Northwestern Professor Held in Stabbing Death That Mystified Chicago

Wyndham Lathem, an assistant professor at Northwestern University, was arrested on Friday in California. By MATTHEW HAAG August 8, 2017 For more than a week, the gruesome killing of a young hairstylist in a downtown Chicago luxury high-rise has captivated...

Michelle Carter Is Sentenced to 15 Months in Jail in Texting Suicide Case

The case raised questions about whether Ms. Carter was responsible for Conrad Roy III’s death when she was far from the scene and did not provide a weapon.

A Family’s Decades-Long Quest Ends at a Chilling Designation: Victim No. 24

A Family’s Decades-Long Quest Ends at a Chilling Designation: Victim No. 24 By JULIE BOSMAN August 1, 2017 A photo of James Byron Haakenson at a news conference in Chicago in July. By JULIE BOSMAN August 1, 2017 MAYWOOD, Ill. — It was a...

No Third Trial for Ex-Officer Who Shot Cincinnati Driver

By JESS BIDGOOD July 18, 2017 After deadlocked juries led to two mistrials in the case of Raymond M. Tensing, a former Cincinnati police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black motorist, prosecutors said Tuesday that they were preparing to drop charges...

After Grisly Killings in Pennsylvania, a Quick Deal to Spare Execution

By TRIP GABRIEL and ALAN BLINDER July 17, 2017 The police had been investigating the disappearance of four men in Pennsylvania for only a week when prosecutors sprang a deal on their chief suspect: Confess to murder and help the investigation, and...

Behind Bucks County Killings, a Young Life Skidding Off the Rails

By TRIP GABRIEL, MATTHEW HAAG and JON HURDLE July 17, 2017 BENSALEM, Pa. — Women blocked him on social media, saying he aggressively stalked them for dates and sex. After he dropped out of a university, he was banned from the campus by...