Crime House 24/7

In Ohio, new details have emerged about Mackenzie Shirilla, convicted of deliberately driving her car into a wall at 100 mph and killing two people; a jail call has surfaced and a former inmate is describing someone very different from the remorseful image she has recently projected publicly, while her father has been placed on administrative leave from his teaching job at a Catholic school. And i...

In Ventura County, Stephen Chavez pleaded guilty to incest after sexually assaulting his 18-year-old biological daughter Makayla Settles two days after she moved across the country to live with him; Makayla died by suicide five months later, and her family says the maximum three-year sentence he faces is not justice. And in Bakersfield, the preliminary hearing is finally underway more than two yea...

In Virginia Beach, a 66-year-old Connecticut man has been arrested and charged with the 1986 sexual assault and murder of 22-year-old library worker Roberta Walls, nearly 40 years to the day after her body was found in a field across the street from where she worked. And in Wisconsin, a man has been charged with first-degree homicide in the disappearance of his wife of nearly 20 years; investigato...

In Carrollton, Texas, a 67-year-old woman has been arrested in Minnesota and charged with murder for allegedly helping her husband carry out a targeted shooting spree at a business meeting that left two dead and three wounded; after one survivor begged her to call 911, she allegedly said "why aren't you dead yet?" And in Los Angeles, a TikTok influencer and her attorney father are charged with con...

Two days before Thanksgiving 2018, Paul Caneiro shot his brother Keith, killed his sister-in-law Jennifer, and stabbed their two young children before setting the family's New Jersey mansion on fire with the kids still alive inside. Now, a judge handed him four consecutive life sentences. Across the Atlantic in Spain, the son of Mango founder Isak Andic has been arrested on suspicion of murder aft...

A New York judge has ruled that the 3D-printed ghost gun and the notebook where Luigi Mangione allegedly wrote about targeting UnitedHealthcare will be admitted at trial in September, even as the defense scored a partial win getting other evidence suppressed. And the Karen Read saga is far from over: her Lexus SUV was quietly sold at auction to an anonymous buyer, while Read faces a defamation law...

In Seattle, 19-year-old University of Washington student Juniper Blessing was stabbed more than 40 times in the laundry room of her student housing complex; a suspect turned himself in three days later after his own brother identified him from surveillance images and is now held on ten million dollars bail. And in Moberly, Missouri, three adults and a juvenile are charged in connection with the ki...

In Italy, Lee Gilley, the Texas man charged with strangling his pregnant wife, appeared before a Turin court this week and refused to consent to extradition, claiming innocence and saying the only crime he committed was fleeing; the case now hinges on whether Texas prosecutors will agree not to seek the death penalty, a guarantee Italy requires before extraditing anyone. And in Tennessee, a man wh...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has unanimously overturned Alex Murdaugh's double murder convictions and ordered a new trial, after a court clerk was found to have told jurors not to be "fooled" by the defense and to watch Murdaugh closely, all while quietly working on a book deal about the case. And in Utah, Kouri Richins was sentenced to life without parole on what would have been her husband's...

Betty Broderick, the woman whose double murder conviction became one of the most talked-about true crime cases in American history, has died in prison at 78, and the children who spent decades divided over how to feel about their mother are now opening up about what it was really like to love her. And in Maine, a man has pleaded not guilty to a murder that happened in 1987, when his then-girlfrien...

In Tampa, prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the man charged with stabbing two USF doctoral students and dumping their bodies in Tampa Bay; according to prosecutors, he had searched ChatGPT for how to dispose of a body days before they disappeared, and one of the victims was his roommate. And in Jamaica, a 35-year-old accountant from Queens flew to the island to celebrate her birthday w...

Five months after director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were stabbed to death in their Brentwood home, their eldest son Jake is speaking publicly for the first time, returning to the Dodgers podcast he and his father built together and opening up about the grief of losing both parents to an act of violence with their other son now facing trial for the murders. And in Texas, the man who killed a...

