Flashback: Patricia "Katie" Krenwinkel
Thursday March 31, 2005
Patricia "Katie" Krenwinkel was a sometimes overweight kid who suffered from low self-esteem, feeling shunned and unattractive while growing up in Los Angeles. How did she get to be a ... Read More
Arrests Made in 'The Boy in the Bag' Cold Case
Thursday March 31, 2005
After 11 years, Philadelphia police say they have solved the case of "The Boy in The Bag" -- identifying the four-year-old boy whose badly beaten and decomposed body was found ... Read More
O.J. Simpson Lawyer Johnnie Cochran Dead at Age 67
Wednesday March 30, 2005
Attorney Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., who became famous as a member of O.J. Simpson's "Dream Team" defense, died as a result of a inoperable brain tumor at his Los Angeles ... Read More
Feds Try to Link Rudolph to Pro-Life Activist
Tuesday March 29, 2005
Federal prosecutors want to introduce evidence in suspected abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph's up-coming trial that he attended church services at a church were the pastor is a noted anti-abortion ... Read More
Court Overturns Death Penalty Over Bible Verses
Tuesday March 29, 2005
A divided Colorado Supreme Court has thrown out the death penalty in the case of a man who kidnapped and murdered a 25-year-old cocktail waitress after raping her for two ... Read More
Judge Allows Evidence of Jackson's 'Prior Bad Acts'
Monday March 28, 2005
In a stunning blow to the defense, Judge Rodney Melville ruled that evidence of Michael Jackson's "prior bad acts" will be allowed in his child molestation trial, opening up the ... Read More
Children's Health Affected by Violence in the Home
Monday March 28, 2005
A new study indicates that exposure to violence and maltreatment by children, especially in low-income, single-mother homes, can play a role in predicting health problems. The research also indicated that ... Read More
Jackson Trial Testimony Turns X-Rated
Friday March 25, 2005
Evidence in the Michael Jackson child molestation case turned from PG-13 to X-rated this week as the jury was shown a mountain of pornographic material seized from his Neverland Ranch ... Read More
Former Victims Testify in Samantha Runnion Case
Friday March 25, 2005
In the first week of the trial of Alejandro Avila for the kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Samantha Runnion, two young girls testified of being abused by the defendant years ... Read More
Ashley Smith Collects $70,000 Reward
Friday March 25, 2005
Ashley Smith, who was taken hostage by the Atlanta Courthouse Killer Brian Nichols and eventually talked him into giving himself up, received $70,000 in reward money this week for ... Read More
New Fingerprint Detection Technology Developed
Thursday March 24, 2005
University of California scientists have developed a novel method for detecting fingerprints based on the chemical elements present in fingerprint residue. Known as micro-X-ray fluorescence, or MXRF, the technique has ... Read More
Profile of Dennis Rader - Suspected BTK Strangler
Wednesday March 23, 2005
For 30 years the self named BTK Strangler taunted police while he continued his sadistic murders. Now authorities feel they have BTK locked behind bars and as many profilers have ... Read More
John Evander Couey Charged in Jessica's Death
Wednesday March 23, 2005
A convicted sex offender apparently kidnapped Jessica Lunsford from her bedroom and held her bound and gagged for at least two days 100 yards from her home while police, search ... Read More
Sante and Kenneth Kimes Get Life Sentences
Tuesday March 22, 2005
Mother-and-son con artist duo Sante and Kenneth Kimes, whose crimes have been the subjects of several books and a made-for-television movie, were sentenced to life without parole for the 1998 ... Read More
Ten Killed in Minnesota Student Rampage
Monday March 21, 2005
Ten people died and 14 others injured when a student on a Minnesota Indian reservation went on a killing spree, shooting his grandparents, a teacher, a security guard and as ... Read More
Scott Peterson Trivia Quiz
Monday March 21, 2005
The Scott Peterson trial was one of the most publicized cases in recent history, but how many of the details do you remember? Test your knowledge of this high-profile case.
