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The Crime Ledger: October 31, 2026

This edition gathers verdicts, sentences, charges and arrests from 23 countries, all reported since the evening of Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026. In Manchester, a jury convicts Simon Richardson of murdering Stretford Grammar School head teacher…

The Crime Ledger: October 30, 2026

This edition gathers verdicts, sentences, guilty pleas, trials, charges and arrests from 24 countries, all reported since the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026. In Melbourne, Victoria's Court of Appeal dismisses Erin Patterson's appeal and…

The Crime Ledger: October 29, 2026

Verdicts, sentences, guilty pleas, trials, charges and arrests from 41 countries reported since the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026. A 42-year-old man is charged in Monaco with involuntary manslaughter after Prince Albert II's cousin…

The Crime Ledger: October 28, 2026

Verdicts, sentences, appeal rulings, charges and arrests from 48 countries since the evening of Monday, Oct. 26, 2026. Two men are arrested 17 years after the CCTV-recorded killing of Mariano Bacioterracino in a Naples café.…

The Crime Ledger: October 23 to 27, 2026

A five-day catch-up edition: verdicts, sentences, appeal rulings, charges and arrests from 37 countries, Oct. 23 to 27, 2026. Gunmen kill nine mourners at a church funeral in Jordan's Karak Governorate, and three suspects are…

The Crime Ledger: October 22, 2026

Verdicts, sentences, appeal rulings, charges and arrests from 43 countries in one worldwide edition. A retired NYPD detective is charged with murder in the George Washington Bridge killing of Con Edison worker Koran Irvine. Jack…

The Crime Ledger: October 21, 2026

Verdicts, sentences, an execution, charges and arrests from 32 countries in one worldwide edition. Alabama's governor commutes Toforest Johnson's death sentence. Florida executes William Reaves. Kharkiv's appeal court upholds life for the Russian soldier "Altai."…

The Crime Ledger: October 19, 2026

A Kenyan judge has convicted Shakahola cult leader Paul Mackenzie and his co-accused of murdering 190 children and one adult, rejecting the claim that the victims chose to starve, with sentencing set for Nov. 6.…

The Crime Ledger: October 18, 2026

A Kolkata court sent seven people, including two office bearers of the organising committee, to police custody until Oct. 28 after a stampede at the Chorbagan Durga Puja pandal killed 19 people on Saturday evening.…

The Crime Ledger: October 17, 2026

A judge in Ensenada sentenced three men to 158 years each on Friday for killing Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Carter Rhoad on a 2024 surf trip in Baja California.…

The Crime Ledger: October 16, 2026

A 16-year-old former student shot his way through the locked doors of Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday and killed three children and a teacher before a bystander who chased him inside…

The Crime Ledger: October 15, 2026

Orlando police charged Dale Smith Jr. with murder in the 2011 disappearance of his ex-fiancée, Michelle Parker, and gardaí arrested a man and a woman over the Waterford arson that killed four members of the…

The Crime Ledger: October 14, 2026

Duane “Keffe D” Davis was sentenced to 40 years to life for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, and Luciano Frattolin got 25 years to life for drowning his 9-year-old daughter, Melina, in upstate New…

The Crime Ledger: October 13, 2026

Crime Ledger, Oct. 13, 2026: Waterford arson that killed four, Payton Gendron jury selection, Jette police shooting, Aubagne and 39 more cases.…

The Crime Ledger: October 12, 2026

Crime Ledger, Oct. 12, 2026: Simon Carman plea in Pattaya, Aubagne school shooting, Christchurch double murder, Mannix deaths and 37 more cases.…

The Crime Ledger: October 11, 2026

Crime Ledger, Oct. 11, 2026: Shane Seiber murder charge, Christa Pike back in prison, Tusk plot arrest, Daphne juror leak and 41 more cases.…

Daily Crime Ledger: Saturday, October 10, 2026

Daily Crime Ledger: Saturday, October 10, 2026 Today’s Ledger covers 65 cases from 30 countries, from verdicts and sentences to charges and arrests. Anyone charged but not convicted is presumed innocent. Times are Eastern (ET)…

The Crime Ledger: October 9, 2026

The Crime Ledger: October 9, 2026. Mexican court convicts three in the Robinson brothers and Carter Rhoad murders, plus 22 more cases from 14 countries.…

The Crime Ledger: October 8, 2026

The Crime Ledger: October 8, 2026. Texas executes Jamaal Howard, Christa Pike's lawyers say she has pneumonia, and 34 more cases from 19 countries.…

The Crime Ledger: October 7, 2026

The Crime Ledger: October 7, 2026. A Bellingham resident is charged over the Tumbler Ridge shooting, and the Army sets Hasan's execution date.…

The Crime Ledger: October 6, 2026

The Crime Ledger: October 6, 2026. Trump approves a firing squad for the Fort Hood gunman, Mutiso accused plead afresh and Turin police arrest a widow.…

