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Police are investigating a homicide after a mother discovered the body of a young woman wrapped in plastic in her son's bedroom following a gas smell in South Los Angeles

Cecily Aguilar was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Monday after she was found guilty of horrifically dismembering US Army soldier Vanessa Guillén with her boyfriend in 2020

Deja Taylor pleaded guilty to a charge of felony child neglect after her son, six, shot his teacher Abby Zwerner at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia

Nichole Maks, 35, was arrested for allegedly killing her 79-year-old roommate, Michael Cerasoli at the home they shared in Daytona Beach, Florida, and then trying to tamper with evidence

Neighbours heard a woman screaming for help on Monday morning, and as one rushed to her aid, he found a three starving children with one boy, aged 9, unresponsive on the floor. He later died at the hospital

Zarrius and Saria Hildabrand met in basic training last summer, marrying six months later in December 2022 with Saria moving from Utah to Alaska earlier this year to be with her new husband

Christian Peev was found in pieces in a sewer after he was allegedly murdered by Vesco Valchinov and his body parts flushed down an apartment's toilet in Sofia, Bulgaria

Requests for statistics from Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies resulted in personal data of crime victims being accidentally released, with 1,230 people affected

New police chairman Donna Jones has called on parents to take action following reports of a new social media trend which encourages teens to overdose on paracetamol

Kacey Williamson was walking the 15-minute journey from her home to her mum's with Bambi in Leeds, West Yorks, on Wednesday at around 11.15pm when she was targeted

Figures published today by charity the NSPCC show there were over 6,300 cases of sexual communication with a child recorded last year alone - up 82% in five years

The pair is indicted on four counts, encompassing sexual exploitation of minors and the role they played in the death of Jordan DeMay, a 17-year-old athlete from Michigan who took his own life in March 2022

It's currently unknown whether the violent lads were British or Irish tourists and cops are yet to make any arrests in connection with the brutal brawl on the Punta Ballena strip in Magaluf on Sunday

A Maryland man led Virginia police on a chaotic chase involving a stolen truck and ambulance, causing multiple crashes on major highways, before being apprehended in Washington DC

In a disturbing letter released by the Mobile County Sheriff's Office, defrocked priest Alexander Crow said he is 'not leaving the priesthood' or returning with the teen girl

Six former white Mississippi law officers pleaded guilty to state charges for racially motivated torture of two Black men, using excessive force, racial slurs, and planting evidence

Gary Watson Shearer, 53, had only been on the Canary Island of Lanzarote for a few hours when he vanished without a trace while there to celebrate St Patrick's Day

Former Family Feud contestant Timothy Bliefnick, who had mocked his marriage on TV, has been sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of his wife

Bar owners in the devastated town of Lāhainā in Hawaii claim looters have been pillaging the village in the night without the oversight of authorities, stealing people's possessions and robbing them at gunpoint

Michael Hillier and his girlfriend Rachel Fulstow both deny murder. Electrician Liam Smith was shot and had acid thrown over him as he lay dying in November last year

Karima Nour's severed head was found in the Grand Union Canal in London last week - today is the first time we can report that Arizo Nour is related to the 57-year-old victim after reporting restrictions were lifted

A woman was seen being pulled into a car by a man in the front passenger seat on a street in Oldham on Sunday night before it sped off, Greater Manchester Police said

The Met Police are urgently appealing for eyewitnesses after two men were attacked by a knifeman in Clapham, south London on the weekend - detectives are treating the attack as homophobic

Erin Patterson, 48, says she wants to 'clear up the record' after three people dropped dead following a meal she served at her home - she says she hasn't been completely honest

People living on an estate in north Manchester are "fearful and scared to go out" due to drug gangs and violence with a local councillor saying it is a matter of time before someone is killed