See ... Read More
Samantha Runnion Trial to Begin
Monday March 21, 2005
After a long series of frustrating delays, the trial of Alejandro Avila for the abduction and murder of five-year-old Samantha Runnion on July 15, 2002 is scheduled to begin today. ... Read More
Police Find Jessica Lunsford's Shallow Grave
Friday March 18, 2005
Police found the body of Jessica Lunsford buried in a shallow grave under the back porch of a mobile home less than 150 years from her home, a day after ... Read More
Witnesses Confirm Jackson's Porn, Drinking
Friday March 18, 2005
Witnesses in the Michael Jackson child molestation case this week confirmed that the pop singer kept an extensive collection of adult magazines and photographs in his bedroom and bathroom and ... Read More
Sex Offender Questioned in Jessica Lunsford Case
Thursday March 17, 2005
The news from Homosasser, Florida this week is not encouraging. Rather than searching for nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford, authorities were investigating a registered sex offender who lived nearby and left the ... Read More
Ashley Smith: 'An Angel Sent From God'
Thursday March 17, 2005
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's front page Monday, March 14, 2005 had a photograph of Ashley Smith with a two-inch tall headline that ignored political correctness and conventional wisdom and said, "An ... Read More
Robert Blake Not Guilty
Wednesday March 16, 2005
A jury of seven women and five men deliberated for more than 36 hours before
returning a verdict of not guilty in the murder of his wife, Bonny Lee
Bakley and not ... Read More
Judge Delucchi Upholds Peterson’s Death Sentence
Wednesday March 16, 2005
Judge Alfred Delucchi made his decision to uphold the jury's recommendation to sentence convicted murderer Scott Peterson to death for killing his wife and their unborn child. The decision was ... Read More
Prosecution Seeks Michael Jackson's Financial Records
Sunday March 13, 2005
In a motion hearing Friday, prosecutors told Judge Rodney Melville that Michael Jackson's deteriorating financial situation was a motive for the pop singer to try to counteract the effects of ... Read More
Smart Kidnapping Suspect Ejected from Hearing
Sunday March 13, 2005
For the fourth time, Brian David Mitchell began singing hymns and was removed from a hearing to determine if he is mentally competent to be tried for kidnapping Elizabeth Smart ... Read More
Man Kills Seven at Wisconsin Church Service
Sunday March 13, 2005
Investigators were looking for clues into what motivated a Wisconsin man to walk into a church service without saying a word and opening fire on the congregation -- killing seven ... Read More
Supreme Court To Decide 'Shackling' Case
Sunday March 13, 2005
The Supreme Court will decide if forcing criminals convicted of capital crimes to appear at the sentencing phase of their trials in shackles violates their right to a fair trial, ... Read More
Courthouse Killer Waves 'White Flag' to Surrender
Saturday March 12, 2005
Brian Nichols, the man who killed three people in a Fulton County Courtroom Friday, waved a white flag to surrender to authorities after they surrounded a Metro Atlanta Area apartment ... Read More
Courthouse Killer Gives Cops the Slip
Friday March 11, 2005
The manhunt for an Atlanta man who killed three people at the Fulton County Courthouse Friday morning became a lot more complicated when the vehicle the suspect was thought to ... Read More
A Long Day for Michael Jackson
Thursday March 10, 2005
Judge Rodney Melville refused to let Michael Jackson call in sick today. Under threat of bench warrant, the obviously distressed superstar -- who found out the night before that he ... Read More
Murder Scene DNA Matches Suicide Victim
Thursday March 10, 2005
Authorities said the man who shot himself to death during a traffic stop and left a note saying he killed the husband and mother of Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow in ... Read More
Robert Blake Jury Reviews Testimony
Thursday March 10, 2005
Jurors in the Robert Blake murder trial requested a read-back of testimony from two witnesses during their third full day of deliberations and ended the day without reaching a verdict.
