As new details emerged about an unusual abduction case Dan Markel had worked on before his murder, police on Monday released 911 call logs suggesting the prominent law professor and blogger was still moving after he was shot in his car by an unknown assailant and found by a neighbor.

A 16-year-old student in Nagasaki was arrested by police after the dismembered body of her classmate was discovered in her apartment. The student allegedly confessed to police that she sawed off 15-year-old Aiwa Matsuo's head and hand after beating her with a hammer and strangling her with rope. Police are currently investigating a possible connection between Matsuo's murder and a series of incriminating posts on popular Japanese forum 2Channel.

Anthony Novellino, a 67-year-old New Jersey man, was convicted for murder this week after stabbing his wife 84 times with an 8-inch kitchen knife and dressing her body up in a pig mask in 2010.

Police say a Brooklyn woman was brutally dismembered and had her body parts strewn across a 40-mile stretch of Long Island, all because she reportedly refused to pay her fake landlord $200 for unreliable utilities.

A cop in Jersey City, N.J. was shot while still in his police vehicle early Sunday morning as he responded to a robbery call at a local Walgreens. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop released a statement this morning that confirmed the death of officer Melvin Santiago.

Pakistani police say that five relatives of a pregnant woman stoned to death for marrying against the family's wishes have been indicted in the case in Lahore. All five men have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and torture.

Search warrants show that Leanna Harris, mother of a 22-month-old boy who died after his father left him alone in a car for seven hours, admitted to researching children dying in hot cars before her son's death. Justin Ross Harris, the father, also allegedly looked into the phenomenon.

A Georgia father who was charged with murder after leaving his son strapped into his carseat for seven hours reportedly searched online to find out how long it would take an animal to die if it were trapped in a hot car, WREG in Memphis reports.

A mother who blogged about her 5-year-old son's chronic illness is accused of murdering the child with a fatal dose of sodium, delivered while he was in the hospital.

On Saturday, Jason Moore walked into Fifth Quarter Sports Bar and Pizzeria in East Peoria, Ill., pulled out a gun, and shot his ex-wife and her new boyfriend in the head. Lori Moore and Lance Griffel (above) were there for Moore's 15-year high school reunion, and at least 100 fellow attendees witnessed the killings.

A California man charged with burglary went free after a deadlocked jury signed a not-guilty form by mistake. Just hours later, he was stabbed to death.

Police in Tennessee have arrested 37-year-old Gregory Scott Hale after he confessed to having murdered, dismembered, and consumed part of a woman he had met a day earlier. He committed the murder, he told investigators, in his parent's house, where he lives. Police have identified the woman as Lisa Marie Hyder.

Witnesses to the mass shooting that killed two Las Vegas police officers and a Walmart shopper Sunday say the murderers shouted: "This is the start of a revolution." We now know what kind of revolution they had in mind, Gadsden flag and all.

Yesterday in rural Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls allegedly stabbed a friend of theirs 19 times and left her to die in a forest. The girl survived, but the reason for her attack remains puzzling. Her accused attackers apparently told police that she was meant to be a sacrifice to a mythical creature popular in the genre of internet-based horror fiction known as "creepypasta"—a character called "The Slender Man."

Police are saying that three cousins in the Uttar Pradesh state of Northern India have confessed to the gruesome rape and murder of two teenage girls who were found hanging from a tree in their town of Katra. Their crimes, if they are found guilty, are punishable by the death penalty.

A Virginia tenth grader says he attacked and killed his parents because they were acting too parental, "taking away [his] iPod and stuff."

The latest theory about what prompted UCSB shooter Elliot Rodger to snap and murder people: his "addiction" to the weightlifting supplement creatine. This can be properly understood as "complete fiction." (Update: and as complete trolling.)

The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius will be suspended for at least a month so that the former Olympian can be assessed by a team of psychiatrists.

Sefer Calinak, when he appeared on a Turkish dating show called Luck of the Draw, revealed to the host that he had murdered both his former wife and former lover. He had served a prison sentence for both murders and was released under an amnesty program.

Hillsborough County Deputies say that Darrin Campbell, a "high-profile business executive," shot his wife and two teenage children before burning down his Tampa, Fla. mansion this week with over $650 of purchased fireworks. When the house was set ablaze, he reportedly then shot himself.