California man convicted in Montessori murder case
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A California car salesman was convicted on Tuesday of murdering the 15-year-old great-great granddaughter of the Montessori schools founder, more than three years after the teenager ran away and became a prostitute.
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The son of a politician from India's ruling party is convicted of murder in a case which sparked outrage.
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A 15-year-old boy who claimed the antidepressant Zoloft drove him to kill his grandparents was found guilty of murder Tuesday.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.  - After a high-profile  trial, California fertilizer salesman Scott Peterson was found  guilty on Friday of the first-degree murder of his wife on a  charge that could bring the death penalty.
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Paul Cortez, an actor working as a yoga teacher, was convicted today of the throat-slashing death of Catherine Woods, a dancer who worked as a stripper.
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The family of a man who murdered his wife have been found guilty of allowing her death.
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A retired teacher is found guilty of the murder of his wife in Cumbria, nearly 30 years ago.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.  - California fertilizer  salesman Scott Peterson, 32, was convicted on Friday of the  Christmas Eve 2002 murder of his pregnant wife, Laci, in a case  that riveted Americans caught up in the tragic story of a  seemingly perfect couple.
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Francisco Arce Montes, the Spaniard sentenced to 30 years in jail for the 1996 rape and murder of British schoolgirl Caroline Dickinson, will have his appeal against conviction heard in June.
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A man is convicted and another cleared of the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky after a bungled robbery.
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On Nov. 9, Margaret Smith, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2002 for smothering her 4-month-old son, was acquitted at a retrial.
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TORONTO (CP) - Jurors convicted an innocent man of murder on the basis of an absurd Crown theory, a key witness whose testimony changed under hypnosis and the strong likelihood the real criminal was notorious sex killer Paul Bernardo, Ontario's highest court heard Wednesday.
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A California judge on Thursday dismissed five-year-old child pornography charges against John Mark Karr, the teacher arrested in August for the murder of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey and then released without charge.
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A jury on Saturday convicted a black man of killing a white teenager during a racially charged encounter outside the man's home.
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Prosecutors said Tuesday they will appeal a ruling that overturned the conviction of a day care provider accused of shaking a baby to death in 1995.
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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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An Australian man was convicted on  Saturday of killing his wife and then hiding her body in a  metal drum in his garage for 23 years.