Tag: Homicide
Video tip was key to solving 2018 Iowa slaying, deputy says
<p>IOWA CITY, Iowa — Video of a vehicle driving near where a missing 20-year-old Iowa woman had been out running helped police quickly identify...
Lawyer for mom jailed in son’s slaying requests mental check
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An attorney is requesting a mental health evaluation for a Kentucky mother charged with murder in the death of her 10-year-old...
Murder case of meth user who delivered stillbirth dismissed
<p>SAN FRANCISCO — A California judge has dismissed a murder case against a woman who delivered a stillbirth after consuming methamphetamine, saying prosecutors failed...
Mexican police find bones under floor of accused killer
MEXICO CITY — Police have turned up bones and other evidence under the floor of a dwelling near Mexico City where a man was...
Colorado students rebuked for reenacting George Floyd death
<p>DENVER — Leaders in a northern Colorado school district are condemning a social media post in which three high school students — one in...
Man accused of killing Yale grad student returned to Conn.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A man charged with killing a Yale graduate student three months ago has been brought back to Connecticut to face...
Judge drops murder charges against 2 Mississippi cops
<p>JACKSON, Miss. — A state judge in Mississippi dismissed murder charges Thursday against two police officers accused of body-slamming and beating a Black man....
Convictions in baby’s death tossed; couple freed from prison
<p>COLUMBUS, Ga. — Ashley and Albert Debelbot were sitting in the same courtroom where, more than a decade earlier, they were convicted of murdering...
2 charged in November death of 15-month-old Wisconsin boy
<p>MERRILL, Wis. — Two people are facing charges in the death of a 15-month-old Wisconsin boy, six months after an autopsy showed he had...
Texas inmate faces execution for killing his great aunt
HOUSTON — A Texas inmate convicted of fatally beating his 83-year-old great aunt nearly 22 years ago was scheduled to die by lethal injection...