Roy Hernandez said to have admitted to 1979 murder.

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NYPD Arrests Man in Patz Case

Arkansas may retry a man for murder even though jurors in his first trial were unanimous that he was not guilty, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Alex Blueford, who is accused of killing his girlfriend’s 1-year-old son, is not protected by the Constitution’s Double Jeopardy Clause, the court ruled in a 6 to 3 decision. Read full article > >

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Supreme Court says double jeopardy does not protect against murder retrial

Shafilea Ahmed’s sister tells a court it was a “relief” to tell police after seven years that her parents had murdered the teenager.

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A police photographer is being cross-examined on the third day of the trial of two men accused of murdering Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius.

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Murder photographer ‘made errors’

A 25-year-old man arrested in Italy is charged with murdering a crane driver found in a burning car near Southampton.

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The prosecution team at the Michaela McAreavey murder trial in Mauritius begin delivering their case.

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One of two men accused of murdering Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius claimed he was beaten and forced to sign a confession, the trial jury is told.

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Michaela accused ‘had confessed’

Two men accused of murdering an Irish teacher on her honeymoon last year pleaded not guilty when they appeared in court in Mauritius on Tuesday, police on the Indian Ocean island said.

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“Killing Them Softly,” Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of the George V. Higgins crime novel “Cogan’s Trade,” will have its gala premiere tonight at the Cannes Film Festival. The film screened this morning for the press, who were treated to a gritty, stylized and deeply cynical genre exercise in which Brad Pitt played hardened hit man Jackie Cogan. (Pitt last worked with Dominik on “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.”) Ray Liotta, Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendolsohn co-star in a film that takes its inspiration from Martin Scorsese, murder ballads and America’s recent economic crisis which, as in the movie was brought on by greed and a fatal lack of self-control.   Read full article > >

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Brad Pitt film, ‘Killing Them Softly’ premieres at Cannes

A mother and father accused of murdering their daughter physically abused her “every day”, her sister tells a court.

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Parents ‘abused Shafilea daily’

BBC Newsline’s Natasha Sayee reports on the opening of the trial of two hotel workers for the murder of Michaela McAreavey.

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VIDEO: Michaela McAreavey trial – the first day

A man accused of murdering his wife was his usual “joking” self on the day she disappeared, a court hears.

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Murder accused ‘usual jokey self’

The boyfriend of an aspiring model from New Zealand is ordered to serve a minimum of 16 years for her murder.

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Life term for model’s murderer

Two men charged with the murder of Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius last year plead not guilty at the start of their trial.

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Michaela suspects deny murder

A man denies confessing to the murder of a takeaway food delivery driver in a telephone call to his girlfriend, a court hears.

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Man denies phone call confession