For more than three decades, investigators in rural Arizona treated the disappearance of Christina "Tina" Marie Plante as a likely abduction. She was 13 years old when she walked away from her home in Star Valley on May 15, 1994, telling people she was headed to a nearby horse stable. She never came...

Brian Hooker, the husband of missing American woman Lynette Hooker, tumbled into the ocean during his own arrest by Bahamian police, just days after he reported his wife fell from their small boat and vanished in rough seas near Elbow Cay. His lawyer says he had to be rescued from the water by the s...

A Tulare County sheriff's detective was shot and killed Thursday morning while serving a routine eviction notice in Porterville, California, after a suspect who had apparently been lying in wait opened fire on deputies in what became an hourslong standoff. The gunman, identified as David Eric Morale...

A Sherburne County jury convicted 26-year-old Eric Leif Jordahl of first-degree murder Thursday for killing his mother, 62-year-old Rosalie "Rose" Johnson, inside their home on July 23, 2020, a case marked by details so disturbing they defy comprehension. The conviction carries an automatic life sen...

An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper, a 36-year-old woman, and a 4-year-old child are dead after a vehicle crossed the center cable barrier on Interstate 35 in Oklahoma City and slammed head-on into the trooper's northbound patrol unit Wednesday morning. Investigators are now asking the public to help...

Jakhi Lodgson-McCray, a 22-year-old Brooklyn activist, stood in federal court Wednesday and admitted he scaled a fence into a locked police parking lot in Bushwick and set fire to 11 NYPD vehicles, an act that caused more than $800,000 in damage and now carries a mandatory minimum of five years in f...

A Tulare County Sheriff's Office deputy was shot and killed Thursday morning in Porterville, California, after a 60-year-old man allegedly opened fire with a high-powered rifle as deputies arrived to serve a final eviction notice, a routine civil action that Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said turned into a...

The Ohio Supreme Court handed law enforcement a significant win, ruling that police officers who pull over a driver based on a mistaken belief, say, a headlight that turns out to be working, do not have to cut the stop short the moment that mistake becomes clear. The decision reversed an appellate c...

Rex Heuermann, the Long Island architect who led a double life as a serial killer for nearly two decades, pleaded guilty on April 8 to seven counts of murder and admitted to an eighth uncharged killing, then agreed to sit down with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit and let federal profilers pick ap...

Five people are in custody and 21 face charges in what California Attorney General Rob Bonta called a "brazen, calculated criminal scheme" that allegedly drained more than $267 million from the state's Medi-Cal program through fraudulent hospice billing, stolen identities, and a web of more than 130...