Murders

A murdered mother, an online lover, and the violent pact to end an alleged cycle of childhood abuse.

Sylvia Atherton, 41, was strangled to death with a man’s Western-style bolo tie in 1969.

“She is pure evil,” Clay Crenshaw, an attorney at the Alabama Attorney General’s office, said of Judith Ann Neelley.

"Officers could hear a young infant inside the residence crying," Port St Lucie Police stated. "Through a rear sliding door, Officers were able to visually see two adults inside on the floor, who appeared deceased."

Makeva Jenkins' dreams were finally coming true when the successful entrepreneur and mom was shot to death in her Florida home in a bizarre home invasion. 

One of Dr. Martin MacNeil's daughters, a medical school student, suspected that her father was involved in her mom’s death.  

DNA evidence, digital breadcrumbs and dogged detective work lead investigators to pair behind the fatal bludgeoning. 

The "Athena Alert" bill would let authorities notify the nearby public when a child goes missing more swiftly than a statewide AMBER Alert, which requires a case to be confirmed as an abduction.

Like other murder cases that have made headlines in New York City — some of which are covered in the second season of Oxygen's New York Homicide, premiering June 10 — the truth is far more complex than people realize. 

Timothy Bliefnick, 39, allegedly searched online for how to make a homemade silencer before shooting his wife Rebecca Bliefnick more than a dozen times in February.