Tag: murder

“Could she have known something that she wasn’t supposed to know? And could she have been wiped out because she knew too much?”

Burke then “took horrifying measures to destroy and discard the victim’s body.” 

She also allegedly told officers that “If they had to lock her up, that was cool.”

The account presented in court differs sharply from earlier statements to investigators, where he initially claimed the incident began as an accident involving his delivery vehicle.

The video shown this week has become a central and unsettling element of the trial, offering a visual account of Horner’s actions shortly after the crime occurred.

By the time the clip ended, multiple jurors were in tears.

She was handed a 55-year sentence but ultimately served less than half before being released on parole.

While free in 2023, prosecutors allege he staged his own kidnapping, claiming his in-laws had injected him with an unknown substance, and used zip ties in the scheme to intimidate ...

After hearing the evidence, the jury reached a swift decision. Following just one day of testimony, Vicente was acquitted of aggravated homicide and of destroying a corpse.

“Gosnell routinely cracked jokes about babies whose necks he had just slit."

According to prosecutor Brad Bloodworth, her home-flipping business had spiraled into roughly $4.5 million in debt. At the same time, he argued, she stood to gain access to her husband’s ...

Investigators say Miller was arrested early Thursday in Colorado, where he was found carrying a handgun and a large knife. 

The remains were identified as two “juvenile black females."

“Why did this case garner the reaction that it did? And what happens when people stop trusting their institutions?”

Authorities believe there was some level of planning involved and that the mother "knew what she was doing."

“The law must the Court’s only concern.”

"You had no regard for the lifelong mental harm that your criminal acts inflicted on your then 2-, 4- and 6-year-old sons.”

Prosecutors say the young mother’s own parents, Cortney and Bradly Bartholomew, carried out a brutal attack in the woods after luring her away on Nov. 3.

The case has drawn renewed attention to concerns Charity herself had publicly raised months earlier.

The two boys reportedly knew the victim from school, and Johnson said they had previous “run-ins” with law enforcement.