Authorities in Gainesville have continued to engage in a diligent search for missing University of Florida student Christian Aguilar. Aguilar’s father, maintaining hope, asked the FBI to assist in the case and volunteers to distribute fliers on campus in an effort to find his son. The FBI has agreed to…
Damon Thibodeaux, 38, spent 15 years on Louisiana’s death row for a murder he did not commit was released Friday from prison in an exoneration brought about by the Innocence Project. Thibodeaux was convicted of killing his 14-year-old relative, Crystal Champagne, after falsely confessing to having raped and murdered her.…
A 1969 tragedy where a Massachusetts home was engulfed in flames in the middle of the night, killing a young mother and five of her children, was then ruled accidental. However, the reappearance of an ex-con at the family grave site on the anniversary of the deaths have authorities investigating…
On Friday, police received calls shortly after 8:15 a.m., reporting a man with a gun at the Gateway Center Building in Pittsburg. A 22-year-old man, who authorities suspect to be Klein Michael Thaxton took another man hostage in a suite on the 16th floor of this high rise office building.…
Patrick Drum, 34, accused of a double murderer, changed his plea to guilty at a hearing Thursday afternoon at the Clallam County Courthouse. Drum was sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing 28-year-old Gary Blanton, and 56-year-old Jerry Ray, both of which were convicted sex offenders. Drum made…
One of the most infamous murder trials in modern U.S. history is will be reinvestigated in a courtroom this week. Jeffrey MacDonald may be getting another chance to try to prove his innocence more than 30 years after being convicted of killing his his pregnant wife, Colette, and their daughters,…
A 47-year-old man in Tacoma, Washington mistakenly pocket-dialed 911 twice while driving drunk in what authorities suspected to be a stolen car. Police have not released his name and will not do so until he is charged, but say he is homeless. The first 911 call came at approximately 11:30…
Amy Bishop Anderson, former professor accused of shooting six of her colleagues, three of which were killed, pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted murder charges and agreed to plead guilty to a capital murder charge on September 24 in Madison County Circuit Court. She had previously pleaded not guilty…
Drew Peterson, a former Chicago-area police sergeant was found guilty of the murder of his third wife Kathleen Savio, who was found dead in her home on March 1, 2004, just weeks before their divorce settlement was to be finalized. He is now waiting to be sentenced (sometime in November)…
Drew Peterson, a former Chicago-area police sergeant is being charged with murder for the death of his third wife Kathleen Savio, who was found dead in her home on March 1, 2004, just weeks before their divorce settlement was to be finalized. Savio’s death was not ruled as a homicide…