DALLAS (AP) 02/13 — The FBI has released sketches drawn by an admitted serial killer of some of his victims, along with other information on a string of unsolved cold-case homicides to which investigators say the man confessed.Read more »
Category: Confessions
FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) 02/08 — A man accused of strangling a former high school classmate described how it took her a half-hour to die and he had timed it on his phone.Jurors on Thursday watched the secretly recorded video of the conversation between Liam McAtasney and the witness that was taped before McAtasney and an accomplice were charged with killing 19-year-old Sarah Stern during a $10,000 robbery in 2016.Read more »
By RYAN J. FOLEY, Associated Press BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) 08/23 — The Iowa college student who was allegedly abducted by a stranger while running last month in a small Iowa town was killed by “multiple sharp force injuries,”
By JAY REEVES, Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) 07/12 — A renewed investigation into the brutal slaying of Emmett Till was prompted by a 2017 book that revealed lies by a key figure in the 1955 case that helped build momentum for the civil rights movement,
By CATHERINE LUCEY, ZEKE MILLER and MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) 07/10 — President Donald Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh, a solidly conservative, politically connected judge,
By JIM VERTUNO and WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (AP) 03/22 — A 25-minute cellphone video left behind by the bomber whose deadly explosives terrorized Austin for weeks details the differences among the weapons he built and amounts to a confession,
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) 02/13 — An Ohio inmate who admitted taking part in three slayings with his brother in a killing spree that left nine dead during the 1970s and ’80s could soon be released.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) 01/22 — An Ohio man who admitted he plotted to kill military members in the U.S. after receiving training in Syria is again set to be sentenced after a short delay.Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud is scheduled to appear in federal court in Columbus on Monday.Read more »
By The Associated Press NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man accused of beheading a co-worker was convicted of first-degree murder Friday for the 2014 attack that one witness said was “something that people shouldn’t have to see.”
CIARAN GILES and ARITZ PARRA, Associated Press MADRID (AP) 08/23 — Police in northeastern Spain said Wednesday they found a belt charged with real explosives in a house where a fatal explosion last week derailed the initial plans by an extremist cell to strike with bombs in Barcelona rather than vehicle attacks that eventually killed 14 people.
JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press LONDON (AP) 08/10 — Britain is wrestling with a volatile nexus of crime, race and religion after 18 people were convicted of sexually abusing women and girls as young as 15.
MARYCLAIRE DALE and MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) 07/15 — A marijuana dealer gave police a grisly account of killing four men on his family’s farm,
MARYCLAIRE DALE and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE, Associated Press DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) 07/14 — An admitted drug dealer with a history of mental illness said he killed four young men after he felt cheated or threatened during three transactions and then burned their bodies at his family’s farm,