Nov 18 - By David N. Goodman, Associated Press Writer
A 37-year-old father irate over hearing his 15-year-old son had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl made the teen strip at gunpoint, marched him to a vacant lot and shot him to death despite pleas from the boy and his mother, a relative said.
Nov 15 - By Associated Press
The family of a Yale student found stabbed to death off campus in 1998 has learned that DNA evidence in the unsolved murder was contaminated by a former forensic lab worker.
Oct 28 - By Associated Press
Authorities say a Massachusetts man fired several shots through the front window of a neighboring home, killing an 18-year-old woman, because he thought someone living there had stolen his TV.
Oct 27 - By Associated Press
The highest court in Massachusetts is scrutinizing the jury selection process in the trial of a once-prominent doctor who is serving a life sentence in the 1999 killing of his wife.

Oct 26 - By Jim Suhr, Associated Press Writer
A woman pleaded guilty Monday to the Illinois torture killing of a pregnant, developmentally impaired mother who police say was beaten with a plunger handle, burned with a hot glue gun and used for target practice with a BB pistol.
Oct 18 - By Associated Press
A Roman Catholic priest imprisoned for killing a nun 29 years ago told a newspaper that he is innocent, but a prosecutor and the victim's nephew wondered why he is only making the claim now.
Oct 12 - By Associated Press
A 55-year-old former Las Vegas city planner and longtime political activist has been sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for stabbing a Nigerian-born boxer to death in 2005.

Oct 7 - By Denise Lavoie, AP Legal Affairs Writer
The roommate of a 100-year-old woman found strangled in her bed at a nursing home had made "threatening" remarks to the centenarian, her son said Friday, and the slain woman's family had sought to have the women split up.
Oct 6 - By Associated Press
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down an appeal filed by a Roman Catholic priest convicted of murdering a nun in Ohio.
Sep 29 - By Associated Press
The murder trial of a former Virginia Tech doctoral student accused of beheading a fellow student has been postponed until 2010.
Sep 29 - By Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press Writer
A man who walked into an Atlanta suburb's police department seeking a criminal background check for a job application wound up under arrest as a suspect in the slaying of a former University of Missouri student in 1976, authorities said Tuesday.
Sep 29 - By Associated Press
A reality show contestant charged in the gruesome slaying of his ex-model wife left a suicide note on his laptop that says he considered her the love of his life but thought she was cheating on him, a police spokesman said Monday.
Sep 21 - By Associated Press
Authorities are looking for a California man accused of fatally shooting his 31-year-old son after the son failed to drive him and others straight home after a night out in Las Vegas.
Sep 21 - By Associated Press
A housekeeping manager at a luxury Manhattan hotel is charged with killing a woman who was strangled and had a kitchen knife stuck in her neck.

Sep 18 - By Deborah Hastings, AP National Writer
This time, the suspect wasn't called a suspect until he was arrested. But the last time a Yale student was killed near campus, James Van de Velde wasn't so fortunate.
Sep 15 - By Associated Press
Police say the two men charged with killing a pregnant woman in a northwestern Pennsylvania rooming house had sent graphic photos of the scene to a woman in California.
Sep 11 - By Thomas Watkins, Associated Press Writer
A reality show contestant suspected of killing his model wife and disfiguring her so she couldn't be identified included details about her teeth and fingernails in a missing persons report that investigators find telling.

Sep 10 - By Carson Walker, Associated Press Writer
A Canadian man and a South Dakota woman were charged in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American Indian Movement member, who prosecutors say was killed because the group's leaders suspected she was a government informant.
Sep 7 - By Associated Press
Authorities say three people have been shot to death at a mobile home in Tennessee.

Sep 4 - By Brett Barrouquere, Associated Press Writer
A former soldier received five consecutive life sentences Friday for his role in the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the slaying of three of her family members.
Sep 2 - By Associated Press
Authorities in a rural northeastern North Carolina community are charging a man with killing his wife and two children in 1972.
Aug 28 - By Jeremy Hainsworth, Associated Press Writer
Canadian police said Friday that no charges will be filed against anyone who may have helped fugitive reality TV contestant Ryan Jenkins, who fled to Canada after being accused of killing his ex-wife.
Aug 26 - By Associated Press
In stories Aug. 22 to Aug. 24 about the slaying of former model Jasmine Fiore, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that Fiore appeared in the movie "The Abandoned." Another actress with a similar name, Jazmine Fiore, appeared in that film.

Aug 26 - By Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press Writer
Hours before she died, former model Jasmine Fiore was chatting on her cell phone with an ex-boyfriend — a conversation that police say threw her reality contestant husband into a jealous rage.

Aug 24 - By Associated Press
VH1 will not air the reality shows with a contestant who was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide at a Canadian motel. Both shows featured Ryan Jenkins, the contestant sought in the killing of his model ex-wife.