Stephen Hill, the porn actor who used a prop machete to kill a coworker, once played President Obama in a film called Palin: Erection '08. Can't wait to see what kind of conspiracy theories Glenn Beck can draw from this.

ABC News is reporting that Joran van der Sloot—once a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, who went missing while vacationing in Aruba—is wanted for questioning in the murder of a 21-year-old Lima woman.

MMA fighter Jarrod Wyatt has been charged with the most violent murder of the year after allegedly cutting an 18-inch hole in sparring partner Taylor Powell's chest, tearing his heart and tongue out, and ripping his face off while shrooming.

Major Nidal Hassan will make his first appearance in a Fort Hood military court today for an Article 32 hearing, which is similar to a grand jury proceeding. He could receive the death penalty for killing 13 soldiers. [AP, pic]

Alabama preacher Anthony Hopkins murdered his wife in 2004, then stored her body in a basement freezer until police arrested him in 2008. He was sentenced today to life in prison plus 51 years. [AL.com]

China has given the world many great trends, like Super-Long Walls and Mixing Things With Noodles. But this whole "Attack a School With Knives For No Apparent Reason" trend is...not your best work, China. Nevertheless, it grows ever more popular.

Juan-Carlos Cruz, report CNN, used to host Calorie Commando on the Food Network. He's now "accused of plotting to hire homeless people to carry out a murder," according to police in California.

23-year-old Pakistani Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the only surviving gunman from the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack, was today sentenced to death by hanging on charges of murder and waging war against India. [Guardian, pic]

Erik Prince, the former head of mercenary outfit Blackwater USA, stopped by his hometown in Michigan to give a speech yesterday. He said the real threat to American values is not Al Qaeda or the Taliban, it's the US government!

Natavia Lowery, the 28-year-old woman convicted of killing her boss, former Ramones manager and celebrity real estate agent Linda Stein, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Stein was bludgeoned to death in 2007. Lowery, Stein's assistant, later confessed.

Edwin Valero was one of the most promising boxers on the planet, and a national hero in Venezuela. But last weekend he killed his wife. And this morning he killed himself.

Rather than give out a specific interesting/funny/whatever comment of the day award, we'll just redirect you to John Cook's look at the video of two Reuters journalists being shot in Iraq. Interesting conversation has already begun. Or...

Not content with hiding eggs but once a year, the Easter Bunny has moved on... to murder.

TVNewser reports that, according to documents filed in a Florida court today, ABC News paid $200,000 to the family of accused toddler-killer Casey Anthony in exchange for photos of the toddler she allegedly murdered.

A janitor at Ohio State University was told that he'd be getting laid off. This morning, he shot two of his supervisors, killing one. Then he killed himself. Since no students were hurt, this incident will be quickly forgotten. [LAT]

A Saudi prince is on trial in London for strangling his manservent.

Last summer, the Washington Post delved into the murder of Robert Wone, an ambitious D.C. lawyer who was allegedly killed by three well-to-do gay friends in a polyamourous sadomasochistic relationship. Something called the "EROSTEK ET302R electrical shockwave generator" was involved.

Amy Bishop, the biology professor who shot six of her colleagues, killing three of them, is a paranoid, angry woman who hates kids and was obsessed with a researcher who ended up in a dead-end job. (She also played D&D.)

Murdering someone and then using her phone to send text messages to her family saying she is tied up in a basement somewhere in an attempt to throw investigators off track: something that we sincerely hope does not become a trend. [NYP]

A man was murdered by a rapper—from Sweden! Insert coded racist statement here.