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To avoid paying his ex-wife's lawyers fees, a Georgia man shot and killed the attorney before setting his office on fire.

A man in Detroit allegedly strangled his girlfriend to death and then stabbed her and burned her body in an attempt to cover it up, police said.

A vehicle burst into flames in Florida and two young children were trapped inside while their mother allegedly was at a store stealing, authorities said.

A judge sentenced a Miami businessman to life in prison for his involvement in a murder-for-hire plot that took the life of his then-wife’s alleged lover.

A man was convicted of murder and elder abuse in connection with the death of his 79-year-old roommate, a crime partially captured on Zoom.

A man in Texas allegedly setting fires along highway stabbed one of the firefighters trying to put out the suspected arsonist's blazes, officials said.

A man in New York fatally stabbed his estranged wife before setting his own house on fire, killing 12 animals inside.

A Minnesota man set his own property on fire while blaring 'We Didn't Start the Fire' by Billy Joel from the property, according to authorities.

A woman in Indiana has been arrested after allegedly setting her ex's clothes on fire with her meth-smoking torch during a fight over a casino trip, cops say.

New information has been released about an Oklahoma couple and their six children who were found dead in what police now believe was a murder-suicide.

A Mississippi man is accused of murder and arson after police said he threw gasoline on his seven roommates and intentionally set them on fire.

An indictment of Aaron Parsons by a grand jury in Cleveland alleged he attempted to kill a double amputee in February by tying him to railroad tracks.

A man wanted in connection with the death of a man in Texas was captured in Kansas, authorities said.

Investigators believe drugs may be involved in the case of an Ohio man who was found holding a hatchet and knife inside a burning home while his mother was trapped upstairs, officials said.

A Maryland man will spend the rest of his life in prison for taking a woman’s life in 'the most brutal way possible', the State’s Attorney’s Office said.

A man in Pennsylvania is accused of slitting his sleeping father's throat. The same man was previously convicted of burning down his grandmother's house

The body of a man who has been missing since 1991 in Missouri and declared dead was found in a burned vehicle and cops say he had assumed his wife's identity.

A mother in Nevada left her children home alone to go register for college classes. Now, her 3-year-old daughter died in house fire while gone, cops say.

A man in Massachusetts allegedly threw a woman into the campfire and held her in the flames in an attempt to kill her, police say.

Two men are charged with murdering a man at a homeless encampment in downtown Phoenix by putting him in trash bags, rolling them to a dumpster and torching it.

A man says he was beaten and bound in Seattle, tossed in the trunk of his own car, then escaped a fire after the vehicle was crashed into a home.

The body of a woman was found inside a burning car in Hawaii. Now police say a suspect has been arrested and charged with murder and arson.

A woman in Utah allegedly started an apartment building on fire in a quest to rid her life of 'sadness', authorities claimed.

A Michigan man was charged with murder after a firefighter died fighting a fire suspected to be the result of arson, authorities said.

A Utah woman and her dog were locked in a storage unit and they both died after her boyfriend allegedly set it on fire, authorities said.

Prosecutors announced they will be seeking the death penalty against a Florida bodybuilder accused of murdering his ex-wife and then burning her body.

Police in Tulsa said a man is under arrested for first-degree murder after a woman looking for her missing cat stumbled upon human remains on his property.

A Kansas man faces attempted murder charges after he allegedly set fire to a home and seriously injured two occupants, authorities said.

A man in California was charged with manslaughter after a house fire left one dead, police said. Authorities have released few details in the case.

A California man allegedly murdered his pregnant sister and then set her body on fire, authorities said. She was 36-weeks pregnant at the time.

A Florida man is accused of killing a man he had issues with who was increasingly in fear for his life, court documents show. The victim was interrogated.

Authorities in Texas arrested a man suspected of killing a minister whose badly burned body was found in his home following a fire believed to be intentionally set.

Multiple residents of a Texas apartment building are without homes after a man allegedly set fire to it days after he was evicted, authorities said.

A Florida bodybuilder is accused of luring his ex-wife to his home, killing her and then burning her body in an oil drum in his backyard, authorities said.

A Massachusetts man is under arrest after he allegedly killed his mother and set her body on fire in the yard of their home, police announced.

A man was arrested in connection with the death of his mother, whose body was allegedly burned outside the family’s home in Ohio. He was charged with murder.

A suspect was arrested and charged after a woman was found dead in a New York house fire, police said. Two other people were hurt in the incident.

A man in Maryland faces attempted murder and arson charges after setting fire to his home with a child inside, officials said. The man admitted to the crime.

A man in West Virginia was sentenced to prison for shooting a friend in the head and then burning the remains in an abandoned home. The motive was never made clear.

A man in North Carolina is accused of pouring gasoline on his 72-year-old mom and then lighting her on fire, killing her, according to reports. He was charged with murder.

A woman in Georgia was arrested for murder in connection with a deadly fire she allegedly set in her apartment that spread to other units, officials say.

A man in New Jersey faces several charges after police said he was responsible for three fires and a robbery of a pharmacy. He was arrested last week.

A woman in North Carolina is accused of setting fire to a home and stealing a dog. But, witnesses said she tried to burn the wrong home and not her boyfriend's.

A New Jersey man claimed a woman he met on a dating app died during erotic asphyxiation, so he set her body on fire, authorities said.

A woman in Michigan will head to prison for killing three people, including two kids, in a fire. The woman was jealous of her boyfriend and lit his home on fire.

A Georgia mother is accused of fatally stabbing three of her children inside the family’s home as it burned, police said.

A man in Texas is accused of purposely starting a fire that killed his half-brother who had special needs and mobility issues, officials said.

Three people have been arrested in connection to the killing of a Washington family years ago. The suspects were arrested this week and accused of murder.

A man suspected of killing his mother in Colorado was taken into custody across the country in Florida, authorities said. He faces murder charges.

A man set fire to his girlfriend, killing her. He also set fire to himself, survived and spent a year in the hospital. Now, he faces decades in prison for murder.