Murder News

Pleasant Grove - Seven dead babies have been found in separate cardboard boxes inside a garage in Pleasant Grove, Utah, with the oldest thought to have died a decade ago.

Washington - A gunman shot three people dead at a Jewish community center and a retirement community in Kansas, drawing widespread condemnation and consternation on the eve of Passover.

Washington - Utah police responded to a tip that led to a grim discovery over the weekend, with seven dead infants found at their mother's home.

Nuevo Laredo - The body of a Mexican national who was executed in the US state of Texas has been transferred to his hometown of Nuevo Laredo to be buried.Ramiro Hernandez, 44, was put to death Wednesday by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas.

Huntsville - The US state of Texas executed a Mexican national despite frantic late appeals based on possible trial irregularities and mental disability, authorities said.

Houston - A woman was found guilty of killing her boyfriend by stabbing him at least 25 times with the heel of her nine-inch stiletto shoe. The 45-year-old defendant had claimed she was acting in self defence.

A body found in a Washington-area park is believed to be that of a man suspected of murdering his wife and kidnapping an 8-year-old homeless girl.

Police in Maryland state that a man is wanted for murdering his wife and kidnapping a young homeless girl. Khalil Tatum worked as a janitor at a Washington D.C. homeless shelter where 8-year-old Relisha Rudd was staying with her mother.

Johannesburg - British murder suspect Shrien Dewani will be extradited to South Africa next month to face charges he arranged to have his wife killed during their honeymoon, officials said Sunday.South Africa's Justice Department said Dewani, 33, is expected to leave...

Morelia - Gunmen killed the mayor of a town in the troubled Mexican state of Michoacan on Saturday, more than a year after he had survived a previous assassination attempt, officials said."With deep consternation and indignation, I strongly condemn the cowardly ...