NEW ALBANY, Miss. (AP) – A judge has ruled that a man on Mississippi’s death row who says he killed his wife can give up all future appeals and request an execution date. Union County Circuit Judge Kent Smith issued…
A former Army captain serving three life sentences for the 1970 murders of his pregnant wife and two young children has asked a federal judge to free him due to his age and failing health.
Mississippi Coast Crime Stoppers and the family of a man killed in his Pass Christian home are increasing the amount of a reward offered for information into the man's death. A press release from Pass Christian Police Department said Kenneth…
MOSS POINT, Miss. (WXXV) — The identities of a suspect and the victim in a fatal shooting in Moss Point have been released. On Monday, January 18, 2021, at 8:22PM, Moss Point Police Department Dispatch received a call of shooting…
Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his “Wall of Sound” method and who later was convicted of murder, has died. He was 81.
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV) — One man is behind bars after allegedly stabbing a person to death on Christmas Eve in Gulfport. The Gulfport Police Department announced the arrest of 25-year-old Grant Newman Gutierrez late Christmas morning. Police say officers responded…
A Lucedale man is now behind bars for two murders that happened shortly after midnight on December 12th in Leakesville. Greene County investigators have issued warrants for the arrest of 35-year-old Derrick Dewayne Chavers. Chavers is charged with two counts…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi man has pleaded guilty to a murder charge after admitting he strangled his roommate and stuffed the body into an unplugged freezer in 2017. A Jackson County grand jury indicted Thomas Stafford on a…
November marks six years since Kimberly Watts was murdered in her Long Beach home. In that time, no arrests have been made. Her murder shocked and devastated those who knew her. Forty-eight year-old Kimberly Watts was many…
The murder of Jackson County Justice Court Judge Sheila Jackson Osgood has rocked the Moss Point community. The investigation into what happened Wednesday is underway. There are more questions than answers surrounding the death of beloved Jackson County Justice Court…
A second suspect is charged in the death of Dustin Lee Suttles, the Gautier man whose body was found last week floating in the Pascagoula River. Sheriff Mike Ezell says investigators arrested 23-year-old Taylor Allan Carpenter of Escatawpa Tuesday morning.…
Pearl River County Coroner Derek Turnage has positively identified the body found on July 17th on Texas Flat Road in Hancock County as missing Picayune man Willie Jones. Willie Jones has been missing since July 6th and officials later received…
On July 17th, 2020, the Gulfport Police Department arrested 22-year-old Samuel Bridges for one count of murder. On July 9th, 2020, the department responded to the area of Michigan Avenue and Monroe Street in reference to a possible motorcycle accident.…
Today marks six years since the death of five-year-old Janaya Thompson. On this day in 2014, five-year-old Janaya Thompson was found sexually assaulted and brutally murdered. Police found her body in a trailer in Gulfport. Albert Garcia was arrested and…
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Mobile, Alabama, say they've made a second arrest in a more than 20-year-old homicide. Police say 40-year-old Dammon Wright surrendered at the Mobile County Metro Jail on Monday. He's charged with murder in the…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV) — One man is dead after a shooting off of Hewes Avenue in Gulfport on Sunday night. The Gulfport Police Department says officers responded to a call in reference to a shooting at approximately 8:18 p.m. Sunday.…
The Gulf Coast Regional Task Force, along with the Moss Point Police Department, arrested a wanted fugitive who had been on the run for nearly a year. Delarrious Dewayne Crawford was wanted by the Mufreesboro Police Department and the Tennessee…
The community continues to mourn the loss of 41-year-old Micah Harrington who was brutally murdered at the Mazalea RV Park Tuesday evening. Biloxi police responded to the scene to find Harrington’s body with stab wounds and partially dismembered. Hours after…
BILOXI, Miss. (WXXV) — Late Tuesday night, the Biloxi Police Department arrested 41-year-old Clint Barrett Brower on a warrant for First Degree Murder. The warrant was issued as the result of an investigation into an incident in the 800 block…
A woman whose body was found buried in the backyard of a St. Martin home earlier this year, died of a single gunshot wound to the head, according to autopsy results released by the state medical examiner. On February 14,…
By Associated Press MCDONOUGH, Ga. (AP) — A Tulane University basketball player who recently declared for the NBA draft has been charged in a Georgia slaying. Henry County Jail records show 22-year-old Teshaun Hightower was booked into jail Saturday on…
By Associated Press LAPLACE, La. (AP) — Authorities in Louisiana said a man kidnapped a woman and fatally shot her when she escaped. Corrie Wallace was charged Monday with first-degree murder in the death of 25-year-old Ja’Riel Sam. St. John…
MOSS POINT, Miss. (WXXV) — A family argument escalated into a shooting that has led to a murder charge against a Moss Point man. Guy Radar, 81-years-old, has been charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of his son-in-law,…
A Biloxi man is accused of murder after his significant other was found dead. Yesterday, 43-year-old Michael Edward Reis flagged down Biloxi police officers near Porter Avenue and Beach Boulevard and told them he wanted to turn himself in. The…