COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A judge in Boone County has ordered a local man extradited to Indiana immediately to face murder and rape charges in a 1993 Indianapolis homicide. Dana Shepherd, 52, of Columbia, is accused of killing Carmen Van Huss in March 1993. Police said the victim was found dead with signs of a struggle
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A St. Louis woman who had been charged with covering up her baby’s death pleaded guilty Monday to reduced charges. Lavosha Daniels, 32, of St. Louis, pleaded guilty to abandoning a corpse and first-degree involuntary manslaughter, Boone County Prosecuting Attorney Roger Johnson said. She had been charged with corpse abandonment and child
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Military investigators are seeking charges against a U.S. Army specialist for allegedly killing one of his fellow soldiers. Spc. Wooster Rancy, 21, with the 5th Engineer Battalion, is suspected of murder in the death of Sgt. Sarah Roque, Fort Leonard Wood officials wrote in a Facebook post Thursday. The base in Pulaski
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County prosecutors have charged a St. Louis man and two Columbia men with murder in the death of a Columbia teenager on Thursday. Byron Sampson, 20, is charged with second-degree murder after he is accused of killing Traquan Reed, 18, on Thursday. Julius J. Mosby, 18, and Demetrius L. Mays, 22,
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Camden County prosecutors have filed a murder charge against an alleged burglar whose partner was shot in the act on Oct. 2.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A grand jury added a third felony charge last week to an indictment in a Columbia murder case. Adam A. Conner of Columbia was charged with second-degree murder and evidence tampering in 2022 after a woman’s body was found in a garage closet on High Quest Drive. Police have not named the
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A Jefferson City woman remained in the Cole County Jail on Friday after her indictment last week on a manslaughter charge for leaving an unnamed victim to die in a hot car.
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A Jefferson City man has been indictment on a murder charge after a bar fight led to a patron’s death last month.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man serving two life sentences for a double-murder in Boone County wants a federal judge to give him a new trial. Darious Lucas filed the federal writ on Tuesday in the Western District of Missouri’s federal court. Lucas said his judge at trial should have allowed him to present evidence that
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The man charged in a crash that killed an Osage Beach police officer will get a new judge on his case.
Continue Reading Indianapolis Metropolitan Police were scheduled to host a news conference Tuesday afternoon to talk about the arrest of a Boone County man in a 1993 rape and murder case.
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A man accused of killing his daughter and abandoning her corpse was sentenced to seven years in the Missouri Department of Corrections.
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Two suspects in a Sedalia shooting that turned deadly when the hospitalized victim died have now been indicted on murder and accessory charges.
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A man charged with first-degree murder for a shooting in a Columbia grocery store parking lot took a reduced charge in a plea deal on Thursday.
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A former Mid-Missouri turned defense attorney says wrongful arrests like one in a Fulton murder case last week don’t happen often.
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The Missouri Board of Parole denied convicted Cole County killer Alyssa Bustamante an early release from prison.
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A man who was wanted by Fulton police for allegedly taking part in a deadly shooting was in the Callaway County Jail on Monday.
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Fulton police on Friday named another suspect in a deadly Tuesday shooting as three other suspects made their first court appearances.
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A jury began deliberations Thursday in the trial of a man accused in a 2021 Boone County stabbing death.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) – Gov. Mike Parson plans to sign a bill that will change the parole eligibility for some people in jail that committed murder when they were children. The governor’s office said that he plans to sign SB 754 on Tuesday with a slew of other bills. The timing, though, leaves Alyssa
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