4 d. ago How distant relatives, DNA markers and a water bottle helped sentence a cold case killer to 22 years in prison

Eugene Gligor pleaded guilty to the 2001 killing of Leslie Preer, his ex-girlfriend’s mother, after he was arrested last year

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4 d. ago Disgraced chiropractor gets life sentence for trying to murder wife with lead

Brian Thomas Mann, a 36-year-old chiropractor from Alabama, tried to slowly kill his wife Hannah, 26, with vitamins laced with lead.

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4 d. ago Man could have murder sentence reduced 'if victim provoked him by refusing sex'

Serkan Dindar murdered Ceyda Yüksel after they met in real life after connecting online - a court reduced his sentence claiming he was 'provoked after she refused his demand for sex'

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5 d. ago Idaho seeks to keep names of some of Bryan Kohberger trial witnesses secret after 'harassment, threats, stalking'

Idaho prosecutors are seeking to keep witnesses in Bryan Kohberger's trial a secret following the killer's sentencing for the murder of four Idaho college students.

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6 d. ago El Chapo's cartel friend will 'die behind bars' after admitting guilt over murders and smuggling

The 77-year-old crime lord and cartel boss, who was an associate of El Chapo, will die behind bars but avoided the death sentence by pleading guilty to crimes including drug smuggllng and murder

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6 d. ago Inside the prison conditions faced by Australia’s mushroom murderer

A Supreme Court judge noted Erin Patterson’s prison conditions do not ‘sound very humane’

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7 d. ago Teen tortured for weeks as eyes gouged out and scalp removed in UK's worst murder

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: James Patterson Smith was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 17-year-old Kelly Anne Bates, who he tortured for weeks in one of the UK's most shocking crimes

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1 week ago Killer of Michael Jordan's father opens up on 1993 murder and makes desperate plea as he serves life sentence

Daniel Green, 50, has spent the last three decades behind bars over the July 1993 killing of Jordan, who was shot in North Carolina during what authorities believed was a botched robbery.

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1 week ago US woman to be sentenced over failed assassination plot in Birmingham

Aimee Betro’s co-conspirators were sentenced for their part in the revenge murder plot last year.

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1 week ago Florida man who fatally stabbed friend over Trump convicted of second

Donald Jamesbrown Henry and Shawn Popp got into a fight over ‘Trump going bankrupt’ when the latter was attackedA Florida man who fatally stabbed a friend during an argument in 2022 over Donald Trump’s businesses having gone bankrupt, is facing possibly spending the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of murder.Donald Jamesbrown Henry, 38, awaits a sentencing hearing tentatively scheduled for October after jurors found him guilty Friday of second-degree murder in the killing of Shawn Popp, whose death came to be regarded by some as an example of the havoc that politics can wreak on interpersonal relationships in the US. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Scorned lover who ignited county's worst wildfire in HISTORY to hide the body of woman he murdered is jailed

Victor Serriteno, 33, murdered Priscilla Castro, 22, after meeting her online, then set her body on fire on August 18, 2020.

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2 w. ago Arkansas prison inmate Grant Hardin's extraordinary escape plan revealed

Grant Hardin, known as the Devil in the Ozarks, had been serving an 80 sentence for murder and rapes and survived in the wild by eating ants and drinking water from a creek

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2 w. ago Australian teenager who fatally stabbed British woman wins appeal to reduce sentence

His sentence has been reduced by almost 18 months

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2 w. ago Death row killer gouged out own eyes and ate them after killing wife and kids

Andre Thomas was sentenced to death in 2005 for the murder of his wife Laura Christine Boren, his four-year-old son and Boren's 13-month-old daughter in Texas

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2 w. ago Man pleads guilty to killing his mum with her own gun after she took away his phone

A 21-year-old Tennessee man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder in the second degree for killing his mother in 2020, court documents show

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2 w. ago ‘Death always feels imminent’: a moving Netflix documentary on prison, music and forgiveness

In Songs from the Hole, a man convicted of murder when he was a teenager finds healing in music during his sentenceIn 2014, a sergeant at a California state prison sent James “JJ’88” Jacobs, who was 25 at the time, to “the hole” – solitary confinement in a 6-by-6 cell. One bunk, one strip of a window. Jacobs had already been incarcerated for a decade by then; at 15, he was given a double life sentence for second-degree murder. Alone in the hole, Jacobs thought, as he always did, about the most devastating month of his life, April 2004: on the 16th, he shot and killed a fellow teenager outside a nightclub in his home town of Long Beach, California. Three days later, another young man shot and killed his beloved older brother Victor. For years, Jacobs was caught in a terrible cycle of grief – for what he had done, for what had been done to him.In the hole, Jacobs would lie on the floor, eyes closed, and imagine his life outside prison. He’d make beats by pounding on his bunk or chest....

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3 w. ago Illegal migrant who raped and killed Rachel Morin will rot behind bars for rest of his life

The El Salvador native was found guilty in April of first degree murder, first degree rape and kidnapping for the horrific August 2023 attack on the 37-year-old mother.

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3 w. ago Woman's brave final act to save unborn baby after footballer lover had her gunned down

Cherica Adams, 24, was driving when she was gunned down while eight-months-pregnant with an NFL footballer, who was sentenced for conspiracy to commit murder

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3 w. ago Rapist who killed visiting nurse, spurred safety changes, sentenced to 50 years in prison

A convicted rapist who killed a Connecticut visiting nurse at a halfway house has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder

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3 w. ago Zoe Ball admits she was reduced to tears after falling victim to a random street crime moments after making an appearance on The One Show

Zoe Ball has revealed she was left in tears after discovering her car had been broken into, just moments after appearing on The One Show. 

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