Susan Atkins is terminally ill with brain cancer; Charles “Tex” Watson is an ordained minister. They and other members of Charles Manson’s murderous “family” now shun him. All have parole hearings coming up, but their prospects of freedom seem unlikely nearly 40 years after their horrific crimes.

A man shot and killed seven patients and a nurse at a Carthage, North Carolina, nursing home Sunday before being wounded during a shootout with a police officer, authorities said.

Police found five people, including two children, shot to death Sunday night in a townhouse in Santa Clara, California.

Chiquita Tate was such a believer in the legal system that she had a tattoo of Lady Justice on her back. In the middle of a double murder trial, the tenacious defense attorney was found dead in her law office, with 38 stab wounds. Her husband is charged with kiling her just days after their [...]

The Italian media call her “Foxy Knoxy” and portray her as a “devil with an angel’s face.” There are 11 Facebook pages dedicated to her, all in Italian. American exchange student Amanda Knox and her murder trial, with its salacious allegations of drug-fueled sex games, are the talk of Italy.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Lourdes Batista wishes she had super powers so she could use them to find her husband, she said Wednesday, 105 days after authorities said he was kidnapped in Mexico. Felix Batista, a renowned kidnapping consultant, disappeared after getting into a vehicle outside a Saltillo restaurant on December 10.

A Texas woman claims in a lawsuit her 21-year-old son has suffered emotional trauma from being forced to participate in alleged “fight clubs” at a state school for mentally handicapped adults.

A six-man, six-woman jury began deliberating Thursday whether music producer Phil Spector is responsible for the death six years ago of an actress in his home.

New shoes or not, it’s impossible to rule out the possibility that an actress committed suicide in music producer Phil Spector’s home, his attorney told a jury Tuesday. The music legend is being unjustly retried for the 2003 shooting death of Lana Clarkson, his lawyer said in closing arguments.