| CANADIAN CRIME NEWS Larry Fisher's lawyer pitches remote town for trial--(National Post) Fisher is charged with the 1969 rape and murder of Saskatoon nursing assistant Gail Miller. DAVID MILGAARD spent 23 years in jail for Miller’s murder until he was released in 1992 after being exonerated by DNA evidence. Trio jailed for stabbing Regina teen--(Saskatoon Star-Phoenix) Court hears grisly circumstances surrounding vicious beating. Woman almost decapitated: Doc--(Toronto Sun) Tot found mom's body, court told. "Contemptuous" abuse earns brother 4 years--(Ottawa Sun) A man received five-year concurrent jail sentence yesterday for using two adopted sisters as sex objects during the 1960s. Canadian faces lengthy sentence after pleading to cocaine conspiracy--(TBO-FL) A motorcycle gang leader faces 10 years to life in prison in a case that brought down a Canadian federal judge. |
| RITA ANN CRESS death Warren, Michigan Troll test quiets Mich. murder theory--(UPI S) |
| Seattle, Washington Second suspect sought in slaying of teen--(Seattle Times) Late yesterday, investigators used a firetruck and ladder to recover a knife, believed to have been used in the slaying, from a tree near a Kirkland park-and-ride lot about a half-mile from where Starling's body was found. |
| KEINYA SMITH murder CHARLES ANDERSON trial Broward County, Florida Man guilty in death of step-daughter--(Florida Sun-Sentinel) Detectives tracked down Anderson when they learned he had threatened Smith. After searching his car, they found a drop of her blood inside. |
| Salt Lake City, Utah Police seek mother of waif "Kayla"--(Salt Lake Tribune) Detectives have identified an abused littke girl who slipped though the back door of a Salt Lake City home Wednesday night, looking for food. |
| Missing: CAROL and JULIE SUND; SILVINA PELOSSO Modesto, Calif. Yosemite Hikers Likely Dead (ABC News) Missing sightseers likely met violent end (Modesto Bee) Special Report: Missing Yosemite Tourists (Modesto Bee) Story archives |
| MATTHEW EAPPEN death LOUISE WOODWARD conviction Woodward team aims to probe claims (Boston Globe) The lawyers who defended former au pair Louise Woodward in the murder of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen want to put an end to the controversy over Sunday night's ''60 Minutes'' program so they can investigate its claims and ultimately demonstrate Woodward's innocence, they said at a press conference yesterday. |
| Hunt is on for mother on the run with twins (Boston Globe) Julie Poner and 4-yr-olds Abduction claim investigated (AJC) Girl claims she was kidnapped at school by stranger Off-color cash links suspect to robberies (SP Times) Police say it was that pastel hue that tipped them off JFK Jr. Sees Tyson In Jailhouse Visit (Wash Post) Grand jury indicts three in multimillion-dollar jewel heist on Plaza (KC Star) Gettings pleads guilty (Boulder News) Utah man admits assaults Mom appeals for justice in daughter's killing (Denver Post) Peyton Tuthill murder |
| MICHELLE DORR, 6 HADDEN IRVING CLARK, suspect Tape Shows Dorr Case Interview (Wash Post) Fellow Inmates Said Clark Admitted Crime |
| KALEE BRUCE murder KEVIN HOLTZER charged Traverse City, Mich. DNA tests delay trial (Traverse City Record-Eagle) Mitochondrial DNA evidence testing is relatively new to forensic science - it only has appeared in trial courts in the last year or so - the evidence has never been tested on appeal and lawyers are scrambling to determine how to establish or refute its significance. |
| JONBENET RAMSEY case Boulder, Colo. More Ramsey money sought (Boulder News) Money could pay for grand jury inquest through June More cash sought for probe (Denver Post) Ramsey grand jury could go to July (Inside Denver) |
 ‘Worst feared for missing trio' (Times-Standard) ''If they had found the ladies or the car, they absolutely would have told us,'' |
| JO ANN ULMER BRIDGES and CHRISTINE ULMER, victims ROY BRIDGES arrested Tallahassie, Florida Tallahassee man arrested in Georgia double murder--(TBO-FL) Police arrested a Tallahassee man Thursday and charged him with the murder of his wife and mother-in-law in Georgia more than a year ago. |
| Sund-Pelosso disappearance California FBI reports progress in missing case. -- (UPI S) |
| Sund-Pelosso case Vigil announced for missing trio--(UPI) Relatives, friends and crime victim groups are planning a Sunday vigil for a woman who has been missing with two teenage girls near Yosemite National Park for more than three weeks. |
| Sund-Pelosso disappearance El Portal, California Search for missing sightseers intensifies--(WRAL) Federal agents are using all-terrain vehicles today to search the rugged western border of Yosemite National Park. |
