The man accused of kidnapping and killing Aniah Blanchard in 2019 appeared in an Alabama court on Monday and pleaded not guilty to all charges against him. Ibraheem Yazeed, 33, was indicted this month on three counts of capital murder — during a kidnapping, during a robbery, and involving a victim in a vehicle — …
Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers finally spoke to the media Friday afternoon, hours after their client was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the murders of his wife and son, and said they plan to appeal the verdict. Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin cited Judge Clifton Newman’s “erroneous decision” to allow testimony about Murdaugh’s multi-million financial …
An investigation is under way regarding autopsy photos that were leaked to the public in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial. After sentencing Murdaugh to life in prison, Judge Clifton Newman revealed that the court was made aware of autopsy photos that were somehow shown to the public. Parties involved in the case have requested an …
The jury’s initial poll of its members showed nine guilty, two not guilty, and one not sure. Forty-five minutes later, it was unanimous — disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh was guilty of gunning down his wife Maggie and son Paul on June 7, 2021. Craig Moyer, a carpenter who served on the jury, told …
Vallow Daybell’s trial is still set to begin on April 3. Her husband’s trial may be delayed as long as six months.
Additional documents were released by a Pennsylvania court this week in connection with accused Idaho killer, Bryan Kohberger. The documents revealed that the Pennsylvania State Police and the FBI searched Kohberger’s garage, home, shed, and Hyundai, at his family’s Pocono Mountains home on December 30, following his arrest for the deaths of four University of Idaho …
Testimony concluded Tuesday in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial, and the jury could begin deliberations as early as Wednesday afternoon. But first, that jury will take a field trip to the scene of the crime. Judge Clifton Newman granted the defense’s request that the jurors be allowed to the Murdaughs’ hunting property, where prosecutors say …
Attorneys for the man convicted of killing Cal Poly student Kristin Smart in 1996 have filed a series of motions seeking to throw out the jury’s guilty verdict. The jury found Paul Flores guilty of Smart’s murder last October. He is scheduled for sentencing on March 10 and faces 25 years to life in prison, …
Jury will visit the crime scene at the Murdaughs’ hunting property, Moselle.
A Colorado judge ruled last week that the suspect in the deadly Club Q shooting last year can be charged with hate crimes. Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, faces 323 charges related to the November 2022 shooting at the LGBTQ night club in Colorado Springs, which killed five people and wounded at least 19 others, as …
A woman convicted last month of killing her toddler son and telling police he had been kidnapped has been sentence dto life in prison without parole. Nakira Griner, 28, was convicted on charges of first degree murder, desecration of remains, evidence-tampering, and false public alarm in the February 2019 death of 23-month-old Daniel Griner Jr., …
An elderly Florida woman initially charged with first degree murder for fatally shooting her terminally ill husband in a murder-suicide pact she couldn’t complete was indicted this week on a lesser charge. A Volusia County grand jury indicted Ellen Gilland, 76, on charges of assisting self-murder/manslaughter for shooting 77-year-old Jerry Gilland in his hospital room …
