| HARRISON JOHNSON Tampa, Florida Parents charged in delayed-treatment death of child--(TBO-FL) The parents of a 2-year-old who died after medical treatment for hundreds of yellow-jacket stings was delayed by seven hours have been charged with aggravated child abuse. |
| O.J. SIMPSON Los Angles, California Simpson will keep his children as custody battle ends amicably--(WRAL) The agreement, which still requires the signatures of Lou and Juditha Brown, heads off a second trial over the custody of 13-year-old Sydney and Justin, 10. |
| Johannesburg, South Africa Mother accused of killing son A mother is accused of stabbing her 22-year-old son to death with a bread knife after he refused to turn down his hi-fi |
| JOHN PAUL ROBY Toronto, Ontario, Canada Gardens usher guilty--(Toronto Sun) Former Maple Leaf Gardens usher John Paul Roby was convicted yesterday on 35 counts of sexually abusing youngsters after 10 agonizing days of jury deliberation. No end to anguish for Roby's victims--(Toronto Sun) |
 Ira Einhorn with his wife, Anika Flodin HELEN "Holly" MADDUX murdered in the U.S. IRA EINHORN convicted fugitive in France An American Fugitive in France -- (ABC News) French High Court to Consider Fate of Hippie Guru Ira Einhorn Ira Einhorn, an organizer of the first Earth Day, has been on the run since 1981, after police found the corpse of his girlfriend decomposing in his steamer trunk. French authorities arrested him two years ago. Einhorn is living in the French countryside and U.S. officials can’t touch him. Ira Einhorn: American Fugitive in France -- (ABC News) Link to RealVideo interview with Einhorn French Judges to Decide Einhorn Extradition Request -- (ABC News) Hippie Fugitive to Learn Fate -- (ABC News) |
| CRIME NEWS AROUND THE NET
'I have to live the rest of my life knowing somebody did this because I exist.' (LA Times) She is hiding, not just from the television reporters but from memories, and from guilt. She knows the man accused of plunging his Cadillac into the preschool's playground last week, killing two children, injuring five others. He reportedly said afterward that he did it because of her. Police Say Woman Had Yosemite Victim's Banking Numbers (LA Times) A woman recently indicted for mail theft had the checking account and automated teller machine numbers of Carole Sund, who was abducted and killed along with her daughter and a young traveling companion during a trip to Yosemite, investigators said. Search for Waltham pilot moves to new area (Boston Globe) Gerhard Finkenbeiner, known for reviving interest in Benjamin Franklin's glass harmonica suddenly disappeared last week. Crime Victims Praised For Making Difference (Wash Post) In a city where witnesses are often reluctant and many victims perceive justice as a rutted road, U.S. Attorney Wilma A. Lewis paid tribute last week to victims and witnesses who did not cave in. |
| JONBENET RAMSEY Case Boulder, Colorado JonBenet investigation may be winding down (Cox News Service) For eight months, a public hungry for justice in the JonBenet Ramsey case has held its collective ear to the closed door of a grand jury room. Again and again, the slightest sign of an impending decision set off a flurry of rumor and media attention. |
| LEMAK CHILDREN murdered
MARILYN LEMAK mother accused Chicago Insanity plea the defense of last resort (Chicago Sun-Times) In the film ``Anatomy of a Murder,'' an Army lieutenant defended by James Stewart is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the murder of his wife's suspected rapist. Sheer Hollywood, say legal experts. Because they are so difficult to prove, insanity defenses rarely work in real life. |
New York Luchese Plot to Kill Junior (NY Daily News) Leaders of the Luchese mob executed one of their own men and used the murder in an abortive plot to kill John A. (Junior) Gotti during his early days as the Gambino family acting boss, the Daily News has learned. |
 We want everyone to know that Cybersleuths will be holding its second annual Victims of Crime Memorial on Memorial Day, May 31, 1999. News postings will cease for a 24-hour period in order to bring you a moving online memorial of victims' names, tributes, poems and pictures. Everyone is invited to participate by emailing our News Desk at newsdesk@cybersleuths.com or, if you wish to remain anonymous you may contact us through our Tip Line at http://cybersleuths.com/feedback.html |
