Richard Cottingham was convicted of butchering at least six women in New Jersey and New York from 1967 to 1980, but prosecutors now say his body count is even higher.
Mollie Fitzgerald, who portrayed “Stark Girl” in 2011's “Captain America: The First Avenger,” has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 68-year-old Patricia Fitzgerald.
Witnesses reportedly saw Forrest West outside of his North Charleston apartment, threatening to burn the place down, igniting a pillow and lobbing it into his unit.
Two to three minutes after Margaret Kinsella took her chocolate Labrador into the bathroom, an air conditioner maintenance worker says he heard loud screams. He opened the bathroom door to find Kinsella's dog “floating in the bathtub, he told authorities.
Heather Oliver has been charged with neglect after claiming to have discovered her young son had climbed into the washer and somehow turned it on. When asked by police about his mother, the boy described her as "not nice."
When Juan Fresnada and his partner Byron Caceres refused to offer any valuables during an attempted mugging, a group of men launched into a brutal assault.
Police found the man dying on the side of the road with a loaded gun nearby, and later caught up with Sabrina Guttierez, who allegedly ran him down for hurting one of her relatives.
Emily Pascal, her 4-year-old daughter and 16-month-old son were found dead at the base of a parking garage that has been the site of numerous suicides this year.