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Richard Cottingham has claimed to be responsible for up to 100 murders. Prosecutors say Diane Cusick was one of them.

A handyman-turned-lover arrested in the horrific killing of a Queens mother admitted to sending a threatening text from Gaal’s phone to her husband Saturday morning, believed to be an effort to take suspicion away from himself

A 44-year-old handyman has been arrested for allegedly murdering a Queens mother in her own home as her teenage son sat upstairs last week, “ruthlessly and brutally” stabbing her more than 55 times before putting her body in her son’s hockey bag and leaving the duffel on the side of a road, police executives said Thursday. David Bonola, who is…

Police in Virginia have confirmed the identities of four women allegedly killed by Anthony Eugene Robinson. Officials say he is possibly connected to a fifth homicide uncovered in D.C.

Fairfax County police say they have “evidence of an alleged serial killer” after four bodies have been found in Virginia since August.

Family members have identified a 12-year-old boy they say was killed by a stray bullet during a backyard Thanksgiving celebration in San Diego’s Skyline neighborhood.

Homicide charges have been filed against a Wisconsin man after being accused of driving an SUV into a crowd at a Waukesha Christmas parade on Sunday, killing six people and injuring more than 60.

Brian Laundrie, the 23-year-old former fiancé and only person of interest in the death of late influencer Gabby Petito, died by suicide, the attorney for the Laundrie family confirmed Tuesday. “Chris and Roberta are still mourning the loss of their son and are hopeful that these findings bring closure to both families,” Steve Bertolino said in a statement The news…

As law enforcement continues to search for Brian Laundrie, a person of interest in the disappearance of Gabby Petito, an attorney for the Petito family welcomed help from TV stars Dog the Bounty Hunter and John Walsh, while imploring Brian Laundrie to cooperate with authorities.

A new analysis by the moderate Democratic group Third Way runs counter to popular perceptions of rising crime nationwide.

A father from Santa Barbara, California, was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday for taking his two young children to Rosarito, Mexico, and killing them with a fishing spear last month.

A Pennsylvania man who claimed he stabbed a “cadaver doll” in his father’s bedroom is charged with homicide after the head in the freezer he showed police turned out to belong to a person.

A U.S. citizen has been arrested in connection with the death of his two children, ages 1 and 3, whose bodies were found on a ranch in Rosarito, Mexico, the Baja California Attorney General’s Office said Tuesday.

A woman arrested on suspicion of murder after shooting her husband to death in their Lemon Grove backyard — San Diego deputies say the woman told 911 dispatchers she had shot her husband on accident — was released from custody Thursday after the District Attorney’s Office declined to file charges against her.

Investigators were preparing to seek an arrest warrant for a defrocked Roman Catholic priest long considered a suspect in the 1972 killing of a western Massachusetts altar boy shortly before his death last week, a prosecutor said Monday. Incriminating admissions Richard Lavigne made in a series of recent interviews while in a medical facility further implicated the longtime suspect in…

A mother of five found stabbed to death on Mother’s Day was the daughter of a woman who also was stabbed to death 16 years ago.

A 44-year-old man was found strangled to death Wednesday in Lawndale on the West Side. Police are investigating a homicide after the man was found unresponsive in an apartment about 12:30 a.m. in the 1400 block of South Saint Louis Avenue, Chicago police said. Autopsy results determined he was assulted and died of strangulation and multiple blunt force trauma, according…

Authorities said Lannon was on the run and is connected to the murders of a man in East Greenwich, New Jersey, and of four people, including his ex-wife, in New Mexico.

Police are searching for a person of interest in the murders of five people in New Mexico and New Jersey, including his ex-wife.

An independent review cited “leadership failures” and said “the command climate at Fort Hood has been permissive of sexual harassment/sexual assault.”