| JOHN J. PRIVACKY; STEPHEN C. PRIVACKY; LINDA PRIVACKY; JEDEDIAH J. PRIVACKY; AND APRIL A. BOSS. Muskegon, Michigan Teen accepts responsibility for five slayings –(MLive) Speaking barely above a whisper, the Muskegon teen-ager who wiped out his family and another woman during a bloody Thanksgiving weekend massacre took responsibility for his crimes Friday. |
| CAUSLA NICOLE GLOVER Orlando, Florida Mother charged with beating 8-year-old daughter to death with bat--(POSTnet) |
| CRIME FILES: 19th CENTURY CRIMES
San Francisco -- April 3, 1895
Los Angeles -- March 14, 1881
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Mother's Day darkened by tale of abandonment (AJC) In an anguished note written just a few days before Mother's Day, a mom and her companion said they had reached the end of their rope and abandoned her three children, (ages 3,8 and 9,) in a motel room. Wesleyan students making the grade in porn (Boston Globe) It's finals day for Wesleyan University students enrolled in a class labeled ``COL 289,'' where blue films are replacing blue books. Waltham man's disappearance baffling (Boston Globe) On Thursday afternoon, Gerhard Finkenbeiner, renowned for resurrecting Benjamin Franklin's glass harmonica, walked out the door of his Waltham glass laboratory, telling employees he was running home for a spell. Body found floating in waters off lower Manhattan (Boston Globe) The decomposing body of a woman in her 30s was recovered Saturday from the waters off lower Manhattan, police said. Defendant's testimony comes under scrutiny (Chicago Sun-Times) DuPage 7 Trial: Joseph Laraia, lawyer for DuPage 7 defendant James Montesano, is still asking: ``What are we doing here?'' State Targets DuPage 7 Cop's About-Face (Chicago Trib) `Jones Show' caught in a lie (Chicago Sun-Times) Coffee cups warn us that their contents may be hot. Baby strollers instruct us to remove the kids before folding the strollers. Sleeping pill packages caution us that the pills may cause drowsiness. Jury Finds TV Show Liable in Slaying (Chicago Trib) |
| JONBENET RAMSEY Case Boulder, Colorado JonBenet jury stays mum (Inside Denver) The JonBenet Ramsey grand jury is rounding toward the homestretch with no hint of what's at the finish line. Secrecy is working fine, analysts say, explaining why they're in the dark. DNA Evidence Sought In Ramsey Case (Fox News - Video) |
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Kansas City Anguished caller says he killed his wife (KC Star) The call to 911 Thursday night was desperate. 'I just killed my wife,' a male voice cried into the telephone. 'Help me, ma'am.' Later in the 90-second call, the man said, 'She died. Help me please, now.' Kansas City police said they did not think the call was a hoax, but they had few leads. |
| MATHEW ROTEL murder case Land O'Lakes, Florida Experts: Deadly gas may have caused mom's injuries--(TBO-FL) The same deadly carbon monoxide that killed 6-year-old Mathew Rotel may have caused the unexplained injuries to his mother, according to forensics experts who reviewed photographs of her injuries. |
| ASHLEY TAGGERT abduction case JASON EARL WAGNER child molester Lancaster, Ohio Man indicted in girl's abduction--(Columbus Dispatch) |
| SUND/PELOSSO case California RACHEL LOU CAMPBELL, 36 Modesto woman linked to Yosemite victim--(Sacramento Bee) She had ATM, checking account numbers, sources say Mail-theft suspect had Sund's banking numbers--(Fresno Bee) FBI says sources in Carole Sund murders not 'close"--(KPIX5) |
| Miami, Florida Miami parks chief in pilfered palm scandal--(Reuters) |
 Sisters Keturah (left) and Naomi Pickens are being raised by their grandparents in Kansas City. MOTHER'S DAY SPECIAL Kansas City Grief gives way to the joy of parenting--(Kansas City Star) This year, Willa Robinson is going to church on Mother's Day. Last year, she stayed away. She feared the whispers that might come when she walked in with the two little granddaughters whose mother had been murdered. Photo Essay: Time for two--(Kansas City Star) A grandmother tends to two little girls after their mother, her daughter, is killed. |
