Dismemberment

A college computer manager on Friday was sentenced to 15 years to life for beating his wife to death with a statue, decapitating and dismembering her body, then burning her remains in a Ventura County campground, prosecutors said. Richard Gustav...

LONG BEACH — A woman who authorities say helped her then-fiance after he allegedly killed two people contended at a press conference Tuesday night that she is "completely innocent." Rachel Mae Buffett, 25, addressed the media at her brother's...

Relatives of a woman accused of helping her former fiancé after he allegedly killed two people say they are certain of her innocence. Rachel Mae Buffett, 25, of Long Beach, stands accused of being an accessory to murder after the fact. Her former...

A woman has been charged as an accessory in a case in which her fiance, a community theater actor, has been charged with double murder in the shooting deaths of a man whose body was dismembered and a woman who was left to look like a sexual assault...

An animal-rights organization has accused Newport Harbor High School students of mistreating cat carcasses intended for dissection in class and then publishing the images online. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a Washington, D.C.-based...

If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of lifesaving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter...

If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of life-saving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter...

For anyone who thinks abortion should not be legal, Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Philadelphia clinic was a nightmare almost beyond imagination — dirty and vile-smelling, with bloodstained furniture, unsterilized equipment and containers filled with the body...

The early American settlers called it "the starving time," and accounts of the winter of 1609-1610 were so ghastly, and so morbid, that scholars weren't sure if the stories were true. George Percy, then president of the English settlement of Jamestown...

MEXICO CITY — On the first day of trial, a witness named Bernardo Bernal recounted how, as a 9-year-old in the spring of 1983, he hid in a stream and watched Guatemalan soldiers kill his parents and two younger brothers. On the second day of...

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man charged with mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders was surprised by his arrest and maintains he is innocent, his attorney said Thursday after his first appearance. Paul Kevin Curtis, 45,...

CORINTH, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man accused of mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders believed he had uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market and claimed "various parties within the government"...