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He grabbed her as she was jogging and punched her in the face until she stopped fighting — then he wrapped his hands around her neck, squeezing until her body went limp.

He let her fall face-down in a shallow puddle and watched as she slowly drowned, unconscious.

These were the brutal last moments of Karina Vetrano’s life in August 2016, as recalled by her accused murderer, 21-year-old Chanel Lewis, in a confession to New York City police soon after his arrest earlier this year, according to multiple news reports.

Vetrano’s battered remains were found by her father in a...

Paul Dewey was just a boy in 1959 when his detective dad was assigned to investigate the brutal slayings of the Clutter family, who had been found bound and shot to death in their Holcomb, Kansas, farmhouse that November.

The crime — which stunned the tight-knit, trusting community — gained national attention, and eventually infamy, after author Truman Capote traveled there to research it for his 1966 book, In Cold Blood.

Capote’s non-fiction account, a bestseller of both wide acclaim and criticism (for its sometimes murky blend of factual reporting and fictional flourishes), soon became a 1967 film and is now thought of as...

Amid the chaos and bloodshed following the deadly shooting attack on the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas over the weekend, doctors at the nearby hospitals are recalling moments of humanity.

“I remember that there was someone who wasn’t shot and managed to come in with someone who was shot,” says Dr. Deborah Kuhls, the trauma surgeon and medical director of the trauma and intensive care unit at the University Medical Center in Vegas.

She continues, “I don’t know if it was a friend or relative, but they had their finger in the bullet hole. I asked,...

Best friends Brian MacKinnon and Adrian Murfitt were two of the 22,000 people in attendance on the final night of the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Sunday in Las Vegas.

The pair, both born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, had attended all three days of the festival and had pushed their way to the front of the crowd for the closing performance by Jason Aldean, Murfitt’s favorite artist.

That’s when loud pops — which some in the audience initially mistook for fireworks — began to sound overhead. Aldean ran from the stage as the audience fled from the sounds of rapid gunfire.

The husband of a woman whose body was found Friday amid the rubble of a home explosion in Madison, Wisconsin, was arrested for allegedly fatally shooting her and then blowing up the house to cover up the killing, People confirms.

On Saturday night, police arrested Steven D. Pirus, 59, who has been jailed on suspicion of first-degree intentional homicide, arson of buildings and damage of property by explosives and first-degree recklessly endangering safety, Madison Police Department Public Information Officer Joel Despain said in a statement.

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A Maryland man accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend — and then weeping alongside her parents at a press conference while she was missing — was allegedly engaged to another woman at the time of the killing, People confirms.

On Wednesday, Tyler Tessier, 32, of Damascus, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Laura Wallen, 31, according to a statement from Montgomery County Police.

Wallen, a popular 31-year-old high school teacher from Olney, Maryland, was four months pregnant when her body was found in a shallow grave in Damascus on Wednesday, more than a week after she was reported missing,...

A North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with allegedly murdering a Unc Charlotte professor believed to have been his girlfriend inside her apartment last Friday, People confirms.

Donny Franklin, 45, appeared in Mecklenburg County Court on Tuesday morning, less than a day after he was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Jeannine Shante Skinner, 35, according to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office.

Franklin showed no emotion when the judge told him he could get the death penalty if found guilty of murder, local news station ABC Columbia reports.

Franklin’s attorney said he denies the charges against him,...

Police in Oregon are investigating the death of an infant girl whose parents belong to a church that allegedly believes in faith healing and rejects medical care, People confirms.

The baby, Gennifer Mitchell, died a few hours after her March 5 birth from “complications of prematurity” at her grandparent’s home in Oregon City, according to the Oregon medical examiner. The medical examiner says it’s unclear how many months she was premature because her mother didn’t know how far along her pregnancy was and never received prenatal care.

Gennifer’s parents, 24-year-old Sarah Mitchell and Travis Mitchell, 21, are members of the Followers of Christ,...

A former Missouri Dairy Queen manager charged in her teenage employee’s suicide made her first court appearance on Tuesday as the teen’s parents broke their silence — promising to bring the issue of bullying “to light.”

Authorities say 17-year-old Kenneth “Kenny” Suttner killed himself in December, with a gunshot to the head, outside his family’s home in Glasgow, Missouri.

Harley Branham was arrested on Jan. 31 after a jury in a coroner’s inquest found her to be “the principal” cause of Suttner’s suicide. The jurors concluded he had faced bullying and harassment at Dairy Queen, while Branham was a manager there,...

A young drifter couple pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to the first-degree murders of a Canadian backpacker and a tantric yoga teacher in California, People confirms.

Morrison “Haze” Lampley, the 24-year-old triggerman, admitted to fatally shooting 23-year-old Audrey Carey in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in October 2015 and then, two days later, killing Steven Carter, 67.

Lampley will be sentenced to 100 years to life. Lampley’s 19-year-old girlfriend, Lila Alligood, will receive a 50-year sentence. (Authorities say she did not fire the gun.)

“This plea agreement puts finality in the tragic losses that were endured,” the Marin County District Attorney’s...

For months, it seemed as though Karina Vetrano’s killing might never be solved.

Detectives investigating her homicide last August chased down hundreds of leads but got nowhere fast. That all changed Saturday when police arrested 20-year-old Chanel Lewis, a Brooklyn man, on murder charges.

The day she was killed, about two hours after she went out for a jog, the 30-year-old was found beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled to death in a park near her neighborhood of Howard Beach, Queens.

Since Lewis was charged with the killing, his family members have insisted he’s not capable of such malice.

DNA led to the arrest of Karina Vetrano’s suspected killer, six months after her battered body was found in a New York City park in a seemingly random killing. But a police source tells People it was a neighborhood investigator’s hunch that really broke the case open earlier this year.

According to the source, who has knowledge of the investigation, N.Y.C. police Lt. John Russo played an instrumental role in capturing 20-year-old Chanel Lewis. He was arrested Saturday and is charged with Vetrano’s murder and sexual assault.

Russo, an observant cop with a sharp memory,...

A 16-year-old Maryland girl is dead, her mother injured and their alleged 15-year-old attacker is in critical condition from an apparent suicide attempt following an early New Year’s Day shooting in the girl’s Maryland home, People confirms.

Mom Suzanne Zaremba, 52, of Ellicott City, heard “a scuffle” in her daughter’s bedroom around 2 a.m. Jan. 1 and went to investigate, according to a Howard County police statement.

As she entered the room, the male suspect allegedly fired a shot at her, and then at Zaremba’s daughter Charlotte, 16, before using the gun to shoot himself in the head, police said.

They have been on the hunt since mid-March, but investigators in Phoenix, Arizona, tell People they are no closer to apprehending the suspected serial killer believed responsible for fatally shooting at least seven people and injuring three more.

Phoenix police spokesman Jonathan Howard says “there are currently no active, specific, credible leads,” but investigators continue to follow up on “every lead that we encounter.”

Police believe all of the shootings were carried out at random. They say the killer’s crime spree began on March 17, when a 16-year-old boy was shot and injured as he walked down a street.

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