It was the end of September 1996, a Saturday night in a fishing area just outside of Bozeman, Montana — a place of tranquility until this night. A few miles up a rural highway, near the small town of Belgrade, searchers discovered the body of 15-year-old Danielle “Danni” Houchins. Peter …
The execution of Marcellus Williams is set to proceed as scheduled Tuesday after the Missouri Supreme Court and the state’s governor both rejected pleas to halt the procedure. An attorney for Williams argued Monday that the state Supreme Court should halt the lethal injection because a trial attorney prevented a …
A woman whose murder conviction was overturned after she served 43 years of a life sentence was released Friday, despite attempts in the last month by Missouri’s attorney general to keep her behind bars. Sandra Hemme, 64, left a prison in Chillicothe, hours after a judge threatened to hold the …
Sergeant Brandon Hauptman of the Hays Police Department vividly remembers the dark, cold Halloween morning as he arrived at Kristen Trickle‘s home. And he remembers the moment he found the 26-year-old near death in bed. Sgt. Brandon Hauptman: I could see the firearm. … From what I could tell initially, …
