Thabo Bester, who was serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of an aspiring model, duped South African prison guards by staging a suicide last May. DNA tests show that the charred corpse found in his cell belonged to another man. Now, authorities are scrambling to find the escapee.
Aiden Fucci, who admitted to stabbing Tristyn Bailey 114 times in a grisly 2021 attack, submitted the letter to the court as part of a pre-sentencing defendant's packet.
The Murdaugh's "Moselle" estate has sold for $3.9 million, much of which will go to parties suing the family's estate. A Georgia auction house also sold off the family's effects, with the couch Alex Murdaugh claimed to have napped on the night of his wife and son's murders selling for $36,000.
Veronica Youngblood fatally shot her two daughters – 15-year-old Sharon Castro and 5-year-old Brooklyn Youngblood – in what prosecutors argued was a revenge plot against her ex.
Cornelius Police Chief David Baucom asserts that the missing persons case of 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari is "not a cold case," months after her disappearance. New evidence uncovered at her family's home suggests to police that drug or human trafficking may be involved.
Steven Cozzi never returned from a bathroom break at his Florida law firm, where drops of blood and the scent of cleaning products were left behind. On Saturday, plastic surgeon Tomasz Kosowski was charged with first-degree murder in connection with his disappearance.
Staten Island's "girl with the scorpion tattoo," who went unnamed since her beaten, strangled and burned body was discovered in September of 1991, has been identified as 30-year-old Christine Belusko using forensic genealogy, police said Tuesday.
"Yes, I was living in sin. But did I commit any crimes? No," Heidi Carter told an Indiana court before she was sentenced to 65 years for aiding her lover in the murder of Tim Ivy and the rape of a female victim.
Lori Vallow Daybell is accused of murdering her children, Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan, as well as her now-husband's wife Tammy Daybell. Her trial is slated to begin in April.
