According to U.S. Marshals Assistant Chief Deputy Steven Carpenter, authorities had identified the couple as people of interest in a suspicious death Sept. 27 in Tarpon Springs, Florida.
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Just before 2:45 a.m., a woman called 911 to report that a man had been shot inside a unit at the Viridian Apartments, 4255 W. Viking Road, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Jose Echavarria was sent to death row in 1991 in the killing of Special Agent John Bailey during a bank robbery, but his conviction was overturned in 2015.
The Clark County coroner has determined a woman, whose death had been used to fuel a viral internet rumor about a serial killer targeting women in Las Vegas, died by suicide.
Serial killer Samuel Little said he was driving through Las Vegas in 1993 when he met a woman in the Historic Westside, took her to a motel and strangled her.
Steve Garcia, 28, is facing felony counts of assault and misdemeanor counts of discharging a weapon in a public place in connection with the rock-throwing.
The woman says she was beaten, forced to eat lye, choked to the point of unconsciousness and bound at the wrists and ankles with a combination of zip ties and duct tape.
The pair was hospitalized after being pulled from a home in western Las Vegas Tuesday morning but later died of their injuries, the fire department said.
Yoandy Pou Torres, 38, admitted using counterfeit credit cards to purchase more than $382,000 worth of MasterCard gift cards at Sam’s Clubs stores in three states.
A Nevada prisoner dubbed the “screwdriver rapist” in the late 1970s has been linked to the killing of a 14-year-old girl more than 40 years ago in Las Vegas.
A 30-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a deadly January shooting in a residential area in Henderson.
“My name was killed when he died,” Albert Rossi said of his son and namesake, Albert “A.J.” Rossi. “I waited 29 years for him, and he was stolen from me.”
The drunken driver who caused a fiery crash last year that killed three Las Vegas teens was convicted Tuesday by a California jury of second-degree murder.
Monday marked the final day of testimony in the murder trial against DUI suspect Bani Duarte. Here are five key moments of the trial.
Alexis Vargas revealed the scars on the top of his hand from the burns he suffered in the March 29, 2018, crash on the Pacific Coast Highway.