Brian Martin Sentenced to Death for Killing Sheffield Police Sgt. Nick Risner
An Alabama judge made a jury's unanimous death verdict official five years after the 2021 shooting that led to the state's Nick Risner Act.
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
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True Crime
Murders, disappearances and organized crime, with the evidence and the law laid out plainly.
Officer Who Shot 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley Resigns After Mississippi Rules the Force Justified
Senatobia officer Hunter Foster fired into a moving car in June, killing Kohen Wiley, 1. The state declined charges, and the bodycam video is out.
Affidavit Says Cell Data Unread Since 2011 Undercut Dale Smith Jr.'s Story in Michelle Parker Case
Orlando police say 2011 phone records that were never analyzed contradict Dale Smith Jr.'s account of the day Michelle Parker vanished.
Two Men Get Life in Scottsdale Killing of Mobile Barber, but Who Ordered the Hit Is Unclear
Chaze Cable and Robert Celifie are serving life for the 2022 shooting of Ilya Shimonov. Messages read by police point to someone else who wanted his phone.
Manhunt for Jacob Morley, a Convicted Killer Who Slipped Through a Tennessee Prison Fence
Jacob Morley, 28, serving life for a 2022 murder, got through a Tennessee prison fence Sunday night. Officials say he stole a truck 90 minutes later.
Nancy Guthrie Is Still Missing. What the Evidence Shows Nine Months Later
The mother of Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie disappeared from her Arizona home in February. No suspect has been charged. The legal panel was among the first to break down the case.
How RICO Broke the Old Mob, Told by a Man Who Grew Up Around It
Johnny DiGiorgio grew up in New York with a family name everyone knew. Attorney Johnny Weekes explains how one federal law changed loyalty, informing and the street forever.
DNA From a Mailed Envelope Leads to an Arrest in Spokane's 1986 Turner Killing
Mary Ann Turner was strangled in 1986 while searching for her runaway daughter. Police say a decades old tip, a ruse letter and DNA under her fingernails led them to a 74-year-old man.
Chicago Police Say DNA Links a Late Detective to the 1960 Killing of a Girl, 8
Gloria Kowalewicz vanished on her way to morning Mass in 1960. Police now say DNA and a fingerprint point to a homicide detective who died in 2006 and was never charged.
A 2006 Indiana Double Murder, a Suspect Who Was 14, and a Law Written to Reach Him
Prosecutors say they suspected Michael Jerome James for years but could not charge him until Indiana closed a gap in its juvenile law. His first hearing came this week. A jurisdiction fight may come next.
Vance Boelter's State Murder Trial in the Hortman Killings Is Pushed to May 2027
He is already serving life in federal prison for killing Melissa Hortman and her husband. A Minnesota judge has now delayed the state trial, where Boelter wants to claim he was making a citizen's arrest.
Once on Death Row, Justin Wolfe Walks Free in Virginia After 25 Years
The only witness against him recanted, and a federal appeals court called the prosecution's misconduct egregious. A judge vacated his murder conviction, and a plea deal sent him home.
Horn Island and the Unanswered Questions Around Nolan Wells
The public story says one thing and the photographs suggest another. Two defense attorneys look at the evidence in the Nolan Wells investigation.
A Defense Attorney and His Daughter on the Minds of Serial Killers
Daniel Rosenberg and his daughter Olivia talk Zodiac, Bundy and Gacy, and what a career in criminal defense teaches about mental illness and trauma.