Christine Pelisek

The Los Angeles Police Department is looking for the person responsible for the shooting death of 26-year-old Sergio Hernandez March 4. At around 5:15 p.m., yesterday evening LAPD Olympic Area officers responded to a radio call in the 900 block of Westmoreland Avenue. Officers discovered Hernandez with a gunshot wound......

A college friend of Esteban Nunez, the son of former state Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, has pleaded guilty to two counts of assault for his role in the death of 22-year-old San Diego college student Luis Santos. In exchange, Leshanor Thomas has agreed to testify again Nunez and Nunez' friend......

The Los Angeles Police Department is looking for the person who fatally shot 35-year-old Stacey Dolly February 8. According to police reports, Dolly was hanging out at a friends apartment in the 5300 block of South 3rd Avenue in South Los Angeles when he heard a knock on the door,......

Will the horrific events that left a tiny girl unconscious for days in a Los Angeles hospital 41* years ago, badly raped and facing weeks of recovery, send Rodney Alcala to Death Row, or will he merely get life in prison from an Orange County jury? The mysterious "Tali," long......

Kayvan Setareh, the businessman arrested February 26 for allegedly draping a gargantuan supergraphic on a historic 1927 Hollywood bank building near the site of the upcoming Oscars, has agreed to take it down. In exchange, he had his $1 million bail reduced to $100,000 during a hearing at a downtown......

UPDATE, 2-25-2010: "Guilty Verdict for Serial Killer and "The Dating Game" Contestant Rodney Alcala." In 2005, when DNA evidence linked alleged serial killer R...

Serial killer Rodney Alcala has been found guilty of killing 12-year-old Huntington Beach ballet student and four Los Angeles County women. The verdict was read around 1:30 p.m. today in the Orange County Superior court room of Judge Francisco Briseno. The court room was packed with newspaper and television reporters,......