Murders

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

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

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

Joseph M. Czuba, 71, allegedly stabbed the child 26 times before he succumbed to injuries.

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

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.

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

Robert Atkins was allegedly kidnapped by a gang of criminals and held under 'physical and coercive control' in 2020.

Police were alerted to the incident after a woman reported the alleged domestic violence incident.

US mother Lori Vallow Daybell will spend the rest of her life behind bars without the possibility of parole after her conviction earlier this year in the murders of two of her children.

Chad Daybell, the stepfather of two children who have been missing since last year, was charged with destroying evidence on Wednesday as prosecutors said two children's remains were found on his Idaho property.

Police alleged the images were taken on May 21, the day before 24-year-old Oraiha was allegedly gunned down.

Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced on Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of two of her children and for conspiring in the murder of her husband's first wife.

Christopher Mark Jordan, 36, has appeared in court after human remains were found on a bush track on Wednesday.

He believed his girlfriend of one month was cheating when he stabbed her six times and dumped her body in a wheelie bin.

The 34-year-old was extradited from Victoria yesterday after police searched a property and found the body of John Simpson.

Police say a man and a woman allegedly entered a property in Railway Estate just after 4.30am last Wednesday, where they are accused of "seriously assaulting" a man, before fleeing.

Rex Heuermann, who has lived for decades across a bay from where the remains of many women were found, is charged with killing Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello.

Robert 'Jack' Richardson was murdered 'execution-style' in 1984 in Victoria.

Police say Matthew Berry had been brutally attacked in his own home, on Tolima Drive in Mount Tamborine, but with his killer at large, detectives are asking for the public's assistance.

The family of murdered teen Michell Bright now have closure after over two decades with a jury finding her killer guilty.

Hector Enrique Valencia Valencia killed Kimberley McRae at her Coogee apartment, in Sydney's east, in January 2020.

The 36-year-old died at the scene of a car and a ute crash on Speedy Street in Molong, near Orange, about 3.40pm on June 9.

The girlfriend of a dentist convicted of murdering his wife on an African safari was sentenced Friday to 17 years in prison for being an accessory to the crime during a hearing where relatives of the slain woman told her she had destroyed their family.

The 81-year-old was found dead inside a home on Macedon Street in Maribyrnong about 5.40pm on June 12.

A Chinese couple in Cambodia have been charged with the murder of a South Korean influencer, who allegedly died while receiving treatment in their clinic.

Yusuf Nazlioglu, 40, was allegedly shot up to 10 times in front of his wife, as he stepped out of his car in the underground car park of an apartment complex in Rhodes in June last year.

The nine-month-old girl was allegedly found unresponsive when emergency services were called to a home in Binnaway near Coonabarabran in 2018.

A 36-year-old cold case is nearing its long-overdue conclusion after a jury returned a guilty verdict for murder at a well-known gay beat in Sydney's east.

Heinz Ratke, aged 73 at the time, has pleaded guilty to killing Maria, 71, in their Katoomba home in the NSW Blue Mountains in December 2020.

Prosecutors have a "strong" case against a man charged with murder after the victim allegedly identified him as the killer, a court has been told.

The suspect in the fatal stabbing last year of four University of Idaho students has been indicted by a grand jury on murder and burglary charges, a court official told CNN.

A man who went gay bashing at a park where another man was murdered concedes he should have told police a friend claimed responsibility even though he was a liar.

A friend of Ellie Price believed Ricardo Barbaro would be paid some of the $100,000 she demanded in the days leading up to her death, a court has been told.

Authorities in the Mexican resort of Cancun said on Tuesday they are trying to identify eight bodies found dumped in the Caribbean resort.

A married couple shot their daughter's former partner four times and left him to die after a far from amicable divorce and custody tensions, a court has been told.

Robert Terry Smith, 43, has been released from Junee Correctional Centre to serve the remainder of his 16-year sentence in the community.

Steven Tougher's family said the young father had a level of compassion that "touched the lives of so many people".

The decision is the latest development in the protracted legal odyssey chronicled in the hit podcast "Serial."

New statistics released today have revealed that in the latest reporting period - from July 2020 to June 2021 - there were 210 registered homicides, down some 51 deaths on the previous year.

Nadire Sensoy, 71, disappeared from her Prospect home in 2018.

Police investigations into the man's death near Parkes are continuing.

Mexican authorities arrested five more people on Friday in connection to the kidnappings of four Americans in Matamoros, Mexico, as the bodies of the two Americans killed were returned to US diplomats and questions continued to swirl around last week's violent abduction.

When Queensland Police arrived, a 58-year-old man was found dead at the scene.

Bradley Jason Mark White sprayed more than 220 bullets from his house, hitting four properties, at Wyong on the NSW Central Coast.

A Sydney woman's trauma escaping poverty and war played a role in the violent death of her lover, who she crushed with her vehicle after discovering him with another woman.

The woman's body was found inside a house in Kallangur about 12.50pm today after police recieved reports of a fight.

The head teacher of a UK private school reportedly made a distressed call to a relative before she and her family were found shot dead at the school south-west of London.

Opening statements have begun in South Carolina, for the trial of Alex Murdaugh, who has been charged with the 2021 murders of his wife and youngest son.

Police listened to more than 5000 covert recordings of Greg Lynn in his home, car and campsites to build the case against the former airline pilot accused of killing campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay.