Tommy Zeigler's 1976 conviction for the murders of his family members in Winter Garden is under scrutiny again. Forensic reanalysis is casting new doubts on the case of Florida's longest-serving death row inmate.
A judge will re-examine key evidence in the murder case of Tommy Zeigler, who has been on death row since being convicted in the killing of four people in Winter Garden in 1975.
A gas station clerk accused of fatally shooting an off-duty Edgewater police officer told deputies he was having a bad day, according to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office.
A former Orange County Sheriff’s Office sergeant accused of fatally shooting his estranged wife, who was a lieutenant, will appear in court to request a release from jail.
Police say a 31-year-old man was arrested on murder charges after two women were killed at an Orlando apartment complex in a domestic shooting.
The presented evidence and testimony led the jury to convict Toivontae “Toby” Williams, 31, of murder, according to the state attorney’s office for the 18th Judicial Circuit.
The lawyers for an ex-Brevard County corrections deputy accused of killing a 72-year-old Titusville woman will ask a judge Friday to dismiss a motion seeking the death penalty.
A 27-year-old Ocala man accused of killing a 2-year-old girl in 2022 has been found guilty of murder, according to the state attorney’s office for the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Florida.
A Florida woman is accused of killing her 6-year-old son while she “was trying to exorcise demons."
Police say a 43-year-old man shot and killed his adult stepson in Davenport after the stepson’s 9-year-old brother grabbed a gun following an argument over a video game.
Retired Volusia Sheriff Ben Johnson says the brutality of what he found inside the Telford Lane home remains vivid more than 20 years later.
The jury in the resentencing trial for two men convicted in the so-called Xbox murders, the deadliest mass murder in Volusia County’s history, are set to begin deliberations to decide whether they will be sentenced to death.
Officials say a 20-year-old man was arrested in Orange County after his 3-month-old baby died.
Closing arguments are expected in the resentencing trial for two men convicted in the so-called Xbox murders, the deadliest mass murder in Volusia County’s history.
The state attorney’s office will seek the death penalty against an ex-Brevard County corrections deputy accused of killing a 72-year-old Titusville woman.
The resentencing trial for two men convicted in the so-called Xbox murders, the deadliest mass murder in Volusia County’s history will continue, with the defense for one of the men expected to rest its case this week.
Prosecutors are expected to rest their case in the resentencing trial for two men convicted in the so-called Xbox murders, the deadliest mass murder in Volusia County’s history.
A Florida woman is in fear for her life after the man convicted of murder in the strangling of her daughter was mistakenly released from a prison.
Sarah Boone, the Orlando woman sentenced to life in prison for the 2020 “suitcase murder” of Jorge Torres, appears intent to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.
A Colorado dentist accused of killing his wife by poisoning her protein shakes has been charged with trying to get a fellow jail inmate to kill a detective investigating the murder case.
Testimony is set to continue Wednesday in the trial of Sarah Boone, accused of letting her boyfriend die in a zipped-up suitcase during an apparent drunken game of hide-and-seek.
Sarah Boone, after having lost eight attorneys and seemingly forfeiting her right to a court-appointed defense leading up to her trial on a murder charge, has just retained new legal counsel.
A 28-year-old man is accused of stabbing to death a 13-year-old girl who was found inside a utility closet of an Orange County apartment complex, according to the sheriff.
Stephan Sterns, the man investigators have called the prime suspect in the death of 13-year-old Madeline Soto, is now facing a charge of first-degree murder, News 6 has confirmed through the Osceola County Clerk Of Courts.
More than 40 years after a woman visiting Florida on spring break was abducted from Daytona Beach Shores and found dead in Jacksonville, a serial killer incarcerated in California has confessed to her murder.
Officials say a Florida death row inmate convicted of killing a deputy and two other people more than 40 years ago has died in prison.
A grand jury in Las Vegas has indicted the last living suspect in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur in a long-awaited breakthrough in one of hip-hop’s most enduring mysteries.
Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against a Florida man accused of murdering a Lyft driver whose car he allegedly stole in an attempt to escape another killing.
A judge decided Friday that competency talks will continue through August for a man accused of stabbing a Daytona Beach couple to death during Bike Week last year.