The ... Read More
Michael Jackson's Accuser Takes the Stand
Thursday March 10, 2005
Speaking firmly and clearly, unlike his brother and sister, the teenager who claims he was molested by Michael Jackson began his much anticipated testimony -- after glaring defiantly at the ... Read More
Cops Use Electronic 'Sniffer' to Detect Illegal Drugs
Wednesday March 9, 2005
On a South Texas highway local police and border agents are using a hand-held sniffer developed at Sandia National Laboratories to help stem the flow of illegal drugs northward into ... Read More
Flashback: Susan Atkins aka Sadie Mae Glutz
Wednesday March 9, 2005
She stabbed actress Sharon Tate to death and participated in the murder of music teacher Gary Hinman. During her grand jury testimony, Atkins testified that there was no limit to ... Read More
'Kiernan's Law' Protects New York's Families
Wednesday March 9, 2005
Kiernan's Law allows parents and guardians of children to access New York State criminal history information about potential in-house caregivers. The law is named after Kieran Dunne, who was brutally ... Read More
BTK Secret Revealed After 30 Years
Tuesday March 8, 2005
After more than 30 years, a clue in the BTK serial killer investigation, and one of the secrets most closely guarded by authorities, has finally come to light -- the ... Read More
Brother Gives Graphic Details About Jackson's Sexual Behavior
Tuesday March 8, 2005
The brother of the teenage boy who has accused Michael Jackson of child molestation gave the jury for the first time eye-witness testimony in graphic detail of the singer's pattern ... Read More
Court Denies Execution Stay for Ohio Rapist
Tuesday March 8, 2005
William H. Smith is scheduled to be executed at 10 a.m. today after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to delay his execution for a 1987 rape and murder, although his ... Read More
Man Says Convicted Wife Didn't Shoot Him
Tuesday March 8, 2005
A man whose wife confessed to shooting him in the head, beating him with a baseball bat and leaving him to die now says his wife is innocent and he ... Read More
Police Puzzled Over Disappearance of Jessica Lunsford
Monday March 7, 2005
There are plenty of rumors and gossip flying around the community, but authorities in Homosassa, Florida have very few, if any, clues in the disappearance of nine-year-old Jessica Marie Lunsford ... Read More
Blake Jury Deliberates Actor's Fate
Monday March 7, 2005
Jurors in the Robert Blake murder trial deliberated for about an hour and a half Friday before taking a break for the weekend, after Blake's attorney urged them "end this ... Read More
Jury Sees Jackson's 'Rebuttal Video'
Monday March 7, 2005
The jury in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial saw an unedited videotape shot two years ago by the singer's aides, in which the entire family of Jackson's teenage accuser ... Read More
Pot-Growing Teacher Found Dead
Monday March 7, 2005
When a Jacksonville science teacher failed to show up for school for two days, the school asked police to go check on him. They found him dead in his bathroom ... Read More
Accuser's Sister Testifies About Jackson and Alcohol
Friday March 4, 2005
The jury in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial got a first-hand account of events at Neverland Ranch for the first time, when the sister of Jackson's teenage accuser described ... Read More
Blake Defense Attacks Credibility of Witnesses
Friday March 4, 2005
Defense attorney Gerald Schwartzbach attacked the credibility of several prosecution witnesses, calling one of them a liar "defending his backside," as he made closing arguments to the jury in the ... Read More
Judge Lets Capital Case Stand Against Rudolph
Friday March 4, 2005
Eric Rudolph will be tried on capital charges in the bombing of an Alabama abortion clinic after Judge Lynwood Smith rejected a defense motion that he should be tried under ... Read More
Prosecution Closes in Robert Blake Trial
Thursday March 3, 2005
Prosecutor Shellie Samuels gave jurors in the Robert Blake murder trial a timeline in her closing arguments which she said lead the actor from first trying to get out of ... Read More
Jackson's Attorneys Planned Attack on Accuser's Mom
Thursday March 3, 2005
Ann Marie Kite, a public relations specialist who worked for Michael Jackson for only six days, told the jury in his child molestation case that his attorneys at the time ... Read More
Federal Judge Protected After Family Members Killed
Thursday March 3, 2005
U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow and her four daughters are in protective custody after her husband and mother were shot execution style in the basement of her Chicago home.
Chicago ... Read More
Juvenile Killer: School Bus Driver Shot to Death
Wednesday March 2, 2005
A Tennessee teenager, apparently disciplined for using smokeless tobacco on his school bus last week, shot the female driver to death in front of 20 other students. The incident occurred ... Read More
Bashir First Witness Against Michael Jackson
Tuesday March 1, 2005
Martin Bashir, whose documentary film "Living With Michael Jackson" touched off the investigation that lead to child molestation charges against the singer, was the first prosecution witness to take the ... Read More
Teen Sniper Won't Be Tried in Virginia
Tuesday March 1, 2005
Commonwealth Attorney Paul Ebert, of Prince William County, Virginia said teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo will not be tried for a shooting in Manassas, because the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling ... Read More
Prosecutors in Smart Case File Barzee Motion
Tuesday March 1, 2005
Prosecutors in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case have filed a motion on behalf of Utah's mental institution to force suspect Wanda Barzee to take anti-psychotic medications for her mental disorder, ... Read More
Kobe Bryant to Settle Lawsuit
Tuesday March 1, 2005
ABC News is reporting that Kobe Bryant and the woman who accused him of sexual assault at a Colorado resort have agreed in principle to settle the civil lawsuit she ... Read More
BTK Suspect Charged With 10 Counts of Murder
Tuesday March 1, 2005
Dennis Rader, the man arrested in connection with the infamous Wichita, Kansas BTK serial killings, has been officially charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder and his bond set at ... Read More
Supreme Court Strikes Down Juvenile Death Penalty
Tuesday March 1, 2005
The U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to outlaw the death penalty for juveniles who were under the age of 18 at the time of the crimes, calling the execution of ... Read More