Murder news headlines

Anthony "Tony" Jones was last seen in Hughenden, a small town west of Townsville, on November 12 in 1982.

The body of 48-year-old Rebecca Collard was found just before 1am on October 4.

A retired US doctor has failed in his High Court appeal to overturn his conviction for murdering Brisbane socialite Maureen Boyce.

The expectant father had never met the approaching men but in a moment they would murder him in cold blood.

Tamar Kedem-Siman Tov, her husband Johnny, and their three young children thought they had made it to safety in their home bunker.

When paramedics arrived, they found the woman's body in the garage.

The toddler died last month after he and three other young children were sickened by what officials said was exposure to fentanyl at their Bronx daycare centre.

It's the question everybody ponders, but nobody wants to ever have to answer: what would you eat for a last meal?

Benjamin Jack McLaughlin has been hit with serious charges.

A man is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday evening, more than 25 years after he killed two women he met a day apart at bars in north Florida.

A 55-year-old man has died in hospital after he was allegedly stabbed during a verbal altercation in Melbourne's north.

Biannca Edmunds will spend at least 20 years in prison after a plot to murder her ex-partner ended in his death as well as the death of her husband.

The shocking 1999 shooting death of Jill Dando left Britain stunned.

A woman has broken down in court after she was accused of murdering her husband while on a camping trip in Victoria's north over the weekend.

A 74-year-old man was allegedly flung from a first floor balcony in Brisbane.

Duane Keith "Keffe D" Davis, 60, was arrested Friday morning in Las Vegas, according to authorities.

Hitmen stormed a hospital in northern Mexico in a bid to kill a patient but they clashed with other gunmen already inside.

The 26-year-old tech executive whose body was found on the rooftop of her Baltimore apartment building Monday died of strangulation and blunt force trauma, court documents say.

The attack happened at Randwick's Alison Park on a night in 1987.

Police in the US seized more than 280 guns from Rex Heuermann's home in a previous search.

The remains of Suzanne Morphew were positively identified after she vanished on Mother's Day 2020.

A man has been charged with murder after allegedly fatally wounding another in South Australia yesterday.

Pava LaPere, 26, had suffered blunt force trauma, Baltimore Police said.

Three men have been convicted of murdering Michael Zanco who died in hospital after being shot in the back of the head at a rural property in 2020.

Jordan Torrans, 31, was allegedly stabbed by a man known to him in Salisbury Downs last night.

An accused murderer has admitted burgling a house where a Canberra woman was found dead 24 years ago, but denies he was involved in her killing.

The double-amputee Olympic runner may have been wrongly denied early release from prison because of an error over when he began serving his sentence.

Paul Grapsas' family was alerted that something was wrong when the dog arrived home and he didn't.

The judge ruled the boy was too young to be held criminally responsible for his role in the killing of teenager Declan Cutler.

A simple metal screen has been installed to prevent copycat escape bids, but drones and hi-tech detection devices are also on the cards.

A man accused of killing nearly two dozen women and who was convicted last year in the slayings of two has been killed by his cellmate in prison.

Police in a quiet community outside Chicago who are investigating the shooting deaths of a family of four, including two children, in their home say it wasn't a random incident.

The man has been accused of attacking family members during a house fire.

The victim was a woman in her 20s or 30s and weighed approximately 32 kilograms, police said after discovering the body in the trunk of a car.

A British neonatal nurse who was found guilty of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others has launched a bid to appeal her convictions, officials said on Friday.

The boyfriend of a Melbourne mum found with horrific and fatal stab injuries in her city apartment has been found guilty of her murder.

The former teacher and convicted killer will spend at least another year in jail for unlawful sex with an underage student.

After the Pennsylvania prison escapee Danilo Cavalcante was handcuffed Wednesday morning, but before he was placed into the back of an armoured van, several dozen heavily armed officers gathered around him in an arc.

State police announced Cavalcante's capture on social media on Wednesday and planned a news conference announcing details.

The 26-year-old was found dead from horrific stab injuries in the bedroom of her South Melbourne apartment on May 4, 2020.

The convicted killer who escaped from an eastern Pennsylvania prison nearly two weeks ago is considered "armed and extremely dangerous".

A man's body was discovered several days after he was allegedly fatally assaulted.

Authorities searched Monday for escaped murderer Danelo Souza Cavalcante who has eluded capture since breaking out of a southeastern Pennsylvania prison a week and a half ago after he apparently slipped through a search perimeter, changed his appearance, stole a dairy delivery van and contacted acquaintances.

Ken Fitzpatrick, 69, was found suffering serious head injuries.

A slave who wanted to scare off his dominatrix's boyfriend but snapped and committed bloody murder will spend at least 15 years behind bars.

Kobie Parfitt was fatally bashed in her Melbourne home before she was dumped down a mine shaft.

Circuit Judge Chadwick Wise said the crime was “ghastly, disturbing, and draped in unmitigated evil".

Robert Atkins was allegedly kidnapped by a gang of criminals and held under 'physical and coercive control' in 2020.

A US woman sentenced to life in prison for the murders of her two youngest children and a woman she saw as a romantic rival says she will appeal her conviction.

He was initially was sentenced to die in the electric chair for shooting Henry and Audrey Kellie, along with their son, David, and three of their grandchildren in 1975.