The Crime Ledger: October 5, 2026

The Crime Ledger: October 5, 2026. Okinawa refers a U.S. Marine to prosecutors, Durban's AKA trial opens with not-guilty pleas, and a Madrid son is held.…

The Crime Ledger: October 4, 2026

The Crime Ledger: October 4, 2026. A U.S. Marine is held in an Okinawa killing, Tennessee's prisons chief quits after Pike, Plovdiv's accused stays jailed.…

The Crime Ledger: October 3, 2026

The Crime Ledger: October 3, 2026. UAE calls the flydubai cockpit attack terrorism, Widdecombe's accused faces a Farage terror charge, Pike stays critical.…

The Crime Ledger: October 2, 2026

The Crime Ledger: October 2, 2026. Christa Pike stays critical, Texas paroles Amber Guyger and Chile convicts a man in the killing of Ronald Ojeda.…

The Crime Ledger: October 1, 2026

The Crime Ledger: October 1, 2026. Tennessee fails to execute Christa Pike, a stabbed flydubai captain is named and a German doctor is convicted of murder.…

The Crime Ledger: September 30, 2026

The Crime Ledger: September 30, 2026. Christa Pike’s stay is lifted, her execution fails, a pilot is allegedly stabbed and Abby Choi’s murder trial opens.…

The Crime Ledger: September 29, 2026

Police found petrol, not a bomb, in the RAF Fairford vans; five were jailed over Macon’s park shooting; bail was denied in a Kentucky trooper’s killing.…

The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026

Wedela’s tavern toll rose to 18 with no arrest; NYPD charged a man with murder in a Central Park death; five men held near RAF Fairford were bailed.…

The Crime Ledger: September 27, 2026

Eight gunmen with AK-47s and pistols opened fire on patrons at Dora’s Tavern in Wedela, near Carletonville on Gauteng’s West Rand, on Saturday night, killing 17 and wounding 15; police spent Sunday hunting them, and…

The Crime Ledger: September 26, 2026

Allegheny County police added rape, sexual assault and robbery charges Saturday against Elijah Hemingway, already accused of climbing through a back window on Linden Avenue in Edgewood and stabbing UPMC pediatric critical care physician Dr.…

The Crime Ledger: September 25, 2026

Prosecutors in Przemyśl drew up murder charges Friday against Ihor M., the 31-year-old Ukrainian accused of stabbing five people on the grounds of Jarosław’s Benedictine abbey, but court psychiatrists said he was too acutely psychotic…

The Crime Ledger: September 24, 2026

Police in southeastern Poland arrested a 31-year-old Ukrainian man after a knife attack at Jarosław’s 17th-century abbey killed a priest and wounded four. South African police ran a 72-hour manhunt for three gunmen after Tuesday…

The Crime Ledger: September 23, 2026

Colombo gave 15 Easter-attack plotters 220-year terms; Texas executed Ker’Sean Ramey in Huntsville; Loudoun charged Roger Bradford in Lisa Bradford’s death.…

The Crime Ledger: September 22, 2026

Sri Lanka’s High Court convicted fifteen of twenty-four defendants over the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, with sentences following the same day. NSW Police charged the Valley Heights mother at a Westmead bedside hearing. Jackson County…

The Crime Ledger: September 21, 2026

Eighteen Moïse assassination suspects landed in Florida; Belleville’s Yom Kippur synagogue took shotgun fire; Ekurhuleni arrested three over Jabulile Ntimba.…

The Crime Ledger: September 20, 2026

Peru’s Fiscalía and police spent Sunday locking down a campaign-trail hit in Áncash: journalist and regional candidate Susy Aponte Polo was shot from behind at a Caraz market Saturday, five people were wounded, and by…

The Crime Ledger: September 19, 2026

NSW closed a brutal Saturday with three women dead in separate cases: a woman in her nineties stabbed in a Bondi Beach unit, a 23-year-old killed in Kooringal, and a woman in her seventies found…

The Crime Ledger: September 18, 2026

Multnomah County put a sixth woman’s name on Jesse Calhoun’s docket (Elizabeth “Libby” Gibson, still missing) while Mississippi’s multi-agency sweep locked up a dozen people in the killing of Claiborne County Deputy Terrian Bailey……

The Crime Ledger: September 17, 2026

South African police pulled a ninth woman’s body out of the Ekurhuleni east-of-Johannesburg cluster, three finds this week alone, while commanders still won’t call it serial. Philadelphia and the FBI briefed on seven missing women…

The Crime Ledger: September 16, 2026

South African police folded an eighth woman’s body into the East Rand probe and put up a R400,000 reward while the president called the discoveries a national crisis. In Washington, the Justice Department charged five…

The Crime Ledger: September 15, 2026

Los Angeles prosecutors said they will not seek death against Nick Reiner in the stabbing deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, capping a Tuesday court day that also pushed any trial into next…

The Crime Ledger: September 14, 2026

Terrebonne deputies are holding Kaegan Jude Solet after four relatives were stabbed to death on Ashland Drive in Houma and a six-year-old boy escaped with critical wounds. Cameron County kept Christian Joel Maldonado Pacheco without…

