Homicide

A man charged over the death of Steven Murphy, whose remains were found in an underground bunker at a property in Adelaide's north, has pleaded not guilty to murder but has admitted to killing the victim.

A taekwondo instructor who allegedly murdered an entire family in Sydney has his case heard in court this morning as police continue investigating the motive.

Constable Anthony Woods died after being dragged under a car during a traffic stop in Perth last year.

NSW Police say mother and son were killed in martial arts centre, then another man was killed at a separate location before alleged killer presented himself to Westmead hospital.

Police have charged Kwang Kyung Yoo with three counts of murder after the discovery of the bodies of a husband, wife and their child in two separate locations in Sydney on Tuesday.

Two men have been charged with murder in last week's shooting that killed one person and injured 22 others at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade, prosecutors in the US state of Missouri say.

South Australia's parole board is considering an application to release Snowtown accomplice Mark Ray Haydon, on the same day the state government has rushed legal changes through parliament.

The body of a man was located in Baulkham Hills, while two other bodies, a woman and a child, were found inside a martial arts studio in North Parramatta.

A 31-year-old American man admits to charges of murder and rape after allegedly pushing two US women down a ravine, fatally injuring one of them, in Germany.

Yulia Navalnaya has accused the Russian president of killing her husband in a video she uploaded to social media.

Raelene Polymiadis, who is accused of murdering her elderly parents by allegedly injecting them with her own insulin, indicates she will fight breach of bail charges against her.

A new coronial inquest has been scheduled into the disappearance of the young Sydney woman who failed to meet her mother at Newcastle Railway Station in 1994.

Pastor Ian Wilkinson has delivered a sermon to his church for the first time speaking publicly since his world was turned upside down.

An investigation into Gold Coast mother Kelly Wilkinson's murder will be officially opened  to see if her death could have been prevented.

The parents of murdered woman Gabby Petito's fiance received a "frantic" phone call from him after her death, new documents reveal. 

David Tran had been stalking and harassing 33-year-old Daiane Pelegrini in the weeks before he murdered her on August 3, 2020, in what a judge described as a "vicious and prolonged attack".

Queensland police have charged the 44-year-old Woodhill man with murder and interfering with a corpse after the death of a 41-year-old woman at a rural property in Logan, south of Brisbane.

Police say the disappearance of 40-year-old Daniel Copeland is now the subject of a homicide investigation.

A man accused of killing his estranged wife after dousing her with petrol and setting her alight on the Gold Coast almost three years ago has pleaded guilty to her murder.

Three people have been fatally shot while at work at a shipping company near Athens. 

Jackson Stacker's decomposing body was found in a paddock with a knife embedded in his chest.

Snowtown accomplice Mark Ray Haydon could be out of prison within weeks if a long-standing parole bid is approved.

Vyleen White's family say they don't want her death to be divisive.

A man who was found dead in a northern Adelaide rubbish tip in 2021 was allegedly bashed and killed before he was dumped in a green waste bin, a court has heard.

A 29-year-old Hillside man has today been charged with the murder of an infant in Melbourne's south-west last month.