Second Murder Trial Begins in 1980 Mobile Cold Case
MOBILE, Ala. — A Mobile man is standing trial a second time for the 1980 rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman, more than four decades after her body was…
Manson Follower Once Arrested in Mobile Recommended for Parole
A Charles Manson follower whose capture more than five decades ago played out on the streets of Mobile has moved a step closer to freedom. A California parole panel recommended…
A New Memoir Revisits the Leverett Case and the Long Shadow of Abuse
Phyllis Hain's memoir, Diamond in the Dark, returns to one of Mobile's most sensational cases of the early 1980s and traces how a childhood of violence shaped the choices of…
Twenty Years Without Answers: Daughters Still Search for Mobile Mother Lisa Ann Pierce
Two decades have passed since Lisa Ann Pierce vanished from a Mobile street corner, but her daughters refuse to let her name fade from memory. The case, now one of…
Mobile Defense Attorneys Say A&E’s ‘First 48’ Cameras Are Poisoning Juries Before Trial
Mobile defense attorneys say the unprecedented access A&E's "The First 48" gets to homicide investigations is undermining defendants' right to a fair trial, even as the Mobile County District Attorney's…
Judge Weighs Ending Electronic Monitoring for Suspect in 1980 Mobile Cold Case Murder
A Mobile judge is expected to rule Thursday on whether a man charged in a nearly 40-year-old murder should be freed from electronic monitoring while awaiting trial. Alvin Ray Allen…
A nearly 200-year-old Mobile murder mystery: the Boyington Oak
Mobile author Mary S. Palmer’s latest book, “Boyington Oak, A Grave Injustice,” revisits one of the city’s oldest unsolved questions. In 1834, Charles Boyington was hanged for the murder of…
DNA results identify burned remains found in Grand Bay as Terri Sullivan
DNA testing has positively identified human remains found inside a burned-out rental car in Grand Bay earlier this year as those of Terri Sullivan, authorities said, closing one chapter of…
Capital murder charges filed in missing nurse Terri Sullivan case
Capital murder charges have been filed against two people in the disappearance of nurse Terri Sullivan, according to Washington County Sheriff Richard Stringer. Samuel Sullivan, Terri’s husband, and his ex-wife…
Nearly Four Decades Later, Family and Detectives Still Seek Answers in 1981 Todd Acres Murder
Almost 38 years after 21-year-old Brenda Peters was found dead in a wooded area of the Todd Acres community, her family and the investigators who worked the case say they…