A local criminal case will go national tonight when the popular show "Forensic Files" airs a profile of the investigation into the 2002 murder of Joshan Ashbrook. ...more

October 30, 2009

The New Mexico Legislature has voted to repeal the death penalty. ...more

March 13, 2009

After decades of moral arguments reaching biblical proportions, after long, twisted journeys to the nation's highest court and back, the death penalty may be abandoned by several states for a reason having nothing to do with right or wrong: Money. ...more

March 7, 2009

Investigators were interviewing 44 registered sex offenders in the disappearance of a 5-year-old Putnam County girl that they are treating as an abduction. ...more

February 13, 2009

It has been more than 10 years since 7-year-old Amanda Brown disappeared from her Seffner home. But that doesn't mean her father, Roy Brown, has any closure. ...more

December 16, 2008

The man convicted in the 1998 disappearance and death of a 7-year-old Seffner girl is asking for a new trial. ...more

December 15, 2008

Suspected of helping Steven Lorenzo drug, torture and kill two men in his Seminole Heights home, Scott Schweickert had information detectives badly wanted. ...more

October 12, 2008

Mary Ann and George Patisso Sr. closed a tragic chapter in their lives when they left Polk County today after a jury awarded them $60.1 million Tuesday for the wrongful death of their son. It is a judgment they are unlikely to collect. The man who murdered their son in December 1997 is on death row. ...more

July 2, 2008

Robert Trease might not be on death row, were it not for one bullet investigators found in his girlfriend's pickup truck. ...more

January 6, 2008

A former U.S. commander at the Iraqi jail that held Saddam Hussein was acquitted Friday of aiding the enemy but received two years imprisonment for convictions on other charges after pleading for leniency from the judge. ...more

October 20, 2007