Murder news headlines

British police said on Friday that they have arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of killing two sisters and their mother in a crossbow attack.

Members of a church group accused of killing an eight-year-old girl were singing on the front lawn of a house where police were photographing her body, a judge has heard.

Rachel Galleghan says her son helped Kayla Dawson turn her life around. "Jason trusted her."

It's believed the killer could be linked a 30-year-old woman also found dead in the hotel room beside the couple.

A judge has been urged to reject the lies of a handyman convicted over the savage killing of an elderly woman.

Aaliyah Jack, 25, was arrested earlier this week in Mississippi on a Louisiana charge of failure to report a missing child.

Police will allege the boy was involved in an altercation with a 19-year-old man outside a home on May 17.

An eight-year-old girl watched "joyously" as her father was baptised into a faith that would soon convince him to fatally withhold medical care and await her resurrection, a judge has heard.

Locals residing on a quiet leafy cul-de-sac near London are in mourning after three women were killed in a callous crossbow attack.

Alexi Saenz pleaded guilty in a racketeering case involving eight murders in the US.

Fourteen religious group members charged with murder or manslaughter over a girl's death believed God would heal her diabetes without insulin, a judge heard.

A man accused of murdering a much-loved English teacher before her body was found at a tip in Melbourne's north has faced court.

A 30-year-old was found with a stab wound on Wodonga Place, Albury, on Monday evening.

Nunia Kurualeba, 21, was found dead with stab wounds to her chest in Kingswood.

Steve Fishman was hitchhiking in Connecticut in 1975 when he accepted a ride from a chatty lone man in a Buick. A few months later, the man confessed to a series of rapes and murders.

A psychiatric nurse who also runs an animal boarding business was marched from the home in a nightgown.

Staff made the discovery when moving green waste at the facility in Epping on Cooper Street on Wednesday.

Stephen Greenfield, whose ex-girlfriend said he came home one night saying "I killed someone", has been acquitted of murdering homeless man Reginald Mullaly. 

Chelsea Ireland and her boyfriend Lukasz Klosowski were just 19 years old when they were shot dead by Klowoski's own father at his property in South Australia.

Five of the bodies had gunshot wounds and all were wearing dark clothing and tactical vests containing ammunition, authorities said.

The court heard the murderer and her victim had been dating the same man and the case stayed cold for 40 years.

A man who confessed to killing his parents and two of their friends and wounding three people in a highway shooting pleaded guilty to murder and other charges and a judge sentenced him to the maximum term of life in prison.

Police are investigating why their response to the call took almost an hour.

A 51-year-old north Queensland man has been charged with an alleged domestic violence murder yesterday.

The three-hour police interview with former Jetstar pilot and convicted murderer Greg Lynn has been released by the Supreme Court.

Twelve-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was walking to a convenience store in Houston, Texas, when she disappeared, police say; she was found dead in a creek earlier this month.

A man who kidnapped and buried his ex-girlfriend alive in South Australia's Flinders Ranges has had his minimum sentence increased to 28 years and six months.

Those are the words Jayden Bowden says ran through his head as he fatally knifed rapper Mak Muon in a dark western Sydney park in 2020.

A former University of Arizona graduate student has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally shooting a hydrology professor on campus months after he was expelled.

Deliberations continue in the murder trial of Greg Lynn after the jury returned to court with questions about verdicts over the deaths of two Victorian campers.

The victim, aged just three, now fears for her life as the community rallies around the terrified family.

Robert, 64, and Anna Geeves, 63, were arrested and charged with murder in 2022 after a cold case reward over the death of Amber Haigh was increased to $1 million.

Nearly three decades after two young women were found with their throats slashed in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park, federal authorities announced that they have identified a now-deceased serial rapist from Ohio as the person they believe was responsible for the killings.

9News can today reveal a man has been arrested in connection to the alleged murders of Jake and Callum Robinson.

Charlise's body was found by police in a barrel by the Blue Mountains' Colo River on January 18, 2022.

Beaumont Lamarre-Condon will have to wait to deliver his pleas as prosecutors seek more time to finalise their case against him.

Twelve jurors will officially begin deliberating today on whether Greg Lynn is guilty of the double murder of campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay.

A man has been charged with murder after another man was fatally injured in Melbourne's north-east.

Officer allege the group all knew each other.

The fate of airline pilot Greg Lynn is in the hands of 12 jurors, who will soon decide whether he is guilty of the murders of campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay.

Jurors will only need to decide whether the former airline pilot is guilty of murder.

Police arrested a 19-year-old man and a 22-year-old man from Caboolture yesterday after launching a homicide investigation.

The ex-lover was attacked in his own home with a baseball bat and tennis racquet.

Lynn is on trial charged with two counts of murder over the deaths of campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay in Victoria's alpine region in March 2020.

The FBI has released a collection of documents from their investigation of Petito's death in 2021.

Two 12-year-old boys have been found guilty of killing a man in a machete attack in the United Kingdom last November.

The planning document describes every stop of the process that the suspect used on his victims.

Police confirmed 26-year-old Lachlan Morganti has been charged for allegedly stealing $60,000 of the funds raised.