Family Crimes

Attorneys for Murdaugh have also asked the South Carolina supreme court to remove Judge Clifton Newman from the case, saying it would be a conflict of interest. 

Ashton Sachs fired 15 bullets into his mother and father and critically injured his 8-year-old brother.

Investigators believe that Ina Thea Kenoyer fatally poisoned boyfriend Steven Edward Riley Jr. to gain part of his multi-million payout.

Makayla Meave-Byers vanished and turned up dead five days later. Court records state that Frank Byers’ boots “had a blood like substance on them” that matched his wife’s DNA.

In 1999, Ronald DeFeo Jr. said, “I loved my family very much.” But 25 years earlier, he had killed all of them in an infamous slaying.

“He just robbed my nieces and nephews of a fantastic mom and robbed me of a sister and everybody else of their friend,” Breanne Pennington's sister, Brooke Pertile, said of her brother-in-law, Aaron Pennington.  

Betty Bowman died from an overdose of liquid colchicine, a gout medicine, according to court documents. Her husband Connor Bowman is charged with her murder.

“Weldon Alexander, father to Karen Alexander and Gordon Alexander, is the sole, viable suspect in their murder,” Miller County Prosecuting Attorney Connie Mitchell said.

Ashley Jones was arrested for murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, and burglary by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department in Indiana.

Danny Serafini was arrested along with Samantha Scott in Nevada for the 2021 Northern California murder of 70-year-old Robert Gary Spohr and the attempted murder of 68-year-old Wendy Wood.