Bernie Tiede, a Texas mortician sentenced to life for his 1996 murder of a wealthy widow, was the inspiration for the 2012 film Bernie. On Tuesday, a judge freed Tiede on bond, and it now appears he's going to move in with director Richard Linklater, who turned his story into a dark comedy.

Seattle author Charles R. Cross, one of the foremost experts on Kurt Cobain, claims that Cobain didn't write the note found in his wallet that called Courtney Love a "siphon" and a "bitch with zits." He claims that Love wrote the note herself, saying, "The handwriting is absolutely Courtney's."

The Italian court that reconvicted Amanda Knox this year issued a report today outlining a new theory in the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher.

A Kansas man facing first-degree murder charges is trying to convince the government to let him do something about his giant "MURDER" neck tattoo before the trial begins.

The Utah woman who had seven dead babies stashed away in her garage has admitted to killing them all by either suffocation or strangulation immediately after giving birth. She is being held on $6 million bail.

Police made a gruesome discovery Sunday when they discovered the remains of seven babies hidden in cardboard boxes in a Utah woman's garage.

In 2009, Nancy Lekon ran over and killed a pedestrian while driving her limo in downtown L.A.'s Skid Row. (Everyone in L.A. drives a limo, right?) She claims that it was all because she was in the area for a little rendezvous with her then-boyfriend, Johnny Depp. Gosh, I sure hope those two lovebirds had an amicable break-up, because he will now have to take the stand at her trial!

No one contests that just over a year ago South African Olympic track star Oscar Pistorius fired four shots at a bathroom door and killed his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp. The only question left is whether or not Pistorius meant to do it.

Yesterday, Huffington Post published this infographic depicting "The Deadly Aftermath Of War Right Here At Home." It got hot on Digg's front page. It might give you the impression that war veterans are killing Americans out of all proportion to the rest of the population. You'd be wrong.

A 9-month-old Pakistani baby accused of raiding a state-run gas company and plotting to murder police has gone into hiding following his first court appearance last week.

Vybz Kartel, perhaps best known in the U.S. for his vocals on Major Lazer's "Pon De Floor," has been sentenced to life in jail, reports BBC Radio 1. Earlier this month, he and three associates were found guilty of murdering a man named Clive "Lizard" Williams, who was killed after a dispute with the men over illegal handguns.

Today, a Montana federal court sentenced 22-year-old Jordan Graham to thirty years in prison for, well, there's really no delicate way of putting this: Shoving her husband of approximately eight days, 25-year-old Cody Johnson, off a cliff in Glacier National Park.

Nelson Mandela's honorary granddaughter Naomi Campbell is sometimes charming and disarmingly even-keeled in interviews. She has seemingly renounced her cell-phone throwing ways via anger management, and discussing said anger management sometimes makes her cry. She is a changed woman...until she isn't and/or has a reality show to make interesting. Witness The Face.

[Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius, on trial for killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, reportedly cried and vomited into a bucket today during a pathologist's graphic testimony about Steenkamp's death. Pistorius claims he shot Steenkamp thinking she was an intruder. Image by Siphiwe Sibeko via AP.]

Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen reportedly shot one of their own men to death, accusing him of collaborating with American spies, and strung his body up under a soccer goalpost near a site where a U.S. drone attack reportedly killed five local residents late last year.

In 2004, the state of Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham for the crime of setting fire to his own house, killing his three children. Today, evidence is stronger than ever that his conviction was a miscarriage of justice.

First a parrot rats out its owner for a DUI and now this: Last week, a talking parrot helped police solve the mysterious murder of its owner.

Gary Melius, owner of Oheka castle on Long Island, was shot in the head by a masked gunman this afternoon when he was in the parking lot of his estate. Melius has been reported as "alert and conscious," but the gunman is still at large.

This week Michael Skakel, a Kennedy cousin on trial for murdering his neighbor, convinced a judge to relocate his court-ordered GPS ankle bracelet because the bulky tracking device wouldn't fit inside his ski boots.

After serving almost 22 years in prison for a triple murder they did not commit, two Brooklyn men, Antonio Yarbough and Sharrif Wilson, were released this week after exonerating DNA evidence was found.