murder
February 21, 2013
Every time an incident like this occurs, I am reminded of the famous line, "Say it ain't so, Joe."
February 18, 2013
SYDNEY--Papua New Guinea police charged two people on Feb. 18 with the grisly killing of a woman who was burned alive in front of hundreds of people, including young children,...
January 26, 2013
KARACHI, Pakistan--More than 2,000 people were murdered in Pakistan's largest city last year, but the shooting death of 20-year-old Shahzeb Khan in one of Karachi's most...
January 03, 2013
NEW DELHI--Indian police have filed rape and murder charges against five men accused in the gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus last month.
December 12, 2012
KOBE—The once-fearsome woman suspected of masterminding a crime spree involving bodies buried under floorboards or encased in barrels filled with concrete committed suicide...
November 17, 2012
NAGOYA—For 13 years, Satoru Takaba has rented out an apartment that remains uninhabited. It contains a dining room table, a dresser, a bookshelf with recipe books—and...
November 15, 2012
Mere months before she was stabbed to death, Rie Miyoshi begged authorities time and again to protect her from her former boyfriend, who had sent her more than 1,000 harassing...
October 30, 2012
The wrongful conviction of a Nepalese man for a 1997 murder in Tokyo has raised some serious questions about the criminal justice process. All the people involved need to make...
October 29, 2012
After 15 years of insisting that Govinda Prasad Mainali murdered a woman, prosecutors finally admitted on Oct. 29 they were wrong in the Nepalese man's retrial in Tokyo High...
September 29, 2012
BEIJING -- China's ruling Communist Party accused disgraced politician Bo Xilai of abusing power, taking huge bribes and other crimes on Sept. 28, sealing the fate of a...
September 28, 2012
BEIJING -- China's ruling Communist Party on Sept. 28 expelled disgraced senior politician Bo Xilai from top party positions and said it would hand him over for criminal...
September 27, 2012
BEIJING--A prominent Chinese government forensic scientist has questioned the cause of death of a murdered British businessman, casting doubt on the official version of a...
September 27, 2012
A faith healer who beat six followers to death was hanged on Sept. 27, making her only the fourth woman to be executed in Japan since 1950, the Justice Ministry said.
September 22, 2012
BEIJING -- A Burmese drug runner and five members of his gang have pleaded guilty in a Chinese court to murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River, state media said, in a ...
September 19, 2012
BEIJING--China for the first time on Sept. 19 implicated former senior politician Bo Xilai in a criminal act while avoiding naming him directly in a published account by state...
August 21, 2012
An amateur historian has spent 36 years and his own savings honoring a pivotal moment in Japan's modern history.
August 20, 2012
HEFEI, China--A Chinese court on Aug. 20 sentenced Gu Kailai, wife of ousted politician Bo Xilai, to death with a two-year reprieve for murdering a British businessman,...
August 17, 2012
SHANGHAI -- A Chinese court will give a verdict on Aug. 20 on Gu Kailai, the Chinese politician's wife tried for murdering a British businessman, triggering a scandal that...
August 12, 2012
BEIJING--The official Chinese account of the murder trial of the wife of a disgraced top politician made clear that she will be convicted, but never mentioned her once-powerful ...
August 11, 2012
HEFEI, China/ BEIJING--The Chinese woman accused of murdering British businessman Neil Heywood admitted guilt and blamed a mental breakdown for the events that brought her to...