Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For much of his life, death seemed to follow Steve Mandell. In his early days, Mandell was, of all things, a Chicago vice cop.

The charming town of Salisbury, North Carolina, would strike few people as a place often touched by homicide. So, when international reporters descended onto the region following the separate murders ...

You know those scenes in TV movies where the bad guy hires a hitman who turns out to be a cop? They’re real. Just ask Jack Ballentine, author and former Phoenix police officer, who became one of the ...

A man accused of sexual assault tried hiring a hitman from a Florida jail to kill a child victim and two other people involved in his prosecution, investigators said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A man ...

A former adult entertainment star, Katrina Lynn Danforth, who performed under the name Lynn Pleasant/Passion, was sentenced to ten years for planning the murder of her child’s father. Danforth hired a ...

POWELL — A Cody woman accused of trying to kill her son-in-law says she was entrapped by the undercover officer who posed as a potential hitman.

The Anti Gangster Squad of the Delhi Police Crime Branch on Sunday thwarted a target killing after arresting a hitman linked to the Kaushal Chaudhry gang in a trap laid at Nursery Road, Dwarka, ...