Homicide

The investigation began Monday, when police conducting a welfare check found the body of a woman in the Connecticut home Venessa shared with her mother.

The hiker was walking with their dog when they found the remains at the bottom of a steep hill in a densely wooded area of Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California.

Ruth George, a kinesiology student, was found unresponsive in her car inside a University of Illinois at Chicago parking garage.

William Garcia, a 22-year-old corporal who served with Sanchez in Afghanistan, has been charged with manslaughter and is due to attend a hearing in December.

Cody Edmund Dixon, 34, is accused of killing his common law wife Alia Rae Hutchison, 22, and their 9-month-old daughter Aria Ella Dixon.

At least 15 children in St. Louis have been killed by guns in the last five months. The city is plagued with searingly high murder rates.

Jacob Bishop, 35, had recently returned home after a yearlong deployment in Poland with the Tennessee Army National Guard.

The victim was reportedly left with a crushed skull following the alleged assault at the Oxford Rehabilitation and Health Care Center.

Court documents said "religious motivation" may have been behind the alleged triple homicide Matthew Bernard of Keeling, Virginia, committed against his mother, sister and one-year-old nephew.

Nearly three decades after Denise Kulb's death, police say they've tied her murder to her boyfriend, Theodore Donahue, using enhanced photo technology to match a sock found at Donahue's home to one found on Kulb's body.

Twenty years after being declared "actually innocent" in the drive-by shooting of 19-year-old Karen Summers, Demarco Carpenter was charged with shooting with intent to kill an acquaintance in North Tulsa.

The autopsy of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein reportedly found a broken neck bone that can fracture during homicides by strangulation.

In 2014, Judge Robert E. Crowley sentenced Albert Flick to less than four years behind bars, insisting Flick "is going to age out of his capacity to engage in this conduct."

Staffers at Bryan Psychiatric Hospital sat on William Avant's arms and chest for at least four minutes. When they turned him over, he was blue in the face and had no pulse.

The Baton Rouge coroner's office has ruled that Sadie Roberts-Joseph death from suffocation was a homicide.

Authorities say one of the women returned home to find that her neighbor, 57-year-old Lourdes Estremera, had set up a grill in her parking spot. A fight broke out shortly after.

Chad Isaak, 44, of Washburn, was arrested yesterday at 7:45 p.m and is now facing four counts of AA Felony Murder.

"She was a good woman. A good mom," the victim's boyfriend, Christopher Rodriguez, told local media.

The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office ruled the death a homicide but withheld the cause of death.

"He went [to New Orleans] with his wife. It's not what everybody was thinking was going on."

Suspect Louis D. Coleman III was arrested on Interstate 95 in Delaware on Thursday evening.

Cops have provided the public with an updated age progression image based on their original 1975 sketch.

"It's unnerving and a little scary," one local business owner said after the gruesome discovery.

Impact felt of drastic increase in homicide between 2005 and 2015.

"Isn't it amazing what good investment can do for young people and their families?" said youth worker Kindra Montgomery-Block.

Homicide victims ranged in age from 9 months to 66 years old, Clackamas County Sheriff's Office said.

Johnathan Fair, aged 19, of Waukegan, is currently in custody at Lake County jail with bail at $5 million.

Army Spc. Torian Davis, 22, was booked on Wednesday for murder and aggravated assault charges.

Bronx resident Whalesca Castillo, who has previously served time for illegal but injections, was reportedly in the room where the victim suffered a heart attack.

Although the number of homicides this year may be high for London, which has a population of more than 8 million, it the homicide rate is still significantly lower than in many major U.S. cities.