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Chauvin Wants New Trial Over George Floyd's Death

Ex-cop claims his knee-on-neck hold was department policy, as others will attest

(Newser) - Derek Chauvin wants a new trial. The former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd is seeking one on a number of grounds, including his claim that kneeling on a suspect's neck was part of his police training, reports Fox News . Chauvin's filing in Hennepin County Court...

Murder Suspect Attempts to Explain His Search History

After wife allegedly disappeared, Brian Walshe searched 'best way to dispose of a body'

(Newser) - A lawyer for a man accused of killing his wife says internet searches for "how to saw a body" and "can identification be made on partial human remains" do not show his client is guilty. Instead, Brian Walshe simply panicked after finding his wife dead in bed in...

DNA From Paper Bags Cracks 1987 Murder Case

Rhonda Fisher was killed by Denver serial killer, police say

(Newser) - Rhonda Marie Fisher's killer has finally been identified, 38 years after her death. DNA evidence has linked her 1987 killing to one of Colorado's most notorious serial killers, officials say. The Douglas County Sheriff's Office announced that DNA recovered from paper bags placed on Fisher's hands...

Cops: Son Kills California Doctor, Wife in Home Shooting

Police say suspect was found dead after setting car on fire

(Newser) - Police believe a California radiologist and his wife were murdered by the man's son, who later died by suicide. Eric Cordes, 63, and his wife, Vicki, 66, were discovered with gunshots in their home garage in Simi Valley, north of Los Angeles, on Sunday after police received a report...

He Thought They Were Meeting to Reconcile. She Killed Him

Travis Calumpit's estranged wife gets life for his campground murder

(Newser) - "Your goal was essentially to treat Travis Calumpit like a dog—to put him down," said an Idaho judge in sentencing Calumpit's estranged wife and her mother to prison for his murder. Melissa Calumpit, 36, had initially pleaded not guilty in the July 2024 shooting of the...

Mom, Stepdad Allegedly Killed Pregnant Daughter, Stole Baby

Prosecutor says couple planned attack, cut baby from womb

(Newser) - A Michigan couple allegedly planned and carried out the gruesome murder of a pregnant woman and the removal of her unborn child, prosecutors said Tuesday—and the case is even more horrifying because one half of that couple is the victim's own biological mother. Rebecca Park, 22, was 38...

Mass Killings in US Hit the Lowest Level Since 2006

But experts warn that 'what goes down must also go back up'

(Newser) - A shooting last weekend at a children's birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year—the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained by the AP and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. Experts warn that the drop...

American Tourist Killed in Village's First Homicide

Police in Tobago say Colorado man told friends he was going out to buy marijuana

(Newser) - Homicide detectives in Trinidad and Tobago are investigating the suspected murder of an American man after reportedly going out to try to purchase marijuana. The victim has been identified as 43-year-old Christopher Brown, a builder from Silverthorne, Colorado, according to a local police report. Police were told that Brown had...

In Italy, Femicide Is Now a Crime With Life Sentence

Italian lawmakers greenlight landmark legislation aimed at curbing violence against women

(Newser) - Italy's Parliament on Tuesday approved a law that introduces femicide into the nation's criminal law and punishes it with life in prison. The vote coincided with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a day set by the UN General Assembly. The law won bipartisan...

DNA Finally Pinpoints Neighbor as Killer of Young Mom in 1975

Ernest Theodore Gable was initially cleared by a faulty hair test in rape, murder of Judith Lord in New Hampshire

(Newser) - Nearly 50 years after a woman was sexually assaulted and strangled in her apartment in Concord, New Hampshire, authorities say they've finally identified her killer: a prior suspect excused by faulty evidence. Judith Lord, a 22-year-old mother to a young son found safe in his crib in the same...

DA Will Retry Man Accused of Killing Etan Patz

Conviction overturned in decades-old case of missing New York child

(Newser) - The Manhattan district attorney's office said Tuesday it will once again try Pedro Hernandez in the 1979 kidnapping and murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz, a case that has haunted New York City for decades, NBC News reports. Hernandez, now 64, was convicted in 2017 after confessing to luring Etan...

