Mom confesses she killed autistic child
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A woman accused of killing her autistic daughter testified Friday that she attempted to suffocate the 3-year-old with a pillow three days before she succeeded with a plastic garbage bag.
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An infanticide expert discusses why parents murder their children and whether any lessons can be learned from the case of the Texas woman who hanged her daughters.
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Grieving mother tells court how holiday to save marriage ended in tragedy
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NEW YORK -- A New York woman allegedly killed her one-year-old son and dumped his body in the trash in 2000, then collected welfare benefits for him for years, authorities charged yesterday. Diatra Hester-Bey, 33, was ordered held without bail on a ...
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The mother of three children found dead in a Huntsville apartment has confessed to starving her children, police said Saturday.
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A mother-of-five will serve 15 months for killing her husband after a judge heard of the "frightening" abuse she suffered
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Defense attorneys say Lisa Montgomery is a mentally ill woman who sincerely believed she was pregnant when she killed an expectant mother and cut the baby from her womb.
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Mo. Woman Charged With Killing 23-Year-Old Expectant Mother, Taking 8-Month-Old Baby Out of Womb. A rat terrier protects the home of Kevin and Lisa Montgomery near Melvern, Kan.
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E-mail, IMs used as evidence against teen and her boyfriend, who murdered her mother after she discouraged them from dating each other.
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A nine-year-old Essex boy died after his mother spiked his hospital feed, jurors are told.
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A woman who spent about two years in prison for the stabbing death of her 10-year-old son was acquitted at her retrial Wednesday, after the defense insisted the murder was carried out by a masked intruder, possibly a Texas death-row inmate who has confessed.
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A mother has her conviction for murdering her four-month-old son 10 years ago quashed during a retrial.
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A slain Marine's image as a woman who struggled with the truth made her vulnerable and may have triggered events that led to her violent death, her mother says.
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A woman who claimed she tried to "fix" her 3-year-old autistic daughter by suffocating her with a plastic bag was convicted of murder on Thursday after jurors rejected her insanity plea.
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Jurors deciding whether to recommend the death penalty for a woman convicted of killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb listened Wednesday to a 911 call in which the victim's mother described the gruesome crime scene.
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri  - A Kansas woman was found guilty on Monday of killing a pregnant woman, cutting the baby from her womb and kidnapping the newborn in a gruesome ruse to pass the child off as her own.
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The mother of an 8-year-old boy who was allegedly sexually abused by a woman who considered him her boyfriend said she knew something was wrong when the boy began to act out at school and even threw a chair at another student.