The state and the defense have wildly differing theories on Gene Kirkpatrick's role in the hammer beating that killed his former son-in-law and orphaned his 3-year-old granddaughter. On Monday, ...

FARGO – The North Dakota Supreme Court on Wednesday shot down the third appeal of a man convicted in 2011 of hiring a hitman to kill his son-in-law, a Fargo dentist. Gene Kirkpatrick, who is serving a ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- A man accused of a murder-for-hire plot was in an Oklahoma County courtroom Tuesday and stated he would fight extradition to North Dakota where he's charged with conspiring to have ...

An alleged confession by Gene Kirkpatrick, the man accused of hiring a hitman to kill his former son-in-law, was voluntary and is admissible at trial, a judge ruled Thursday. Judge Steven Marquart ...

FARGO -- Almost 10 dozen prospective jurors will come to the Cass County Courthouse today as attorneys begin to select a jury in the murder conspiracy trial for Gene Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick, 64, of ...

The funeral for a former Gretna dentist who was found dead inside his North Dakota home last month in what authorities suspect was a murder-for-hire plot spearheaded by his father-in-law will be held ...

FARGO, N.D. - The father-in-law of slain Fargo dentist Philip Gattuso told his handyman, who is accused to Gattuso's murder, that he wanted his son-in-law "gone or dead," according to charges filed ...

FARGO--The North Dakota Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a third appeal filed by Gene Kirkpatrick, a 68-year-old Oklahoma man convicted in 2011 of hiring a hitman to kill his son-in-law.