A Tennessee couple is pleading not guilty to murder charges after, police say, they forced their daughter to "to drink about 2.4 liters of fluid, including several 12-ounce cans of grape soda, in a span of one to two hours," causing her to die.

At risk of being somewhat reductionist, here is a bit of advice: Russians love poetry. Fuck with that at your own risk. If, for example, you tell a learned Russian that "the only real literature is prose," don't be surprised when he shivs you in the face.

Friends say that a woman who was recently beaten to death outside of a Southern California nightclub was attacked because she accidentally walked in front of the camera as a group of revelers took photos nearby.

The co-owner of United Gun Shop in Rockville, Maryland, says 18-year-old Darion Aguilar—who purchased a 12-gauge shotgun at the store, then used it to kill two people and himself in a nearby shopping mall—"was an ideal customer."

Last weekend, a 28-year-old Queens man named Miguel Mejia-Ramos stabbed his wife and two daughters to death. On Friday, the NYPD revealed the mind-boggling reason why he took the lives of his kids, neither of which was older than two.

The bank accounts of Menachem Stark, a real estate developer recently found burned and dead in a Long Island dumpster, are missing $1.7 million, according to a court-ordered review.

Maryland resident Zakieya L. Avery has been accused of stabbing her two young children to death and injuring two others while attempting to perform an exorcism on them on Friday.

Last month (as we did last year), we sent letters to all of the U.S. death row inmates who have execution dates in the upcoming year. Today, we have our first reply: Ray Jasper, who is scheduled to be put to death in Texas in March.

Teenage Floridian William Aydelott was arrested last night after his mother was found dead, with a knife sticking out of her eye. The Northwest Florida Daily News says he fessed up to the killing, "calm and emotionless," as soon as police took him in.

A newlywed couple in Pennsylvania placed a craigslist ad, lured a man to their house, and killed him for the thrill of it.

An East St. Louis woman who was found stabbed to death in her apartment Saturday night had posted a Facebook status update prior to her murder warning her friends that she might die.

A high school football player in Connecticut stabbed his older lover to death Thursday night, after trying to end their two-year relationship.

A weird relic rested on the bookcase in my family's last home in New Orleans: a wooden pipe that had belonged to Jim Garrison, the Orleans Parish district attorney who tried and failed to convict a local businessman named Clay Shaw for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The pipe still smelled of the tobacco its owner had packed and lit before setting it down at a cocktail party. Garrison—that's him on the right—had left the party and forgotten his pipe. And because he was still a hero to some, and especially to my mom, she took Garrison's pipe home as a souvenir.

Google Maps is no stranger to being accused of accidentally capturing grisly murder scenes, but one California father says this time Google really did stumble upon the body of an actual murder victim: His son.

Humanity, we've done it. Sick of killing thousand-year-old trees and poisoning ancient reefs, we've gone ahead and found the oldest creature we could find and killed it. For science.

An Alabama teenager will be tried as an adult after he allegedly stabbed his mother to death and left his father paralyzed with a punctured lung.

A Nebraska man who stabbed his wife's lover to death on Valentine's Day has been acquitted of all charges, and may reconcile with his wife, who is currently dating another man.

A Utah doctor who drugged his wife and drowned her in a bathtub — and almost got away with it — was convicted early this morning, ending a six-year investigation that involved mistresses, drugs, and jailhouse snitches.

The bodies of a family missing since Saturday morning have been found in an abandoned home outside of Jackson, Mississippi. Police have arrested Timothy Lydell Burns, 42, on charges of murder and arson.

Police have released more information about the tragic murder of Danvers High School math teacher Colleen Ritzer: According to several witnesses, Ritzer caught Philip Chism, the 14-year-old student accused of murdering her, drawing in her class and asked him to stay after school.