Trial, Corrupt Policemen | featured news

Almost five years after the disappearance of his fourth wife, former Illinois police officer Drew Peterson will go on trial Tuesday for the murder of his third wife.

Jury selection is to begin Monday in Drew Peterson's long-delayed murder trial, where prosecutors want the former suburban Chicago police officer's wives - one he's charged with slaying and another who has disappeared - to effectively testify from their graves through friends and relatives about his threatening to kill them....

The murder trial of LAPD Det. Stephanie Lazarus is set to begin this week as jury selection gets underway in what is expected to be a monthlong trial. The body of Sherri Rasmussen was discovered beaten and bloodied 26 years ago on the floor of the Van Nuys town house she shared with her new husband. Three bullets fired at close range were lodged in the young woman's chest, and there was a human bite mark on her arm.