A Vermont jury convicted a New Hampshrie man on Friday in the fatal shooting dismemberment of his wife while they were on a trip to mark their one-year wedding anniversary. The panel rejected second-degree murder and manslaughter charges and found Joseph Ferlazzo, 41, guilty of first degree murder, according to VTDigger.com. The deliberations took about …
A Georgia jury deliberated for just two hours before returning guilty verdicts on 21 counts for a woman accused of killing her partner’s 8-year-old child with autism and abusing her other two children. Brittany Hall is still awaiting trial for the death of Amari Hall, but Celeste Owens was sentenced to life in prison without …
The boyfriend of the so-called “treehouse killer” was convicted Thursday on a single count of perjury for lying to a grand jury as police probed the death of Michael Chiklis in 2018. Jonathan Lind still faces trial on charges of accessory to murder and disinterring a body, and his attorney says he’ll be appealing the …
A polygamist cult member mother was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday in the stabbing death of her 13-month-old daughter four years ago. Chloe Alexis Driver, 24, was found guilty of malice murder, felony murder, cruelty to children, and aggravated assault but mentally ill by a jury that rejected her not guilty by insanity …
Jury selection begins Tuesday in the trial of a Maine man charged in the Christmas Day death of his girlfriend’s toddler daughter two years ago. Tyler Witham-Jordan is charged with indifference murder in the death of the 3-year-old, Makinzlee Handrahan, as CrimeOnline reported. He pleaded not guilty and has tried to shift the blame to …
A Florida woman who shot and killed her neighbor in a long-running dispute over children playing was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison. Susan Lorincz told the court she was afraid and “never intended to kill anyone” when she fired a single shot through her closed door and killed Ajike “AJ” Owens, a …
A judge sentenced a Kentucky mother who shot her young sons in the head last year to life terms in prison after emotional victim impact statements eviscerated her lawyer’s arguments that a “psychotic disorder” led to the murders. Tiffanie Lucas initially pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity but changed her plea to guilty last …
An Indiana mother who admitted she sometimes forgot to feed her infant son after he died of starvation was sentenced Friday to 65 years in prison. Caylin Monroe was found guilty in October in the death of 3-month-old Silas Scott in February 2022, the Evansville Courier & Press reported. Monroe and the baby’s father, Jakob …
An Atlanta mother was convicted of killing her two toddler sons in her kitchen oven and sentenced to life without parole plus 35 years. Lamora Williams, 24, was convicted on 14 counts, including murder, in the 2017 incident, according to WAGA. Williams initially claimed she left 1-year-old Ja’Karter Penn and 2-year-old Ke’Yaunte Penn with a …
