Rebuking her colleagues for piercing press-shield laws to help prosecutors close a 22-year-old cold case, a judge accused New York’s highest court on Wednesday of undermining a tradition dating back to pre-Revolutionary times.
Read moreIn their zeal to solve a 22-year-old cold case, Manhattan prosecutors could wind up chilling the state’s expansive press-shield laws, a First Amendment attorney told New York’s highest court on Tuesday.
Read moreA cold-case murder trial began Thursday in San Diego, with a stepfather accused of the murder of his 2-year-old stepson Jahi Turner, one week after what would have been the boy’s 18th birthday.
Read moreTriggering a collective of citizen sleuths known as Cooperites to circle the wagons, a cold-case team says their code-breaker has definitively identified the man who hijacked a commercial plane in 1971 and parachuted off with a $200,00 ransom, never to be seen again.
Read moreInvestigators are now calling 87-year-old actor Robert Wagner a “person of interest” in the 1981 death of his wife Natalie Wood.
Read moreAn expert witness’s brief mention of John Feit’s 1960 polygraph during testimony in the former Catholic priest’s murder case is not enough to declare a mistrial, a Texas judge ruled from the bench Wednesday.
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Hundreds of potential jurors streamed through a South Texas courthouse auditorium Tuesday for the trial of a former Catholic priest charged with the 1960 murder of a local beauty queen, his former parishioner.
Read moreA state judge declined Wednesday to move the trial of a former Catholic priest charged with the 1960 murder of a South Texas beauty queen outside of the county where the crime occurred.
Read moreAn April trial date has been set for the former Catholic priest charged with the 1960 murder of a South Texas beauty queen whose body was found dumped in an irrigation canal after she confessed to him.
Read moreInvestigators have solved the 41-year-old murder of Karen Klaas, the ex-wife of Righteous Brothers member Bill Medley, after familial DNA linked the crime to a man who police shot and killed 35 years ago.
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