Arthur CampbellBECKER CO., Minn. (KVRR) — Two people are sentenced to long prison terms for shooting and killing a 19-year-old Frazee, Minnesota teen in December. 21-year-old Arthur Campbell was given 40 years in prison for second-degree murder, assault with a dangerous weapon and soliciting juveniles to commit a felony. 16-year-old Kayne Mackner was given over 31 years in prison for…
FILE – Los Angeles Police Detective Mark Fuhrman shows the jury in the O.J. Simpson double murder trial evidence during testimony Friday, March 10, 1995, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, Pool, File)BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, who was convicted of lying during testimony at the OJ Simpson murder trial, has died at 74….
VALLEY CITY, N.D. (KVRR) – An Arizona woman has been arrested for the 1981 murder of “Baby Rebecca.” Sixty-five-year-old Nancy Jean Trottier is charged with murder. Court documents say that on April 16, 1981, the body of an infant girl was discovered in the wooded area of the Valley City State College campus. An autopsy report indicated the infant had…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — A second woman involved in the March 2024 death of a toddler in Moorhead, pleads guilty to second-degree murder and avoids going to trial. 24-year-old Shiann Erickson was charged in the death of 3-year-old Eastyn Deronjic along with Rosa Garza. Police began investigating the death after a medical call for a child not breathing in the…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Cazmere Haskins who claimed his sentence for a deadly stabbing in 2024 was cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. In December 2024, Haskins changed his plea to guilty for the murder of 24-year-old Anfernee Economy of Grand Forks and was sentenced to 40 years in…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The West Lakeland, Minnesota man who fatally stabbed another man outside SouthTown PourHouse in Fargo nearly two year ago is sentenced to 24 1/2 years in prison. 29-year-old Michael Diedrich was sentenced in Cass County District Court for the murder of 22-year-old Ethan Larson of Newfolden, Minnesota. Back in January, Diedrich entered an Alford plea, agreeing…
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (KFGO-KZZY) — During a court hearing in Devils lake Monday afternoon, Ramsey County State’s Attorney Daniel Howell informed the judge that the state would be appealing an order granting Werner Kunkel a new trial. Last month, District Judge Daniel Narum ordered a new trial for Kunkel. He was convicted in 1995 of murdering Gilbert Fassett in 1986….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Joshua Hite, the man accused of killing his girlfriend and possibly dismembering her body, has been ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation. Judge Steven McCullough signed the papers last Friday to send Hite to the North Dakota State Hospital for an examination at public expense. It could take up to 30 days to determine if…
Leo DartoeFARGO (KFGO) — A Fargo jury has found a man guilty of murdering his childhood friend. Leo Dartoe, 35, shot and killed Sampson Bleh in August 2024 at an apartment in the 2200 block of 12th Ave. S. in Fargo. Bleh was shot in the chest. He died at the hospital. After the shooting, Dartoe fled the state, and…
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Devils Lake judge has ordered a new trial for a man who has spent more than 30 years in prison for a murder on Spirit Lake Reservation. 65-year-old Werner Kunkel has always maintained his innocence and has been fighting to clear his name for decades. He was convicted in 1995 in the 1986 stabbing…
