The Latest Breaking News from Murder

Adnan Syed hearing - live: Serial podcast’s subject walks out of court to cheers as conviction is overturned

Officials have 30 days to decide whether they will fully drop the charges against him

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2022

NSW to introduce 'no body no parole' law

Convicted murderers in NSW will be denied parole unless they reveal the location of their victim's body, under new legislation to be introduced to parliament.

AAP · Sep 19, 2022

Prosecutors: Inmate confessed to killing 4 women in 1990

St. Louis-area prosecutors say a convicted murderer serving a life sentence for killing a man in 1995 has confessed to strangling four women five years earlier

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2022

Adnan Syed, subject of 'Serial' podcast, is released after his conviction is vacated

Syed was 18 when he was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Lee was murdered in 1999 when she was also 18.

WEKU · Sep 19, 2022

Timeline of the murder of Hae Min Lee and legal battle of Adnan Syed

Syed’s sudden release marks just the latest twist in a case that has rumbled on for more than two decades

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2022

‘Serial’ case: Adnan Syed to be released, conviction tossed

A Baltimore judge has ordered the release of Adnan Syed after overturning Syed’s conviction for a1999 murder that was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial.”

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2022

Serial podcast’s Adnan Syed ‘can’t believe it’s real,’ his attorney says, after murder conviction quashed

Syed has spent the last two decades behind bars for the 1999 murder of his former girlfriend Hae Min Lee

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2022

Judge denies request from victim's brother to postpone Adnan Syed’s hearing for 7 days

BALTIMORE — The court hearing about whether Adan Syed, a Baltimore man whose legal saga was the basis for hit podcast “Serial,” should have his 1999 murder conviction overturned is on hold while the court waits for the victim’s brother to join the proceedings.

Tribune News Service · Sep 19, 2022

Gardai make four arrests as part of investigation into 2010 murder of Lee Slattery in Limerick

"All four are currently being held at Garda Stations in the Limerick and Clare Garda Divisions."

Irish Mirror · Sep 19, 2022

The Tadamon Massacre: Two researchers secretly investigate mass murders in Syria

Addressing reporters on 17 August, the French National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office said that it had received “significant documentation relating to possible crimes committed by Syrian regime forces… during the Tadamon massacre in Damascus in 2013”. The French foreign affairs ministry continued, “the alleged facts are likely to constitute the most…

The Conversation · Sep 19, 2022