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.
Morgan Geyser was just 12 when she and Anissa Weier lured another girl into the woods and nearly stabbed her to death to please a fictitious character known as "Slender Man." Weier was conditionally released last year.
The mother of Alyssa Morales says her daughter will be permanently disfigured because an unknown woman sprayed her and another man with a liquid and set them on fire.
Xichen Yang told police that, after cutting his wife Nhu Quynh Pham's throat, he "played her favorite music" and "held her hand" for approximately 10 minutes as she died in the couple's bathtub. He allegedly took a phone call while cleaning up and confessed to the crime.
Authorities in Colorado say Kerry Endsley violated a restraining order when he allegedly approached his former lover and her husband at gunpoint and forced a nylon leash around her neck. The couple made a daring escape while a nearby hiker called 911.
