According to New Hartford police, an upstate New York couple accused of beating their 19-year-old son to death inside a church allegedly did so during a counseling session, “in the hopes that each would confess to prior sins and ask for forgiveness.”

This week, Bruce and Deborah Leonard were charged with allegedly beating their son to death inside the Word of Life Christian Church in Chadwicks, New York. According to neighbors, there was always something a little creepy about that church, even before the alleged murder.

A Colorado man was convicted of first-degree murder on Monday after prosecutors say he fatally shoved his wife off a 128-foot cliff in Rocky Mountain National Park in order to collect millions of dollars in insurance money, Buzzfeed reports.

Early Sunday morning, police responding to a call from a Sunrise, Florida, apartment found a 24-year-old man crying on his bathroom floor next to his girlfriend’s body. He was surrounded by both the woman’s blood and her “body tissue.”

Convicted murderer turned prisoners’ rights protester Stuart Horner is nearing the end of his third day on the roof of Manchester, England’s Strangeways prison, and a throng of supporters has turned the standoff into a party. Police made some tentative attempts to remove Horner from the roof Tuesday, but he’s thus far held them off. And danced to Sisqo’s “Thong Song.”

A convicted murderer climbed up an 18-foot-fence and onto the roof of Strangeways prison in Manchester, England, Sunday afternoon, and remains on the roof more than 24 hours later, apparently protesting conditions in the jail.

On Thursday, a police officer in Portsmouth, Virginia was fired and taken into custody after a grand jury indicted him for first-degree murder over the April shooting death unarmed black teen, NBC News reports.

In a real weird murder case that’s only getting weirder by the day, cops in India have arrested a prominent television executive on charges that she murdered her own daughter. Except, apparently no one knew it was her daughter, because she’d been pretending they were sisters.

Police suspect the death of a woman who received an illegal butt injection at a hotel near the St. Louis airport may be connected to a previous fatal butt-lift in Dallas.

Police believe that the Florida murders of Voncile Smith, 77, and her two adult sons may have been “ritualistic killings” that were connected to last week’s blue moon, an Escambia County Sheriff’s Office spokesman said. The Smiths were found dead in their Pensacola home on Friday.

HitchBot, a friendly Canadian robot sent on a mission to autonomously hitchhike across America, had a pleasant, successful journey across our fair nation, meeting friendly locals who were happy to help the little bot get where it was going. Until it got to Philadelphia.

Loredana Nesci, a 47-year-old reality TV lawyer known as the “Legal Diva,” was found dead Wednesday after her “distraught” boyfriend called 911. Cops say he murdered her.

A blind Los Angeles man was killed and decapitated last week—and his killer (or killers) took his head with them when their job was finished, cops say.

Ever since HBO’s very good investigative pornography show “The Jinx” exploded this past spring, viewers and critics have wondered how much creator Andrew Jarecki’s own digging influenced the active murder investigations in Los Angeles and Westchester, N.Y., into his subject, the sociopathic millionaire Robert Durst. A freedom of information request filed by Gawker suggests the two are intertwined.

Dee Dee Blancharde’s death was announced unceremoniously, on a Facebook page she shared with her daughter Gypsy. “That Bitch is dead!,” reads a post published Sunday, followed by a stomach-turning comment from the same shared account: “I fucken SLASHED THAT FAT PIG AND RAPED HER SWEET INNOCENT DAUGHTER...HER SCREAM WAS SOOOO FUCKEN LOUD LOL.”

Neptune, N.J., police sergeant Phil Seidle shot and killed his ex-wife Tamara Seidle in front of the couple’s seven-year-old daughter in Asbury Park on Tuesday morning, according to police. After a bizarre 30-minute standoff with police, Seidle was arrested on the scene and charged with murder.

Apples, spry monkeys, fresh air, falling blossoms—we associate the treetops with only the best things in life, but what if our nation’s leafy canopies are also holding two murderous fugitives? A Gawker reader thinks that cops need to start looking up.

Lacie LaRose, a 19-year-old student at Blinn College, was shot and killed at a graduation party last month after a fight that began as an argument over the rules of beer pong, according to one witness. Ronald McNeil, the 39-year-old alleged killer, told police that the fight was racially charged.

Authorities say an Alabama man charged with murder this weekend beat his mother to death following an argument about his college grades, CNN reports.

The housekeeper for the family found murdered after their house was set on fire Thursday says she noticed something was definitely amiss in the days leading up to their deaths.