The despondent grandfather of slain Florida toddler Caylee Anthony sent his family and friends text messages saying he “did not want to live anymore and that he wanted to be with Caylee,” police said. George Anthony was missing for hours before he was found at a motel in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Two months before dying, a Virginia woman confessed to killing two women nearly 42 years ago, authorities said Friday, telling police she shot the women because they had taunted her for being a lesbian.

For three years, the thieves crept into some of the poshest homes in the most exclusive enclaves in the nation, making off with more than million in cash and jewels. This week, the LAPD announced it had caught the ‘Hillside Burglar.’ Residents of Bel Air, Beverly Hills and Pacific Palisades are breathing a sigh of [...]

The white coffin was flanked by four smaller caskets, each carrying a photograph and a spray of flowers as 300 mourners paid their respects to Summer Rust and her children. “I’ve preached a lot of funerals, but none like this one,” said the Rev. Gerald Van Horn. Rust’s boyfriend is charged with the slayings.

A former drug dealer was executed in Texas on Wednesday night for the murders of two reputed gang members — 15 years to the day after the crime.

A man suspected of trying to fake his death by parachuting from a plane before it crashed has been indicted on charges of willfully damaging an aircraft and triggering a Coast Guard rescue attempt.

A man who was sought by police in Texas after four children were burned with sulfuric acid asked a local television station to document his surrender. “I would never throw acid at nobody. It was an accident,” Tracy Lunn Escobedo says repeatedly on the video as he turns himself in.

The new district attorney of Boulder County, Colorado, said he plans to take a fresh look at the investigation into the 1996 slaying of JonBenet Ramsey. The probe, taken over by prosecutors in 2002, may return to the Boulder Police Department’s hands.

A massive manhunt involving “every guy who ever wore a badge” in northeast Montana ended late Saturday after police located the man they say shot and killed a woman and wounded two others.

American student Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend went on trial in Perugia, Italy, on Friday in the 2007 killing of a British exchange student. Knox’s roommate, Meredith Kercher, died in what prosecutors called a “drug-fueled sex game.”