| Almaty, Kazakhstan Woman mummifies mom--(Reuters) A woman in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, saying she was unable to afford funeral costs, has been arrested after mummifying her dead mother and three other relatives. |
| HELEN VIRGINIA JACKSON aka HELEN COOPER Las Vegas, Nevada Bones identified as missing woman--(Las Vegas Sun) Bones found in the yard of an apartment complex have been identified as the remains of a 40-year-old woman missing since 1997. |
| LETICIA MANALANSAN murder case BILLY K. JOHNSON, arrested Jacksonville, Florida Police: Calls from suspect led to arrest--(TBO-FL) For 13 years, police had a suspect in the 1986 kidnapping and killing of a hospital custodial worker but were unable to find any tangible evidence linking him to the crime. |
| CAROLE and JULIE SUND SILVINA PELOSSO Missing since Feb. 16, 1999 California FBI joins hunt for missing trio--(San Francisco Examiner) Families are united by tragedy--(Contra Costa Times) Neighbourhood combed in search for trio--(Modesto Bee) Disappearance of Yosemite sightseers remains a mystery--(Sacramento Bee) |
| CRIME NEWS AROUND THE NET Judge To Decide Whether Boy, 10, Is Fit To Stand Trial For Murder (Chicago Trib) The unnamed boy and his brother are charged with fatally beating their foster brother, David Jones, 5 Porter-Case Heroes Go Before Grand Jury (Chicago Trib) The story was TV-perfect: five fresh-scrubbed university students working with their journalism professor and a private investigator to free a man they believed was innocent and who had spent nearly 17 years on Illinois' Death Row. Man Calls Cops To Say He Shot Wife (NY Daily) It was her 88th birthday Barber Shoots, Kills Rival - Police (NY Daily) Contract Killer Loses Bid for New Trial (Wash Post) Killing of quadriplegic Silver Spring boy, his mother and a nurse For D.C. Prosecutors, It's Try and Try Again (Wash Post) 'Teflon' Man Faces Fourth Murder Trial Police Find No Link Between Slaying, Scam (LA Times) Murder of entrepreneur Christopher Rawlings Bulger girlfriend's sister admits a lie (Boston Globe) Fugitive gangster James ''Whitey'' Bulger case Tips to TV show rekindle hopes in 4 Polk killings (Tampa Trib) Bartow, Florida Former fugitive Alis Ben Johns sentenced to death (KC Star) Boy, 17, held in slaying of elderly grandmother (Inside Denver) Hostage taker insane, attorney says (Inside Denver) Lawyer says ex-worker who engineered postal facility standoff was 'confused' by illness Two-time killer gets life without parole (Gazette) Murders of 12-yr-old Danielle Bonfield and Diedre Dionne Malachowski; Alan Reed Yerkey sentenced Sex-offender lists a popular item (Inside Denver) Offices inundated since attempted attack on metro-Denver girl Police seek other victims of HIV-positive counselor (Gazette) Colorado Springs, Colorado Women protest presence of child molester (AJC) Valdosta, Georgia Online Sex Offender Registries (APB Online) |
| NICOLETTE HAYES, 13
Pomona, California Death of Girl Found Stabbed at Home Remains a Mystery (LA Times) Police say relatives of active and well-liked Pomona 13-year-old are not suspects. |
| JONBENET RAMSEY Case Boulder, Colo. JonBenet Ramsey: 'Perfect Murder, Perfect Town'? (CNN) Burden of Proof transcript Lawrence Schiller on 'Perfect Murder, Perfect Town' (CSBN) Barnes and Noble chat transcript |
| LISA MICHELLE LAMBERT Pennsylvania Convicted of Murder, Freed, Then Jailed (ABC News) Lisa Lambert, Sent Back to Jail After 10 Months of Freedom, Says She's Innocent -- Lambert was convicted of first-degree murder but released from prison in August 1997. Her conviction was reinstated and now she wants the Supreme Court to hear her case. |
| JASPER, Texas Prosecution rests case in Texas dragging death (CNN) The prosecution rested its case Monday in the dragging death of James Byrd Jr., after a pathologist testified at a suspected murderer's trial that Byrd was alive, suffering horribly and vainly trying to save himself as he was pulled behind a pickup truck last year. |
| NICOLETTE HAYES, 13 Ponoma County, California Clues sought in killing of Ponoma girl, 13--(LA Times) Sunday, Denise Williams returned to the little beige house in Pomona where a day earlier she had found her 13-year-old daughter lying on a bedroom floor, dead from apparent stab wounds. |
