Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Meghan Markle’s estranged father, Thomas Markle Sr., is at the center of an international investigation after his son, Thomas Markle Jr., reported discovering thousands of illicit child sexual abuse photos, videos, and dark-web records at his father's former residence in Cebu, Philippines. This explosive development follows the revelation of a 2018 handwritten letter sent to British authorit...

A Massachusetts judge has summarily dismissed attempts by Lindsay Clancy’s defense team to investigate and question the lone holdout juror who forced a mistrial in her triple murder case. On the George Washington Bridge, a retired NYPD detective has been arrested and charged with murder following a suspected road rage shooting that killed a Con Edison worker and father of two. In Florida, a...

What happens when the children of serial killers get together? The book, "The Death Row Club," hits bookstores.  This dark, psychological thriller by V.A. Vazquez mixes the mystery, horror and true crime genres.   The story follows Nicola Fischer, daughter of a man convicted of murdering five women, including Nicoa's best friend. Nicola's life changes overnight.  One day,...

Many people following "True Crime" know the name "Texas Equusearch" and its founder, Tim Miller. Not everyone knows that Tim Miller is the father of Laura Miller, a 16-year-old who vanished September 10th, 1984, in the Texas coastal town of League City. For 17 months, Tim Miller worked with law enforcement and volunteers to find his daughter without success. On February 2nd, 1986, two boys riding...

The elderly California couple facing murder charges for allegedly gunning down a New York Times Games executive, now claim their son-in-law threatened their lives, leading to the purchase of the guns used in the attack. In West Virginia, two Charleston parents have been arrested on child neglect charges after their severely emaciated 12-year-old daughter—weighing just 40 pounds—was fou...

Michelle Parker is a loving, hardworking mother of three. She's also a student and a business owner, but one night this reliable employee did not show up for work. Her 11-year-old son, home alone after school couldn't find his mom. Michelle Parker disappears. The same day on “The People’s Court,” an episode featuring Parker and her ex-fiancee Dale Smith aired. It had been filmed...

Convicted serial rapist and Max Factor cosmetics heir Andrew Luster has been released from prison after serving roughly 20 years of an original 124-year sentence. Luster was convicted in 2003 on 86 felony counts for using the date-rape drug GHB to render three women unconscious and assault them. The 62-year-old Luster is now under state parole supervision, living with his mother in Glendora, Calif...

A 35-year-old Los Angeles father is jailed on four million dollars bail after allegedly shooting and killing his 4-year-old and 11-year-old sons following lunch before attempting suicide. In Georgia, an 81-year-old Navy veteran riding a mobility scooter was fatally struck as an innocent bystander during a reckless shootout across a crowded Gainesville Walmart parking lot. In Kansas, public scrutin...

Investigators apply a grid search method to examine the Philadelphia "House of Horrors" property. Bones have been found in the backyard, with sources now saying they are animal bones.  Crews now move to excavating the front yard. The late Raymond "R.C." Horsch, a violent pornographer and self-described serial killer is linked to seven missing women to the property, by digital media recovered...

A 19-year-old North Carolina man faces felony charges after allegedly recording a non-consensual sexually explicit video of a college student and distributing it to a fraternity group chat. In Connecticut, a convicted murderer who served thirty years behind bars is arrested for the fatal road rage shooting of a grieving father of four. In Southern California, two 15-year-old high school girls are...

A family vacation at Pennsylvania’s Great Wolf Lodge turns into an unthinkable double homicide when 27-year-old Metallica Rose Harrison allegedly stabs her husband, Charles, and their 3-year-old son, Tristan, to death inside Room 2030 with kitchen knives packed from home. After draining her husband’s 401(k) to stretch their stay into a 22-day trip while their home utility bills went un...

A Sacramento husband faces murder charges after fabricating a story blaming federal immigration agents for the disappearance of his estranged wife, whose burned remains were discovered buried seventy miles away. In Mississippi, an eighty-one-year-old homeowner was fatally shot with his own firearm during a violent 4 AM struggle with an intruder who was filmed hours earlier shouting religious delus...

