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Joseph Ashley Garcia poured tiki-torch fluid on his 68-year-old father, lit him on fire, and then took the stand at his own murder trial to explain himself. His father died ten days later. The argument that started it all? A dog. Now, Garcia's insanity defense was thrown out, and the Santa Barbara County DA has called this one of the most disturbing cases his office has ever prosecuted.

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In Los Angeles, Myung Jin Kim, 31, landed at LAX this week after being transferred from Laos, which had never before handed over a fugitive to the United States; he is accused of orchestrating a 2016 murder-for-hire in San Jose that killed the wrong man, and of shooting a friend six times in a CVS parking lot in 2018 while out on bail. He will face prosecution in two separate California counties.

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In Miami, a federal judge has reversed course and ordered Timothy Hudson detained pending trial after prosecutors filed sealed evidence described as newly disclosed test results; Hudson, charged as an adult with the first-degree murder and sexual assault of his 18-year-old stepsister Anna Kepner aboard a Carnival cruise ship, had been free on electronic monitoring for two weeks before the judge ruled no conditions of release could ...

In Duxbury, Massachusetts, the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, charged with strangling her three young children in January 2023, begins July 20th; prosecutors say she calculated her husband's absence to carry out the killings, while the defense argues she was in the grip of a severe postpartum psychiatric crisis and was failed by the medical system. This week, prosecutors filed motions to admit Patrick Clancy's 911 call as evidence...

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In Rochester, Minnesota, a judge has refused to dismiss the murder indictment against Dr. Connor Bowman, charged with poisoning his 32-year-old pharmacist wife Betty with a lethal dose of colchicine; prosecutors say he researched fatal dosages calibrated to her exact weight using his poison control work database, ordered the drug through his Mayo Clinic email, and was active on a dating app listing himself as a widower before she h...

In Anchorage, Alaska, Army soldier Zarrius Hildabrand is on trial for the murder of his 21-year-old wife Saria, who was shot in the head on the night of his birthday party. Prosecutors say he spent the days after her death shopping for a trash can, new bedsheets, and hydrogen peroxide, while telling friends she had simply walked to work. Her body was found four days later in a storm drain 100 yards from their front door.

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In San Diego, the murder trial of Larry Millete is underway, five years after his wife Maya vanished the same afternoon she called a divorce attorney. Prosecutors are painting a portrait of a controlling husband who spent over $1,000 on magic spells to keep Maya from leaving.

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In Brooklyn, 88-year-old Harvey Marcelin was sentenced to life without parole for the murder and dismemberment of 68-year-old Susan Leyden, whose torso was found in a shopping cart on a Brooklyn street in 2022; it was his third conviction for killing a woman, after being paroled twice despite a documented pattern of violence, most recently in 2019 when he was 81 and used a wheelchair. The sentencing judge told him plainly: "Every t...

In Texas, Netflix's new documentary Maternal Instinct is bringing fresh attention to the 2020 murder of 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock, killed in her own home by Taylor Parker, who had spent months faking a pregnancy using a silicone belly and forged ultrasounds; when her fabricated due date arrived with no baby, she drove to Reagan's home and killed her, attempting to take her unborn daughter. Parker was convicted of capital m...

In Charlotte, a federal judge ruled this week that DeCarlos Brown, charged with the August 2025 stabbing death of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a light rail train, is not competent to stand trial; he has been committed to a federal psychiatric facility for up to four months of treatment, with no trial date on either the federal or state track. Zarutska had fled the war in Ukraine, built a life in Charlotte working...

In Minneapolis, Vance Boelter pleaded guilty Thursday to the assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and the shooting of state Senator John Hoffman and his wife, who were each shot multiple times and survived; he will serve two consecutive life terms plus forty years in federal prison. He had arrived at their homes disguised as a police officer carrying a hit list of nearly seventy Demo...

Ten years ago, 22-year-old singer Christina Grimmie was shot and killed by a stranger after a concert in Orlando while signing autographs for fans. On the anniversary of her death, New Jersey has officially designated June 10th as Christina Grimmie Day, and her family is marking a decade of grief, advocacy, and keeping her legacy alive through the foundation they built in her name.

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In Collin County, Texas, a jury convicted now 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony of murder and sentenced him to 35 years in prison for the stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet in April 2025. Anthony's defense argued self-defense; prosecutors called it murder plain and simple. After two hours of deliberation, the jury agreed.

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The Karen Read case is back in the spotlight after her legal team filed an 87-page lawsuit against the Massachusetts State Police and the Town of Canton, alleging a decade of institutional corruption, and thousands of text messages between the two lead investigators that her attorneys are calling evidence of deep-seated bias.

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Nick Reiner, the 32-year-old son of legendary director Rob Reiner, is charged with the first-degree murders of both his parents and is now fighting in probate court for access to a $1.5 million trust fund they established for him decades ago; money he says was supposed to be released when he turned 30, and that he needs to re-hire the high-powered attorney who already walked away from his case.

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In Oregon, a family says an 83-year-old man's rare Star Wars LEGO collection, assembled over decades and valued at over $200,000, disappeared after a franchise store changed hands; a YouTuber's viral investigation drew millions of viewers, nearly $400,000 in GoFundMe donations, two arrests, criminal charges, and a lawsuit before the company announced this week it would compensate the family and close the store.

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In Mexico, the murder trial of Aurora Phelps got underway last week; federal prosecutors allege she used dating apps to meet trusting older men, built relationships with them, then drugged them, drained their accounts, and in at least three cases left them dead. One victim was buried in a Mexico City pauper's grave under a false name for over two years before DNA confirmed his identity. 

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The South Carolina Supreme Court has thrown out Alex Murdaugh's double murder convictions and ordered a new trial, and newly released records reveal just how deep the corruption went. Court clerk Becky Hill allegedly tampered with jurors, leaked sealed crime scene photos, and may have engineered the removal of a key juror whose transcripts prosecutors are now seeking to unseal for the first time.

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