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Ex-NFL Player Kevin Ware Admits Killing Girlfriend

He will be sentenced to 30 years under plea deal

(Newser) - Former NFL tight end Kevin Ware Jr. has pleaded guilty to the 2021 killing of his girlfriend, Taylor Pomaski, agreeing to a 30-year prison sentence for murder and evidence tampering. The plea came just before jury selection was to begin, the Houston Chronicle reports. Pomaski disappeared in April 2021;...

Alex Murdaugh's Son Gets Married
Buster Murdaugh Gets Married
May 7, 2025 10:25 AM CDT

Buster Murdaugh Gets Married

Son of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh weds longtime girlfriend Brooklynn White

(Newser) - Buster Murdaugh finally has cause for happiness, though there was no one in his immediate family present to share it. As People reports, the surviving son of convicted double murderer Alex Murdaugh has married his longtime girlfriend, Brooklynn White. Court records show that the couple pulled a marriage license in...

2nd Suspect Charged in Death of Super Bowl Reporter

Police say suspects 'were working hand-in-hand in concert with each other'

(Newser) - A second person has been charged with murder in connection with the death of Telemundo Kansas City reporter Adan Manzano , who traveled to New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl. Kenner police on Monday announced charges against Rickey White, 34, who was previously arrested in Florida on robbery and...

Argument About Cats Allegedly Led to Student's Murder

Elizabeth 'Tami' Odunsi, a UK citizen, killed before she could graduate from Texas nursing school

(Newser) - Texas police say an argument over pet cats led a man to fatally stab his roommate of two months. Chester Grant, 40, is held on suspicion of murdering 23-year-old Elizabeth Tamilore Odunsi, a British citizen who was attending nursing school in Houston. She was also a content creator who went...

Bestselling Crime Novelist Murdered on Houseboat
Crime Novelist
Murdered on Houseboat
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May 3, 2025 6:00 AM CDT

Crime Novelist Murdered on Houseboat

Alexandra Fröhlich was reportedly shot in Hamburg, Germany

(Newser) - The murder of a bestselling author in Germany is like something out of a book. A son of Alexandra Fröhlich visited her houseboat on the Elbe river in Hamburg on Tuesday morning and found she had been violently attacked and killed only hours before. Police believe Fröhlich, 58,...

State's Longest Death-Row Inmate Gets an Execution Date

Richard Jordan, 78, will be put to death on June 25, after nearly 50 years on Mississippi's death row

(Newser) - Mississippi's Supreme Court has set June 25 as the execution date for Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's longest-serving death row inmate, condemned for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter in Harrison County. Jordan, 78, has contested his sentence for decades, but his most recent appeal...

'I Just Shot My Family': Gulf War Vet Faces Execution

Jeffrey Hutchinson scheduled to receive lethal injection in Florida on Thursday

(Newser) - A Gulf War veteran who maintains his innocence faces execution Thursday in Florida for the 1998 killings of his girlfriend and her three children. Details:
  • The state is scheduled to execute Jeffrey Hutchinson, 62, convicted of fatally shooting girlfriend Renee Flaherty, 32, and her three children, ages 4 through
...

Man Who Threw Rocks at Random Cars Guilty of Murder

Joseph Koenig was the only one of trio of Colorado teens to go on trial

(Newser) - A night of rock-throwing in suburban Denver has led to a first-degree murder conviction for the final member of a group of three friends. Jurors had to unravel shifting stories and plea deals before finding Joseph Koenig guilty in the killing of 20-year-old Alexa Bartell, the AP reports. Bartell...

July Fourth Mass Shooter Gets Life in Prison

Robert Crimo III declined to attend his sentencing in the Illinois shooting that killed 7, injured dozens

(Newser) - The suburban Chicago man who admitted to fatally shooting seven people and wounding dozens of others during a 2022 Independence Day parade was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, reports the AP . Lake County Judge Victoria Rossetti handed down seven consecutive sentences of natural life...

'Major Security Lapse' Raises Tension in India, Pakistan
In a Meadow Cars Can't
Access, a Bloody Massacre
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Apr 23, 2025 10:10 AM CDT

In a Meadow Cars Can't Access, a Bloody Massacre

Unpacking the aftermath of Tuesday's attack in Kashmir

(Newser) - The New York Times calls it a "major security lapse in what is one of the world's most militarized zones": Gunmen burst out of forests and murdered 26 people —24 of them Indian tourists, reports the AP —at a picnic spot in Indian-controlled Kashmir. It's...

