Murder

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…

A judge ruled Tuesday that a wrongful conviction petition in the high-profile murder case of Marni Yang has merit and can move forward. NBC 5’s Kate Chappell reports.

Police said Monday the private investigation into the murders of Canadian drug company billionaire businessman Barry Sherman and his wife is over but the police investigation remains active. Toronto police homicide Insp. Hank Idsinga said the case is now solely in the hands of police. Idsinga says the work of the private investigation hired by Sherman’s family has been completed....

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.

A second murder charge has been filed against a man in connection with a series of fatal stabbings committed over five days last year in Lawndale.

The public had its first look Monday at the man suspected of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents. Jake Patterson, 21, went before a judge for a bond hearing in Barron County, Wisconsin, Monday afternoon. His bond was set for $5 million. NBC 5 Chicago’s Kate Chappell reports.

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

Authorities say a 72-year-old Dallas man fatally shot a suspected burglar behind his home and then went back to bed before finally calling police nearly two hours later. The Dallas Morning News reports that James Michael Meyer has been charged with murder in the Thursday killing and was jailed on $150,000 bail as of Friday. According to the arrest warrant...