Alex Murdaugh was sentenced Friday to life in prison, just one day after a jury convicted him of slaughtering his wife and son after deliberating for less than three hours. Murdaugh, 54, faces a minimum of 30 years and a maximum of life in prison when he faces Judge Clifton Newman in the Colleton County […]
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Memphis police disband elite ‘Scorpion’ unit
The Memphis police chief on Saturday disbanded the city’s so-called Scorpion unit after some of its officers beat to death Tyre Nichols, reversing an earlier statement that she would keep the unit intact. Police Director Cerelyn “CJ” Davis said she listened to Nichols’ relatives, community leaders and uninvolved officers in making the decision. Referring to […]
Video of Tyre Nichols’ death released
Memphis authorities released more than an hour of footage Friday of the violent beating of Tyre Nichols in which officers held the Black motorist down and struck him repeatedly as he screamed for his mother. The video emerged one day after the officers, who are all Black, were charged with murder in Nichols’ death. The […]
Idaho student murder suspect thoroughly cleaned vehicle, also seen wearing gloves
The man accused of murdering four University of Idaho students in November had thoroughly cleaned the interior and exterior of his car and was also seen wearing surgical gloves multiple times before being apprehended, a law enforcement source tells CNN. Bryan Kohberger, 28, is currently the sole suspect in the gruesome stabbings of students Kaylee […]
Idaho murders: 2 unsolved stabbing attacks resurface
As investigators skipped Thanksgiving celebrations to continue their search for a suspect in the unsolved slaying of four University of Idaho students, a third unsolved stabbing in the Pacific Northwest has resurfaced with eerie similarities. Reporters at a news briefing Wednesday asked Moscow police about the possible connection between the students’ slayings and a second […]
Idaho students were stabbed to death in their beds
Four University of Idaho students who were found dead in a rental house last Sunday were stabbed to death in their beds and likely were asleep when the attacks occurred, the Latah County coroner told a cable news channel on Friday. Cathy Mabbutt also told NewsNation that each victim suffered multiple stab wounds from a […]
10 dead in Canadian mass stabbing
A massive manhunt is underway for two men suspected of mass stabbings that left at least 10 people dead and around 15 wounded in Canada. Police are hunting for Damien Sanderson and Myles Sanderson after the pair were named as suspects following a series of attacks across the James Smith Cree Nation, a remote indigenous […]
Subway restaurant worker killed for putting too much mayo on customers sandwich
An employee at a Subway restaurant in Atlanta was shot and killed Sunday after a customer got upset about a condiment on his sandwich, Atlanta Police said. Police were called to the restaurant near Mercedes-Benz Stadium in downtown Atlanta shortly after 6:30 p.m., a news release from the police department said.Officers found two employees shot, […]
18 yr old assault rifle killer of 10 identified
A teenaged gunman who allegedly murdered 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket planned the attack for months before he drove for three hours to carry out the vile ambush that was allegedly motivated by the white supremacist’s hated of black people. Payton Gendron, 18, of Conklin, NY, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder following Saturday’s […]
Police Hopeful DNA Will Solve JonBenet Ramsey Murder
BOULDER, Colo. — Twenty-five years after JonBenet Ramsey was killed, police say DNA hasn’t been ruled out to help solve the case. The 6-year-old was found dead in the basement of her family’s Boulder home on Dec. 26, 1996, bludgeoned and strangled, several hours after her mother called 911 to say her daughter was missing […]
Defense Rests In Rittenhouse Murder Trial
The paramedic seriously wounded last year by Kyle Rittenhouse said Thursday he was unnerved watching “your would-be murderer” on the witness stand. Gaige Grosskreutz, the only survivor of three people Rittenhouse shot on Aug. 25, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, watched the 18-year-old testify in his defense Wednesday and called it an emotional experience. “Well I […]
Zodiac Killer Finally Identified?
A team of specialists who investigate cold cases says it has identified the Zodiac Killer, one of America’s most prolific serial murderers who terrorized communities in the San Francisco area in the late 1960s with a series of brutal slayings and unsolvable riddles. The Case Breakers, a team of more than 40 former law enforcement […]