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Amy: Jail Was Haven From Dad & Joey (NY Post) Soon-to-be-free Amy Fisher says she "grew up with violence" at the hands of her father and ex-lover Joey Buttafuoco and only escaped it in jail. Ohio Trucker Found Guilty In Assault Of Addison Girl (Chicago Trib) John Ferryman found guilty of aggravated kidnapping and two sex charges Friday in an attack on a 6-year-old girl who was taken from her neighborhood and assaulted. Chase tipster calls, hangs up (Boulder News) An anonymous tipster sought by detectives investigating the 1997 slaying of University of Colorado student Susannah Chase called back this week, but police still need to talk to the man again. Colo. suspect to be tried in Mexico (Denver Post) A Colorado murder suspect who has fled to Mexico will be prosecuted in a Mexican federal court. Psychologist says murder defendant was `compromised' by mental illness (KC Star) Rodney Wayne Henry's mental state prevented him from stopping the murder of Claire-Marie Monti last April in her Lenexa hotel, a psychologist testified Friday. Man Behind Murder-for-Hire Plot Gets Life Sentence (LA Times) James Van Sickle who orchestrated the murder for hire of silent movie theater owner, Lawrence Austin, will spend the rest of his life in prison. Man Gets Life Term for Mail Bomb Killing (LA Times) A Costa Mesa man who sent a package bomb to a transsexual, killing her roommate instead, was sentenced in Los Angeles federal court Friday to two consecutive life terms. Man Gets 35 Years for Killing Sister, Setting Fire (Wash Post) After admitting he stabbed his sister, Anne E. Harper, to death and then set his family's Fairfax County home on fire, 22-year-old Matthew Harper was sentenced yesterday to spend the next 35 years in prison without parole. Judge panels spare 2 killers (Denver Post) Danny Martinez, convicted of raping, torturing and murdering 14-year-old Brandy Duvall, and Jacques Richardson, who murdered Capitol Hill resident Janey Benedict,will spend the rest of their lives in prison without the possibility of parole. Jeffco DA Thomas disappointed (Inside Denver) |
| DUPAGE 7 trial Chicago Who really killed 10-yr-old Jeannine Nicarico? Trial focuses on phone call (Chicago Sun-Times) State Targets Dupage 7 Cop's About-Face (Chicago Trib) As the prosecution neared the close of its case Friday against Kurzawa, Montesano and five other men accused of framing Cruz for the 1983 abduction and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico, the evidence focused on Montesano and his subsequent abrupt about-face from his testimony at that hearing. |
| LEMAK CHILDREN murders
MARILYN LEMAK, mother charged Chicago Prosecution Request OK'd For Lemak Mental Tests (Chicago Trib) Lemak faces extensive examination (Chicago Sun-Times) Mental health experts chosen by prosecutors can evaluate whether accused murderer Marilyn Lemak is mentally fit to stand trial, a DuPage County judge ruled Friday. |
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SANDRA and DENNIS EVERS, parents on trial Mom testifies in abuse case (Denver Post) The competing versions of the Evers home and the strange circumstances of Roberta Evers' death by asphyxiation in bed last June have bewildered many in the community. |
| JOSH BELLUARDO murder
JONATHAN MILLER trial Atlanta Bus Stop Slaying Cherokee teen gets life sentence--(AJC) Jonathan Miller was found guilty of murder and given a life sentence. Trial ends as defense says it will not put on a case.--(AJC) Port Victoria families fear 'it will never be over.'--(AJC) Trial Coverage--(AJC) |
| "OLD SPARKY" Tallahassie, Florida Florida's 1923 electric chair replaced--(TBO-FL) The 371 inmates on Florida's death row will face a slightly different fate than that of the more than 200 people who died in Old Sparky, Florida's electric chair since 1923. |
