Murder

In the "King in Black" event (by Donny Cates, Ryan Stegman, JP Mayer, and Frank Martin), the Avengers call on Sentry as Knull, the King in Black, arrives on Earth with his symbiote army. He appears to be the key to victory after taking the God of Symbiotes into space, but when Sentry reveals his plans to take Knull out, the supervillain tells him he remembered what he did to Carnage and pulls a similar move on him — ripping his body in half and turning him inside out much to the shock of his fellow heroes.…

This low-budget British whodunnit arrives well-timed amid a Rian Johnson-prompted boom in murder mystery movies. It’s not quite, as it claims, the first murder mystery musical movie: that honour might well go to François Ozon’s 8 Women, and Stephen Sondheim once wrote a screenplay and songs for the unproduced The Chorus Girl Murder Case. The concept has been in the ether for a while – unsurprisingly perhaps, as musicals and whodunnits are both formalised genres with a certain amount of common ground.The Mystery of Mr E…

It’s been two years since masked assailants gunned down celebrated rapper Young Dolph, whose legal name was Adolph Thornton Jr, as he shopped near his boyhood home in South Memphis. For two years, Dolph’s fiancée has raised their young son and daughter alone while shouldering her profound grief – and staying largely silent on the murder case that grew to include four defendants. Mia Jaye now believes her silence was “taken for granted” by law enforcement. Going forward, she wants assurances justice for Young…

In the opening scene of the new FX miniseries A Murder at the End of the World, a woman named Darby stands in front of a small bookstore crowd to do a reading from her true crime book The Silver Doe. She is very young, speaks haltingly, and seems determined to vanish inside her voluminous red coat and the hoodie she’s wearing beneath it. As she fumbles through her introductory remarks, audience members begin to stand up and leave, convinced that this odd person has nothing of interest to say. But then she notes that…

Growing up in rural Northern Ireland in the 1970s, Martin Doyle glimpsed few signs of the Troubles. There were no peace walls, he never walked in a victim’s funeral cortege and only once did he spot soldiers patrolling his village. Yet his life was saturated by the conflict. It was like an invisible pandemic, one that he knew was striking down his neighbours, but had not yet visited his home.When his parents went shopping, he was expected to sit in the parked car: in order to deter car bombers, no vehicles were permitted…

Los Angeles Police have arrested a 35-year-old man suspected of murder in connection with a headless torso found in a dumpster in a commercial area of Encino, California. The LAPD’s Valley Bureau Homicide department identified the murder suspect as Samuel Haskell, a resident of Los Angeles who has been booked on one criminal count of murder and is being held on $2 million bail. Samuel Haskell has been identified in media reports as the son of Samuel Haskell Sr., the former executive vp and…

True crime documentaries – especially those that focus on either serial killers or grisly individual murders – have become so popular that it’s borderline uncomfortable. Anything that features a deep dive account of something so horrific you can barely look away is guaranteed to play like gangbusters among subscribers to any streaming service, with Netflix’s Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case the latest example. Per FlixPatrol, the haunting exploration of the events leading up to, during, and after the brutal slaying of…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Men who use coercive control are more likely to kill their partner and extend their control to conceal her murder as a suicide or accident. QUT criminologists Dr. Claire Ferguson and Dr. Freya McLachlan, from QUT's School of Justice, investigated why and how so many intimate partner femicide (IPF)…

The rapper's initial case ended with a deadlocked jury and a mistrial YNW Melly is headed back to court on first-degree murder charges, with the Broward County State Attorney’s Office saying they will retry the rapper for the Oct. 2018 killings of two men. A rep for the Broward County State Attorney’s Office confirmed to Rolling Stone that they would seek a retrial after Pitchfork first reported the news. A rep for the office declined to comment further, saying, “We don’t comment on…

Prosecutors are expected to retry Jamell Demons on two counts of first-degree murder in Oct. 2018 slaying of two rappers The double murder trial of rapper YNW Melly was declared a mistrial Saturday after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict after two days of deliberations. The rapper born Jamell Demons was charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the Oct. 2018 killings of fellow rappers Anthony Williams and Christopher Thomas. Demons, who faced the death penalty if…