With the drug war’s “disappeared” numbering in the tens of thousands, some families take up the search for loved ones on their own. By Azam Ahmed.

Sydney woman Justine Damond Ruszczyk was living in Minneapolis and weeks away from her wedding when she was shot dead by a US police officer in shocking circumstances that are yet to be explained.

A former journalist, equipped with an algorithm and the largest collection of murder records in the country, finds patterns in crime. By Alec Wilkinson.

The man who pleaded guilty to murdering a DC yoga teacher on Christmas Day was sentenced to  30 years in prison Friday.Duane Johnson pleaded guilty back in September to first degree felony murder for killing 30-year-old Tricia McCauley.Johnson was caught d

Inside the minds of murderous young women. By Lyz Lenz.

An engineer who was left paralysed and disfigured after an acid attack allegedly carried out by his jealous ex-girlfriend died in a euthanasia clinic 15 months later having decided he could not face a life of pain, her murder trial has been told. Berlinah Wallace, 48, told Mark van Dongen: “If I can’t have you, no one can,” before pouring sulphuric acid over him, a jury at Bristol crown court was told.

A Pakistani bride was arrested after milk she had poisoned in order to kill her husband was made into a yogurt drink that inadvertently killed 17 of her extended family members, according to the Associated Press. District police chief Sohail Habib Tajak said that Aasia Bibi, 21, was married against her will in September in a village near the remote town of Ali Pur in Pakistan.

Several North Korean agents were reportedly arrested after Chinese officials foiled an alleged plot to kill Kim Jong Un’s nephew— the son of the half-brother poisoned this year in a Malaysian airport. Two of the seven North Korean agents who were involved in the alleged plot were arrested in Beijing, South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo reported Monday, citing North Korean sources. The plot was stopped because Chinese officials increased security during the country’s 19 National Congress of the Communist Party.

CCTV footage has emerged of a convicted rapist leaving a karaoke club with two women who police say he later stabbed to death and dismembered. Officers are investigating reports Alexander Maslennikov, 31, raped the women and minced some of their remains before feeding them to dogs. In the footage, he is smoking a cigarette and carrying a bottle of wine as he leaves the club at 6am in the Russian city of Volzhsky.

The Danish inventor Peter Madsen has admitted dismembering the body of Swedish journalist Kim Wall aboard his submarine, but denies killing her. Danish police said in a statement that he also admitted dumping her body parts in the sea. He told police she had died in August from carbon monoxide poisoning inside the submarine, while he was up on deck.

Authorities have charged an Iowa couple with murder in the death of their 4-month-old son, whose maggot-infested body was found in a baby swing in the family's home. Twenty-year-old Cheyanne Harris and 28-year-old Zachary Koehn were arrested Wednesday on charges of child endangerment and first-degree murder in the death of their son, Sterling Koehn. Court records don't list attorneys for either of them. Their preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 2.

The five teenagers accused of throwing more than a dozen rocks from a highway overpass - including one that pierced a van's windshield and killed a 32-year-old Mt. Morris man - were arraigned in court on Tuesday, Oct. 24, on second-degree murder and other charges. The teens were arraigned before Genesee District Judge William H. Crawford II on Tuesday, Oct. 24 on charges of second-degree murder, conspiracy to commit second-degree murder, malicious destruction of property and other felony and misdemeanor charges in connection with the death of Kenneth A. White.

A serial killer might be on the loose in Tampa, Florida. Police are warning people not to walk alone at night in the Seminole Heights neighborhood after a third person in 10 days was shot to death on Thursday night. As CBS News correspondent Manuel Bojorquez reports, police seem certain their murders are all connected, even though the victims did not appear to know one another.

The double-standard for white shooters is more than just "lone wolf"

The night a 19-year-old Mississippi woman was burned to death, she and her killer had sex in her car and he thought he had suffocated her before he torched her vehicle with her inside, a prosecutor said Tuesday in an opening statement, presenting his theory of what led to the gruesome slaying. But a defence attorney said Jessica Chambers told firefighters who found her near her burning car that a man named Eric set her on fire – not the person charged with her murder, Quinton Tellis.

The United States has decided it isn’t going to address out-of-control gun violence, and no insight about an individual shooter will change that. By Jesse Singal.

Isle of Wight Sheriff Mark Marshall held a press conference today regarding the double homicide of two family members. Deputies found 80-year-old Nancy Starnes and her 58-year-old son Kenneth shot dead inside their home Saturday morning. The family lives in the Russmere section of the county.

Two women accused of murdering the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with a banned nerve agent pleaded not guilty at the start of a high-profile murder trial in a Malaysian court on Monday. Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Doan Thi Huong, 28, a Vietnamese, are charged with killing Kim Jong Nam by smearing his face with VX, a chemical poison banned by the United Nations, at Kuala Lumpur airport on Feb. 13.

Police have said the case of a murdered transgender teenager was not a hate crime, despite the fact she was stabbed in the genitals and had her body burned. Ally Lee Steinfeld, 17, was allegedly attacked by her girlfriend and two teenagers in an assault in Cabool, Texas Country, Missouri which left her with her eyes gouged out, court records said.

A couple have been accused of murdering and eating up to 30 people in south-east Russia. Dmitry Baksheev, 35, and his wife Natalia, 42, were arrested in the southern region of Krasnodar after pictures of dismembered bodies were found on a phone.  The phone, which contained several images of a man posing with a dismembered female victim, was found on the street in Krasnodar earlier this month.