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A DNA match has solved the strangulation murder of a teenager in southeast Alaska, a case that was cold for 24 years and saw another man acquitted of the crime after confessing, Alaska State Troopers said Tuesday. DNA obtained from Steve Branch, 66, of Austin, Arkansas, at an autopsy matched that of a sample left at the scene where Jessica…

“Park Predators” is a new podcast that takes a closer look at true crime cases from national parks in Canada and the U.S. Investigative journalist and host Delia D’Ambra joined LX News for #TrueCrimeTuesday to discuss the new series.

President Donald Trump is painting a dystopian portrait of what Joe Biden’s America might look like, asserting crime and chaos would swallow communities should the former vice president win the White House in November

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is sending federal law enforcement agents to Chicago and Albuquerque to combat violent crime. The agents will come from several agencies, including the FBI, DEA and DHS, to help execute “Operation Legend.” Agents have already been sent to Kansas City.

A Pennsylvania man who said he fatally beat his 92-year-old father in their home because he believed his father was a vampire has been sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison. Douglas Novak pleaded guilty but mentally ill last November to murder, arson, reckless endangerment and risking a catastrophe charges. Authorities have said he fatally beat Frank Novak with…

Prosecutors accused a man of conspiring with his new wife to keep the bodies of her children hidden on his rural Idaho property

Cyntoia Brown Long says sex trafficking is often not “black and white” and there is no “perfect victim,” as evidenced by her own case and the ongoing case of Chrystul Kizer, a teenager who is accused of killing her alleged sex trafficker and was released on bond last week.

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office had been looking for a 26-year-old Mason James Lira, who allegedly shot a deputy and killed a homeless man Wednesday.

Relatives say the two bodies found on an Idaho man’s property are those of two children who have been missing since last year. The remains were discovered on the property of Chad Daybell, who married the children’s mother.

The coronavirus hasn’t been kind to car owners

Some privacy advocates are concerned that police are inadvertently helping Ring build a massive crime database.

A prominent Massachusetts doctor has been arrested after his wife was found dead near their Dover home on Saturday night.

There’s a troubling new reality for law enforcement in the age of the coronavirus

Outrage is spreading over a shooting of a black man that led to murder charges more than two months later against a white father and son, but “all that matters is what the facts tell us,” Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said Friday.

Two 911 calls made just before the February shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery were released. Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael were arrested and charged with the murder of Arbery on Thursday.

Two women have been charged with stealing items from a Walgreens in San Francisco and escaping by coughing at employees and claiming to have the coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic and its social repercussions are fueling violence, both by frustrated individuals and domestic terrorists, according to a new intelligence report by the Department of Homeland Security obtained by NBC News.

In Chicago, one of America’s most violent cities, drug arrests have plummeted 42% in the weeks since the city shut down, compared with the same period last year. Part of that decrease, some criminal lawyers say, is that drug dealers have no choice but to wait out the economic slump. “The feedback I’m getting is that they aren’t able to...

As Norwegian American Hospital, a safety-net facility in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, treats coronavirus, the CEO said his biggest worry is not capacity, but staffing. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports on several nurses leaving for positions at McCormick Place for more money.

Through their union, Teamsters Local 700, employees of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County say they are working without enough sanitizer, supplies and effective leadership during the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement, the teamsters’ said Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown is to blame for a lack of leadership. “At the very least, Brown could provide all her…