Judge orders release of man who spent more than 32 years behind bars in...
Photo via Pixabay A judge Wednesday ordered the release of a man who spent more than 32 years behind bars in a murder case in which Los Angeles County prosecutors agreed that he did not get a...
View ArticleNightmare jailing for innocent man: Real murder suspect finally caught
Samuel Calvario. Photo: LAPD A man who was arrested in Connecticut was ordered Wednesday to remain jailed in lieu of $2 million bail in connection with the November 2000 killing of a good Samaritan — a...
View Article32 years after ‘unfair’ trial, man will walk out of prison
Andrew Leander Wilson with his attorneys. Courtesy Loyola Law School A man who spent more than 32 years behind bars after being found guilty of murder in what prosecutors agree was not a “fundamentally...
View ArticleTorture-murder of 8-year-old: Fired social workers to be tried on coverup...
Two former social workers and their supervisors were ordered Monday to stand trial on falsifying records and child abuse charges involving the death of an 8-year-old Palmdale boy whose mother and...
View ArticleHe chopped up his boyfriend, then tossed bloody head in Griffith Park: Appeal...
Griffith Park. Photo by John Schreiber. A killer who chopped up his boyfriend and tossed the bloody head and some body parts around Griffith Park won’t be getting out of prison after a state appeals...
View ArticleCA Supreme Court won’t hear case of man convicted of murdering Hollywood High...
California Supreme Court building. Photo via Wikimedia Commons The California Supreme Court Wednesday refused to hear the case of a man convicted of strangling a retired Hollywood High School teacher...
View ArticleWife’s lover allegedly beats husband to death with broom, dumps body
Photo via Pixabay Jury selection is expected to begin a week from Monday for the trial of a 45-year-old Moreno Valley woman, her son and her lover, who are accused of killing her husband after he...
View ArticleOrphan-killing suspect charged: Adopted 8-year-old Taiwanese victim
Police have been investigating the repeated gunfire targeting the home where 8-year-old Jonah Hwang was struck by a bullet. Photo: OnSceneTV A 35-year-old man was charged Tuesday with murder and other...
View ArticleSex scheme goes horribly wrong: Killer carjacker in prison forever as appeal...
File photo. A state appeals court panel Tuesday upheld a killer’s life-with-no-parole conviction for the murder, carjacking and attempted robbery of a man who was run over with his own truck in...
View ArticleDid driver’s speeding SUV murder cop? Debating jury unsure, says ‘yes’ to...
Photo via Pixabay A man was found guilty Monday of two counts of assault on a peace officer and one count of leaving the scene of a Harbor City crash that killed a Los Angeles police officer and...
View ArticleThroat-slashing horror: ‘I don’t remember’ wild meth-fueled bloody murder
Booking photo of Michael John Franco, Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. An accused meth-driven girlfriend bloody slasher will be back on the stand in his murder trial Thursday after he insisted he...
View ArticleBoarder found guilty of setting deadly Pasadena fire that killed 2
Photo via Pixabay A man was convicted Friday of murder and arson charges for a 2012 fire that killed two fellow residents and injured another at at an unlicensed boarding house in Pasadena. Jurors...
View ArticleDid baby daddy order girlfriend’s hit because she refused abortion?
Derek Paul Smyer. Photo: Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department A man accused of finding someone to shoot his pregnant girlfriend in the head was back on trial Monday, alongside the alleged gunman, as...
View ArticleSanta Ana murderer gunned down sister’s boyfriend, sentenced 50 years to life
Adan Rodriguez Leon. Booking photo: Santa Ana Police Department A 34-year-old man who handled a dispute with his sister’s boyfriend by gunning him down on a sidewalk in Santa Ana before fleeing to...
View Article80 years to life for gangsters in retaliatory murder
Photo via Shutterstock Two gang members were sentenced Monday to 80 years to life in prison for the killing of a 51-year-old Pomona man in 2015 in payback for an earlier gang shooting. Jurors...
View Article$50K reward for man suspected of gunning down former girlfriend in jealous rage
Jose Benjamin Rodriguez. Photo: LAPD A $50,000 reward was offered Tuesday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a man suspected of fatally shooting a former girlfriend in Sylmar. Jose...
View ArticleKimberly Harvill bizarre killing: Second man charged with capital murder
Los Angeles County Superior Court. Photo by John Schreiber. A second man has been charged with capital murder in the killing of a Fresno woman whose body was found last summer in northern Los Angeles...
View ArticleCorona topless bar killing and slashing, trial continues with jury selection
Photo via Pixabay Jury selection is slated to get underway Monday for the trial of a man accused of fatally stabbing a Corona bar patron and slashing another in a night of unprovoked attacks. Jesus...
View ArticleSlasher attack at Echo Park bar at closing time: Cops need your help
Police Saturday sought the public’s help in finding an attempted murder suspect wanted in a December attack outside of an Echo Park bar. On Dec. 29, 2016, between 1:50 and 2 a.m. the suspect was seen...
View ArticleTopless bar murder trial: Kitchen knife killing in unprovoked rampage
Photo via Pixabay Jury selection is slated to get underway Monday in the trial of an alleged topless bar killer who is charged with slashing two victims with a kitchen knife in a night of unprovoked...
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