Convicted killer Jodi Arias’ appeal will be delayed until next year due to numerous errors and omissions in courtrooms transcripts that took two years after her appeals process started to complete. ABC reports that the Arizona Court of Appeals had to repeatedly push court reporters to finish up court transcripts that have been left undone …
Detective Tom Fassbender, the lead investigator on the team that convicted Steven Avery for the murder of Teresa Halbach, tells Nancy Grace why the Wisconsin man should not get a new trial. An appeals court has denied Avery’s latest motion for a second chance. New York criminal defense lawyer Hunter Shkolnik, forensics expert Joseph Scott …
On Nov. 1, 2007, Meredith Kercher, a British exchange student studying abroad in Italy, was senselessly murdered inside a Perugia cottage. Her Italian flatmates were away celebrating, and her fellow exchange student roommate, Amanda Knox, was out with her boyfriend. On Nov. 2, Italian detectives found Kercher stabbed to death inside her locked bedroom. The …
A Wisconsin judge wrote a six-page memorandum decision on whether Steven Avery, the centerpiece of the popular Netflix docuseries, Making a Murderer, should be granted a new trial in connection with the 2005 murder of freelance photographer, Teresa Halbach. The judge announced on Tuesday that Avery failed to meet the legal standard for another trial. …
“Susan Smith writes a letter saying, ‘I’m not a monster.’ News flash! Yes you are!”
Notorious child killer Susan Smith has been misbehaving in a South Carolina prison, where she is serving a life sentence for the deaths of her two sons, according to People magazine’s Steve Helling. Helling joins Nancy Grace, Crime Stories contributing reporter Mary Ellen Hopkins, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan from Jacksonville State University, and co-host …
Employees at the bar followed behind him and called police, but it was too late
Oxygen has released photos of bone fragments that may belong to missing Natalee Hollway, who disappeared on a high school graduation trip to Aruba in 2005. The Oxygen docuseries The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway has chronicled the search for her possible remains and the difficult process of identifying them. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a tipster …
Investigators have made an arrest in a cold case murder that has gone unsolved for a quarter of a century. MassLive.com reports that Gary E. Schara has been arrested and charged with the murder of Lisa Ziegert, who was killed in 1992 in Agawam. She was 24 years old at the time of her murder. District Attorney …
When Scott was arrested in April 2003 for the murder of his wife, Laci, and unborn son, Connor, police pulled him over with a surplus of items in his car, which helped prosecutors convince a jury he was planning on going into hiding to avoid punishment. In the upcoming ABC true crime documentary, Truth and Lies: …
A Long Island carpenter recently convicted of two murders may be connected to the unsolved Long Island Serial Killer case, says a prosecutor. As CrimeOnline previously reported, John Bittrolff, 51, was convicted of double murder in July. He is now serving a 50-year prison sentence for the murders of Rita Tangredi, 31, who was found dead in …
An A&E docu-series suggests investigators ignored several witnesses who claimed to have seen Laci Peterson walking her dog at a time that would have excluded Scott Peterson as the killer. Their testimony was not included in the trial that sent Peterson to California’s death row for murdering his wife in December 2003. Nancy Grace examines …
