A California teen accused of fatally stabbing a 9-year-old boy confessed to the crime on Monday, the Contra Costa Times reports, telling the paper he wanted to experience the act of killing before the impending end of the world.

More than a month after discovering the body of an up-and-coming young D.C. attorney in an upscale hotel room, police believe they have a lead: a 21-year-old woman caught on surveillance cameras the night of the murder.

A crazy thing to do is kill another person. A less crazy thing to do is to take an axe to a tree in the Upper West Side and deplete it of the nutrients it needs to survive. The latter, however, is still a bad and terrible way to release your anger, so if it was you—own up!

Robert Durst was denied bail at court in New Orleans today after a nearly three-hour hearing, ABC News reports. Today's hearing pertained to two weapons charges; a second bail hearing, on his arrest on the murder warrant issued by Los Angeles police, will follow.

Rough day in court today for accused murderer and Death Row Records founder Suge Knight, who collapsed and hit his head on a chair after a judge set his bail at $25 million. An unconscious Knight was treated by paramedics and taken to a nearby hospital.

Charlotte, N.C. police have arrested a second suspect in connection with the February murder of former America's Next Top Model contestant Mirjana Puhar and two others. David Ezequel Lopez, 19, was arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder on Thursday.

Cristie Schoen Codd, a contestant on season eight of Food Network Star, and her husband, JT Codd, were found dead Monday in Leicester, NC. Robert Jason Owens, 36, a neighbor and contractor the couple had hired to work on their home, was arrested by police Monday for their murder. Cristie Codd was five months pregnant.

NYPD officers reportedly discovered a grisly death scene at a luxury apartment complex this weekend after the missing woman's parents called 911 requesting a wellness check.

Cathy Woods, a 67-year-old woman who was charged with the 1976 Reno, Nevada, stabbing murder of Michelle Mitchell, will go free thanks to new DNA evidence. Woods was imprisoned for more than 30 years.

Thousands of people in Dimapur, India, stormed a jail that was holding a man accused of rape, brought him out into the streets, and beat him to death on Thursday, the New York Times reports. Police who were guarding the jail were overcome by the mob, though an official was unable to explain how.

For centuries, we've naively believed that man was the king of the animals. But is that just want they wanted us to think??

Lacey Spears, the Chestnut Ridge, N.Y. mom accused of slowly poisoning her son to death while she blogged about his illness, was found guilty Monday of second degree murder, the Lower Hudson Journal News reported. Prosecutors argued that Spears killed her 5-year-old, Garnett, by putting salt in his feeding tube while he was at the hospital.

Mirjana Puhar, a 19-year-old Serbian-born model who competed on America's Next Top Model, was found dead Tuesday in an apparent triple murder, TMZ reports. Police arrested alleged killer Emmanuel Jesus Rangel on murder charges today.

A Texas jury has found Eddie Ray Routh guilty of the 2013 murder of Chris Kyle, the former Navy SEAL who inspired the film American Sniper, rejecting the defense's claims that Routh was legally insane at the time, the New York Times reports.

A pair of parents in Glendale, Oregon, were charged with murder by abuse this week in the starvation death of their seven-week-old son. According to local news outlet KPIC, police believe Amanda Hancock used breast milk for lactation porn "instead of feeding the child." Stephen Williams, the father, also allegedly worked in online porn.

A 28-year-old Queens man died yesterday from gunshot wounds he sustained on Friday, the New York Times reports. So ends New York City's longest stretch without a new homicide—12 days—since the police department began tracking such data in 1994.

Three fourth graders in Elba, N.Y. were investigated this week for plotting to kill their teacher, who they claimed was "mean." The teacher was fatally allergic to hand sanitizer, and the little kiddie plot was to taint several of the teacher's items with the stuff, causing her swift death, WKBW in Buffalo reports.

A 5-year-old Florida girl is dead after her father threw her off a bridge and into Tampa Bay, 62 feet below, St. Petersburg police say.

The Philippine government filed murder charges against Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton this week. Pemberton is accused of having killed Jennifer Laude, a trans woman also known as Jeffrey, who was found on a hotel room's toilet with a broken neck.

Authorities in Delaware have charged a 17-year-old boy with first degree murder after they say he fatally shot his father with a crossbow to avoid a confrontation about skipping school, The Washington Post reports.