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Mistrial Declared in 1986 Norwalk Child Killing After Claim of Used Body Bag

Prosecutors began a review of the claim with state forensic agencies to decide how to proceed.

Florida Seeks to Lift Stay After Inconclusive DNA Test in James Duckett Case

Raymond Reddington Found Guilty of Murdering Wife Sharon Fulton 40 Years After Disappearance

Florida Arrests Oscar Fowler on State Charges After Biden Commutation

Spain’s Supreme Court Upholds 14-Year Sentence in Juana Canal Homicide

Miami-Dade Jury Resentences Harrel Braddy to Life in 1998 Everglades Murder

Texas Executes Charles Victor Thompson in First U.S. Execution of 2026

Man Acquitted in 1984 Candace Derksen Case Charged in Vancouver Sex Assault

CCRC Orders Fresh DNA Testing in 1996 Russell Murders Case

France’s Top Court Rules 1986 Bonfanti Murder Time-Barred, Shaping Cold-Case Prosecutions

Cecere Gets 24 Years for 1996 Murder of Nada Cella as Genoa Court Delivers First-Instance Verdict

Hamilton County Prosecutor Dismisses Elwood Jones Murder Case With Prejudice

Hearing Closes in Tommy Zeigler Case as Judge Weighs New DNA and Blood Evidence

Supreme Court Declines Bid To Expedite Swami Shraddhanand Mercy Plea

Ontario Court Quashes Timothy Rees’s 1990 Murder Conviction, Orders New Trial

Barry George Appears by Videolink at Old Bailey on 1987 Child Sex Charges as Plea Hearing Set for February

Manhattan DA to Retry Pedro Hernandez in Etan Patz Case

Regina Jury Convicts Man of Second-Degree Murder in 2006 Killing of Misha Pavelick

Carrascosa Seeks Reparations for Wrongful Conviction, Files Inter-American Claim and Moves to Sue Buenos Aires Province

Jerome Kowalski Enters No-Contest Plea in 2008 Double Murder Case