Clues Sought in Killing of Pomona Girl, 13 (LA Times) Nicolette Hayes murder Runaway Hoped To Marry Fugitive (NY Daily News) She never knew he was a suspected serial killer. D.C. Man Charged in Teen's Kidnapping (Wash Post) Man arrested for allegedly having sex with boy he met in chat room (Boston Globe) Friends of slain young witness want to restore park in his name (Boston Globe) Tortures, killings linked to man, 31 (Boston Globe) Massachusetts man arrested in Connecticut for his role in murder in Puerto Rico New genetic test matches victim and offers no new evidence (Boston Globe) Irene Kennedy slaying Love Triangle Eyed in Man's Slay (NY Daily News) John Fleming murder Just a Look May Have Sparked Killing on Bus (LA Times) Tyson Needs 'Chill' Pill (NY Post) |
| KARINA ROWEN, 4 LENA DIANNE TOWNSEND arrested Scottsdale, Arizona 'Most Wanted' arrest stuns roommates (Arizona Republic) Two friends aided, trusted slaying suspect. She told her roommates that she had fled from an abusive husband. She just didn't tell the part about the dead 4-year-old girl. |
| MARY KAY LETOURNEAU
Report: Cradle-Rob Teacher Threatened To Castrate Teen Lover (NY Post) The jailed Seattle teacher who had a torrid affair with her sixth-grade student threatened to castrate him if she ever catches him "touching or talking" to another woman, a new report says. |
| CRIME FILE JUSTICE STORY
Escape From Sing Sing -- (New York Daily News) |
| JONBENET RAMSEY Case Boulder, Colo. Housekeeper says lies have hurt her family (Boulder News) Case haunts housekeeper for Ramseys (Inside Denver) New book, media coverage upset Fort Lupton woman Scandal-Hungry Public Returns to 'Who Killed JonBenet?' (NY Times) TV blurs reality: JonBenet show replaces Clinton (Detroit Free Press) CHAT WITH SCHILLER Photo of Linda Hoffmann-Pugh and Mervin Pugh courtesy of 'A Ramsey Case Primer' website by Redd Herring. |
| HEATHER RAY FRASER murder MARTIN ALLEN JOHNSON, suspect Portland, Oregon Man sought for questioning in Oregon teen's death arrested in Florida--(TBO-FL) A man wanted for questioning in the strangling of a 15-year-old girl last year has been arrested in Florida after the case was aired on the TV program "America's Most Wanted." |
| Missing: ANNE WHITE Savage, Minnesota Savage Teacher Missing For Two Weeks--(Ch.4000) Police Have No Leads In Disappearance Of Anne White |
| JODI HUISENTRUIT case Minneapolis, Minnesota Search for Jodi Huisentruit--(WCCO) Tonight a WCCO I-Team investigation makes a startling revelation in the Jodi Huisentruit abduction case: potential evidence in the case sits untested in the Iowa crime lab. |
| ANNA HEFFNER murder MICHAEL HEFFNER, accused Ocean Township, New Jersey Teen shoots strict mother to death, then goes to a movie--(NJO News) A high-school junior shot and killed his mother after she refused to let him go out and have fun on the day after his 17th birthday, authorities said. |
| San Jose, California Police on the Lookout for Truckload of Girl Scout Cookies--(WRAL) |
| ASHLEY OULLETTE, 15 Saco, Maine Short life of trouble and hope--(Portland Press Herald) |
| CRIME NEWS AROUND THE NET
Millionaire on Trial For His Life (NY Daily News) Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa murder and racketeering trial Tests show fluid was victim's own (Boston Globe) Irene Kennedy slaying. Woman arraigned in fatal N.H. fire (Boston Globe) Michelle Wessling was charged with setting a fire that killed two people including her 8-year-old son. Attorneys plea for John Huggin's life (TBO FL) Carla Larson murder, Carla's sister-in-law, Sonja Larson, was one of serial killer Danny Rolling's murder victims. Police hope sketch brings leads in Bartow slayings (Tampa Trib) Quadruple murder featured on "America's Most Wanted" Day-Care Operator Convicted in Girl's Death (LA Times) Fighting Crime in Remote Desert Reaches (LA Times) Prison escape planned for 9 months (AJC) |
| JONBENET RAMSEY Case
Boulder, Colo. Ramsey children's fund seems idle (Inside Denver) Charity was set up after girl's slaying, but kids' advocates aren't familiar with it Boulder bristles over book's portrayal of 'perfect town' (Inside Denver) JonBenet book puts slaying back in spotlight (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) CHAT WITH SCHILLER
