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A grandmother who was supposed to take her two grandsons from daycare to their birthday party at home instead killed the boys and herself, Connecticut state police said. All three bodies were found in a car Tuesday evening, two hours after an Amber Alert went out for the 2-year-old and 6-month-old. Police have classified the case as a double murder-suicide and said all three had apparent gunshot wounds, according to state police.

A woman who is accused of killing her two small children before shooting and wounding herself at their home in west Harris County earlier this month has died at the hospital, officials said.

A Louisiana man is accused of decapitating and dismembering his disabled 7-year-old son and leaving the boy's head near the street so the child's mother would see it - a killing that brought seasoned police officers to tears, authorities said Monday....

The answers are starting to emerge. It is hard to imagine their being any more heartbreaking.

Prosecutors displayed photos from the woods where Caylee Anthony’s body was dumped, which prompted Casey, her mother, to get sick and leave court early.

After an entire day of testimony surrounding decomposition and collection of air samples, more arguments on forensic evidence is expected in today's first-degree murder case against accused child ...

A judge rebuffed prosecutors' attempts to allow instant messages to be introduced as evidence that they say go toward her motive.

A 10-year-old boy escaped through the window of a minivan and swam to shore to get help just as his mother drove the van into New York's Hudson River, killing herself and three other children, police said Wednesday....

An American woman admitted to a court on Monday that she stabbed her three children to death in their Edinburgh home last year. California-born Theresa Riggi, 47, pled guilty to a charge of culpable homicide on the grounds of diminished ...

Colorado law enforcement officials announced Wednesday that a 12-year-old Burlington boy has been taken in custody in connection with the deaths of his parents and the critical wounding of two siblings.