A retired South Carolina chief justice will hear arguments later this month on whether the Colleton County court clerk tampered with the jury in disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial last year. Murdaugh was convicted of the shooting deaths of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, and sentenced to consecutive life sentences. He has …
Former horse show producer Tatyana Remley entered a guilty plea this week for solicitation to commit murder. Remley, 43, appeared in the Vista Superior Court Monday, where she received a sentence of three years and eight months in state prison, as part of a plea agreement. She was convicted of solicitation to murder after hiring …
Prosecutors in Arizona say they will seek the death penalty for a 22-year-old man accused of stabbing a 29-year-old skin care technician to death on a hiking trail last spring. Lauren Heike’s parents released a statement saying they’d learned from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office that they had filed the notice of intent to seek …
The man accused of killing rap legend Tupac Shakur in 1996 has made “credible threats to witnesses” against him and should not be granted bail until his trial next year, Las Vegas prosecutors say in a 180-page court filing. Prosecutors said in the documents filed Thursday that they learned from jailhouse interviews that Duane “Keffe …
On Tuesday, a judge sealed a motion filed by University of Idaho quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger in which he unsuccessfully sought to have his case dismissed. WFMZ reported that the reconsideration motion, which would have dismissed the charges against Kohberger, was denied last week. Kohberger has pleaded not guilty, and prosecutors proposed his trial …
After serving eight years in a Missouri prison, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is scheduled for release on Thursday. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Blanchard will be released from the Chillicothe Correctional Center on December 28, after serving time for second-degree murder. According to Missouri state law, Blanchard qualifies for early release after serving 85% of her sentence, …
On Thursday, prosecutors asked the court for Bryan Kohberger to stand trial next summer for the 2022 slayings of four University of Idaho students. KTVB reported that prosecutors want Kohberger’s six-week trial to occur in the summer as schools are not in session. Moscow High School is next to the Latah County Courthouse, and there …
The judge also released the body of victim Tylee Ryan to her family.
An Idaho judge has rejected a second motion seeking the dismissal of charges against Bryan Kohberger, who stands accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022. According to court records obtained by The Docket, Latha County Judge John Judge turned down Kohberger’s defense team’s request to dismiss the grand jury indictment in the …
The family of an Illinois woman who was found dead in a walk-in freezer in 2017 received a $6.4 million settlement, according to records made public on Tuesday. Kenneka Jenkins, 19, was found dead in an unused, locked freezer at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rosemont a day after she vanished. The Chicago Tribune reported …
The daughter is now 14, and defense attorneys say she wants to testify that she killed her father.
