Marine Corps reservist, identified as suspect in killings of Arizona deputy, New Hampshire couple
A New Hampshire couple found dead in a car near a northern Arizona resort town and a sheriff’s deputy killed days later in Phoenix were shot by the same gunman – a U.S. Marine Corps reservist, investigators say. Ballistics experts confirmed the rifle casings at the two crime scenes came from the assault rifle used [...]
Serial killer photographer kept diary detailing rapes and images of dead women
A diary documenting the rapes and sexual assaults of underage girls and women was found alongside posed photographs of two murder victims in the home of a suspected serial killer, a court has heard. Joseph Naso, 78, owned journals that contained dozens of sexual and violent images of women. They were discovered in the former [...]
Convicted murderer snaps in argument over what to feed terminally-ill wife and kills her two sisters, his son and himself
A convicted murderer gunned down three members of his family before killing himself after an argument about what to feed his terminally-ill wife, police say. Paul Gilkey, 63, snapped while looking after his wife Darlene, 59, who is dying of cancer. Authorities say he wasn’t getting along with his son Leroy or wife’s two sisters [...]
The Haditha killings
The Haditha killings (also called the Haditha incident or the Haditha massacre) refers to the incident in which 24 Iraqi men, women and children were killed by a group of United States Marines on November 19, 2005 in Haditha, a city in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar. At least 19 of those killed [...]
Tragedy as woman stabs seven-year-old granddaughter in chest before setting house on fire in blaze that kills them both
An Arkansas woman who adopted her granddaughter after her son’s death in Iraq stabbed the 7-year-old girl in the chest, then set fire to their home in a carefully planned murder-suicide. Janice Robbins, 63, left a suicide note in her pickup truck at Conway before killing her granddaughter, Abby Robbins, and herself on Saturday, police [...]
Eagle Scout who ‘preyed on women’: Man ‘hacked woman to death with hatchet at remote lake and disemboweled another victim’
An Eagle Scout has been accused of hacking a young woman to death and disemboweling another. Quintin P O’Dell, 22, will stand trial for murder and assault following the alleged incidents in Missouri. He denies both charges. The body of Alissa Faye Shippert, who he worked with at a convenience store, was found in a [...]
Gunman kills his wife, her twin, mother-in-law… and his ex before turning gun on himself
A gunman is believed to have gone on a shooting rampage that led to the murders of his wife, her twin sister, his mother-in-law and his ex-wife.Kenneth Myers, who was rumbled by police having allegedly gunned down the four women in Wagener, about 40 miles east of Augusta, Georgia, turned the gun on himself after [...]
Florida teen kills parents and host parties after
A teenager accused of bludgeoning his parents to death with a hammer was upbeat as he later showed friends $5,000 in cash at his house party – as their bodies lay upstairs. New police documents reveal 17-year-old Tyler Hadley, of Port St Lucie, Florida, allegedly took money from an ATM on July 16, just hours [...]
‘I don’t really worry what people say’: Wife whose affair with brother-in-law drove him to gun down family speaks out for first time
To the close-knit community of Effingham County, Georgia, childhood sweethearts Carey and Robin Heidt had the perfect lives – successful careers, a doting family and three blond-haired children. But Robin was keeping a secret from her husband – one that would eventually claim his life. The mother-of-three was having an affair with her husband’s older [...]
Joran van der Sloot
Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot. He has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States for wire fraud and extortion related to the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway, who disappeared in Aruba on May 30, 2005, and is charged in Peru with the first-degree murder and robbery of Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramírez, [...]