Murder Trial

A Massachusetts jury tasked with deciding whether the 2018 killing of a man was self-defense or murder heard on Friday from the woman who did it.

A Los Angeles jury convicted real estate heir Robert Durst of murder in the death of his longtime friend, Susan Berman, 21 years after she was killed execution-style in her home.

A Maine man who used a baseball bat to beat his mother, his grandparents and his grandparents’ caretaker to death in Massachusetts in 2017 has pleaded guilty. Prosecutors say 26-year-old Orion Krause, of Rockport, Maine, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years after pleading guilty to four counts of second-degree murder. Krause…

A jury found Thomas Latanowich guilty of second-degree murder in the 2018 shooting of police Sgt. Sean Gannon. Latanowich was sentenced to life in prison, and will serve at least 35 years.

Thomas Latanowich was found guilty of second-degree murder after a jury deliberated for several days.

A jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering a police sergeant in 2018 ended another day without returning a verdict, but did ask a pair of questions.

The jury is in its second day of deliberations in the trail of Thomas Latanowich, who admitted to fatally shooting a Yarmouth police sergeant.

Real estate heir Robert Durst testified at his murder trial that he has changed his mind many times, but has concluded that he didn’t actually see his wife step onto a commuter train the night she disappeared in 1982.

Nearly five years after Vanessa Marcotte was killed while out for a run in Princeton, attorneys for the murder suspect are asking the court to throw out DNA taken from their client.

A Massachusetts man who spent 34 years behind bars for a killing he maintains he did not commit has been freed while the courts determine whether he should get a new trial.

The highest court in Massachusetts has reduced the first-degree murder conviction of a man found guilty of killing an Army veteran during a fight in Boston’s Theater District in 2012 to second-degree murder in a decision that redefines “extreme atrocity or cruelty” in murder cases. Peter Castillo, 32, of Salem, was convicted in 2016 of shooting Iraq War veteran Stephen…

A New York man who’s about to go on trial on charges that he killed a woman in Down East Maine believes masks worn during the pandemic could prejudice the jury against him. In court documents, Carine Reeves’ attorney said that wearing a mask could be prejudicial since masks are associated with crime. Reeves, a Black man, contends his...

A mother has been ordered to stand trial on murder charges in the deaths two young children found hanging in an eastern Pennsylvania basement last fall.

The murder trial of a man charged in the 2018 fatal stabbing of an 18-year-old woman at an Oakland BART station resumed Tuesday with the defendant taking the stand in an Oakland courtroom.

A Massachusetts man who faced life prison if convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of his estranged wife’s lover has walked out of court a free man after a judge declared him not guilty. Salem Superior Court Judge Thomas Dreschler’s directed verdict Tuesday came a week into the trial of Jose Urena, 51, and just before closing statements,...

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A man accused of killing his wife with a cleaver and critically injuring his mother-in-law at their Vermont home is expected back in court after murder charges were refiled against him. Aita Gurung, of Burlington, was initially charged with killing his wife in 2017, but Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George dropped the charges against him, and two other violent…

The judge in the trial of a Needham woman charged with murdering her elderly neighbor in 2017 declared a mistrial Monday after the defense attorney was hit by a vehicle over the weekend and suffered serious injuries. The trial had opened Thursday and was set for its second day of testimony Monday before the court was informed of the defense…

Closing arguments are scheduled to begin in the trial of a man accused of killing two doctors in their South Boston penthouse.

A Maine woman accused of killing her 10-year-old daughter last year is on trial. Sharon Carrillo is charged with the 2018 murder of her daughter, Marissa Kennedy. Friday morning, a jury listened to state prosecutors and Carrillo’s lawyers begin to explain why she should or should not be responsible for Kennedy’s death. Her husband, Julio Carrillo, has already pleaded...