Prosecutors have alleged that Jade Janks killed her former stepfather, Thomas Merriman, after stumbling on nude photos of herself on his computer while cleaning his apartment.
Michael Valva said he was "truly sorry" for making his autistic son, Thomas, sleep in an unheated garage as temperatures dipped into the teens. Home surveillance video showed the police officer taunting his son when he could no longer stand on his own.
Prosecutors believe mounting financial pressures and stress created the "perfect storm," causing Alex Murdaugh to shoot his wife Maggie and son Paul to divert attention from his own activities.
Former megachurch leader Leticia McCormack and her mother, Adella Tom, were ordered held without bail in the death of McCormack's 11-year-old adopted daughter Arabella McCormack.
Prosecutors had initially sworn out arrest warrants for five members of the Makarenko family in an August 2021 incident that left a gay man permanently blind. They've now declined to prosecute Pavlo Makarenko and dropped charges against his twin brother, Vladyslav.
A woman extradited from South Korea made her first court appearance in New Zealand Wednesday after the bodies of her two children were found in abandoned suitcases.
The FBI - Atlanta used DNA to confirm that bones found at a Savannah-area landfill belonged to missing 20-month-old Quinton Simon. Leilani Simon, the boy's mother, has already been charged with his murder.