A man accused of initiating the bashing of 16-year-old Jason Galleghan was a "father figure" to the group of teens he allegedly told to finish Jason off.
A Queensland man accused of murdering his wife on their family farm has had his matter heard in court for the first time, as a major investigation into the death ramps up.
A jury had found her guilty of the seven murders between 2015 and 2016 at the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwestern England.
In a few months Mark Ray Haydon will have served his full sentence for covering up what has been labelled Australia's worst serial killings, known as the "bodies in the barrels" murders.
A man has been arrested hours after he claimed responsibility for starting a building fire in South Africa last year that killed 76 people while trying to get rid of the body of someone he had killed.
A man wanted in connection with the 1991 killing of his wife was extradited earlier this month from Costa Rica, putting an end to more than three decades on the run.
Attorneys for a US woman who has spent more than four decades in prison for a murder her supporters believe she did not commit argued at a hearing this week that the evidence points to a police officer who was investigated for burglaries and later went to prison.
A 26-year-old man and a 20-year-old man have been arrested today in relation to the alleged murder plot, while police say two more men are expected to be arrested and charged.
Pink butterfly fingernails found next to the blood-soaked body of a woman stabbed to death is key evidence prosecutors hope to use to convict a child of murder.