Roderick Covlin's attorneys argue the prosecutor in the case improperly included a theory in his closing arguments about how Shele Danishefsky's murder was carried out that had not been presented to jurors beforehand.
The Connecticut bill is nicknamed “Jennifer’s Law” after Jennifer Magnano, who was shot dead by her husband, and Jennifer Farber Dulos, who went missing in 2019 and is presumed murdered.
Diane Smith, 52, allegedly told investigators she heard her husband Brandon Smith and more than a dozen other people “singing” and threatening to “shoot her and cut off her legs” before she opened fire.
“Defendant struggles to assist in her defense and counsel has serious concerns regarding defendant’s mental health,” Brittany Gosney's attorney wrote after she and her boyfriend James Hamilton were arrested for the murder of 6-year-old James Hutchinson.
Christine Warren unknowingly provided her DNA to detectives investigating her for the 23-year-old death of a newborn, who was left to die in a gas station bathroom.
"Her actions right now are speaking very loud. As hard as it is, I don’t think [he is alive]," an aunt of D'Lanny Chairez said when asked about Chairez's missing son, James.
Prosecutors said Charles Sander, 77, “ambushed and murdered” his son-in-law on the morning of Sept. 7, 2018 at a convenience store in Osceola, Missouri after Lance Kilgore had gone to the location to pick up his son from Elizabeth Kilgore as part of a custody exchange.
Kolby Parker, who owned an apron emblazoned with the phrase “The Family Butcher,” allegedly cut off his grandfather's ears after beating him with a baseball bat and stabbing him with a knife.
Seventeen-year-old Daphne Westbrook went to her father John Westbrook's home for a weekend visit in October 2019 and never came home. Authorities believe he's kept her intoxicated on either drugs or alcohol as he continues to evade law enforcement.