Detectives uncovered a complex murder-for-hire plot after Melvin "Lil Phat" Vernell was killed at the hospital where his fiancé was waiting to give birth.
“Um, my friend spent the night last night on my couch. She’s gone and there’s something that looks like blood on the pillow," Brianna Denison's friend said in a harrowing 911 call that would spark a massive hunt for a man stalking and attacking young women.
Friends and family were disturbed when Gretchen Anthony declared over text that she had COVID-19 and was going on a ventilator. Was it the truth, or did something more sinister happen to the wife and mother?
Shirley Pierce and Ervin Johnson never had a romantic relationship, and were just friendly coworkers. But Ervin's wife, Marlene Johnson, refused to believe it and turned to bloodshed.
“It’s no longer attempted murder — it’s murder — he passed away,” community activist Karlin Chan said of Yao Pan Ma, who died last month, following a suspected hate crime attack in April 2021.
Josh Duggar's attorneys are asking for a retrial, noting that their client's former employee — who they say is a sex offender — also had access to the computer where child porn was discovered.
Alex Murdaugh is accused of defrauding even more former clients out of millions of dollars, including the estate of Hakeem Pinckney, a deaf man who became paralyzed after a car crash and later died.
