Bryan Kohberger’s effort to challenge his guilty plea has taken a new turn after a previously sealed court memo revealed that his former defense team had raised concerns about his ability to fully understand the legal developments surrounding his case. The newly unsealed filing does not establish that Kohberger was legally incompetent when he pleaded … Read more
A Christiansburg man will spend decades in prison following a case that began with a woman going to a local hotel hoping to end a relationship and ended with a lengthy criminal sentence. Joseph Nathan Penn was sentenced Wednesday in Montgomery County Circuit Court after being convicted earlier this year in connection with an assault … Read more
The legal case surrounding the 2023 attack on Arizona teenager Preston Lord has taken another turn after Talyn Vigil, one of the defendants awaiting trial, was arrested for a third time while under court-ordered supervision. Vigil, now 20, was taken into custody in Tempe on September 17 after police said they saw him riding a … Read more
The investigation surrounding Jesse Calhoun has taken another significant turn, with prosecutors now linking the Oregon man to a sixth woman who disappeared nearly four years ago. On September 16, a Multnomah County grand jury indicted Calhoun on a first-degree manslaughter charge in connection with Elizabeth “Libby” Gibson, a 32-year-old Portland woman whose remains have … Read more
A Utah couple has been sentenced to prison after investigators uncovered a troubling pattern of neglect surrounding the final days of their 18-month-old daughter, Ruby Marie Murray. Carrie Marie Murray and Mitchell Chesnut Murray, both 32, were sentenced in Utah’s 1st District Court after previously pleading guilty to child abuse homicide and aggravated child abuse. … Read more
Nearly 28 years after a robbery at a small Alabama pawnshop, Jeffery Lee’s long-running legal case has reached its final chapter. Lee, 49, was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final request to stop the procedure. The execution came … Read more
Christa Pike was 18 years old when she committed the crime that eventually sent her to Tennessee’s death row. Now 50, she is approaching a very different point in her life. Pike is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee on September 30, 2026, unless a court or state authority intervenes. Her attorneys have submitted a … Read more
More than two decades after a 2005 home robbery in a small Texas community left three people without their lives, the long-running legal case involving LeJames Norman has reached its final chapter. Norman, 40, was executed by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville on Wednesday evening, September 16, after the U.S. Supreme Court … Read more
A missing-person case that had remained unresolved for more than eight months has taken an unexpected turn in Springfield, Ohio, after a 16-year-old girl was found safe inside the home of a former high school teacher. The teenager had been missing for 263 days. Now, investigators are examining why she was allegedly staying inside the … Read more
For years, one question has remained at the center of the Jayme Closs case: Why her? Jayme was only 13 when she was taken from her Wisconsin home in October 2018. Her parents, James and Denise Closs, lost their lives during the terrifying overnight attack, and Jayme was taken away from the house. What followed … Read more