Trial starts in 9-year-old Florida girl's killing
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Jury selection began on Monday in the trial of a registered sex offender accused of abducting, raping and murdering a 9-year-old central Florida girl by burying her alive.
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Jury selection started Monday for the trial of a deaf woman accused of kidnapping, killing and dismembering another deaf woman, South Dakota's first capital punishment case with a female defendant.
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Prosecutors charged a convicted sex offender Monday with kidnapping, raping and killing Zina Linnik, a 12-year-old girl who was snatched from an alley behind her family's home during a July 4th fireworks celebration.
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Three people are charged with murdering a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed in Birmingham.
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A jury began deliberating Tuesday in the trial of a former police officer accused of killing his pregnant lover, wrapping her body in a comforter and then dumping it in a park.
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A child killer is to be quizzed over the a Devon schoolgirl's disappearance and the murder of a Northern Ireland girl.
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A man accused of killing a 10-year-old girl and nearly severing her head as part of a cannibalistic plot was arraigned Wednesday on a first-degree murder charge.
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A four-year-old girl died from multiple, brutal injuries, a court hears as her mother goes on trial for murder.
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A woman accused in the grisly slaying of a pregnant friend and suspected in the killings of the friend's three young children lost custody of her own daughters for a time several years ago, newly released court records show.
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The trial of a man who is accused of murdering five women in Suffolk during a 10-day period in 2006 is due to begin.
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A year after he was taken into custody, a man goes on trial this week on charges he held a 14-year-old girl captive in an underground bunker until she summoned help with a cell phone text message.
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John Evander Couey could face the death penalty after being found guilty Wednesday of murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was abducted two years ago from her home in Homosassa Springs, Florida. She was found buried nearly a month later within sight of her home. The young girl had been raped before she was buried alive in a plastic garbage bag.
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The estranged wife of the man accused of murdering two teenagers 30 years ago gives evidence at his trial.
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DNA evidence links a former trash company supervisor to a series of murdered women whose strangled, shoeless bodies were found in secluded spots around the city, a prosecutor said Monday as the man's trial began.
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The trial is set to begin of a polygamist sect leader on charges he coerced a 14-year-old girl into marriage.
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A registered sex offender suspected of  rapes and killings across the United States was charged on  Tuesday with abducting and murdering a 16-year-old girl in  Georgia, police said.
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Eight staff members of a Florida juvenile boot camp have been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 14-year-old boy whose beating by guards was captured on videotape, prosecutors said on Tuesday.