  In California, investigators served a search warrant at the home of the mother of Kristin Smart's convicted killer, excavating her backyard after forensic testing detected signs that human remains had been buried there; Smart's family still does not know where she is, nearly 30 years after she disappeared. And in South Elgin, Illinois, on the ten-year anniversary of 17-year-old Kianna Galvin's d...

In Texas, a jury deliberated less than three hours before sentencing Tanner Horner to death for the kidnapping and murder of seven-year-old Athena Strand, after nearly a month of devastating testimony from her family, forensic experts, and mental health professionals. And in Houston, a man charged with strangling his pregnant wife cut off his ankle monitor, flew to Canada, and boarded a flight to...

The murder trial of four men charged with the targeted, birthday-night killing of Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio is deepening, with a childhood friend of the victim testifying that one of the defendants called him after the shooting and placed himself at the scene with his own words. And in the Anna Kepner case, her father is speaking out for the first time about finding his daughter's body on t...

In Fort Worth, the defense has rested in the punishment trial of Tanner Horner, the man who pleaded guilty to the capital murder of 7-year-old Athena Strand; the jury will soon deliberate whether he lives or dies, after weeks of testimony about a deeply troubled childhood, neurological damage, and the horrific details of what happened inside that delivery van. And in Wilmer, Alabama, a suspect has...

A federal investigation is underway into the deaths and disappearances of at least 11 Americans tied to nuclear and aerospace research. Today, we close the series with two cases that have named suspects and personal motives, yet both men remain on the federal list. In Massachusetts, MIT plasma physicist Nuno Loureiro was shot at his door while his family was home; his killer was the same gunman wh...

A federal investigation is now underway into the deaths and disappearances of at least 10 Americans tied to sensitive nuclear and aerospace research. Today, we go deeper into two more cases. In Virginia, Bronze Star-winning Air Force intelligence officer Matthew Sullivan was reportedly set to testify before Congress about classified UFO programs when he died of an accidental overdose, two weeks af...

The FBI is investigating the deaths of more than a dozen American scientists, and one of the cases at the center of it all belongs to Amy Eskridge, a researcher who texted friends one month before her death warning them that if they ever heard she killed herself, she most definitely did not. Then there is David Wilcock, the UFO researcher who spent his final livestream warning that people are disa...

A federal investigation is now underway into the deaths and disappearances of at least 10 Americans tied to sensitive nuclear and aerospace research. Today, we go deep on two of them. In New Mexico, retired Air Force Major General William McCasland, who once commanded the country's most classified aerospace research laboratory, walked out of his home one morning and has not been seen since. And in...

Congress has given the FBI, NASA, and the Pentagon a deadline to explain why at least a dozen scientists and researchers connected to nuclear weapons, classified aerospace programs, and UFO investigations have turned up dead or missing in recent years. But while Washington asks questions about who may be targeting America's scientists, investigators in Tampa say a man charged with murdering his tw...

In Massachusetts, an award-winning UMass chef pleaded not guilty to beating his wife to death inside a campus hotel room, then attacking the officers who responded. In Maryland, a man has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder nearly 24 years after his wife vanished the day before their son's third birthday. In Florida, a suspect has been arrested 33 years after a couple was bound and...

In Los Angeles, prosecutors revealed disturbing new evidence from singer D4vd's phone and iCloud account as the autopsy report for 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was released, showing she died from multiple penetrating wounds consistent with stabbing. In Wichita, a Marine veteran and PBS broadcast engineer was shot outside her home by her estranged husband and died three days later. In Utah,...

The punishment phase is underway in Texas for Tanner Horner, the FedEx driver who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing 7-year-old Athena Strand, and this week his own mother took the stand to testify about a childhood defined by addiction and abuse in a bid to spare him from the death penalty. In Oregon, a 73-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 1983 murder of his girl...

In Los Angeles, singer D4vd pleaded not guilty and was denied bail at his arraignment on Monday. In Alabama, a mother, her 17-year-old pregnant daughter, and her 12-year-old son were found bound with zip ties and killed in three separate rooms of their home overnight. In Houston, a man who pleaded guilty to assaulting his pregnant girlfriend months before she was found dead has been arrested and c...