Judge Guilty of Murdering Wife
Judge Guilty of Murdering Wife
Apr 23, 2025 1:00 AM CDT

Judge Guilty of Murdering Wife

Prosecutors say Jeffrey Ferguson shot his wife after argument at restaurant

(Newser) - A southern California judge was found guilty Tuesday in the murder of his wife. Jeffrey Ferguson, whose first trial ended in a mistrial when jurors couldn't reach a unanimous verdict, was convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal 2023 shooting of his wife, Sheryl, who was 65. Jeffrey Ferguson,...

Handyman Allegedly Killed Elderly Client With Nail Gun

Coroner calls it 'the worst case I've witnessed'

(Newser) - A former pastor convicted of child sex crimes is now charged with kidnapping and murdering an elderly woman, whom he served as handyman. Jeffrey Zizz, 47, from Washington state, allegedly killed 82-year-old Marcia Norman of Tenino before concealing her remains in concrete beneath a shed, the Thurston County Sheriff's...

Doctor Was Really a Serial Killer: Prosecutors

German man charged with killing 15 patients with drug cocktail

(Newser) - A palliative care doctor should work to improve patients' quality of life, not end their lives, as a German doctor is accusing of doing. Prosecutors in Berlin say the 40-year-old man murdered at least 15 patients over three years, apparently for no reason other than he had a "lust"...

Youth Soccer Coach Charged in Murder of California Teen

Coach also accused of sexual assault in separate case

(Newser) - Oscar Omar Hernandez, 13, was found dead on a Southern California roadside earlier this month—and now youth soccer coach Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino has been charged with the young teen's murder. The charges include murder with a special circumstance of lewd acts with a child, making Garcia-Aquino eligible...

'Doomsday Mom' Goes on Trial for Another Killing

Lori Vallow Daybell, accused of conspiring to kill 4th husband, will represent herself

(Newser) - Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho mother with doomsday religious beliefs who was convicted of killing her two youngest children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival, is on trial again. This time, she's accused in Arizona of conspiring to murder her estranged husband, per the AP . Vallow Daybell, 51,...

Wife Accused in 'Horrific' Killing of Ex-Green Beret

Shana Cloud accused of killing, dismembering Clinton Bonnell over desire for divorce

(Newser) - A retired Green Beret told his wife he wanted a divorce, so North Carolina police say she killed and dismembered him. Authorities pleaded for the public's help in locating 50-year-old Clinton Bonnell after he vanished Jan. 27 in Fayetteville, where he was stationed at Fort Bragg before retiring in...

Prosecutors: Killer Teen Lived With Dead Bodies for 2 Weeks

Wisconsin's Nikita Casap, 17, charged with fatally shooting mom, stepdad on Feb. 11

(Newser) - A teenager in Wisconsin shot and killed his mother and stepfather, then went to school the next day like nothing happened, according to prosecutors. The bodies of 35-year-old Tatiana Casap and 51-year-old Donald Mayer were discovered partially decayed in their Waukesha home on Feb. 28 after odd text messages prompted...

Selena's Killer Poised for First Parole Review

Yolanda Saldívar has served 30 years of a life sentence

(Newser) - As the 30th anniversary of Tejano music icon Selena Quintanilla-Pérez's untimely death approaches, so too does the possibility of parole for the woman convicted of her murder. Yolanda Saldívar, now 64, will on Sunday be up for parole for the first time since her conviction for fatally...

Dead Boy's Grandparents Who Sought 'Answers' Are Arrested

French couple, along with 2 of their adult children, are detained in murder of toddler Emile Soleil

(Newser) - Two grandparents of a French toddler whose bones were discovered last year have been arrested on suspicion of murder, alongside two of their adult children. All four are held on suspicion of voluntary homicide and concealment of a corpse, prosecutors said Tuesday, per the BBC . Emile Soleil was just 2...

Murderer Allegedly Kills Wife During Conjugal Visit

David Brinson, however, has not yet been charged with anything

(Newser) - A convicted murderer serving four consecutive life sentences at a California prison now stands accused of killing his wife during a conjugal visit. Stephanie Brinson, 62, was on an overnight visit to northern California's Mule Creek State Prison when, around 2am on Nov. 13, her husband David Brinson, 54,...

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