Arkel Garcia's conviction was overturned because of its connection to former homicide detective Philip Nordo. Garcia is now a suspect in two new homicides and a shooting.

According to preliminary data, murder has dropped by about 20 percent through October this year compared to 2024.

East Palo Alto finished 2025 without a single homicide, marking the second murder-free year in three years and reinforcing signs of a lasting departure from the violence that once defined the city.

Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student in 1990, is seeking to overturn her conviction over what her lawyers claim were several constitutional violations.

Suffolk County DA Ray Tierney blasted New York's parole reforms Wednesday during a briefing on the murder of a 23-year-old CVS worker killed on Christmas. A 43-year-old ex-con has been charged with first-degree murder and robbery.

In 1982, when Ian Marcus was nine days old, his father left work and headed home to his family on Long Island on a new moped, only to be killed by a driver who’d run a red light. “Here I was, this twenty-five-year-old widow with a baby,” Ian’s ...

On March 25, 2021, the body of 28-year-old Mengqi Ji was found buried in a shallow grave in Rock Bridge Memorial State Park near Columbia, Missouri. Above Mengqi's burial site was a juniper tree that would eventually tell investigators who left her ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and legal topics understandable and fun. Her work has..

Grigoroff was charged with the murder of John Marcinak in June 2009 after he confessed during a 12-hour interrogation by Putnam County sheriff's deputies. While the defense's expert witness was allowed to testify, the scope of his testimony was limited and some of his credentials were excluded.

The murder of a 15-year-old girl rocked a quiet Connecticut town in 1975. A look inside at the case that has frustrated investigators. In October 1975, Martha Moxley was a popular 15-year-old living with her parents, Dorthy and David, and her brother John ...