Homicide Archives

Man scheduled to die for killing cousins in Callaway County seeks halt to execution

February 13, 2024 11:14 AM Matthew Sanders

A man scheduled to die in April for the killing of his cousins in New Bloomfield is seeking a stay, arguing that Missouri’s lethal injection method would violate his religious beliefs and be unnecessarily painful.

Mother of missing Macon man reflects on finding his body in Boone County

February 8, 2024 7:56 PM Nia Hinson

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Shawna Patterson — the mother of 25-year-old Malik Jones, whose body was found in a wooded area Wednesday afternoon in Boone County — told ABC 17 News that she and her daughter were the ones to find him. Patterson said she believes it was her persistent prayers that led her to finding

QUESTION OF THE DAY: Do you agree with the verdict in Jennifer Crumbley’s trial?

February 7, 2024 2:18 AM ABC 17 News Team

A jury on Tuesday convicted Jennifer Crumbley on four counts of manslaughter related to her son Ethan’s school shooting in Michigan.

Jennifer Crumbley, mother of school shooter, found guilty of involuntary manslaughter

February 6, 2024 12:50 PM CNN Newsource

Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of the teenager who killed four students at an Oxford, Michigan, high school in 2021, was found guilty of all four counts of involuntary manslaughter in a novel legal case that stood as a test of the limits of who’s responsible for a school shooting.

Family of Callaway County double murder victims say killer deserves no clemency

January 25, 2024 12:23 PM Matthew Sanders

Surviving family members of two people killed by their cousin in New Bloomfield in 2006 say their loved ones’ killer — their own cousin — deserves no clemency.

Columbia murder, arson suspect appears in court

January 22, 2024 11:02 AM Matthew Sanders

A neighbor saw the suspect in a murder and arson moving things out of a southwest Columbia home the night of the fire, according to court documents.

Eldon child gunshot victim one of scores nationwide

January 16, 2024 11:38 AM Jazsmin Halliburton

An Eldon child killed Sunday by a gunshot wound to the head is one of about 130 who die by firearms each year, according to a major gun safety advocacy group.

Documents: Eldon man left loaded gun on table before child was shot

January 16, 2024 9:53 AM Matthew Sanders

An Eldon man left a loaded handgun on a living room table before a child was shot to death Sunday, according to court documents.

Eldon man arrested after child shot, dies

January 15, 2024 1:12 PM Madison Stuerman

An Eldon man is facing charges after a boy was found dead in a home on Sunday.

Three felonies charged in deadly crash outside Columbia apartment complex

January 3, 2024 9:53 AM Matthew Sanders, Mitchell Kaminski

A Columbia woman is set to appear in court later this month on three felony charges related to a deadly motorcycle crash last summer outside a Columbia apartment complex.

Columbia man gets almost 50 years in prison for drug overdose death

December 22, 2023 3:54 PM Matthew Sanders

A judge sentenced a Columbia man to nearly a half-century in prison after he was convicted of manslaughter and other crimes in a 2020 fentanyl overdose.

Callaway County killer gets execution date

December 13, 2023 10:42 AM Matthew Sanders

A man convicted in 2008 of the murders of a New Bloomfield couple is set to be executed in April.

First-degree murder charge filed in Columbia killing

December 11, 2023 9:53 AM Matthew Sanders, Jazsmin Halliburton

A Columbia man faces a capital murder charge after a woman found shot Friday in the neck next to a truck died.

Columbia homicide victim’s family to hold balloon release following arrest of suspect

December 9, 2023 10:53 AM Marina Diaz

The Columbia Police Department arrested John Lonce Williamson III, 27, of Columbia early Saturday morning in connection to a homicide that occurred on Friday.