An Idaho judge declined to throw out key evidence against the man charged with murder in connection with the killings of four University of Idaho students, saying Wednesday that the genetic investigation process that it hinges on was not unconstitutional. Judge Steven Hippler was not swayed by legal arguments made by Bryan Kohberger’s defense team…
A suspect has been arrested 36 years after a mother of five was found dead in northern Michigan, authorities announced Tuesday. The body of 41-year-old Linda Marie Meteer was found in Michigan’s Hoosier Valley on April 27, 1989, the Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Office said in a news conference. Meteer, from Traverse City, Michigan, had…
A Hong Kong man suspected of killing his three-year-old daughter by violently shaking her allegedly abused her more than 20 times during the two months they lived together. This included by holding her upside down so her head struck the floor and dousing her with cold water in the shower. The High Court on Wednesday…
A three-year-old Hong Kong girl’s death in 2020 could not have been caused by her falling out of bed as her father claimed, a murder trial heard on Monday, with prosecutors arguing her fatal injuries were consistent with violent shaking while alleging he had earlier said she should be “treated like a dog”. Lau Kai-ping,…
It was Sept. 18, 2003 when Justine Vanderschoot’s remains were discovered in a remote location more than two weeks after she disappeared. But it’s in the garden outside her bedroom window where her parents Don and Lynnette still come to find her. Lynnette Vanderschoot: It’s … 21 years since we’ve lost Justine … but it’s…
This story previously aired on Feb. 10, 2024. It was updated on Feb. 15, 2025. It’s been five years since Hollywood therapist Amie Harwick was murdered on Feb. 15, 2020. Harwick’s roommate, Michael Herman — the man who tried to save her — can never erase the memories of what happened to his friend in…
A jailed Malaysian anaesthesiologist in Hong Kong has filed an appeal against his conviction of murdering his wife and teenage daughter with a yoga ball filled with lethal gas in 2015, marking yet another attempt to clear his name. Former university professor Khaw Kim Sun, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, filed the application on…
A defendant accused of trying to help the ex-husband of slain model Abby Choi Tin-fung flee Hong Kong has said she was told to arrange a yacht “as soon as possible” and at any cost, with a fee of HK$300,000 (US$38,500) being quoted at one point. But Irene Pun Hau-yin denied in Kowloon City Court…
A triad gang member charged with robbery and detained with two alleged accomplices from another gang was found dead in a detention cell they shared at Yuen Long Police Station in Hong Kong on Wednesday, prompting an investigation. The deceased, a 44-year-old man surnamed Wong, had ties with the Wo Shing Wo triad gang. His…
A defendant accused of trying to help the ex-husband of slain model Abby Choi Tin-fung flee Hong Kong has said she was told to arrange a yacht “as soon as possible” and at any cost, with a fee of HK$300,000 (US$38,500) being quoted at one point. But Irene Pun Hau-yin denied in Kowloon City Court…