Murder and Manslaughter

For 20 years, Peterson’s supporters — now including the Los Angeles Innocence Project — have relied on baseless claims and shaky witness accounts to try to prove he didn’t kill his wife and unborn son.
Although the Colleton County court clerk made inappropriate comments to jurors, the judge ruled that they did not have an effect on their guilty verdict.
A nonprofit legal team is reexamining Peterson's 2004 conviction for killing his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner.
Before Ying Ying "Dawn" Yu went missing, surveillance footage allegedly showed her husband threatening to beat her to death.
The couple’s surviving 2-year-old daughter was badly injured in the collision, which bystanders said sounded like an "explosion."
Before ultimately convincing Nicholas Godejohn to kill her abusive mother, Gypsy Rose says, she shot at her with a BB gun she mistook for a deadly weapon.
“Where are you going with this, Joy?” one of the “View” co-hosts can be heard shouting.
Theobald Lengyel was a primary suspect in the homicide of Alice Herrmann even before remains were found in a California park, authorities said.
The 32-year-old pleaded guilty in 2015 to the second-degree murder of her mother, and was released early last week after eight years behind bars.
The notorious murder of 20-year-old Cara Knott — and the bizarre way her killer was caught — still sends chills down the spines of Southern Californians.