Charles' Crime / Punishment Blog

A 19-year-old Texas man has been charged with capital murder in connection with a case in which a six-year-old girl was found hanged to death in her family's garage. ... Read More

A five-year-old girl who was seen being sexually assaulted in a videotape has been found and is now with her family, according to Las Vegas police. Authorities are still ... Read More

Albert Fish is known for being one of the most vile pedophiles and killers of all time, who admitted to molesting more than 400 children and torturing and killing several others. Fish ... Read More

Rex C. Reichert is wanted for the alleged sexual abuse of two juvenile males, ages 14 and 10, over a two-year period at his apartment in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Reichert ... Read More

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Fidler declared a mistrial today in the murder trail of music producer Phil Spector after the jury once again reported that they were ... Read More

Usually when one parent is convicted of killing the other parent, the question of child custody for the surviving parent is a moot question because they are usually sent ... Read More

A former private school teacher has been arrested and charged with having sex with a teenage boy, three counts of sexual conduct with a minor and committing a lewd ... Read More

Two California men had what they thought was a great idea for making a few bucks -- breaking into a 40,000-square-foot building and stealing copper wiring from the vacant ... Read More

Anthony Ray Artrip, a convicted bank robber, is wanted for escaping from the Grant County Detention Center in Williamstown, Kentucky, on June 24, 2007. Artrip was awaiting sentencing in ... Read More

A Maryland woman who has been held without bond since July when authorities found four sets of fetal remains around her home has been released from jail and all ... Read More

A South Carolina man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping a 14-year-old girl, holding her for 10 days in an underground bunker and raping her daily has been sentenced to ... Read More

Las Vegas District Attorney David Roger added kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping to the list of felonies facing O.J. Simpson in connection with the armed robbery of a ... Read More

According to court papers filed this week, three forensic computer experts are scheduled to testify at the federal trial of Joseph Edward Duncan III for the murder of nine-year-old ... Read More

After deliberating seven days, the jury in the Phil Spector murder trial sent a note to the judge saying it was at an impasse, split with a 7-5 vote. ... Read More

A former prison nurse who killed a corrections officer to help her inmate husband escape pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in a deal that will allow her to avoid ... Read More

In the midst of a media coverage frenzy, O.J. Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas Sunday on several felony charges in connection with the armed robbery in a hotel ... Read More

A man accused of strangling a Clemson University student with her own bikini top wants to plead guilty, if he can have a separate trial for sentencing, but a ... Read More

Six-year-old Hannah Mack was found hanging in the garage behind her mother's home and investigators said the girl had been sexually assaulted before she died. Police arrested the Texas ... Read More

A man with an AK-47 killed one police officer and wounded three others during a routine traffic stop in Miami, then fleeing in a car with a woman and ... Read More

A confessed serial killer who was close to being released from prison has now been given a second life sentence in Michigan. Coral Eugene Watts was sentenced for the ... Read More

A repeat sex offender from New Hampshire who has been missing since 1999 has been added to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. Jon Savarino Schillaci is wanted on ... Read More

A man who killed a female neighbor in their exclusive gated neighborhood in Long Island, New York, cut her head off and put it in the trunk of his ... Read More

Diego Leon Montoya Sanchez, on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list since March 2004, was arrested today by Colombian authorities near Zarzal in the Colombian state of Valle del ... Read More

A Tennessee woman who served only 67 days after she was convicted of shooting her minister husband is now petitioning the court to get her children back. The three ... Read More

The FBI has added Eric Romel Wilson to its list of fugitives wanted for murder. Wilson is wanted for aggravated murder in connection with a September 1, 2007 shootout ... Read More

After five months of testimony, the jury began deliberating in the murder trial of Phil Spector, accused of shooting actress Lana Clarkson to death in his mansion in February ... Read More

Ronald J. Dominique of Houma, Louisiana has confessed to murdering 23 men over the past nine years and dumping their bodies in sugarcane fields, ditches and small bayous in ... Read More

A man police believe is the Phoenix "Baseline Killer" responsible for a series of murders and sexual assaults in 2005 and 2006 has been found guilty of 19 charges ... Read More

The Durham prosecutor who used the investigation into three Duke University lacrosse players for his own political gain while evidence pointed to their innocence has reported to jail to ... Read More

The Zodiac was a serial killer who stalked parts of Northern California from December 1968 through October 1969. Through a series of cryptic letters he sent to the press ... Read More

A 71-year-old Philadelphia man who served 15 years in prison for attempted murder in connection with the shooting of a policeman that left him paralyzed is now being charged ... Read More

The state of Pennsylvania has decided to settle a lawsuit brought by convicted killer Lisa Michelle Lambert, who claimed she was sexually assaulted by guards at the Cambridge Springs ... Read More

Miccosukee Indian Kirk Douglas Billie, 36, was sentenced to life in prison for the 1997 drowning death of his two sons, Kurt, 5 and Keith, 3. His case became ... Read More

A Connecticut lawyer who stabbed his neighbor to death because his wife accused the neighbor of molesting his two-year-old daughter, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading ... Read More