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UVA Shooter Hears Fate Over Football Players' Murder

Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. is handed 5 life sentences for 2022 murders

(Newser) - A Virginia judge on Friday issued five life sentences, plus 23 years, to Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., the former University of Virginia student who opened fire on a charter bus in November 2022, killing three UVA football players and wounding two other students, reports WTVR . Jones, 26, pleaded guilty last...

Mexican Woman Gets 20 Years in Killing of 3 Tourists

Australian brothers and their American friend were killed for their truck tires

(Newser) - A 23-year-old woman has been sentenced to two decades behind bars for her role in the murders of three tourists who vanished while on a surfing trip in Baja California, Mexico, last year. Ari Gisell pleaded guilty to setting in motion the chain of events that led to the deaths...

Reward for Ex-Olympic Snowboarder Upped to $15M

Feds intensify their hunt for alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding

(Newser) - Ryan Wedding was once a Canadian Olympic snowboarder. Now he's "a modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar. He's a modern-day iteration of 'El Chapo' Guzman," said FBI Director Kash Patel Wednesday in announcing the reward for the 44-year-old's capture has been raised to $15...

Texas College Sleuths Crack a Cold Case on First Try

Criminology students homed in on Janie Perkins, now charged in woman's 1991 killing

(Newser) - Criminology students in Texas who formed a partnership with police to help investigate cold case murders have brought about an arrest on their very first try. The Arlington Police Department on Monday announced the arrest of 63-year-old Janie Perkins in the 1991 murder of 25-year-old Cynthia Gonzalez, reports NBC News...

OJ Simpson Estate Agrees to Pay Fred Goldman

But it likely won't be anywhere near the $58M cited in court documents

(Newser) - Fred Goldman might finally get money from OJ Simpson—or at least his estate—more than three decades after the murder of his son. Simpson's estate has officially agreed to pay the father of Ron Goldman $58 million, reports NBC News . It's doubtful, however, the Goldman family will...

DNA From Girl's 1994 Murder Points to a 'Monster'
DNA From Girl's 1994
Murder Points to a 'Monster'
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Nov 15, 2025 12:12 PM CST

DNA From Girl's 1994 Murder Points to a 'Monster'

Mark Anthony Russ charged with killing 14-year-old Tanya Frazier in Seattle

(Newser) - More than 30 years after 14-year-old Tanya Marie Frazier vanished and was later found murdered in Seattle, a suspect has been charged in the decades-old cold case. Tanya disappeared in July 1994 while waiting for a bus to her first summer job, per the New York Times . Her body was...

Road Rage Incident in Vegas Ends With Dead 11-Year-Old

Suspect, 22, arrested after alleged gunfire over lane position

(Newser) - An 11-year-old boy was fatally shot on Friday morning during a road rage confrontation on a crowded freeway near Sin City, according to local police. The incident occurred around 7:30am on Interstate 215 in Henderson, a city just southeast of Las Vegas, when two vehicles "jockeying for positions"...

Idaho Killer Ordered to Pay for Victims' Urns

Judge says funeral costs are part of killer's restitution

(Newser) - Bryan Kohberger, the man convicted of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, has been ordered to pay for the urns of two of his victims as part of his restitution. A judge issued the ruling on Thursday, the third anniversary of killings, saying Kohberger is financially responsible for...

Man Guilty of Murder Initially Thought to Be Bear Attack

Beer can linked man to axe murder at Montana campsite

(Newser) - A jury has found a man with links to white supremacists guilty of murder in a brutal killing at a southwestern Montana campsite last year that was initially reported as a possible bear attack. Daren Christopher Abbey attacked Dustin Kjersem with a block of wood, an axe, and a screwdriver...

Ohio Teen Looked to ChatGPT After Killing Neighbor: Cops

Boy takes plea deal, will be behind bars until age 21

(Newser) - A 14-year-old from Fairfax, Ohio, admitted to killing his 64-year-old neighbor after months of planning and online research, investigators revealed in court Monday. The teen, who was 13 at the time of the February killing of Sheila "Denise" Tenpenny, reportedly used AI tools like ChatGPT and other search engines...

