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A New Jersey jury has rejected a Florida man's claims that he was too fat to kill and has convicted him of murdering his former son-in-law.

Authorities have identified the first of 11 bodies found at a Cleveland, Ohio, home as a 52-year-old woman who had been missing for about a year.

A rapist living in an Ohio home where several bodies have been found has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder, police said.

The mother of a 7-year-old Florida girl found slain in a landfill praised the hard work of authorities combing through evidence ...

Prosecutors said Wednesday they are seeking a DNA sample from a former Boston University medical student charged with killing ...

An FBI agent says she was investigated in 2000 and 2001 in the alleged plot targeting her tycoon husband's son, whom she was battling for the family fortune. She denied any involvement, and no evidence is detailed.

A Connecticut judge has set a probable cause hearing for a former Yale University lab technician charged with murdering a graduate ...

The funeral mass for murdered Yale Univeristy graduate student Annie Le will be held Saturday afternoon at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in El Dorado Hills, Calif.

A Connecticut judge dismissed murder and rape charges Wednesday against a man who spent two decades in prison before DNA testing showed he could not have committed the crimes.

Reality TV contestant Ryan Alexander Jenkins is wanted for questioning in the strangulation of Jasmine Fiore, whose body was found in a suitcase in Buena Park.

An international manhunt intensified Wednesday for a reality TV contestant wanted for questioning in the slaying of his wife, a swimsuit model found inside a suitcase dumped in a Buena Park trash bin.