A Venezuelan man has been convicted of murder in the killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. Jose Ibarra was charged with murder and other crimes in Riley's February death, and the guilty verdict was reached Wednesday by Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard.

Authorities say Nicholas Hamlett killed a man in Tennessee in an attempt to steal his identity, and reported it to police as a bear attack. He was arrested in South Carolina after a weekslong manhunt.

Six people have been indicted in a murder-for-hire conspiracy targeting two Fulton County Jail detention officers.

A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege and the Murder of Lita McClinton chronicles the long delay for justice. GPB's Peter Biello speaks with author Deb Miller Landau.

A gravesite in Macon’s Rose Hill Cemetery containing the remains of a family killed in a grisly murder more than a century ago was vandalized earlier this month, and investigators are looking for the suspects.

It took almost two days for Albert Knight Jr.’s body to be discovered in a downtown Macon alley.

Investigators hope new DNA evidence could get them closer to solving a decades old murder case.The FBI and the Putnam County Sheriff's office confirmed on Thursday that additional DNA has been found in connection with the murders of Shirley and Russell Dermond.

Authorities say someone fishing with a magnet in a Georgia creek pulled up new evidence in a nine-year-old murder case.

The suspect in the killing of a nursing student on the University of Georgia campus used an object as a weapon in the crime and is accused of "disfiguring her skull." That's according to newly filed arrest affidavits. Jose Ibarra faces multiple murder and assault charges in the death of 22-year-old Laken Riley. 

The killing of a nursing student in Georgia who was out running has shaken the university town of Athens. Twenty-two-year-old Laken Hope Riley, who was studying at Augusta University, went out for a run Thursday morning but did not return.

The University of Georgia Police Department said there were no indications of a continuing threat to the UGA campus related to this matter.

 

A brutally violent series of murders of women has been documented. Thousands of Kenyans are protesting to demand government action on gender-based violence.

A new podcast, Radical, explores the lesser-known reasons why Imam Jamil was convicted for the murder of a sheriff's deputy in Atlanta in March 2000.

Authorities have made an arrest in one of Georgia's oldest unsolved murders, that of a 5-year-old girl found encased in concrete and dumped in woods in Southeast Georgia's Ware County in 1988.

 

Jail records show the suspect in a mass shooting in Atlanta that left one woman dead and four others wounded has been charged with one count of murder and four counts of aggravated assault.