The Crime Ledger: September 13, 2026

Tiliek Thompson walked into an NYPD precinct Saturday and left facing murder after Lovay Williams was found beaten and strangled in her Washington Heights apartment, her young daughter still in the home. Durham police booked…

The Crime Ledger: September 12, 2026

NSW Raptor Squad locked an 18-year-old brickie’s apprentice into a murder charge after alleging he flew a commercial drone as surveillance eyes for the Sept. 2 Merrylands West shooting that killed tradesman Joshua Macdonald in…

The Crime Ledger: September 11, 2026

Santa Clara prosecutors locked Anila Baby into two murder counts after linking an Aug. 28 San José strangling-stabbing to a Milpitas parking-lot hit that killed another friend roughly ninety minutes later. In Canberra, newly released…

The Crime Ledger: September 10, 2026

Clancy's lawyer asked Sullivan to enter not-guilty findings after the hung jury; Marshals grabbed Boyce in Scotland Neck; Atizapan suspects bound over; Victoria charged the Jajous for Hussein; Taunton held Barboza without bail.…

The Crime Ledger: September 9, 2026

Rotorua High Street triple homicide probe; Ensenada Baja surfers trial heard FBI found the cliff-top shaft; Victoria Police held three over Daniel Hussein's Thomastown shooting; Las Vegas held Orona without bail; Palavas and Manaus round…

The Crime Ledger: September 8, 2026

Ensenada Baja surfers trial opens; Belconnen Curtin refused bail; Walsh held; Maidstone stabbing; Kanpur hire-kill; Palakkad river dump; Liverpool Rose Johnston arrest; Conchalí confession; LaGrange double; Reiger Park; Faucher bail; Cullinan bail drop.…

The Crime Ledger: September 7, 2026

Staffordshire bails four after a Cheslyn Hay woodland baby death; Blackburn Hardman Street double stabbing; Guwahati Beltola surrender; Keys guilty plea; Frankfort Walsh charges; New Hope, Worcester, Reiger Park, Adyar, Wakulla, Hoover, and Houston round…

The Crime Ledger: September 6, 2026

Atizapán suspects ordered held in the Camilo Séptimo family massacre; Meridian’s Tracey Ann Davis faces capital murder in Fannie Johnson’s killing; Staffordshire names Jamie Evans; Merrigum, Pune, Burton Latimer, Worcester, Albuquerque, Bogie, and Prince Albert…

The Crime Ledger: September 5, 2026

Will County charged Corie Walsh in Frankfort toddler killing; Las Vegas coroner named Osuna family victims; Miami Brickell mother stabbing; Houston leasing-office capital murder; Gyeongsan lecturer referred; Newcastle-under-Lyme stabbing; Salisbury Mitchell charged; Ecclesall Woods victim…

The Crime Ledger: September 4, 2026

Plymouth’s Clancy trial ended in a hung-jury mistrial. Mexico named a business partner in the Atizapán penthouse massacre. Bogie’s grazier took three murder verdicts. Morphew booked on a hit-and-run warrant. Moser mother and son held…

The Crime Ledger: September 3, 2026

Downtown Minneapolis took the day: a custody handoff outside Shoreline Plaza turned into a ninth-floor gunfight. Plymouth’s Clancy jury named a holdout. Valletta cleared Yorgen Fenech. Sheffield, Las Vegas, Montgomery, Flomaton, Grangetown, Perth, and Pawleys…

The Crime Ledger: September 2, 2026

Plymouth’s Clancy jury went home deadlocked a second time after a “dynamite” charge. In Las Vegas, Duane Davis became the first person convicted in Tupac Shakur’s killing, with an appeal already planned. In Provo, Tyler…

The Crime Ledger: September 1, 2026

Newton County convicted Katelyn Goble in the Morgan Bauer killing, and a judge gave her life without parole. In Los Angeles, D4vd pleaded not guilty, and the same office unsealed a second murder indictment against…

The Crime Ledger: August 31, 2026

This briefing includes a mosque massacre, the homicide of a child, family violence, and a historical rape-murder. Names below are only those released by police, prosecutors, or court records. Daily Breaking True Crime Briefing As…

The Crime Ledger: August 30, 2026

This briefing includes homicides of children and other family members. Details are limited to what authorities and reputable outlets have released. Daily Breaking True Crime Briefing As of: Sunday, August 30, 2026, midday ET Scope:…

The Crime Ledger: August 29, 2026

This briefing includes child homicide, family violence, and elder-care killings. Names below are only those released by police, prosecutors, or court records. Daily Breaking True Crime Briefing As of: Saturday, August 29, 2026, afternoon ET…

The Crime Ledger: August 28, 2026

This briefing includes child homicides and a family annihilation. Victim names below are those officially released. Daily Breaking True Crime Briefing As of: Friday, August 28, 2026, midday ET Scope: Cases with a verified arrest,…