The woman who murdered singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez was denied early release from prison in Texas on Thursday. Yolanda SaldÃvar was sentenced to life in prison for the 1995 murder of the Tejano singer who became a music icon in the US. When SaldÃvar was sentenced, she was given the possibility of parole after serving 30
A panel in Texas on Thursday denied parole for the woman who killed Selena, a 23-year-old trailblazing Mexican American singer who was making it big in the popular music scene. The decision came a few days shy of the 30th anniversary of the killing, which shocked her fans and spurred a cultlike following. Yolanda SaldÃvar,
Canadian investigators have formally identified a missing indigenous woman who was murdered by a serial killer in 2022. Ashlee Shingoose, 30, was the first of four people killed by Jeremy Skibicki in Manitoba. She had been known only as Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe (Buffalo Woman) until her identity was discovered by investigators and revealed on Wednesday. Police
Amanda Knox has been savaged by Instagram critics after she complained that her ‘incredible fling’ with an Italian lover was cut short – because she was arrested over the murder of Meredith Kercher. She told Interview magazine she was ‘100 per cent pro a summer fling’ and lamented that it was ‘tragic’ that her romance
A Roman Catholic priest who fell out with those suspected of murdering tragic French boy Émile Soleil is believed to have committed suicide, it emerged today. Father Claude Gilliot, 85, is believed to have ‘taken his own life’ last Saturday week at his home in Aix-en-Provence, French media reports. This is exceptionally unusual for Roman Catholic
A Last Vegas judge ordered the wife accused of hiring a hitman to kill her Ghost Adventures host husband Aaron Goodwin to ‘stay out of trouble’ and avoid the TV star in a court appearance. Victoria Goodwin appeared in front of a judge, her hands shackled and a chain around her waist and wearing dark
Four people, including the grandparents of Emile Soleil, have been arrested over the two-year-old’s disappearance and death in the French Alps in July 2023. The two other people arrested on suspicion of voluntary homicide and concealment of a corpse are adult children of Emile’s grandparents, prosecutors said in a statement. The grandparents’ lawyer, Isabelle Colombani,
By GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO, CHIEF U.S. REPORTER Published: 07:24 EDT, 25 March 2025 | Updated: 07:56 EDT, 25 March 2025 A prominent doctor tried to murder his nuclear engineer wife by shoving her off a trail in Hawaii and hitting her in the head with a rock, according to police. Gerhardt Konig, 46, was arrested
By JAKE NISSE and LEOCCIANO CALLAO Published: 17:38 EDT, 24 March 2025 | Updated: 18:24 EDT, 24 March 2025 Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez has been sentenced to five years in prison over the attempted murder of a man accused of sexually assaulting his four-year-old son. In 2022, Velasquez shot at Harry Goularte during
A famous YouTube star who was charged with the attempted murder of a police officer screamed at a judge in a bizarre rant during his arraignment hearing. Erik Van Conover, 35, a content creator who shares luxury real estate properties with his nearly three million subscribers, was arrested on March 15 after he allegedly mowed down