| JONBENET RAMSEY CASE
Ramsey Grand Jury Meets Again--(KUSA) Several staff members of the state attorney general's office went before the Ramsey grand jury today in Boulder. They were among a group of people who spent about five hours at the Boulder County Justice Center. The testimony is secret. We do know that the attorney general's office has offered to give legal advice in the case. |
| MATTHEW SHEPARD LARAMIE, Wyo. Police: Attackers grilled Shepard for info so they could rob apartment--(POSTnet) |
| East St. Louis, Illinois Woman pleads not guilty by reason of insanty in children's abduction--(POSTnet) |
| Police want to discuss disappearance with family friend |
 Maria Gaona, 12 Family Fears 12-Year-Old Was Taken To Mexico by a Friend  The family believes that a 28-year-old man, pictured in the middle, may have followed the bus and taken Gaona. |
| Tampa, Florida Willie Sexton sentenced to death for second time--(Tampa Bay Online) For the second time in four years, Eddie Lee Sexton stood before a judge and was sentenced to death for the murder of his son-in-law. |
| LOUISE WOODWARD Au pair civil trial set for January--(POSTnet) |
| SEATTLE: Kavita S. Babber, 13 Charges filed in killing of 13-year-old girl--(Oregon Live) |
| STEPHANIE CONDON, 14, missing Officials ask for help in finding Riddle girl--(Oregonian) |
| HEIDI FLEISS Dublin, California Heidi Fleiss released from prison, going to halfway house--(WRAL) |
| MADDIE RAE CLIFTON Jacksonville, Florida 14-year-old indicted for murder in death of 8-year-old neighbour --(TBO) |
| Texas Two girls die, mother questioned--(KTVT) Police are questioning a Dallas woman about the death of her two children. The mother was found semi-conscious Tuesday night and taken to the hospital. Her two little girls were found dead. |
| LISA NORRELL,15 Police have lead in Lisa Norrell case--(APB Online) |
| GARY WAYNE THOMAS disappearance Maryland man jailed after search turns up jawbone--(WRAL) |
| CRIME NEWS: Mid-morning update
SPOKANE: Serial killer top priority, Sterk says (spokane.net) Suspect Arrested in 'Mummy Bandit' Cases (LA Times) Second Woman Missing From Cal Poly Campus (LA Times) Disappearances: Student from Irvine vanished after party in San Luis Obispo last Thursday. FBI joins search. Rachel Newhouse, 20 and Kristin Smart, 19. In Hearing, Transient Says He Killed Boy (LA Times) Murder of Matthew Cecchi, 9 Is Trucker That Rare Serial Killer With a Conscience? (LA Times) Crime: Wayne Adam Ford has been called sweet and apologetic. But some say he may just be a very good liar. Pornagrapher Sentenced in Web Case (LV Sun) Schools Will Issue 'Perv' Alerts Under Megan's Law (NY Post) DNA on Park Slay Knife (NY Daily News) Digging may start Monday for more Gacy victims (Chicago Sun-Times) |
| DNA New DNA testing method at heart of murder case (TC Record-Eagle) A commonly accepted form of DNA testing - using DNA from a cell's nucleus - could not be used on a pubic hair found at the crime scene and another strand of hair found, because neither contained the hair root where living cells can be found. So prosecutors turned to mitochondrial DNA, a new form of analysis that can test dead cell matter extracted from hair or bones. DNA experts: Murder suspect may be rapist, too, despite lack of evidence (TC Record-Eagle) The fact that Jamie Lee Peterson's DNA does not match samples found in murder victim Geraldine Montgomery's body does not rule him out as a suspect in her rape, experts told the jury in Peterson's trial Tuesday. |
| UNSOLVED CHILD MURDERS
RYAN HARRIS, 8 SHARRA FERGER, 9 JENNIFER ODOM, 12 JONBENET RAMSEY, 6 JONBENET RAMSEY CASE One Year Ago: Wed 19-Nov-1997
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| CRIME NEWS AROUND THE NET
R.I. jury foreman stands by verdict (Boston Globe) Derick Hazard on trial for 1996 murder of David Andrews Worcester police remain puzzled as search goes on for missing infant (Boston Globe) Police are still struggling to determine whether young Marlon Santos is the victim of a homicide or an abduction, whether he is dead or alive. He leaves a trail of whispers (Boston Globe) Wife missing, undaunted Quincy suspect turns heads at local haunts. Katherine Leonard Romano has been missing since late September. Boulder DA again backs off in Sid Wells murder case (KWGN) Fifteen years after the murder, still not enough evidence to arrest Thayne Smika. Police: Wife served Alzheimer's spouse rat poison mix (TBO) Man formerly accused of raping tourist plans to sue police (TBO) Daughters win $4.2m verdict in suit over mom's slaying (AJC) Springfield, Ga. Eddie Lee Sexton sentenced to death (SP Times) The judge says the father dominated his son, forcing the son to kill his brother-in-law. Body found in park identified (KC Star) Jerry Anderson of Minnesota, missing for two weeks, victim of foul play. |
| MISSING: Tera Smith,16, Redding, California
Tera's father writes ode to missing teen (Record-Searchlight) A Chico man who used to live in Nashville put the words from a poem about Tera Smith to music, and the song is getting some north state airplay. |
| A blood-stained paradise--(ANN) The people of Mustique, the Caribbean paradise island frequented by millionaires, supermodels, rock stars and royalty, are being fingerprinted in an attempt to solve a murder mystery. |