Murder Trial

A jury on Tuesday found an Ellington man who was accused of killing his wife and staging a cover-up guilty on all charges. The trial was five weeks long and the jury had 600 exhibits and the testimony of 130 witnesses to consider in their deliberations. Richard Dabate is accused of killing his 39-year-old wife, Connie, in December 2015. He…

After five weeks of testimony, the jury began deliberating the fate of Richard Dabate Monday. Deliberations began after the prosecution and defense each gave closing arguments. The jury was sent into deliberations around 2:30 p.m. Family and friends for both sides were present, as were seven state troopers who were involved with the initial investigation. The court room, which holds…

A man convicted of killing a 12-year-old girl more than three decades ago is asking a court to allow advanced DNA testing on the victim’s clothes. The Portland Press Herald reports that Dennis Dechaine attended a Superior Court hearing virtually on Friday at the Knox County Courthouse in Rockland. Dechaine is serving a life sentence for the murder and sexual assault...

Julia Enright was found guilty of second-degree murder Monday in the 2018 killing of a man in Massachusetts, the Telegram and Gazette reported. Enright was accused of luring 20-year-old Brandon Chicklis to a treehouse near her Ashburnham home to kill him.

Julia Enright was found guilty of second-degree murder Monday in the 2018 killing of a man in Massachusetts. The verdict was announced around 11 a.m. Monday in Worcester Superior Court after roughly two days of deliberations. The case had gone to the jury on Nov. 23 following 10 days of testimony. Enright is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 18….

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.