A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to life in prison last week for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl and the rape of a second victim afterward. Jason Shackelford, 40, pleaded guilty to first degree murder, rape of a child, two counts of rape, three counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, four counts of …
A Pennsylvania woman has been found guilty in the shooting and stabbng deaths of her father and his girlfriend in 2021 in New Jersey. Sherry Lee Heffernan, 57, told a court in Pennsylvania in 2021 that she was “being framed” for the murders of 87-year-old John “Jack” Enders and 75-year-old Francoise “Frenchie” Pitoy, The Associated …
A Florida man was found guilty this week of killing his wife, hiding her body in the woods, and later telling police she was “in heaven” when they asked where she was. Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Steven Henderson sentenced Timothy A. Upthegrove to life in prison after a Brevard County jury found him guilty …
No trial date was set for Brian Kohberger, accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, during a contentious hearing this week in which Kohberger’s defense argued they will have too much evidence to go over once the state has finished discovery. Public defender Anne Taylor offered a June 25, 2025, start …
The woman accused in the drunk driving crash that killed a newlywed bride last year has been granted bond by a South Carolina judge. Jamie Lee Komoroski, 26, has been held without bond since she was arrested after rear-ending a golf cart carrying newlyweds Samantha Miller and Aric Hutchinson and two others as they left …
An Arizona jury deliberated for about 10 hours since late Tuesday afternoon before finding a convicted murderer guilty in the kidnapping and killing of 6-year-old Isabel Celis in 2012. It was Christopher Clements’ second trial in Celis’s death. The first trial ended with a hung jury last year, as CrimeOnline reported. Clements, 42, was convicted …
Colorado’s Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel has filed complaints against two prosecutors in the dismissed murder case against Barry Morphew, accussing them of retaliating against the judge and withholding evidence. Mark Hulbert and Robert Weiner have been accused of “abuse of power,” according to the complaints filed Thursday by the office, which is an independent …
The mother of an 12-year-old North Carolina girl missing since 2022 refused to appear in court on Friday, and the judge n the case said he can’t force her to appear. Diana Cojocari, who has been in jail on a $250,000 bond since December 2022, declined to appear for an arraignment, and her defense asked …
Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell appeared separately in court his week, Daybell on Thursday in Idaho and Vallow Daybell on Wednesday in Arizona, for hearings on their upcoming murder trials in those states. Vallow Daybell, who was convicted last year in Idaho and sentenced to three life sentences on the murders of two of …
Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie’s families avoided a civil trial that was scheduled for later this year by reaching a “reluctant” and confidential legal settlement on Wednesday. According to News Channel 8, the resolution followed a mediation session, according to the lawyers representing both parties. This development comes after Laundrie’s parents, Chris and Roberta, acknowledged …
Jurors in the case against Adam Montgomery for the murder of his 5-year-old daughter deliberated for about two hours Wednesday afternoon before going home for the day. Montgomery is charged with killing Harmony Montgomery on December 7, 2019, as CrimeOnline reported. The girl reportedly soiled herself in the car where the family was living, and …