Man Accused of Killing His 2 Brothers on NY Hunting Trip

Police say Florida resident Scot Thompson shot both men at remote cabin

(Newser) - A hunting trip in upstate New York turned deadly over the weekend, ending with a Florida man accused of shooting his two brothers at a remote cabin. State police say Scot Thompson, 65, got into a physical altercation with his brothers at the cabin in Allen, New York, on Sunday...

UN: A Woman Is Killed by a Loved One Every 10 Minutes
UN Offers Sobering
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Nov 25, 2025 12:05 PM CST

UN Offers Sobering Stats on Femicide

Report finds 50K women globally were killed by partners or relatives in 2024—one every 10 minutes

(Newser) - The United Nations says 137 girls and women were killed every day last year by intimate partners or relatives—a rate of one every 10 minutes—underscoring what it describes as a persistent global crisis of femicide. In total, 83,000 women and girls were intentionally killed in 2024, and...

UVA Shooter Hears Fate Over Football Players' Murder

Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. is handed 5 life sentences for 2022 murders

(Newser) - A Virginia judge on Friday issued five life sentences, plus 23 years, to Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., the former University of Virginia student who opened fire on a charter bus in November 2022, killing three UVA football players and wounding two other students, reports WTVR . Jones, 26, pleaded guilty last...

Mexican Woman Gets 20 Years in Killing of 3 Tourists

Australian brothers and their American friend were killed for their truck tires

(Newser) - A 23-year-old woman has been sentenced to two decades behind bars for her role in the murders of three tourists who vanished while on a surfing trip in Baja California, Mexico, last year. Ari Gisell pleaded guilty to setting in motion the chain of events that led to the deaths...

Reward for Ex-Olympic Snowboarder Upped to $15M

Feds intensify their hunt for alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding

(Newser) - Ryan Wedding was once a Canadian Olympic snowboarder. Now he's "a modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar. He's a modern-day iteration of 'El Chapo' Guzman," said FBI Director Kash Patel Wednesday in announcing the reward for the 44-year-old's capture has been raised to $15...

Texas College Sleuths Crack a Cold Case on First Try

Criminology students homed in on Janie Perkins, now charged in woman's 1991 killing

(Newser) - Criminology students in Texas who formed a partnership with police to help investigate cold case murders have brought about an arrest on their very first try. The Arlington Police Department on Monday announced the arrest of 63-year-old Janie Perkins in the 1991 murder of 25-year-old Cynthia Gonzalez, reports NBC News...

OJ Simpson Estate Agrees to Pay Fred Goldman

But it likely won't be anywhere near the $58M cited in court documents

(Newser) - Fred Goldman might finally get money from OJ Simpson—or at least his estate—more than three decades after the murder of his son. Simpson's estate has officially agreed to pay the father of Ron Goldman $58 million, reports NBC News . It's doubtful, however, the Goldman family will...

DNA From Girl's 1994 Murder Points to a 'Monster'
DNA From Girl's 1994
Murder Points to a 'Monster'
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Nov 15, 2025 12:12 PM CST

DNA From Girl's 1994 Murder Points to a 'Monster'

Mark Anthony Russ charged with killing 14-year-old Tanya Frazier in Seattle

(Newser) - More than 30 years after 14-year-old Tanya Marie Frazier vanished and was later found murdered in Seattle, a suspect has been charged in the decades-old cold case. Tanya disappeared in July 1994 while waiting for a bus to her first summer job, per the New York Times . Her body was...

Road Rage Incident in Vegas Ends With Dead 11-Year-Old

Suspect, 22, arrested after alleged gunfire over lane position

(Newser) - An 11-year-old boy was fatally shot on Friday morning during a road rage confrontation on a crowded freeway near Sin City, according to local police. The incident occurred around 7:30am on Interstate 215 in Henderson, a city just southeast of Las Vegas, when two vehicles "jockeying for positions"...

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