Escape

In 1984, soul legend Marvin Gaye was in the grip of a cocaine habit and living with his father, a hard-drinking Pentecostal preacher with whom he had a lifetime of bad blood. One day, Gaye gave his father a gun and told him it was to protect the house. Some would see an elaborate ...  Show more

When retired art teacher Joseph Gatto was shot to death inside his Silver Lake home in 2013, the LAPD theorized that a fleeing car burglar might be the killer. The victim’s son, a prominent California legislator, found that story increasingly hard to believe. 

This Week on True Crime News The Podcast: Kathryn Restelli admitted to conspiring with her mother and brother to kill her husband, Matthew Restelli, amid the couple’s contentious custody battle. Police say that the man was lured to the home under the promise of reconciliation bef ...  Show more

Listen to this week's episode of the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast with Andrea Canning. In Tennessee, the defense attorney for a man accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death makes an unexpected admission. In West Virginia, a pharmacist already serving time for scammin ...

When a woman's husband was gunned down in his own garage by intruders, investigators worked tirelessly to find the assassins. But when they discovered that a wound sustained during the attack by the grieving widow may have been self-inflicted, they turned to science to help t hem ...  Show more

Listen to this week's episode of the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast with Andrea Canning. In West Virginia, there was emotional testimony last week from the children of the pharmacist accused of poisoning her husband. This week the jury returned its verdict.  KHNL reporter ...