A felon accused of bludgeoning his cellmate to death at the John Benoit Detention Center in Indio pleaded not guilty Friday to a murder charge. Luke Hanchette, 42, of Hemet is charged with killing 48-year-old John Leo Hemmer of South Dakota, who was found dead Wednesday in a cell the two shared, according to the […]
(CNN) — The Arizona Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld Jodi Arias’ murder conviction and life sentence in the 2008 killing of her ex-boyfriend, rejecting her assertions that she was denied a fair trial. Arias was convicted in 2013 and sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for killing her ex-boyfriend, 30-year-old Travis Alexander. His body was […]
A Spotsylvania County man will serve several life sentences in prison for horrific child sex crimes. Thirty-five-year-old Raymond W. Harry, Jr. was convicted on one count of forcible sodomy, four counts of rape of a child, and 50 counts of production of child pornography. A judge sentenced Harry to five mandatory life sentences, as well […]
A man who gunned down two Palm Springs police officers who had responded to his family’s home due to a domestic disturbance was sentenced to death Friday. John Hernandez Felix, 28, was convicted in May of murder and other charges for the Oct. 8, 2016, killings of veteran Officer Jose Gilbert “Gil” Vega, 63, and […]
A Massachusetts teenager who killed and beheaded his high school classmate in 2016 was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years. Mathew Borges, 18, was convicted in May on a charge of first-degree murder with premeditation and extreme atrocity/cruelty. He will be eligible for parole because he was just 15 […]
In a jailhouse interview with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, Chris Watts talked about how he is haunted by the last words his 4-year-old daughter said to him before he killed her and how he tried to cover up the crimes by making it seem as if his wife took their children and left him. […]
The Colorado man serving multiple life sentences for killing his family revealed recently in a prison interview that after he murdered his pregnant wife and his youngest daughter, his oldest daughter pleaded with him not to do the same to her. Christopher Watts, 33, pleaded guilty in November to murdering his wife, Shanann, and daughters, […]
