An attorney for a New Hampshire father charged with killing his 5-year-old daughter in 2019 has asked for a delay in the trial, currently scheduled to begin on November 20. Adam Montgomery, 33, is charged with beating to death Harmony Montgomery, who was reported missing in December 2021, as CrimeOnline reported. The little girl hadn’t …
A Florida judge ruled Monday that retired ballerina Ashley Benefield will stand trial for the 2020 death of her husband. According to Court TV, Judge Stephen M. Whyte of the 12th Judicial District Circuit Court issued a ruling that aligned with the prosecution’s account of events leading to Doug Benefield’s death. The order rejected the …
A newly-released memorandum in the Delphi, Indiana, double murder case suggests that a group of white nationalists are responsible for the 2017 deaths of Liberty German and Abigail Williams. Richard Allen, 50, who stands accused of killing the girls while they were hiking at the Monon High Bridge in Delphi, is asking the judge to …
Prosecutors allege that Kouri Richins, the Utah grief author accused of poisoning her husband Eric with a fentanyl-laced Moscow mule, tampered with witnesses in a six-page letter instructing her mother on how she wanted her brother to testify. Summit County deputies found the hand-written letter to Lisa Darden, Richins’ mother, during a search of the …
South Carolina’s attorney general asked a court to give Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys 10 days to correct an error they say the lawyers made in their demand for a new trial for the convicted murderer. Attorney General Alan Wilson said in his response to the motion from Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin that he was inclined …
Former attorney Cory Fleming was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for helping his longtime friend Alex Murdaugh siphon millions of dollars from Murdaugh’s clients and former law firm. Fleming is already serving 46 months in federal court on similar charges, but Judge Clifton Newman decided that wasn’t nearly enough and gave Fleming …
Accused Delphi killer Richard Allen wants cameras in the courtroom, according to a motion filed Wednesday at the Carroll County Circuit Court in Indiana. The Journal & Courier reports that Allen’s defense lawyers filed a motion Wednesday in Delphi, seeking “news cameras and public broadcastings” inside the court for the pretrial hearings and the trial. …
Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys tried to persuade a South Carolina judge to delay the disbarred attorney’s multiple financial fraud trials but failed to convince Judge Clifton Newman of the necessity. Newman set the first of the trials for November 27 in Beaufort County, the case relating to Murdaugh’s siphoning of a $4.3 million settlement …
Joran van der Sloot, the suspected killer in the Natalee Holloway case, has been granted an extension in connection with fraud and extortion charges in Alabama. On Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Gray Borden allowed an extension, marking the second extension requested by van der Sloot, Al.com reports. “Given the defendant’s need to adequately prepare his …
Accused college murderer Bryan Kohberger goes to court Wednesday as Judge John Judge hears testimony on the defense’s motion to ban cameras from the courtroom and opposition to that motion from multiple media outlets. Prosecutors in the case have already filed in support of the defense motion, although for different reasons, as CrimeOnline reported. While …
