A Canton Police detective who was placed on administrative leave after testimony during the Karen Read murder trial was ...

Italian news agency ANSA reports that a man suspected of the brutal killing of two women in Australia almost a half-century ago has been arrested in Rome on an international arrest warrant ...

Billy Wayne Ludwigson, 62, was arrested, pled guilty to her murder, and was sentenced by an Ector County Jury on August 9, ...

A 62-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 1982 murder of Odessa woman Velma Nesset, after new DNA ...

DNA testing led to a breakthrough in an Ector County cold case earlier this year; now, justice has been served more than four ...

A mother in Nashville refuses to believe the official determination that her daughter died by suicide, launching an investigation -- and even confronting her suspected killer -- on her own.

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In the stellar conclusion to Adler-Olsen’s Department Q series (after The Shadow Murders), intradepartmental turmoil rattles ...

A federal judge has dismissed Barry Morphew’s $15 million civil lawsuit against at least 19 defendants who investigated and ...

An Austin murder suspect is back in custody after he bonded out four days after his arrest earlier this month in connection ...

In 1986, 22-year-old Paula Boudreaux went missing. Almost 40 years later, two people have been arrested in connection with her murder.

After years of this-and-that jobs, Hallet began to write a novel: “What do I have to lose?” Now a widely celebrated voice in ...