Topic: Murder and Homicide
Family members, investigators, clergy and even a psychic have spent weeks testifying in a northern Illinois courtroom — and Drew Peterson's murder trial hasn't even started. Initially billed as a preliminary step in the case, an extraordinary hearing to determine what hearsay, or second-hand, evidence jurors will be allowed to hear during Peterson's trial in his third wife ...
A man representing himself in a serial murder trial in Southern California has finished presenting his case to jurors, culminating with a video clip of himself from an episode of "The Dating Game" that he claims proves his innocence. Rodney James Alcala, 66, could face the death penalty ...
A jury has convicted a 23-year-old California man of killing his girlfriend's 1-year-old son. The Superior Court panel in Long Beach deliberated for an hour Tuesday before finding Anthony Hall Jr. guilty of assaulting and murdering Nathan Coleman. Prosecutors say Hall killed the boy in a ...
A San Francisco jury has found a former reality TV show contestant guilty of killing a man in 2007. Twenty-nine-year-old Jamal Rashead Trulove of Oakland was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Prosecutors say Trulove fatally ...
