Philip Chsim, a 14-year-old student, has been charged with beating to death Colleen Ritzer, a 24-year-old Danvers High School math teacher in a homicide case that forced the Massachusetts town to close all its public schools.
A 14-year-old student at Danvers High School faces a murder charge in the death of a 24-year-old math teacher whose body was found in the woods behind the school, The Associated Press reported. Coleen Ritzer, of Andover,Massachusetts, was found in a wooded area near the high school, and the teenager will be arraigned on a murder charge, according to Essex District Jonathan Blodgett.
22-year-old Nicholas John Miller was arrested after wielding a knife and hijacked a school bus in central Arkansas on Thursday morning.Nicolas John Miller reported took 11 elementary school student and their driver hostage that lasted about 10 miles before police ended it in Cabot, Jacksonville police Capt. Kenny Boyd said
Michael Boysen, a 27-year-old from Renton, Washington who killed his grandparents with a shoelace in March, entered a modified guilty plea to charges of aggravated first-degree murder
Jessica Dishon was 17-years-old when she disappeared from her home in Bullitt County, Kentucky, and 17 days later she was found beaten and strangled to death in a wooden area, UPI.com reported. It has been 14 years since, and the culprit of her murder has not been charged.
Long Island police are looking for 63-year-old Sang Ho Kim, the disgruntled contractor who opened fire in an East Garden City lighting company on Wednesday morning killing one employee and critically injuring the company's owner
Chicago police have arrested four men in connection with a shooting at a basketball court at the Back of the Yards neighborhood last week that wounded 13 people, including a 3-year-old boy,
Floyd Corkins, who pleaded guilty to shooting a Family Research Council employee last year, was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison. Corkins at the time said that he disagreed with the organization's firm stance against gay marriage
Ayvani Hope Perez, a 14-year-old Georgia girl who was abducted in a home invasion robbery, was found alive on Wednesday after a massive search by multiple law enforcement agencies, local police said.
34-year-old Aaron Alexis, the suspected gunman in the mass shooting that left 12 dead and many more injured at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, was born in Queens, and was seen as a quiet person
Jordan Linn Graham, a Montana resident, who has been accused of pushing her husband off a cliff after an argument, was charged with second degree murder on Monday. The pair had been married for just eight days, and if convicted, Graham faces life in prison.
Christopher Lane, a 22-year-old Australian baseball player, was murdered while jogging in Oklahoma City by three "bored" teenagers who reportedly decidedly wanted to kill someone for fun.
31-year-old Derek Medina incriminated himself on Facebook, posting a picture of his wife's blood-stained body on his Facebook page, and said that he killed her. Medina turned himself in to police, according to his arrest affidavit. He was charged with first degree murder
A foul odor emanating from a home in East Cleveland prompted authorities to investigate it. There authorities discovered three bodies and arrested a registered sex offender who sent police and volunteers through a poor Ohio neighborhood in search of more victims on Sunday, the Associated Press reported. The three female victims' were found wrapped in plastic. The suspect has been identified as Michael Madison who is expected to be formally charged on Monday. Madison may have been influenced by Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell, according to East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton. Sowell who was convicted in 2001 for murdering 11 women and was sentenced to death.
Houston police have uncovered what they call a "prison room" in Texas where at least four victims were being held against their will. Local station KTRK reported that officers responded to the Houston home on Friday morning after a tip that four elderly men between 54 and 70 were being held captive in the garage.
The adopted son of Jerry Sandusky, who was convicted in 2012 of sexually abusing 10 boys within a 15-year period, has filed along with his wife and four children to have their names legally changed, court documents in Centre County, Pennsylvania.
John Henry Spooner, a 76-year-old Milwaukee Wisconsin man, was convicted on Wednesday of fatally shooting his 13-year-old neighbor whom he suspected had broken into his home and stole his weapons. The trial now enters a second phase in which the defense will seek toprove that he was mentally ill at the time of the shooting.
There is new evidence in the murder investigation involving New England Patriot player Aaron Hernandez,. A search of Hernandez's leased apartment has recovered ammunition from the same caliber gun used to kill the tight end's friend Odin Lloyd, court documents revealed.
The state of Texas executed its 500th inmate since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. Kimberly McCarthy was put to death Wednesday evening for the murder of her 71-year-old neighbor. McCarthy was also the first woman executed in the U.S. in nearly three years. The 57-year-old McCarthy was executed for the 1997 robbery, beating and stabbing death of retired psychology professor Dorothy Booth.
One person was injured at Potawatomi Bingo Casino, a Milwaukee casino at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday as a man opened fire on his girlfriend, the Milwaukee Sentinel reported. A 27-year-old man allegedly fired a handgun, wounding the 23-year-old woman, sending gamblers to flee.
New York police said that 20-year-old Maverick Madore, who was believed to have robbed five banks, went on a Midtown Manhattan bank robbing spree before being apprehended, on foot, near the entrance of the Lincoln Tunnel.