| JOYCE CHIANG disappearance Washington, D.C. Divers searching again--(WRAL) Teams of divers from New York, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia are searching for missing I.N.S. attorney Joyce Chiang today near where some of her personal possessions were found. |
| 'Babes in the Wood' case London, England  SUSAN BLATCHFORD (11) and GARY HANLON (12) Police exhume body after 29 years--(London Standard) 'Babe in the Wood' exhumed--(BBC) The body of a child who died 29 years ago and whose death was never explained has been exhumed for forensic tests. |
| Illinois MICHAEL NOBAYASHI murder LOUIS SCOTT KRENEK, JR. trial Evidence seized before warrant is allowed in dismemberment trial--(Chicago Tribune) Evidence seized from a truck, minutes before a search warrant was issued, will be admissible in the trial in connection with the 1997 mutilation death. |
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| LORI BERENSON, imprisoned in Peru Berenson asks for freedom, not retrial in Peru--(Boston Globe) Father of imprisoned woman blasts Clinton, U.S. officials--(Newsday) |
| ALISON PARROTT murder Toronto, Ontario, Canada Picture begins to emerge of Roy--(National Post) Man accused of killing Alison Parrott was a talented athlete. Accused's many alibis--(C-News) Roy told cops of solo run. Roy alibi in slaying: 21 mile solo run--(Toronto Star) |
| LOUISE WOODWARD Another twist in au pair case--(Boston Globe) Defense expert's fees in question. Louisiana Gunman opens fire in church--(ABC News) Police say alleged gunman also killed mother-in-law. Tampa, Florida Two girls report kidnap tries--(Tampa Tribune) Police are searching for a man who drives a red pickup truck and likes to wear women's clothing. AMY WATKINS murder New York Detectives need your help--(NY Post) MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR disappearance Austin, Texas Proclaiming his innocence--(Dallas Morning News) Ex-con says he had nothing to do with the disappearances of O'Hair, her son, her granddaughter, and a Florida con man. |
| SUND-PELOSSO disappearance California Three missing women--(KPIX-5) Search for three missing women continues--(KPIX-5) Family of missing trio faces worst fears--(Mercury News) |
| JONBENET RAMSEY case news Boulder, Colorado Grand jury meets again on Ramsey case--(Boulder News) |
| Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Young women live in fear beacause of sex murders along Mexican border--(POSTnet) Female factory workers here are consumed with fear because of at least 54 sex murders of young women over the past six years in the Juarez area along the U.S. border, across from El Paso, Texas. |
| CHRISTOPHER HUTTON death Seattle, Washington Prosecutor charges mother and boyfriend in death of baby--(Nando Times) A woman was charged Wednesday with covering up the death of her infant son by cremating the boy after he drowned in a bathtub. |
| SUND-PELOSSO disappearance El Portal, California Husband in missing sightseers case says "worst fears have come true"--(SF Gate) The FBI has informed Jens Sund of a major development in the case that has left him "devastated." |
| O.D.B., Wu-Tang rapper Los Angeles, California Rap star ODB jailed for breaking Calif. law barring body armor--(POSTnet) |
| LOUISE WOODWARD Boston, Mass. Physicians lambaste 60 Minutes report on Woodward--(WRAL More than 70 doctors sent a letter to CBS criticizing a "60 Minutes" report suggesting that Matthew Eappen was strangled, not shaken and slammed by his au pair as prosecutors contend. |
| AMY WATKINS murder New York Madman hunted in Brooklyn stabbing--(NY Post) Police last night were hunting for the Brooklyn madman who plunged a knife into a selfless social-work student from Kansas before fleeing with her bag and leaving her to die. |
| Sydney, Australia Missing cheese found--(ABC Online) Two men have been charged over the theft of 37 tonnes of cheese, which disappeared in Sydney over December and January. |
| DEVON DUNIVER murder ANTHONY HARRIS trial Cleveland, Ohio Ohio boy found guilty in murder of girl, 5--(Reuters) |
| CHARNAE WISE death CHARLENE WISE trial Philadelphia, Pa. Verdict comes in for woman charged in child starvation--(MSNBC) Charnae’s skeletal remains were found in her Brewerytown home on September 16, 1997. A medical examiner said Charnae had been dead since August. |
| Stockholm, Sweden 'Skunk' device to repel rapists--(Reuters) Smell like a skunk to frighten off sex offenders! That's the aim of an unusual self-defense device a Swedish victims' agency plans to launch in the Nordic countries. |
