies in acid
A woman who identifies herself as Brandi Worley can be heard saying she killed her children because, “My husband wanted a divorce and wanted to take my kids. And I don’t want him to have my kids”
Christopher Lee had pleaded not guilty but at trial he said he strangled Erin Corwin in a fit of anger and threw her body down a 140-foot-deep mineshaft
D'Marques Jones, convicted as teen, now faces life behind bars after refusing to take required sex offender course
Pfc. Shadow McClaine vanished Sept. 2; her car was found abandoned in a Nashville parking lot, about 70 miles away from the base
Officials won't say what about young black man's slaying raises spectre of hate crime, but racially motivated incidents mounting nationwide
The body of eight-year-old Illinois girl Sabrina Stauffenberg was found behind a vinegar plant last Wednesday
The high school student had reportedly recently broken up with the college freshman -- police say she was shot to death as she slept
Police say Gerardo Mendoza Ordaz walked into a police station Sunday night, naked and carrying his dead four-year-old daughter
Investigators say the suspect Theresa Wiltse knew the victim, Sandra Harris, and her husband
Sofia Gonzalez Abarca was abducted by Yesenia Sesmas, according to police, who say Sesmas killed Abarca's mother, who was her acquaintance
Adoptive son of celebrity jeweler is one of two charged with hiding the body of 26-year-old Joseph Comunale
Jesse Dobbs, 21, is also being questioned in the murders of 16-year-old Kirsten Fritch's mother and younger sister
The group known as the Beatrice Six served a combined 75 years in prison before being exonerated, and won a $28 million lawsuit against the people who helped wrongly convict them
The father reportedly agreed to the plea deal to protect his daughter from having to testify at trial
Joseph Comunale was last seen attending a party in the upscale Grand Sutton apartments early Sunday, before another man was seen dragging a large bag from the building
Police say the gun used by James Dale Ritchie to shoot an Anchorage officer last weekend has lead to breaks in five previously unsolved cases this year
Chandran Nathan has served nearly 25 years in prison for murder, and now prosecutors say he wanted to kidnap, torture and waterboard the prosecutor who put him there
The "very articulate" 5-year-old said her father told her to wait at New York City's Port Authority bus terminal, but never returned
Texas 16-year-old Kirsten Fritch was found dead Thursday outside Galveston, two days after her mother and sister were found slain in their Houston-area home
Police found Adalin Stamper's body buried on the suspect's brother's property
Five suspects are being held in the death of Joseph Tillman, 21, who was allegedly robbed and shot last weekend