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In Rochester, Minnesota, a judge has refused to dismiss the murder indictment against Dr. Connor Bowman, charged with poisoning his 32-year-old pharmacist wife Betty with a lethal dose of colchicine; prosecutors say he researched fatal dosages calibrated to her exact weight using his poison control work database, ordered the drug through his Mayo Clinic email, and was active on a dating app listin...

In Anchorage, Alaska, Army soldier Zarrius Hildabrand is on trial for the murder of his 21-year-old wife Saria, who was shot in the head on the night of his birthday party. Prosecutors say he spent the days after her death shopping for a trash can, new bedsheets, and hydrogen peroxide, while telling friends she had simply walked to work. Her body was found four days later in a storm drain 100 yard...

In San Diego, the murder trial of Larry Millete is underway, five years after his wife Maya vanished the same afternoon she called a divorce attorney. Prosecutors are painting a portrait of a controlling husband who spent over $1,000 on magic spells to keep Maya from leaving. If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Crime House 24/7 to never miss a case! For ad-free listening and exclusive bonus...

In Brooklyn, 88-year-old Harvey Marcelin was sentenced to life without parole for the murder and dismemberment of 68-year-old Susan Leyden, whose torso was found in a shopping cart on a Brooklyn street in 2022; it was his third conviction for killing a woman, after being paroled twice despite a documented pattern of violence, most recently in 2019 when he was 81 and used a wheelchair. The sentenci...

In Texas, Netflix's new documentary Maternal Instinct is bringing fresh attention to the 2020 murder of 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock, killed in her own home by Taylor Parker, who had spent months faking a pregnancy using a silicone belly and forged ultrasounds; when her fabricated due date arrived with no baby, she drove to Reagan's home and killed her, attempting to take her unborn daughter...

In Charlotte, a federal judge ruled this week that DeCarlos Brown, charged with the August 2025 stabbing death of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a light rail train, is not competent to stand trial; he has been committed to a federal psychiatric facility for up to four months of treatment, with no trial date on either the federal or state track. Zarutska had fled the war in Ukraine...

In Minneapolis, Vance Boelter pleaded guilty Thursday to the assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and the shooting of state Senator John Hoffman and his wife, who were each shot multiple times and survived; he will serve two consecutive life terms plus forty years in federal prison. He had arrived at their homes disguised as a police officer carryin...

Ten years ago, 22-year-old singer Christina Grimmie was shot and killed by a stranger after a concert in Orlando while signing autographs for fans. On the anniversary of her death, New Jersey has officially designated June 10th as Christina Grimmie Day, and her family is marking a decade of grief, advocacy, and keeping her legacy alive through the foundation they built in her name. If you’re new h...

In Collin County, Texas, a jury convicted now 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony of murder and sentenced him to 35 years in prison for the stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet in April 2025. Anthony's defense argued self-defense; prosecutors called it murder plain and simple. After two hours of deliberation, the jury agreed. If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow C...

The Karen Read case is back in the spotlight after her legal team filed an 87-page lawsuit against the Massachusetts State Police and the Town of Canton, alleging a decade of institutional corruption, and thousands of text messages between the two lead investigators that her attorneys are calling evidence of deep-seated bias. If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Crime House 24/7 to never mis...

Nick Reiner, the 32-year-old son of legendary director Rob Reiner, is charged with the first-degree murders of both his parents and is now fighting in probate court for access to a $1.5 million trust fund they established for him decades ago; money he says was supposed to be released when he turned 30, and that he needs to re-hire the high-powered attorney who already walked away from his case. If...

In Oregon, a family says an 83-year-old man's rare Star Wars LEGO collection, assembled over decades and valued at over $200,000, disappeared after a franchise store changed hands; a YouTuber's viral investigation drew millions of viewers, nearly $400,000 in GoFundMe donations, two arrests, criminal charges, and a lawsuit before the company announced this week it would compensate the family and cl...

In Mexico, the murder trial of Aurora Phelps got underway last week; federal prosecutors allege she used dating apps to meet trusting older men, built relationships with them, then drugged them, drained their accounts, and in at least three cases left them dead. One victim was buried in a Mexico City pauper's grave under a false name for over two years before DNA confirmed his identity.  If y...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has thrown out Alex Murdaugh's double murder convictions and ordered a new trial, and newly released records reveal just how deep the corruption went. Court clerk Becky Hill allegedly tampered with jurors, leaked sealed crime scene photos, and may have engineered the removal of a key juror whose transcripts prosecutors are now seeking to unseal for the first time....

In Fairfax, Virginia, former IRS criminal investigator Brendan Banfield has been sentenced to life without parole for the murders of his wife Christine and an innocent stranger he lured to the house as part of an elaborate staged home invasion planned over months with his au pair, who was also having an affair with him. If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Crime House 24/7 to never miss a ca...

In McKinney, Texas, opening statements got underway in the murder trial of Karmelo Anthony, the teen accused of fatally stabbing fellow athlete Austin Metcalf at a Frisco track meet last year; prosecutors called it a sneak attack while the defense argued self-defense, and the trial begins with no Black jurors after the judge overruled a formal challenge from the defense. And in Portland, the man a...

In Washington, a federal judge has set a September 2027 trial date in the civil lawsuit brought by the families of the four University of Idaho murder victims against Washington State University, alleging the university received more than a dozen complaints about Bryan Kohberger's threatening behavior toward women and failed to act before the killings. And in Northern Ireland, YouTuber Stephen McC...

In Las Vegas, the owner of one of three horses allegedly stabbed by a 17-year-old competitor at a major barrel racing event says the attack was not random; she describes a year-long pattern of obsessive behavior, uninvited appearances, and social media monitoring that culminated in her catching the suspect in the barn in the middle of the night. And in Wisconsin, the trial of Zachariah Rasch opene...

In Las Vegas, a teenage barrel racing competitor is under arrest after three horses were stabbed in the middle of the night at the NBHA Vegas Super Show; the animals belonging to her fellow competitors, each injured multiple times, and all unable to race. Then, a CrimeCon panel reveals Savannah Guthrie has spent $500,000 of her own money on private investigators, and that the ransom notes in her m...

In Louisville, a Reddit post about a "possible serial killer" turned out to be written by the killer himself before he ever struck. Then, on Hawaii's Big Island, a triple-murder suspect was found hiding in a cave after three men were killed on three consecutive days, despite two women filing restraining orders against him before the killings even began. If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow C...

In Mississippi, attorneys for Carly Gregg, convicted of murdering her mother at 14 and sentenced to life in prison at 15, argued before the state Supreme Court that her trial was fundamentally flawed, citing improper psychiatric evaluations, faulty jury instructions, and prosecutorial misconduct during sentencing; the court has not yet ruled. And in Flint, Michigan, a groom who killed his best man...

In Florida, a federal judge heard arguments over whether to detain Timothy Hudson, the teenager charged as an adult with the murder and sexual assault of his stepsister Anna Kepner aboard a Carnival cruise ship, but adjourned without issuing a ruling. Then, in Philadelphia, three men walked out of prison after 28 years, exonerated for a murder conviction built on a medical examiner's timeline expe...

In Ohio, bombshell after bombshell keeps dropping in the Mackenzie Shirilla case. Convicted of deliberately driving into a wall at over 100 mph and killing two people, Shirilla has recently projected a remorseful public image — but her jailhouse ex-girlfriend tells a very different story. Then, in New York, a rare jailhouse interview from Thomas Gilbert Jr., the Princeton-educated son of a Manhatt...

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...