From Jeffrey Dahmer to the Menendez brothers to Ed Gein, Ryan Murphy’s “Monster” series on Netflix is all about famous killers. This time, the series follows its first female protagonist — Lizzie Borden, who was tried and acquitted of the 1892 hatchet murders of her father and stepmother in Massachusetts. Borden was the prime suspect
CONCORD, N.H. — A New Hampshire judge on Thursday dismissed the latest petition for a new trial from Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student more than three decades ago. Smart, 59, was a 22-year-old high school media coordinator when she began an
A bribery trial starts this week for a Washington, D.C., Council member accused of accepting cash from an associate in exchange for using his elected position to help extend city contracts for the associate’s businesses WASHINGTON — A bribery trial starts this week for a Washington, D.C., Council member accused of accepting cash from an
WASHINGTON — A trial in the U.S. for a former Libyan intelligence official charged in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland is on track to start in January after a delay caused by the discovery of new evidence in the decades-old case. A federal judge presiding over the case against Abu
Warning: Graphic content Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Alan Jones’ criminal trial in the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney. Jones, 85, is standing trial on 20 counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual touching without consent relating to six male complainants over a 17-year period from 2003 to 2020.