Violent Crime News

A father of two sold his four-wheel drive to fund a hitman to kill his ex-wife, a court has been told.

A shooting at a home left five people dead Sunday in what authorities said could be a murder-suicide. Police officers responding to a shots-fired call at about 5:20 p.m. found two men and two women shot dead at ...

A Mayo father who raped his teenage daughter has been jailed for nine years by Mr Justice Kevin O'Higgins at the Central Criminal Court.

Updated: Chesapeake Police are searching for a suspect in the murder of a one-year-old girl.

A lawyer for the man accused of raping a University of Cincinnati student said the encounter could have been consensual because the woman has a history of sleepwalking.

A young girl was grabbed from her Murrumba Downs home last Thursday in an apparent attempted abduction.

A father of two sold his four-wheel drive to fund a hitman to kill his ex-wife, a court has been told.

The victim's blood was found on trainers worn by Meehan and Soutar A teenager who murdered a gay council worker in a public park in Perth has been jailed for life.

Mr Cameron will speak of a "moral collapse in society" Conservative leader David Cameron is expected to call for the law to be tightened to ensure that more men who commit rape are convicted in court.

As hundreds of searchers resume their hunt today for missing mother of two Stacy Peterson, who disappeared from her suburban Chicago home more than two weeks ago, police have called her husband a suspect and ...

Police arrested the ex-foreign minister of the brutal 1970s Khmer Rouge regime and his wife Monday and brought them before Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal to face charges of crimes against humanity.

Police arrested a man believed to be involved in the "torturing" death of his 12-year-old daughter and the injury of her 9-year-old sister.

“I don't believe he could do something like this. He has three kids of his own”

Two men were charged Saturday with murder and rape in the death of a 9-year-old girl whose body was found the day before in a hillside cave in southwest Missouri.

Barry County prosecutors charged the girl's 24-year-old stepfather, David Spears, and his friend, Chris Collings, 32, with one count each of first-degree murder, forcible rape and statutory rape in the death of Rowan Ford.

Rowan's body was found Friday in a cave in a remote part of McDonald County, about 10 miles south of the village of Stella, where she lived with her mother and David Spears. Her disappearance last weekend led to an intensive search by dozens of officers from three counties and 50 FBI agents and specialists. Read more

A 28-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder and assault in the beating of his ex-girlfriend and the slaying of her new boyfriend's mother Wednesday.

In a suburban McDonald's a father begged his wayward daughter to come home... so he and the men of her family could have her beaten, raped and murdered.

A 25-year-old man has undergone emergency surgery for gunshot wounds after being shot for ignoring a request to turn down his music.

Police in Thailand said Sunday they have charged a security guard with murder after he admitted beating to death eight co-workers he discovered sleeping on the job.

A Grass Valley man on trial for murder said he felt possessed while he strangled his wife and shot her three times with a nail gun.