Charges against kidnapping suspect Cleotha Abston have been upgraded to murder since the body of mother and kindergarten teacher Eliza Fletcher was found in Memphis.
Paul Gentile Smith pleaded guilty to soliciting an assault and was separately convicted of murder in 2010. The courts have now thrown out both convictions, saying they were tainted by prosecutorial misconduct.
Though six incarcerated women accused Federal Correctional Institution - Dublin chaplain James Theodore Highhouse of sexual abuse, he pleaded guilty to five counts of abusing just one woman.
Dana Chandler's 2012 conviction for the murders of her ex-husband, Mike Sisco, and his fiancée, Karen Harkness, was thrown out by the appeals court in 2018. Her retrial in the case ended on Thursday with a hung jury.
Investigators say a 17-year-old Christopher Mack forced 81-year-old Ada Priolo into her car trunk during an August 1994 robbery in Las Vegas, and she suffocated to death.
Bradley Dawson remains in a Fiji jail for the alleged beating death of his new wife, Christe Chen, during their honeymoon. But his attorney continues to seek — and offer new reasons for — his release.
Caroline Lee said she was "guilty until proven innocent" after she was arrested for allegedly striking a student in her empty classroom. All charges against her were dropped after the student's story fell apart.
Investigators say James Guillory beat and strangled Jeff Skrivanek in a prolonged attack that ended with the victim hanging from a tree in Oklahoma City. The victim's ex, Sierra McCoy Griffen, who is also charged with first-degree murder.
A Pike County jury will be taken to several locations pertaining to the murders of seven members of the Rhoden family and Hannah Gilley in 2016 in rural southern Ohio. George Wagner IV is one of several members of his family implicated in the crime.
