Murder news headlines

A mother in Peachtree Corners has been charged with murder in the death of her six-year-old son.

Police are treating the stabbing death of a 65-year-old woman inside her Canberra home yesterday as murder.

Benn Schinkel was given a short prison sentence after a dangerous driving incident in which he sustained ongoing injuries.

Michael "Billy" Hegedus was gunned down one Wednesday night aged just 17.

Police are still hunting for a man suspected of shooting and killing a US judge hours after he awarded custody of the man's children to his wife.

Police returned to an Aldinga Beach home at 10pm on Saturday, where they arrested a 48-year-old man for murder.

The now-77-year-old was found guilty of murder over the attack on Raymond Keam at Allison Park.

He confessed to killing her with a cinderblock on a Caribbean beach in 2005. But prosecutors have been confounded for now.

Two tourists who were killed, along with their tour guide, in an attack near a Ugandan national park were a newlywed couple, the country's president said in a statement.

Leonard Cure was rebuilding his life, had bought a home and gotten a job, when he was fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop.

The chief suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway has admitted he beat the young Alabama woman to death on a beach in Aruba after she refused his advances.

Debra Campbell was just 21 years old when she disappeared from her home in Melbourne on February 25, 1984.

A 19-year-old has been charged over the alleged stabbing and shooting of Dejan 'Danny' Radulovic in upmarket Balmain.

Detectives say they've 'never given up' on solving the murder of two Queenslanders killed within days of each other.

Anthony "Tony" Jones was last seen in Hughenden, a small town west of Townsville, on November 12 in 1982.

The body of 48-year-old Rebecca Collard was found just before 1am on October 4.

A retired US doctor has failed in his High Court appeal to overturn his conviction for murdering Brisbane socialite Maureen Boyce.

The expectant father had never met the approaching men but in a moment they would murder him in cold blood.

Tamar Kedem-Siman Tov, her husband Johnny, and their three young children thought they had made it to safety in their home bunker.

When paramedics arrived, they found the woman's body in the garage.

The toddler died last month after he and three other young children were sickened by what officials said was exposure to fentanyl at their Bronx daycare centre.

It's the question everybody ponders, but nobody wants to ever have to answer: what would you eat for a last meal?

Benjamin Jack McLaughlin has been hit with serious charges.

A man is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday evening, more than 25 years after he killed two women he met a day apart at bars in north Florida.

A 55-year-old man has died in hospital after he was allegedly stabbed during a verbal altercation in Melbourne's north.

Biannca Edmunds will spend at least 20 years in prison after a plot to murder her ex-partner ended in his death as well as the death of her husband.

The shocking 1999 shooting death of Jill Dando left Britain stunned.

A woman has broken down in court after she was accused of murdering her husband while on a camping trip in Victoria's north over the weekend.

A 74-year-old man was allegedly flung from a first floor balcony in Brisbane.

Duane Keith "Keffe D" Davis, 60, was arrested Friday morning in Las Vegas, according to authorities.

Hitmen stormed a hospital in northern Mexico in a bid to kill a patient but they clashed with other gunmen already inside.

The 26-year-old tech executive whose body was found on the rooftop of her Baltimore apartment building Monday died of strangulation and blunt force trauma, court documents say.

The attack happened at Randwick's Alison Park on a night in 1987.

Police in the US seized more than 280 guns from Rex Heuermann's home in a previous search.

The remains of Suzanne Morphew were positively identified after she vanished on Mother's Day 2020.

A man has been charged with murder after allegedly fatally wounding another in South Australia yesterday.

Pava LaPere, 26, had suffered blunt force trauma, Baltimore Police said.

Three men have been convicted of murdering Michael Zanco who died in hospital after being shot in the back of the head at a rural property in 2020.

Jordan Torrans, 31, was allegedly stabbed by a man known to him in Salisbury Downs last night.

An accused murderer has admitted burgling a house where a Canberra woman was found dead 24 years ago, but denies he was involved in her killing.

The double-amputee Olympic runner may have been wrongly denied early release from prison because of an error over when he began serving his sentence.

Paul Grapsas' family was alerted that something was wrong when the dog arrived home and he didn't.

The judge ruled the boy was too young to be held criminally responsible for his role in the killing of teenager Declan Cutler.

A simple metal screen has been installed to prevent copycat escape bids, but drones and hi-tech detection devices are also on the cards.

A man accused of killing nearly two dozen women and who was convicted last year in the slayings of two has been killed by his cellmate in prison.

Police in a quiet community outside Chicago who are investigating the shooting deaths of a family of four, including two children, in their home say it wasn't a random incident.

The man has been accused of attacking family members during a house fire.

The victim was a woman in her 20s or 30s and weighed approximately 32 kilograms, police said after discovering the body in the trunk of a car.

A British neonatal nurse who was found guilty of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others has launched a bid to appeal her convictions, officials said on Friday.

The boyfriend of a Melbourne mum found with horrific and fatal stab injuries in her city apartment has been found guilty of her murder.