Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of disgraced South Carolina legal scion Alex Murdaugh, accused in the June 2021 murders of his wife Maggie and younger son Paul on the family’s hunting estate, Moselle. A judge decided Monday morning that no live feed would be available for jury selection, WCBD reported. Prosecutors say Murdaugh …
A Florida man was sentenced to life in prison this week for stabbing a woman he barely knew 15o times in his father’s living room. Storm Royal Thayer, 25, previously pleaded no contest to a single count of second-degree murder in the brutal death of 31-year-old Alisha Gomez in 2021, Law & Crime reported. Prosecutors …
Graphic descriptions of the injuries suffered by disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s younger son are included in a new court filing in the elder Murdaugh’s murder trial this week. Alex Murdaugh is set to go on trial on January 23 for the murders of Paul Murdaugh, 22, and his 52-year-old wife, Maggie Murdaugh, on …
Idaho prosecutors said on Thursday that they plan to prove that Lori Vallow Daybell not only intentionally killed her two children in 2019 but was an active participant in their murders. According to East Idaho News, Madison County Prosecuting Attorney Rob Wood and Fremont County Prosecuting Attorney Lindsey Blake wrote that the “sufficient evidence” also …
Allen Superior Court Judge Frances C. Gull says the murder trial for accused Delphi killer, Richard Allen, will remain in Carroll County. On Friday morning, Allen appeared in shackles at the Carroll County courthouse, where Gull ruled that his murder trial would not be changed to another venue, citing the “extraordinary” costs of moving it …
A judge has sealed a warrant pertaining to the search of accused University of Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger’s apartment. According to News Nation Now, the document’s contents will remain private until March 1. Police had searched Kohberger’s apartment in Pullman, Washington, which is 10 miles from where four college students were murdered in November. Per …
A former model was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison for her part in the 2019 murder of California psychiatrist Thomas Burchard, whose body was found stuffed into the trunk of a car abandoned in the middle of the Nevada desert near Lake Mead. Kelsey Turner accepted a plea in November that guaranteed …
Motions filed in the past week stated that Lori Vallow Daybell is claiming she was in her home, possibly with her husband, when her two children died in her brother’s apartment in 2019. According to East Idaho News, Vallow Daybell, 49, said she was with Melanie Gibb, David Warwick or Chad Daybell when her son …
A Georgia man accused of murder and robbery was scheduled to appear in court on Monday, but the arraignment, for unknown reasons, has been postponed for a second time, 11 Alive News reports. Matthew Lanz, 31, remains behind bars for the deaths of Timothy Justin Hicks and Amber Hicks, both 31, and for breaking into …
Court documents filed in Idaho on Tuesday revealed that Lori Vallow Daybell will not be using an insanity defense in her upcoming trial even though her lawyers believe she is mentally ill. Arrested in 2020, Vallow Daybell, 49, is accused of killing her two children and her husband’s first wife. According to East Idaho News, …
An Idaho judge denied bail Thursday for accused killer Bryan Kohberger, who remained mostly emotionless while facing murder and burglary charges. Kohberger, 28, made a brief court appearance Thursday afternoon concerning the deaths of four University of Idaho students found murdered last month in an off-campus rental. NBC News reports that Latah CountyJudge Megan Marshall …
