Murder

Millionaire real estate scion Robert Durst was indicted Monday on a murder charge in the death of his first wife, Kathie Durst, who disappeared nearly four decades ago, prosecutors said.

Millionaire real estate scion Robert Durst has been charged in suburban New York City with the death of his former wife, Kathie Durst, who vanished in 1982, authorities confirmed Friday.

Robert Durst was sentenced to life without parole on Thursday after being convicted last month for shooting his best friend in her Los Angeles home.

Every year at this time, Brandon Johnson, the Deputy Coroner of Grundy County drives to a spot near Seneca on U.S. Highway 6, and leaves a bouquet of flowers, along with a laminated photo of a woman he never met.

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.

One of the teens arrested in the botched robbery stabbing death of Barnard College student Tessa Majors in 2019 has pleaded guilty

A Los Angeles jury convicted real estate heir Robert Durst of murder in the death of his longtime friend, Susan Berman, 21 years after she was killed execution-style in her home.

A court hearing has been delayed until November to determine if a 14-year-old boy accused in the strangulation death of a northern Indiana girl is competent to stand trial in her killing.

A police officer in West Virginia says a man who told police he killed his 94-year-old grandfather made a video of the killing and sent it to family members

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has granted a pardon of innocence to a man who had been imprisoned for two decades before his two murder convictions were vacated more than four years ago by a judge

The 1984 killing of a 59-year-old woman in Pembroke has finally been solved, Massachusetts State Police and the Plymouth District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. Virginia Hannon’s alleged killer, Jesse Aylward of Brockton, is dead and was turned in by a friend the day after he died in February 2020 at the age of 58, Plymouth District Attorney Tim Cruz said….

Five people, including a pregnant woman, were shot to death early Sunday inside an Indianapolis home in an apparent targeted attack, the city’s police chief said, decrying the “mass murder” killings as a “different kind of evil.”

A man charged with murder in the 2017 shooting death of the mother of his child was arrested in Mexico and returned to Los Angeles Saturday.

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.

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.

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…

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.