Tag Archives: murder

• Crime

  Texas woman accused of killing professor with a shoe

  A Texas woman is charged with murder after allegedly killing a college professor with a stiletto-heeled shoe.
• Crime

  Iowa teen found guilty of shooting and killing his mother

  Jurors found an Osage, Iowa teen guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his mother.
• Crime

  Bodies found in Indiana home

  Four bodies with gunshot wounds were found in a southern Indiana home late Saturday night, authorities said.
• Crime

  Iowa man charged in shaking death of 7-week-old baby

  An Oskaloosa, Iowa man faces a first-degree murder charge in connection with the death of a seven-week-old infant he was babysitting.
• Crime

  Iowa teen charged with murder of Illinois man

  A 16-year-old girl was charged in connection with the shooting death of a man from Chicago.
• Crime

  Community marks tenth anniversary of Illinois boy’s disappearance and murder

  Authorities across the state of Illinois are renewing their commitment to solving the disappearance and death of then-seven-year-old Dalton Mesarchik.
• Crime

  Local convicted killer’s commutation denied

  A local man convicted of a Scott County murder was denied commutation of his sentence by Iowa Governor Terry Branstad.
• Crime

  Husband charged with Burlington woman’s murder

  The husband of a woman found dead in her home is now facing a first-degree murder charge.
• Crime

  Murder charge filed when victim dies 22 years after Muscatine attack

  A former Muscatine man who served a prison sentence for an attack that left a woman a quadriplegic is now charged with that woman’s murder.
• Crime

  Davenport man charged in murder-for-hire scheme

  Investigators say they busted a Davenport man who tried to hire an undercover detective to kill a family member.
• Crime

  Guilty verdict in murder of Cordova man

  Jurors convicted a 22-year-old man of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 64-year-old John Versypt of Cordova, Illinois.
• Politics

  Iowa legislators propose making abortion murder

  A group of Iowa legislators introduced a bill that would make providing an abortion a crime carrying a murder charge in the state.