Trial moves into sentencing phase shortly after verdict read with murder victim Yeardley Love’s mother and sister taking the stand
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South Dakota man pleads guilty but mentally ill to second-degree murder in old grudge killing
A 73-year-old South Dakota man accused of fatally shooting his long-ago classmate in a grudge reaching back decades has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to a second-degree murder charge. Carl Ericsson was charged in the Jan. 31 killing of retired Madison High School teacher and track coach Norman Johnson. Johnson was shot twice in the face
Man accused of more than a dozen stabbings in 3 states found guilty of murder in Michigan
A man suspected of fatally stabbing five men and wounding nine others in and around a Michigan city two summers ago was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder in the first case to go to trial. Jurors rejected the insanity defense put forth for Elias Abuelazam, finding him guilty of stabbing 49-year-old Arnold Minor in August 2010
Ex-priest in Texas found guilty of plotting death of sex abuse accuser
A jury has found a former Roman Catholic priest guilty of plotting the death of a man who accused him of sexual abuse. The Dallas Morning News (http://bit.ly/KddSh1 ) reports the Dallas County jury of three men and nine women returned its verdict on John M. Fiala Thursday afternoon after a few hours of deliberation. Fiala could
Balfour found guilty of murdering Jennifer Hudson’s family
Jennifer Hudson’s former brother-in-law was convicted Friday of shooting and killing the Academy Award winner’s mother, brother and nephew. Cook County jurors returned guilty verdicts against William Balfour after about
Men accused of kidnapping Montana teacher plead not guilty to new murder charges
The suspects in the disappearance and killing of a Montana teacher have pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted kidnapping. Forty-eight-year-old Lester Van Waters Jr. and 23-year-old Michael Spell were arraigned Tuesday on new charges filed since the March discovery of Sherry Arnold’s body in a shallow grave in North Dakota. The two Colorado men face the
Ala. sheriff: Boy, 14, charged with murder in death of 9-year-old girl found hanging from tree
When 9-year-old Katelynn Arnold didn’t appear right away after one of her frequent bicycle rides along her rural Alabama road, her concerned aunt went to look for the girl. The woman, who is the girl’s foster mother, checked with a neighbor whose daughter often played with Katelynn, but he hadn’t seen her. When she returned home
Police: 5 found dead in Oregon in apparent murder-suicide
Police were investigating the deaths of three Oregon children and their parents as an apparent murder-suicide Wednesday after authorities found the bodies of the children and their mother at a burned home and then that of their father in a car hours later. Authorities have not identified the victims, and police say they don’t have other