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 …
Scott Peterson, the former Modesto resident currently on death row for killing his wife and unborn son in 2002, thinks that his death sentence is “cruel and unusual” and that a juror tainted the jury’s ultimate decision to convict him. He filed a claim to the state of California in 2015, but the state fought …
Laci Peterson vanished on Christmas Eve, 2002, and although it’s been almost 15 years since the Modesto mom-to-be disappeared, the hurt and pain still lingers for her family and friends. Interrogation tapes released earlier this year show her husband, the infamous convict Scott Peterson, casually mentioning what Laci did before she went missing, which further infuriated …
Law enforcement officers from Philadelphia and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, returned on Thursday to the 90-acre Solebury Township farm property where investigators discovered a common grave last week. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that numerous police officers and detectives performed a “walk-through” of the property on Thursday, a week after Law enforcement officials told the newspaper that …
A Mexican drug cartel leader who brutally tortured and murdered a six-year-old girl in front of her parents is heading to prison for life, several times over. According to San Antonio Express News, Marciano “Chano” Millan Vasquez was given seven consecutive life sentences for his direct involvement in 29 murders and for participating in the slaughter …
In light of wrongful conviction lawyer Kathleen Zellner’s 1,200 page recently-filed motion that paints Ryan Hillegas as the real person who killed Teresa Halbach, reports have surfaced that possibly refute many of the points the attorney made. In 2005, freelance photographer Teresa Halbach was murdered. Her bone fragments, cellphone parts, and parts of her Daisy …
Tara Grinstead’s sudden disappearance in 2004 remained a mystery for a dozen years, despite Georgia’s biggest persons investigation. But two arrests were made several months after Payne Lindsey created his Up & Vanished podcast that dug into the case. Lindsey, whose work is credited with stirring up the suspects, is now digging for the truth …
CrimeCon Live: ‘Making a Murderer’ prosecutor Ken Kratz and investigator Tom Fassbender join ‘Up & Vanished’ creator Payne Lindsay to talk about Steven Avery and Tara Grinstead
In what the Post-Crescent called a “daring and risky legal maneuver,” Steven Avery’s lawyer, Kathleen Zellner, filed a 1,250 motion at the Manitowoc County Court last week, requesting a new trial for her client. Part of the reason Zellner is requesting a new trial for Avery is that she feels that she knows who the …
A Texas man facing the death penalty for the stabbing murder of a real estate agent saw his own life spared, at least temporarily. Kosul Chanthakoummane, who was scheduled to die by lethal injection on July 19 after nine years on death row, was granted a stay of execution last week. The Texas Court of …
Parents at a private school just realized that a woman volunteering at their children’s private school is the notorious serial killer Karla Homolko. Homolko spent just 12 years in prison under a plea deal that required her to testify against Paul Bernardo, the husband she claimed abused her. She got married, changed her name and …
Listen to our latest “Crime Stories” podcast with Nancy Grace, about one of the most shocking child murder cases in history
