James Hartley’s body was found in grave so shallow that his hand protruded through the soil, waving at traffic near what is now Harry Reid International Airport. Nearly 69 years later, no arrests have been made in his death.
Nevada’s death row houses 64 inmates. Some of them have killed multiple people, including children. Others ended the lives of elderly victims. Some shot police officers or strangers, while others stabbed someone they knew.
Nevada’s death row houses 64 convicted killers, all men, most of whom have been awaiting execution for more than two decades.
With a donor’s help, Las Vegas police sent a Texas lab a tiny amount of DNA from a 1989 murder case. “We were at the wall,” a detective said. “This was our last shot.”
Clark County saw its most drastic drop in homicide investigations in at least a decade last year, down 33 percent from the previous year.
The son of Las Vegas police officer Alyn Beck opens up about the day five years ago that Beck and his partner were killed at a Cicis Pizza.