An arsonist granddaughter in Jefferson County, Wisconsin is facing a possible life sentence after she mercilessly smothered her ailing grandmother by wrapping flower-colored duct tape to her nose and mouth and later set the corpse on fire to end her misery last week.

A South Jersey serial killer accused of brutally murdering four people in a cross-country wave of senseless violence was seized by law enforcement on Tuesday on murder and tampering with evidence charges concerning the death of his fifth alleged victim.

A Scottish serial rapist has been slapped with 15 years behind bars on Friday following futile attempts to evade justice by fleeing Scotland and faking his own death at one of California's most treacherous beaches.

Canadian Tristan Alexandre Perrier, 68, has pleaded guilty to producing, possessing, and distributing millions of files of child pornography. He has been sentenced to more than five years behind bars.

The detectives amassed an undisclosed amount that sufficed to sponsor a family trip to the amusement park, and JetBlue reportedly agreed to contribute the plane tickets. 

A convicted repeat sex offender in New Zealand has been hit with a 13 and a half months jail sentence on Tuesday over a history of sex crimes since 1997, recently targeting an 8-year-old boy in a public toilet, the Dunedin District Court bared.

A porn actor and producer for a now-defunct porn website in California was slapped with 20 years in federal prison on Monday after he coerced young women into appearing in lewd videos.

A Midland, Texas man is facing a possible death sentence following his arrest on Sunday after he deliberately ran over his pregnant spouse following a heated argument in March this year, killing their unborn child from the incident.

A man is now being hunted by police after robbing money from a female sex worker at a hotel in Yokohama City on Sunday. He reportedly tied her limbs, covered her with a futon, and placed a table on top of her.

A mother in Germany may be jailed for life after she allegedly drugged five of her six children before smothering and drowning them to death one by one in a tub, as she threw a fit after finding out that her third husband has found another lover.

A "witch cult" leader has been sentenced to death after hacking his Tinder date dead and chopping the victim's limbs into 14 pieces before dumping them in 2017, the Saline County Courthouse bared on Wednesday, making the criminal the 12th death row inmate in Nebraska.

A 9-year-old boy is recovering in a hospital after he was accidentally shot late Friday by a family member after what may have been the end of a road rage incident.

A woman who murdered and dismembered her friend with a circular saw after being rejected for a sexual relationship will be imprisoned for a minimum of 23 and a half years. The dismembered body of the victim was found in a suitcase as the suspect tried to burn the remains at the Forest of Dean.

Investigators retrieved 3,787 bone fragments belonging to at least 17 victims inside the home of a suspected serial killer known as "El Chino," in the Mexican municipality of Atizapán de Zaragoza, on Saturday.

Mom had gone drinking with friends leaving her 11-month-old son and 3-year-old daughter at home, who were left without gruel for four days.

An apparent case of mistaken identity turned deadly Tuesday night, as a Virginia man fatally shot his best friend after believing he was an intruder, authorities said.

Muhammad Rauf Ahmed, 45, of Las Vegas, has been charged Wednesday after allegedly stealing 528 blank vaccination cards and intending to sell them. He is charged with one felony count of grand theft. The San Diego District Attorney's Office warns that those who sell these cards could face criminal prosecution.

An employee of a Manhattan bodega was brutally mugged late Friday by two assailants that proceeded to take off with a full case of beer, CCTV footage confirmed.

The men also filmed the entire act on a mobile phone and circulated it, in an attempt to humiliate the boy and spread the word of the ghastly attack.

A manic thief in Alabama accused of swiping a vehicle from the Prichard Fire Department has bizarrely boasted about his crimes, allegedly through God's grace, in front of TV news cameras during his perp walk on Wednesday.

A Brazilian wife was arrested by local police after she allegedly murdered her husband "in self-defense" before hacking his penis off and frying it in a pan in the Brazilian city of Sao Goncalo on June 7.

The bullets missed his intended target, striking the young child just as she was leaving her mother's car.

The 24-year-old told investigators that the ghastly accident occurred when the group was 'recording' themselves on their cell phones.

A Washington son has been slapped with murder charges after he allegedly used a staggering variety of weapons to savagely kill his mother and father, the latter being identified on Tuesday, following an argument late last month.

The homeowner claims squatters 'destroyed' the building by vandalising the walls and leaving human feces in one of the rooms. It's claimed they left food and litter "all over the place."

A Las Vegas man has been apprehended by law enforcement on Wednesday for allegedly drawing funds from his former partner's bank account to fund and maintain his lifestyle as a “sugar daddy,” promising to pay for other women’s bills.

A Texas mom was arrested for allegedly posing as her 13-year-old daughter for nearly a whole day of middle school.

Pedophile Allan Spratt who had sex with child after grooming with Disney film jailed after being caught with indecent images at Deal home.

A killer husband in Anaheim, California will serve at least 15 years behind bars for the grim murder of his wife, whose corpse he presented to their kids as they opened their Christmas presents in 2011, the court bared on Friday.

A 13-year-old girl, the youngest of two assailants of a botched carjacking on March 23, has pleaded guilty on Thursday to second-degree murder in the death of Uber Eats driver and Pakistani immigrant Mohammad Anwar.