| CAROLYN SCHINKE and other women murdered DAVID WAYNE McCALL, suspect Dallas, Texas Irving man suspect in Indiana killing -- (Dallas News) An Irving man suspected but not charged in the slayings of a half-dozen Dallas-area women has been a murder suspect in his native Indiana for two decades, police there say. Woman's 1978 murder unsolved; he denies part in any slayings. |
 SCOTT AMEDURE PONTIAC, Mich. Jury awards over $25M to Amedure family in "Jenny Jones" civil trial –(Court TV) |
| SUND/PELOSSO case (KJEO graphic) California Tape reveals girl's horror--(KJEO) Tournap witness murdered?--(KJEO) |
| SANDY MALONEY murder JOHN MALONEY convicted Green Bay, Wisc. Burning the Evidence -- (ABC 20/20 transcript) A man is accused of murdering his wife. His girlfriend goes undercover to convict him. At trial, he says she’s the killer. Who’s telling the truth? |
| STEPHANIE CROWE, 12 - murdered MICHAEL CROWE, confessed? Escondido, Calif. The Confession -- (CBS 48-Hours) In a shocking case, a child is murdered and her teenage brother confesses to killing her in a fit of jealousy. But he may be innocent after all. [Links to two-part story and video clip] |
| AMY FISHER New York Big bucks book deal could help Amy start a new life in style--(NY Post) |
| SUND/PELOSSO case California TERRY RAY Siblings of dead man say he was murdered for what he saw--(SF Gate) Trio slaying claim: Rape witnessed--(SF Examiner) Siblings of dead man say he was murdered for what he saw--(Modesto Bee) Drowning may be Linked to Yosemite killings, family says--(LA Times) |
Prosecutors ask SJC to deny new trial in Fells Acres case (Boston Globe) In a last-ditch effort to save a sex abuse case that sent three people to prison in the 1980s on the sensational testimony of young children, prosecutors asked the state's highest court yesterday to deny Cheryl Amirault LeFave a new trial. The Catch of the Day? (Wash Post) A suspected armed robber who already had been unsuccessful in eluding police by car tried plunging into the Potomac River yesterday. His mistake: swimming smack into a bass boat piloted by an off-duty U.S. Secret Service officer. Woman charged in murder plot (SP Times) She wanted custody of the children. He said if she got them, "It wouldn't be hard to have her taken care of." So she figured to have him taken care of first... Trucker's killing a mystery (AJC) William Sluder was shot once in the chest as he drove his 18-wheeler along the same route he had used since November 1995. An $18,000 reward has been established. After winning freedom, woman believes in fresh starts (KC Star) Two years ago, a young woman stood in a rural Missouri courtroom acquitted of a murder charge that had held the specter of the death penalty. |
| MATHEW ROTELL, 6 - murder
KRISTINA GAIME, mother charged Land O' Lakes, Fla. Baker Act invoked in Rotell case (SP Times) A jail psychiatrist orders murder suspect Kristina Gaime held in a Pasco crisis center. Gaime committed to mental hospital (WFLA/MSNBC)) Prosecutors: Mother wanted to kill children, self (TBO-FL) |
| JONBENET RAMSEY Case Boulder, Colorado Chief: Ramsey inquest rolls on (Boulder News) Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner quelled rampant speculation Thursday that the grand jury investigation into the JonBenét Ramsey slaying is about to conclude. He said more DNA evidence may be collected. More DNA tests sought in Ramsey case (Denver Post) |
| JOSH BELLUARDO slaying
JONATHAN MILLER trial Atlanta School Bus Stop Slaying: Murder or accident? Teen beating death trial moves rapidly (AJC) Closing arguments begin today in Jonathan Miller's trial. Both sides rest (WSB) RealVideo report What is your verdict in this case? (AJC) Discussion forum |
| CLAIRE-MARIE MONTI murder
RODNEY WAYNE HENRY trial Olathe, Kans. Jury sees defendant's videotaped version of killing (KC Star) Henry said it was his friend and co-worker Carl Dean Rails who snapped in April 1998, laughing while he beat and strangled Claire-Marie Monti and then defiling her lifeless body. |
| Eureka, California Witness recalls grisly south spit murder -- (Eureka Times-Standard) Robert Neal Anderson's original plan was to sell Margaret Lois Armstrong into slavery, a witness testified Wednesday. |
| ROBERT SHULMAN trial Riverhead, New York Long Island serial killer gets death penalty--(UPI) |