Exonerated Kennedy Cousin Finally Speaks of Moxley Murder
Michael Skakel Breaks Silence
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Nov 8, 2025 12:15 PM CST

Michael Skakel Breaks Silence on Martha Moxley Murder

Exonerated Kennedy cousin speaks about childhood abuse in new NBC News podcast

(Newser) - For the first time since his conviction was overturned, Michael Skakel—the Kennedy cousin at the center of one of America's most infamous unsolved murder cases—is speaking publicly about the 1975 killing of Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Connecticut. NBC News Studios' new podcast, "Dead Certain: The Martha...

Ex-TV Anchor Accused of Stabbing Her Mother to Death

Police say Angelynn Mock was found outside her mother's home in Wichita, Kansas

(Newser) - A former television anchor has been charged with first-degree murder after her mother was found stabbed to death in Wichita, Kansas. Police allege 47-year-old Angelynn Mock was outside her mother's home early on Halloween when officers responded to a call about a "cutting," reports USA Today . Inside,...

Father Confesses to Killing Infant Son
He Killed
His Son, Then
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Nov 4, 2025 2:30 AM CST

He Killed His Son, Then Reported Him Kidnapped

Jake Haro sentenced in murder of 7-month-old Emmanuel

(Newser) - Jake Haro was sentenced Monday to more than 30 years behind bars in the murder of his 7-month-old son. The California man admitted to killing the boy after he and his wife, the boy's mother, initially reported the infant had been kidnapped outside a store in August, the AP...

DOGE Cuts Stall an Oregon Town's 1983 Murder Mystery

Decades-old murder case halted as federal grant vanishes

(Newser) - The New York Times calls it "perhaps the most unlikely casualty of the Trump administration's sweeping budget cuts last spring." An Oregon county some 2,500 miles away lost a very specific 2023 grant from the Justice Department: one designated for rural violent crime. It had allowed...

Man Calls 911, Says He Killed 4 of His Kids

Wellington Delano Dickens III was charged after deputies found human remains in garage

(Newser) - A North Carolina man who told authorities that he had killed four of his children and that the bodies were in the trunk of a vehicle at his home was charged with murder after sheriff's deputies found human remains in his garage.
  • Wellington Delano Dickens III is being held
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Woman Who Killed Boy, 3, Outside Supermarket Sentenced

'Bionca Ellis' horrific actions warrant nothing less than life without parole'

(Newser) - A judge in northeast Ohio sentenced a woman to life in prison without the possibility of parole Monday for the fatal stabbing of a 3-year-old boy as he sat in a grocery cart outside a supermarket. The AP reports that Bionca Ellis, 34, of Cleveland, sat expressionless as Cuyahoga County...

Lawmaker Outs Suspect in 1970 Cheryl Grimmer Case
Lawmaker Outs Suspect in 1970
Case of Missing British Toddler
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Oct 26, 2025 7:01 AM CDT

Lawmaker Outs Suspect in 1970 Case of Missing British Toddler

Brother says police believe man dubbed 'Mercury' assaulted and killed 3-year-old Cheryl Grimmer

(Newser) - More than 50 years after 3-year-old Cheryl Grimmer vanished from an Australian beach, a key person of interest in the case has been named in parliament, reigniting calls for justice in the decades-old mystery, per the BBC . The British toddler disappeared in 1970 from Fairy Meadow beach in Wollongong, where...

Only Soldier Charged in Bloody Sunday Murders Is Acquitted

Judge cites lack of evidence in high-profile civil rights case regarding 'Soldier F'

(Newser) - An ex-British paratrooper known only as "Soldier F" has been acquitted in Belfast Crown Court of two murders and five attempted murders related to the 1972 Bloody Sunday shootings in Derry. Soldier F was accused of killing James Wray and William McKinney and attempting to kill five others during...

GoFundMe Message Leads to Man Accused of Killing Friend

Mexican citizen's photo led to arrest of Michael Arredondo, wanted in Arizona since 2017

(Newser) - A woman in Arizona says her family is a step closer to justice for her murdered brother, found with more than 30 stab wounds in the desert outside Phoenix in 2017. The victim, 25-year-old Evin Paulos, was last seen riding in a vehicle with Michael Anthony Arredondo, a former neighbor...

Deadline Set for Retrial or Release in Etan Patz Case

2017 conviction overturned due to jury instructions in decades-old case

(Newser) - A federal judge ruled Thursday that Pedro Hernandez, the man convicted in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, must be retried by June 2026 or released from custody. Hernandez, 64, was found guilty of kidnapping and murder in 2017 after confessing to luring Etan into the basement of a...

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