A jury has convicted a former contestant on the television game show “Family Feud” of first-degree murder and home invasion in the shooting death of his estranged wife in western Illinois.
Police in Kentucky say they've pulled the body of a convicted murderer from the Ohio River, days after he escaped last week from an Ohio prison with another inmate.
A 20-year-old found guilty in the death of a father after a shooting at a house party in 2019 was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
A Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about dealing with grief after her husband died last year was charged with his murder by prosecutors who say the man died from a fentanyl overdose.
Newly released body camera video shows the man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students being pulled over for allegedly running a red light about a month before the killings.
A police official says man who escaped from a Mississippi jail and is a suspect in a Monday night killing is believed to have died after barricading himself in a home and setting it on fire during an armed standoff with deputies.
Benjamin Holmes, the man found guilty for the murder of UCF student Christine Franke, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday.
Hundreds of pages of victim impact statements have been sent to Judge Lee Smith on behalf of the family of Tristyn Bailey.
A Florida man has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting five women at a small-town bank branch in 2019 and will face either life in prison or a death sentence during the penalty phase next year.
Final goodbyes begin Friday for 9-year-old T’Yonna Major, the youngest victim of a deadly shooting spree last month in Pine Hills that took three lives and inflamed a war of words between the region’s state attorney and Florida’s governor.
Next month’s scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate whose attorneys say gouged out both of his eyes because of severe mental illness was delayed by a judge.
A competency hearing in Volusia County court continues for a man accused in the violent deaths of a couple last year during Daytona Beach Bike Week.
Tyre Nichols’ family and friends remembered him with songs of faith and heartfelt tributes, blending a celebration of his life with outraged calls for police reform after the brutal beating he endured at the hands of Memphis police.
A married couple and their son convicted of first-degree premeditated murder in the fatal shooting of a security guard who demanded the woman’s daughter wear a mask while shopping have been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
A status hearing will be held in Orange County for a woman accused of killing her boyfriend, who police say suffocated inside a zipped suitcase.
A man already imprisoned in Florida for another killing has pleaded guilty to the unsolved 1991 slaying of a woman he met at a Daytona Beach bar.
The FedEx driver accused of abducting and killing a 7-year-old girl in Texas last week has told authorities that he strangled her after accidentally hitting her with his van while making a delivery at her home.
A woman who was extradited from South Korea this week after the bodies of her two children were found in abandoned suitcases has made her first court appearance in New Zealand.
Iowa authorities say an 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who pleaded guilty to killing a man she said raped her escaped from a women’s center where she was serving her probation sentence.
A prosecutor says he plans to present DNA evidence linking a man accused of killing 22 elderly women in the Dallas area and stealing jewelry and valuables to one of the deaths.
A Las Vegas-area elected public official has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a veteran newspaper reporter whose investigations of the official’s work preceded his primary loss in June.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help to track down the responsible person for an overnight murder on Hiawassee Road, according to deputies.
An Orlando teen is facing a manslaughter charge in connection with the July 1 fatal shooting of a woman, according to the Ninth Circuit Court in Orange County.
A man was charged with first-degree murder nearly one month after he was suspected of fatally shooting a 19-year-old in Daytona Beach he believed would out him over his sexual preference, according to the Volusia-Flagler State Attorney’s Office.
A man who told authorities where to find a Florida woman he fatally stabbed in July 2018 was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison nearly four years later, the 7th Circuit State Attorney’s Office said Thursday.
The 10-year-old, who we are not identifying at this time, was arrested Tuesday and charged with second-degree murder.
A jury in Portland, Oregon, has convicted a self-published romance novelist — who once wrote an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband" — of fatally shooting her husband four years ago.
The 72-year-old accused of murdering a fellow-resident in a Flagler County nursing home was granted no bond after his first appearance in court Thursday morning.
Authorities are searching for an “extremely dangerous” murder suspect who escaped from an Alabama jail and the official they now believe may have helped him to escape.
Authorities say three Florida correctional officers have been charged with murder in the fatal beating of a handcuffed prisoner who threw urine at one of the officers.
