Dakota Van Patten sentenced for helping a friend kidnap and brutally murder 20-year-old Melody Hoffman in February 2024.

LINN COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG) - Dakota Van Patten is set to be sentenced Friday for the murder of 20-year-old Melody Hoffman. Van ...

The heartbroken father of Melody Hoffman, who was murdered in February 2024, told her killer, 19-year-old Dakota Van Patten, that he doesn't deserve to be called human. He is a "monster," who will be ...

BUCKS, A CEDAR RAPIDS MAN FACING LIFE IN PRISON IN A MURDER CASE WANTS A NEW TRIAL. LAST MONTH, DAKOTA VAN PATTEN WAS FOUND GUILTY OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER IN CONNECTION TO THE DEATH OF MELODY HOFFMAN.

Five members of the Mount Vernon Police Department have been suspended in connection to last week's shooting inside a prison van. The department said a sergeant and four officers have been suspended ...

Krenwinkel is one of three people who were convicted of the seven murders in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles on two consecutive nights in August 1969. The others were Charles Manson and Charles “Tex” ...

The District Court in Amsterdam has sentenced 50-year-old tennis coach Dennis van Scheppingen to three and a half years in ...

Four more prisoners are at large after being mistakenly released from jail, LBC understands. It is reported the four "at ...

In horrific news from the tennis world, former pro and coach Dennis van Scheppingen was sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting his former students, both brothers, on Wednesday (November 5).