The body of a missing Orange County woman turned up in the county morgue, but her two sons are still missing. Authorities had been looking for Arlet Hernandez Contreras, 31, ever since someone sent to clean the Orange apartment where she lived with her two sons found a blood-stained carpet last week. more ›

A man called police this morning to report that he had just stabbed his mother to death. Officers found out that a dog at the home had also been stabbed. more ›

Authorities in Orange County have launched a search for the bodies of a missing woman and her two young sons, and the woman's ex-boyfriend has been arrested on suspicion of murder. more ›

A 20-year-old woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to fatally stabbing her newborn baby girl multiple times and hiding the corpse in a closet. The trial of Yoselin Torres Tovar commenced Monday afternoon, and Tovar pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Tuesday morning, agreeing to an offer by Deputy District Attorney Steve McGreevy. more ›

Opening arguments are underway today in the trial of the gang member accused of gunning down high school football player Jamiel Shaw, who was shot to death near his home in March 2008. more ›

Authorities are looking for a man who beat up and then fatally shot a 17-year-old boy just outside Whittier yesterday, reports the Whittier Daily News. The incident took place at about 12:30 p.m., near a liquor store and bus stop at La Pico Plaza. more ›

ose Tulio Deras, 21, has been sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison for the 2011 beating death of his infant daughter and the rape of his wife, according to City News Service. Deras delivered the fatal beating to 9-month-old Valerie on January 15, 2011, because the baby girl would not stop crying. more ›

A 45-year-old Chatsworth resident was charged today with murder for the beating death of his elderly father. Sun Chang, 78, was found dead around midday Sunday, and his son, Jun Hyuk Chang, told officers he killed his father with a hammer. more ›

Freddy Leyva, the 22-year-old Job Corps student accused of fatally stabbing a beloved program adviser, is being charged with murder. more ›

Police are calling the Thursday afternoon robbery of a Huntington Park vitamin store "brazen," since it took place in broad daylight, but it also claimed the life of a woman inside the shop. more ›

Itzcoatl Ocampo, the man accused of the murder of at least four homeless men in Orange County, told police that he intended to frame a former friend in two other killings -- the friend's mother and brother. more ›

71-year-old Joseph Robert Brancato was sentenced today to two years in prison for a July 5, 2011 attack on his wife Marie. Initially charged with murder, Brancato struck his wife in the head with a chair leg. more ›

Former Los Angeles Police Department Detective Stephanie Lazarus has been found guilty in the 1986 murder of Sherri Rasmussen, a nursing director who had recently married Lazarus' ex-boyfriend, John Ruetten. more ›

In a press conference today, the family of a 14-year-old Riverside boy who was fatally shot in February have asked for the public's help in finding his killer. NBC Los Angeles reports that Bernice Hobdy, Lareanz Simmons' grandmother, told members of the media that "I know someone knows who did this..." more ›

Just because you don't have a job doesn't mean you qualify for unemployment checks. Take the case of convicted killer Anthony Garcia, who managed to collect more than $30,000 in unemployment while he was in jail from 2008 to 2010, according to the Associated Press. more ›

Two women were found slain today in a Redondo Beach apartment, and sources say the victims were a mother and daughter. The bodies were discovered by a concerned co-worker who stopped by the apartment in the 1900 block of Rockefeller Lane shortly after 10am Tuesday morning. more ›

A male inmate at Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown L.A. was allegedly beaten to death by two other inmates over the weekend and has died. Coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter said the man, who was in his mid-20s, was declared dead at approximately 1:40am Tuesday. He had apparently been beaten by two other inmates on Saturday and transported to the hospital. more ›

A 51-year-old Rancho Cucamonga woman has died after being brutally attacked by her allegedly golf club-wielding son Wednesday night. Sheriff's deputies responded to a domestic disturbance in the 11500 block of Stoneridge Drive just after 7pm to find "a 65-year-old female, unconscious, breathing but labored, with severe head and facial injuries." more ›

A bitter divorce and custody battle ended this morning in an apparent murder-suicide that played out in Redondo Beach and Utah. On Wednesday morning, police found the "bullet-riddled body, " as CNS describes it, of 45-year-old Margaret Ann Goldberg in a Redondo Beach apartment in the 1200 block of Agate Street. more ›

The 5-year-old girl who was allegedly almost drown to death by her mother last week was taken off life support today - a difficult decision that had to be made by her father. Jose Humberto Lopez agreed Monday to remove his daughter from life support and donate her organs. more ›

A third suspect has been charged in the shooting death of the 24-year-old man who died trying to rescue his 68-year-old grandfather from a trio of bandits. more ›

The mother accused of drowning her 1-year-old daughter and attempting to drown her 5-year-old daughter has been charged with murder and attempted murder. Lorna Valle, 32, allegedly tried to drown both of her daughters Wednesday in the bathtub of the family's small converted garage home. more ›

A man convicted for the beating and strangling death of an escort in a Garden Grove hotel room has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. 36-year-old Cesar Gomez of El Monte was convicted in the fall for murdering 24-year-old Ashley Lilly at the Crown Plaza Anaheim Resort, near Disneyland, according to City News Service. more ›

An ex-Tournament of Roses volunteer with a squeaky-clean image is being held in the 2004 murder of another volunteer Donna Kelly, 59, who disappeared before her daughter found her body in her mothers car. Detectives say that DNA evidence linked Richard Allan Munnecke, 71, of Alhambra was found on Kelly's decomposed body. more ›

Authorities are investigating the death of a Monterey Park woman, and her husband appears to be the prime suspect. 39-year-old Chenan Bao's body was discovered with what Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide detectives are calling "suspicious marks" on it. Bao was three months pregnant. more ›

Eder Giovanni Herrera, 24, had been accused of murdering his mother Raquel Estrada, 53, and her son Juan Herrera, 34, according to City News Service. But now prosecutors have dropped charges against Herrera and are trying to pin the murders on Ocampo, who is already accused of murdering four homeless men in Orange County. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Department is asking for the public's help solving the murders of two Lincoln Heights women whose bodies were dumped on the side of the freeway—though the department insists the cases are not connected. more ›

Guzman's mother Darlene Duran went on CNN's "Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell" this week to discuss the case and the question of whether there could be a serial killer on the loose in Los Angeles. It's only at the very end of the segment that Duran offers up an interesting detail about the case that hasn't been reported elsewhere. more ›

The man who allegedly stabbed his girlfriend and her mother to death and wounded a male roommate in a shared Torrance condominium Sunday night is scheduled to be arraigned today. more ›

The controversial case against former Los Angeles police detective Stephanie Lazarus has moved ahead to the trial phase today, with the start of jury selection. Lazarus is the accused in the 1986 murder of Sherri Rasmussen, a nursing director who had recently married Lazarus' ex-boyfriend, John Ruetten. more ›