Prosecutors allege Rebecca Ruud drugged her biological daughter, 16-year-old Savannah Leckie, and took what she thought was the teen's dead body to burn in a fire. But when Leckie woke up screaming, prosecutors say Ruud beat her to death.
The wildlife zookeeper and trainer is expected to return to his South Carolina reserve after being released on bond. He stands accused of laundering more than half a million dollars of illegal funds.
Police say Glenn Hirsch harassed employees at a Chinese restaurant for months, believing he didn't get enough duck sauce with an order late last year. Then, he allegedly gunned down delivery driver Zhiwen Yan in April.
Authorities say Sylvia Nicole Smith was considered a runaway after she disappeared from Midland, Texas in 2000. More than 13 years later, partial remains were discovered by workers in the oilfields of western Texas that have since turned out to be her.
Officials say Ricky Dubose died in an apparent suicide just 10 days after he was sentenced to death. He had been convicted of killing corrections officers Sgt. Christopher Monica and Sgt. Curtis Billue while escaping a prison transport bus in 2017.
Darlene Brister allegedly stabbed five of her seven children as the house burned around them. Brister's husband told reporters his wife had been struggling with her mental health and they'd tried to get her help.
The identity of an infant who became known as "Baby Boy Hugo" was a mystery for nearly 30 years. Authorities now say DNA helped them arrest Meaonia Michelle Allen, who allegedly confessed to slashing her son's throat shortly after his birth.
After Charles Rhines, a gay man, was convicted of murder, jurors weighing a death sentence argued that sending him to prison for life would have been “sending him where he wants to go” because of all the men there.
Before he went missing from his farm in northwest Utah, relatives said Dylan Rounds told them of a "weird run-in" with a barefoot stranger he came across on a deserted, country road near his home.
Wako John Hawk Co-Cke' says that discrimination stemming from colonization and church tyranny continues to affect indigenous gender non-conforming people, who face higher threats of violence than the rest of the population.
