Days before a preliminary hearing in the involuntary manslaughter case against actor Alex Baldwin and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the Santa Fe district attorney has added two names to her already extensive witness list — “Rust” movie assistant director David Halls and Matt Hutchins, husband of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who was shot dead during a …
Prosecutors rested their case Friday against disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, wrapping up the state’s testimony with a final witness to tie up phone and GPS information that had been given to jurors over the past two weeks of trial. A new piece of information: Paul and Maggie Murdaugh apparently uncovered Alex Murdaugh’s drug …
Prosecutors in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial put a witness on the stand Thursday to testify about the disgraced former lawyer’s botched “suicide for hire” scheme, which played out a day after his family’s storied law firm kicked him out and three months after his wife and son were shot to death on the family’s …
The Idaho counties of Kootenai and Latah have agreed on a $200 per hour payment for the public defender appointed to represent college murders suspect Bryan Kohberger. KREM obtained a copy of the agreement through a public records request with Kootenai County, where public defender Anne Taylor is employed. She was appointed to represent Kohberger …
Judge Clifton Newman, who earlier had barred testimony about Alex Murdaugh’s alleged ‘suicide for hire’ plot, reversed his ruling Wednesday afternoon.
A Wisconsin woman who allegedly strangled her lover with a chain and then dismembered his body attacked her attorney in court on Tuesday, all of it caught on camera. Taylor Schabusiness, 25, was sitting at the defense table along with lawyer Quinn Jolly when she suddenly stood up and began striking Jolly with her handcuffed …
Alex Murdaugh’s legal team is reportedly considering having him take the stand in his own defense during his ongoing double murder trial. A source close to the defense team told WCBD that if Alex does testify, it would happen in the next week or two. The prosecution is currently presenting evidence and witnesses but they …
A Georgia judge has ruled that court proceedings in Leilani Simon’s trial for the murder of her 20-month-old son Quinton Simon will not be livestreamed. Prosecutors had asked the Judge Tammy Stokes bar cameras from the courtroom, citing privacy concerns for Quinton’s surviving siblings, while defense attorneys had said they were concerned about their mother’s …
A Georgia judge has ordered the state Division of Family and Children Services to hand over to him records relating to Leilani Simon, the mother charged with killing her 20-month-old son last October. Simon was charged with murder on November 21, after repeatedly changing her story about where she went and what she did the …
A jury on Wednesday found Russian national Viktoria Nasyrova guilty of giving a Ukrainian look-alike a slice of poisoned cheesecake in an attempt to steal her identity. Nasyrova, 45, was convicted on a charge of attempted murder and four other charges, five years after she tried to kill beautician Olga Syvk in a murderous identity …
On Wednesday, an FBI vehicle data analyst testified about what location data was logged on Alex’s car the night his wife and son were murdered in 2021. Dwight Falkofske said it took a year to access data from Alex’s Chevy Suburban. He explained that they used the vehicle’s Bluetooth connectivity system to acquire call data …
A Minnesota jury took barely an hour to find a 28-year-old mother guilty of murder in the shooting death of her 6-year-old son. Julissa Thaler was accused of shooting Eli Hart with a shotgun nine times as she drove around the west side of Minneapolis last May. Prosecutor Dan Allard said during closing arguments that …
