A slaying in the nation’s capital will inevitably turn heads, and a murder in leafy Georgetown earns a special infamy. But no story in recent memory is more sordid than the crime that took place ...

Hours after Viola Drath, 91, was found dead in her Georgetown home Friday, her husband approached her family with a signed document that said he would get as much as $200,000 from her estate if she ...

It’s not hard to see why the alleged murder of socialite and journalist Viola Herms Drath has captured Washingtonians’ imaginations over the last week and a half. She was 91, and the man police have ...

He was a con man for much of his life, charming his way into elite company through false pretenses and lies, but the murder of his wife was one deed he could not manipulate his way out of. Muth would ...

Viola Drath, a popular 91-year-old Georgetown socialite who was found slain in her home Friday, had a tumultuous and sometimes violent relationship with her much younger husband, court documents show.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As his murder trial opened Tuesday, prosecutors and defense attorneys painted starkly different pictures of a German man accused of strangling his elderly wife, 91, to death at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON (AP) — A German man who masqueraded as an Iraqi general and other eccentric characters was sentenced Wednesday to 50 ...

Albrecht Muth pretended to be a lot of things. One guise was that of an Iraqi general as he marched around his upmarket Washington neighbourhood in an olive green uniform with a swagger stick under ...