first-degree murder

Jury convicts man in 2016 murder-for-hire case

A man has been convicted of first-degree murder for hiring someone to shoot and kill his former friend in Castro…

2 years ago

Death row inmate dies in San Quentin cell

A condemned inmate at San Quentin State Prison was found unresponsive and pronounced dead early Thursday morning, according to the…

4 years ago

Nearly 30 years later, man pleads guilty to murder of 14-year-old girl

A Castroville man has pleaded guilty to the 1990 murder of a teenager and the attempted kidnapping in 1993 of…

5 years ago

Jury acquits Oregon man on first-degree murder, deadlocks on lesser charge

Jurors Thursday acquitted an Oregon man of a first-degree murder charge and deadlocked on lesser charges for the fatal stabbing…

5 years ago

DNA leads to life sentence in 1979 sex crime, murder

A three-time felon already serving time for a sex crime in another state was sentenced on Friday to life in…

5 years ago

San Quentin death row inmate fatally stabbed

A San Quentin State Prison death row inmate was fatally stabbed Friday morning.

6 years ago

Oakland man sentenced in murder over tree-trimmings dispute

A 66-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 50 years to life in state prison for fatally shooting another man during…

6 years ago

Inmate convicted of murdering cellmate

A convicted murderer and prison inmate was convicted and sentenced of a first-degree murder that he committed while incarcerated at…

7 years ago

Bay Area suspects in Chicago murder arrested

A man accused of being involved in a homicide in Chicago last month has turned himself in to San Francisco…

7 years ago

Sierra LaMar’s killer avoids death sentence

A Santa Clara County Superior Court jury Monday imposed a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole…

7 years ago

Sierra LaMar family reacts to guilty verdict

Antolin Garcia-Torres was found guilty in San Jose Tuesday morning for the first-degree murder of 15-year-old Sierra LaMar in 2012.

7 years ago

Jury convicts Sierra LaMar’s killer of first-degree murder

Antolin Garcia-Torres was found guilty by a Santa Clara County Superior Court jury Tuesday for the first-degree murder of 15-year-old…

7 years ago

Vacaville inmate death investigated as homicide

The death of a California Medical Facility inmate found in a pool of blood at the prison hospital is under…

8 years ago

74-year-old professor gets 50 years for chopping up 29-year-old wife

A former professor was sentenced Wednesday for the 2012 murder of his ex-wife who he dismembered in Monterey.

8 years ago

Jury convicts killer of eight-year-old girl

Darnell Williams looked straight ahead and showed no emotion Friday when jurors convicted him of two counts of first-degree murder.

8 years ago

Burglar convicted of killing Oakland artist

A two-time convicted burglar was convicted of first-degree murder Monday for fatally stabbing an award-winning artist at the victim's home…

8 years ago

Pair could face death penalty over storage locker horror

A woman and a teenage boy who recently moved away from Salinas are facing charges in the deaths of two…

8 years ago

Killer pleas guilty in 2010 Alameda murder

In an unusual move, an Oakland man pleaded guilty today to first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of a 35-year-old…

9 years ago

Cellmate suspected in grisly prison killing

An inmate at California State Prison, Solano was brutally murdered during a brawl at the medium security facility in Vacaville…

9 years ago

Killer pleads no contest in 1986 murder

A man accused of raping and killing a Ben Lomond teenager and then dumping her body in pleaded no contest…

9 years ago

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