Murder

Fort Worth homicide detectives hope a 45-year-old letter will help solve an equally old homicide.

Victims of serial rapist and murderer Joseph DeAngelo, also known as the Golden State Killer, shared their stories in court Tuesday ahead of DeAngelo’s sentencing Friday.

A third man was charged Tuesday in the shooting death of a 7-year-old girl at a Fourth of July party in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood. Terrell Boyd, 30, was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery with discharge of a firearm, according to Chicago police. Boyd was denied bond Tuesday and is demanding a trial, according to officials. His next court…

In court hearings Tuesday, two men were denied bail in the shooting deaths of 9-year-old Cabrini Green and 7-year-old Natalia Wallace. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

Authorities say two Louisiana teens have been arrested in the killing of an Arizona State University professor whose body has been found in a landfill.

A court in Hamburg, Germany, convicted former Nazi guard Bruno Dey of being an accessory to the murder of over 5,200 prisoners during World War II.

Two young men and two teenage boys were charged Monday with killing rap artist Pop Smoke during a robbery at a Hollywood Hills home nearly five months ago.

Three Chicago service members came together to call for further investigation into Vanessa Guillen’s alleged murder at Fort Hood, Texas. NBC 5’s Lisa Chavarria reports.

Sweden on Wednesday dropped its investigation into the unsolved murder of former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, who was shot dead 34 years ago in downtown Stockholm.

Turkish authorities have arrested a former top-tier soccer player who confessed to killing his 5-year-old son while the boy was being treated in hospital on suspicion of a COVID-19 infection.

A man is accused of fatally shooting someone over an argument about sharing food from a cafeteria in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood earlier this month. Wayne Kyles, 49, is charged with one count of first-degree murder in the April 5 death of 31-year-old Dwayne Head, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Kyles and Head got into an…

A former hippie guru who lived the high life in Europe for years after murdering his ex-girlfriend in Philadelphia in the 1970s has died in prison

Two men were shot to death early Wednesday while riding in a vehicle in southwest suburban Joliet. Officers responded to a shooting about 12:50 a.m. and found an SUV with the driver slumped over the wheel at Chicago Street and 5th Avenue, Joliet police said in a statement. Tracy Williams, 45, and Bernard H. Marble, 53, were both found with…

Chinatown residents hold a vigil for the two victims gunned down on Sunday in a tragic double murder. Residents asked the area’s alderman for more police protection in the neighborhood.

A woman was charged with murder after she allegedly used a nail clipper to stab her husband during a domestic dispute, authorities announced Tuesday.

The mother of three children found dead in a Phoenix home told police that she smothered her young children, police said.

A defense attorney says he expects to appeal the murder conviction of a Pennsylvania man who asserted that his now-deceased twin brother was the shooter. The convicted man claims he was in Florida at the time of the shooting.

A 40-year-old mother was dead inside her Bronx apartment while her children slept in the next room, police sources say.

A bag of Ruffles potato chips and a witness who said, “it got to be that motherf*” helped Dallas police clear a murder case dating back to April of this year.

There are new details into the murder of an 83-year-old Las Colinas grandmother who was murdered in her own home, police say, by her cable man. The suspect, Roy James Holden Jr., is in the Dallas County Jail on $500,000 bond facing a capital murder charge, which could carry the death penalty. Betty Thomas’ family told NBC 5 she was…