Magisterial District Judge Sonya M. McKnight being escorted by police (PennLive.com screenshot) and mug shot (Dauphin County Central Booking) A 58-year-old former magistrate judge in Pennsylvania will likely spend decades behind bars... Read more »
Left inset: Joycelyn Wilson (WGXA/YouTube). Center inset: Gary Jones’ boat after it was recovered from Lake Oconee, Ga. (WGXA/YouTube). Right inset: Gary Jones (WGXA/YouTube). Background: Lake Oconee in central Georgia (WGXA/YouTube). A... Read more »
Joseph Scrofne (Sumner County Sheriff’s Office). An octogenarian Tennessee man is behind bars after admittedly killing his wife earlier this week, according to Volunteer State authorities. Joseph Scrofne, 81, stands accused of... Read more »
Melanie Biggins (Jackson County Jail). A 42-year-old woman in Missouri will spend a decade behind bars for killing her husband of nine years, shooting him in the back of the head as... Read more »
Insets: Michael Edgington and Sydney Palmer (Sumner County Sheriff’s Office/Cornejo Funeral Home & Crematory). Background: Sydney Palmer’s family in court Monday, Jan. 6, at Michael Edgington’s sentencing (Sumner NewsCow/Facebook). Emma Cooley, mother... Read more »
Ellen Gilland (Law&Crime). A 78-year-old woman pleaded no contest to killing her terminally ill husband as part of a suicide pact, court records say. Ellen Gilland, who was slated to go on... Read more »
Home Daily News Wife convicted of murdering prominent attorney… Criminal Justice Wife convicted of murdering prominent attorney husband claimed to reveal real killer at her sentencing By Debra Cassens Weiss December 9,... Read more »
Left: Lee Gilley (Harris County Sheriff’s Office). Right: Christa Bauer Gilley (Facebook). A software consultant, husband, and father of two claimed he woke up one week ago to find that his wife,... Read more »
Brian Dorsey (Photo Jeremy Weis, Potosi Correctional Center) A convicted murderer sentenced to death in Missouri for killing his cousin and her husband as their 4-year-old daughter slept in another was executed... Read more »