Suspect Troy Driver sent his girlfriend a letter from jail last year that described a “terrible darkness” inside him. He killed himself earlier this month.
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A former police officer who pleaded guilty in a 1997 shooting death was sentenced Tuesday to between six and 15 years in prison.
A 64-year-old man accused of strangling and stabbing a Las Vegas woman was found incompetent to face charges during a court hearing Friday.
Las Vegas police are seeking any other victims of a man accused of raping and killing a woman 42 years ago.
A Las Vegas judge on Wednesday scheduled a competency hearing for Paul Nuttall, accused in a brutal 42-year-old cold case of rape and murder.
The conviction review unit of the Clark County district attorney’s office has produced one felony exoneration in the six years since it was created.
A 70-year-old Reno man has been charged in the 1982 killing of a 5-year-old girl who disappeared while walking to her kindergarten class, authorities said.
Dawed Mekonene, 30, was found unconscious in a cell on Feb. 19.
A Las Vegas man accused of killing a woman, storing her body in a suitcase and raping another woman was sentenced Tuesday to between 16 and 40 years in prison.
Las Vegas police linked a dead man to a second cold case killing, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Raymond Spencer said in a video posted to the department’s YouTube channel on Monday.
Las Vegas police announced on Monday that they have solved the 1979 abduction, rape and killing of a 16-year-old girl by using advances in DNA technology.
Investigators used records from social media, a rental truck and the victim’s phone to tie a Henderson man to the death of his missing girlfriend, court documents show.
A man who had a murder charge against him dismissed in a lethal Las Vegas rapper feud is now facing charges of human trafficking in the valley.
A woman with ties to the death of a 24-year-old Las Vegas model whose body was found encased in cement has pleaded guilty to an accessory to murder charge, court records show.
Las Vegas police arrested a man on kidnapping, sexual assault and murder charges Wednesday night after officers found a woman’s body in a suitcase.