Retired Virginia police officer Richard Crowder allegedly shot and killed his estranged wife, Diane Crowder, and adult stepdaughter, Carrie Szaksz, as movers were working in the couple's home.
Former corrections officer Wilford Jenkins III pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and other charges in the death of his wife, Huletta Jenkins, who he stabbed before trying to decapitate her.
Anthony Cifuentes was allegedly captured on surveillance video standing over Rachel and Kevin Sandoval in February. Now California authorities say DNA has linked him to the rape of a woman one week earlier.
Tzvi Allswang allegedly took his social worker hostage after an appointment for nearly 15 hours, repeatedly raping and assaulting her, while her family tried to get police to enter his home.
Megan Hess, the director at Sunset Mesa Funeral Foundation, admitted that she sold human bodies and body parts belonging to at least 560 deceased victims for profit.
John V. Hoover, a 44-year-old man with developmental disabilities who was reportedly dependent on his parents, John Dennis and Jacqueline Hoover, died from “severe malnutrition,” officials said.
Taylor Denise Schabusiness will stand trial in October in the murder and mutilation of Shad Thyrion, whose head was found in a bucket in the basement of his mother's Green Bay home in February.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom pardoned Sara Kruzan in the 1995 murder of George Gilbert Howard, who had been sex trafficking her for three years when, at age 16, she killed him after a rape attempt.
Stephanie Russell allegedly plotted to arrange her ex-husband Rick Crabtree's contract killing “in order to take full custody of their two children,” court documents state.