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DNA recovered from a chain at the site of an Occupy Wall Street protest in March has been matched with DNA linked to the unsolved killing of a Juilliard student in 2004, law enforcement officials familiar with the case said on Tuesday.

Police are searching for the newlywed husband of a woman found fatally stabbed just hours after getting married. Estrella Carrera's body was found in a bathtub in the silver sequin cocktail dress she wore at her wedding reception and possibly at the wedding itself, police said Tuesday.

A man wanted by the FBI for killing a mother and daughter and kidnapping two other girls shot himself to death as officers closed in, but the two children were rescued without injuries and released from a hospital Friday....

The British businessman whose murder has sparked political upheaval in China was poisoned after he threatened to expose a plan by a Chinese leader's wife to move money abroad, two sources with knowledge of the police investigation said.

Forty five days after Florida cops refused to arrest George Zimmerman for killing an unarmed black teenager —sparking a national civil rights crusade —officials charged him Wednesday with second degree murder in Trayvon Martin’s death.

Police say they are investigating the shooting deaths of a mother and her three children at a remote Missouri campground as a possible triple murder-suicide.

A teenage mother and her young daughter, snatched off a Cleveland street, were found shot to death in a garage early Sunday, Cleveland, Ohio, police said.

A central Florida teen is facing first-degree murder charges after authorities say he stabbed his grandmother nearly 100 times, hit her in the face with a wrench and shot her in the back of the head with a crossbow arrow.

As a small town comes to grips with a 32-year-old murder, the talk isn't just about a borough councilman being held without bond in a local jail. The long-forgotten murder of 23-year-old Catherine Walsh has also brought back memories of a man who may have been unjustly accused, as residents ponder the difference between reputation and true character.

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.