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| MIKE TYSON Rockville, Maryland Tyson in isolation after tantrum in Maryland prison--(Reuters) |
| MARTHA MOXLEY murder case Connecticut Court Dismisses Elan owner’s appeal; Testimony still in question in Moxley probe--(Greenwich Time) Who killed Martha Moxley?--(marthamoxley.com) Excellent case resource |
| IRA EINHORN fugitive HELEN "HOLLY" MADDUX murder Bordeaux, France TV ALERT: "America's Most Wanted" Goes to Europe to Bring Einhorn Back to Justice--(FOX TV) Tonight: 2/20/99 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS: Fugitive Killer May Come Home--(CBS News) A French court Thursday accepted a U.S. request for Einhorn's extradition, but only on condition that he will not face the death penalty. French court rules Einhorn to return to U.S.--(MSNBC/WCAU) Einhorn fled the country 16 years ago after authorities found the body of his girlfriend Holly Maddux in a steamer trunk in his apartment in West Philadelphia. Maddux had disappeared 18 months earlier in 1977. Authorities say she was beaten to death. RELATED:
The Life of Holly Maddux -- private website with extensive background information and links to current developments. |
| Florida Box full of cash falls out of car--(TBO-FL) |
| Arizona Trial date set for quadruplets' parents--(Arizona Republic) Elizabeth Shannon Whittle and Anthony Perez saw their children Friday the only way they can, in photographs. |
| SAM SHEPPARD Cleveland, Ohio Prosecutor subpoenas F. Lee Bailey in Sheppard case--(POSTnet) Ohio prosecutors have asked lawyer F. Lee Bailey for information on his work defending Sam Sheppard against charges the doctor murdered his wife in 1954. |
| MISSING: Patricia Nicole Armstrong, 17
Tennessee Police search for missing teen girl (MSNBC/WSMV) MISSING: Michael Sullivan and Camden Sylvia
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| SHEILA BELLUSH Mom of Quads Murder
DANIEL ROCHA convicted Sarasota, FL Rocha gets life in quad mom case (San Antonio Express) Rocha gets life sentence (Sarasota Herald) He was a key figure in the murder of Sheila Bellush Bellush Murder (San Antonio Express) Background and archives |
| JONBENET RAMSEY Case
Boulder, Colo. JonBenet Investigators Clash (CBS) |
| CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN
Cobb judge orders teenager jailed in brutal sexual assault on 6-year-old (AJC) Intruder becomes father's nightmare (Denver Post) Molest 'Victim' List Worries Cops (NY Daily News) Assault on Girl at Park Alarms Area Residents (LA Times) Police trace the tracks of suspect in child rape (Inside Denver) Investigators fear 'tip of iceberg' with HIV-positive youth counselor Ex-foster father's bail doubled on report of Puerto Rican charges (Boston Globe) Marlon Devine Santos, infant, disappearance |
| ELIZABETH KNAPP, 6 JAMES DALE trial Concord, NH Defense points to Buchanan as killer--(Boston Globe) KALEN ADAMS, 8 |
| ANNE MARIE FAHEY murder THOMAS CAPANO convicted Wilmington, Del. In strongly worded letter, judge denies Capano request (Boston Globe) The judge who will sentence Thomas Capano to death or life in prison sternly denied a request by an attorney for the once prominent lawyer to present additional arguments. |
| DANIEL ROCHA trial SHEILA BELLUSH murder Sarasota, Florida Daniel Rocha of San Antonio was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Sheila Bellush, 35, who had moved from Texas to Florida with her quadruplets and two teen-age daughters to start a new life. |
| Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Weapons, pornography litter suspect's bedroom--(Star Phoenix) Police investigating a man charged with harassing women travelling alone on Highway 16 discovered duct tape, rope, a meat saw, a collection of spare tires and two spotlights when they checked his vehicle. |
| ASHLEY OULLETTE, 15 Saco, Maine Saco teen was strangled -- (Portland Press Herald) |
| MOLLIE MAY FRAZIER murder VICTOR BRANCACCIO, convicted Fort Pierce, Florida Killer of elderly woman to spend life behind bars--(TBO-FL) Victor Brancaccio, who blamed the antidepressant Zoloft for his beating to death of an elderly woman who criticized his vulgar rap music, was sentenced Friday to life behind bars. |
