All news on the topic: Murder trial

Jill Dando, aged 37, was shot and killed on her doorstep, outside her home in Fulham, west London, on April 26 1999 and over two decades later the case remains unsolved

Gabe Watson whose wife died while they were scuba diving together in 2003 faced a murder trial almost a decade later. It got thrown out due to a lack of evidence - but some still have their doubts

Libby German, 14, and Abby Williams, 13, disappeared in 2017 while hiking in Delphi, Indiana, with their bodies found the next day. Now lawyers for the man accused of the killings say authorities overlooked a key evidence

A death row inmate who was convicted of the rape and murder of 21-year-old ballerina Juli Busken in 1996 was put to death on Thursday morning despite controversial DNA evidence used in his conviction

Authoriites say suspected serial killer Billy Chemirmir was killed by his cellmate in a prison in East Texas where he was serving a life sentence for the murder of two elderly women. He is suspected of killing a further 20

A sheriff’s deputy who was recently engaged was killed in cold-blood in a horrific shooting crime on Saturday. The sheriff, the a third-generation Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department policeman, had become engaged only 4 days before

A father was tragically killed in front of his son while trimming tree limbs in his garden, after his neighbour shot him in a property dispute. Druzolowski, the neighbour, denies he did it on purpose

A Utah mum-of-three who is accused of poisoning her husband with fentanyl suffered a seizure in her jail cell, which led to the discovery of a damning letter that could change the course of her trial

John Michael Irmer walked into the FBI field office in Portland, Oregon, in August 2023 where he allegedly confessed to the October 1979 murder of Susan Marcia Rose in Boston's Back Bay neighbourhood

Cody Wade, of Brazil, Indiana in the US, stabbed the victim to death as his own mum tried to restrain him. After the fatal stabbing, he mocked the dying man and even landed a few kicks

Asa Ellerup, 59, and the children she had with suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann had to leave their home in the immediate aftermath of the New York architect's arrest

Stephen Lee Rodda was allegedly found on the floor of his grandad's home where he had been staying to help out while his grandma was recovering from an injury

Convicted double murderer Alex Murdaugh's son Buster has spoken out in a new documentary from Fox Nation saying that he thinks it's a 'fair assessment' to call his dad a psychopath

The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office described how Tierra (Villarente) Binion was involved in a brutal brawl with 23-year-old Rachel DeRise outside of the Mugs and Jugs bar in Pensacola, Florida, on August 23, before Christian Ketchup allegedly fired his weapon on the mother several times

Mahek Bukhari, 24, and her mum Ansreen Bukhari, 46, plotted to ambush two young men after one threatened to expose the affair he was having with the mum - it led to a car chase and their shocking deaths

A white teen is being indicted on charges of attempted murder and assault with a dangerous weapon after attempting to drown a Black teen in a pond in Chatham, Massachusetts

Influencer Mahek Bukhari and seven others were on trial last year for their part in the deaths of Hashim Ijazuddin and Saqib Hussain in a horror high speed crash in Leicester

Mahek Bukhari and her mother Ansreen plotted to ambush the two young victims, one of whom was threatening to post nude images and sexual videos of the influencer's mum online

The trial of a Scottish man who's accused of murdering his disabled wife by handgun is underway this week. Prosecutors are charging him with first-degree murder, which could carry a life sentence upon conviction

Twisted serial killer Peter Sutcliffe went to his grave having never apologised for his crimes which terrified and rocked the nation in the 70s and 80s

William MacDowell, 81, was only convicted of killing lover Renee MacRae and their young son Andrew back in 1976 last year, but he died in prison months after being sentenced

Erin Patterson, 48, was accused of deliberately killing her in-laws, Gail and Don Patterson, Gail's sister Heather Wilkinson and her husband Ian, after serving them a deadly mushroom at the end of July

The cash was stolen from the memorial room at Tundergarth Church, near Lockerbie, on Friday, with police obtaining CCTV of the thief in action

Twisted Lucy Letby, 33, is said to have capitalised on the difficulties the neonatal unit faced to target her victims, offering to work nights and also weekends shifts

A health inspectors’ report found failings in the leadership at the trust where Alison Kelly went on to work after quitting her post at the Chester hospital in 2021