Singer D4vd's (David Anthony Burke) latest court appearance was short, barely 3 minutes.  He appeared in Los Angeles County Superior Court alongside his new public defenders, Walid Kandeel and Nicole Jones,  as the defense and prosecution confirmed they are continuing to exchange discovery. Burke attended in an orange jail jumpsuit and shackles, with many reporting he looked tired. Burke...

In California, Glendora city officials and residents voice intense outrage following the early release of convicted serial rapist and Max Factor heir Andrew Luster into their community under Proposition 57 sentencing reforms. In New York, a Queens mother faces second-degree murder charges after allegedly placing a 911 call confessing that she killed her five-year-old daughter. In Florida, West Mel...

Attorneys for Christa Pike are asking the court for more time to prepare for a hearing scheduled to discuss next steps. Pike survived a failed execution attempt.    Tennessee administered two doses of pentobarbital, but she did not die. Witnesses reported that she continued breathing and making snoring-like sounds long after the drugs were administered. She was eventually taken by ambula...

A Pennsylvania mother faces double homicide charges after allegedly stabbing her husband and three-year-old son to death during an extended vacation at the Great Wolf Lodge resort in the Poconos. In Florida, charges against a man accused of shooting his girlfriend and running her over with his SUV while his young daughter was in the car have been upgraded to first-degree murder following the victi...

A family of three take a three week vacation that ends in murder. 27‑year‑old Pennsylvania woman, Metallica Rose Harrison, now facing two counts of criminal homicide after allegedly stabbing her husband, Charles Harrison, and their 3‑year‑old son to death.   According to court documents, Harrison called 911  saying she was suicidal and “needed help committing suicide,”&n...

As Chris Watts serves five life sentences without the possibility of parole, we learn the convicted family killer wrote a letter addressed to his late wife, Shanann. It was for what would have been her 36th birthday. His parents, Cindy and Ronnie Watts, recently revealed they read at a graveside service for his murdered wife.  The letter starts with "Hey boo! Happy Birthday!" T he letter expr...

Jabez Spann was 14 years old when he disappeared from Sarasota, Florida, over Labor Day weekend in 2017. It would be two years before his remains were recovered and his death was ruled a homicide. In this episode of Zone 7 , Sheryl McCollum welcomes back Jabez’s mother, Tawana Spann, and her husband, Joe Spann, to mark nine years since Jabez went missing and renew their call f...

Fourteen years after UNC Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth was found brutally beaten to death in her off-campus apartment, emotional testimony and revelations of misplaced evidence mark the opening days of Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares's murder trial in Durham County. In California, the parents of an eight-year-old girl who died from a severe asthma attack face felony child neglect charges af...

Hayden Panettiere’s ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko filing urgent court petitions seeking temporary guardianship of their 11‑year‑old daughter Kaya’s inheritance.  He already has sole custody, but he said the suit is an attempt to protect his daughter's inheritance from being lost. He cites missing jewelry, including Hayden's engagement ring, destroyed emails, and other proper...

Sandra Birchmore, 23, found dead in her Canton apartment  February 4, 2021.  Initially, the death was ruled a suicide by asphyxia. Sandra was on the floor, hanging from a duffel bag strap wrapped around a doorknob.  Family, friends, and federal prosecutors contested that finding.  The Medical Examiner later changed the cause of death to "asphyxia" and the manner of death to "un...

Nearly fifteen years after Florida mother Michelle Parker vanished following a broadcast taping of The People's Court, Orlando police have arrested her ex-fiancé Dale Smith Jr. on second-degree murder charges. In Virginia, prosecutors in the murder trial of Naresh Bhatt revealed explosive forensic evidence linking a blood-stained power saw to his missing wife, Mamta Kafle Bhatt. And in New...

Selma Blair, 54,  arrested after an alleged altercation aboard a Delta flight from Los Angeles to New York City. She is facing two felony second‑degree assault charges.   Blair reportedly punched one flight attendant and bit another, causing injuries including a bloody nose and bite marks. One attendant was taken to the hospital.  Blair is also accused of kicking a Po...

A grandfather in Erie, Pennsylvania, kills eight people, including a pregnant woman and two young children, before turning the gun on himself in an unthinkable domestic massacre. In Chicago, transit workers and prosecutors demand urgent electronic monitoring reform after a repeat offender on curfew violations fatally stabs a veteran CTA janitor during a daytime fare dispute. And in Delaware, two t...