| London
Britain Plans To Restrict The Right To A Jury Trial (Chicago Trib) The right to a jury trial, handed down from ancient times and the Magna Carta, is being abused by defendants and needs to be restricted for certain crimes, the government said Wednesday. |
| KARINA HOLMER murder in Boston
DELIA LORNA MENDEZ murder in Florida FBI is asked to help in probe of Fla. body (Boston Globe) Police in Hollywood, Fla., have asked the FBI to help them investigate a homicide that has similarities to the unsolved slaying of Karina Holmer, a Swedish au pair whose severed torso was found in a Boston trash container nearly three years ago. |
| GEORGETTE SMITH death
SHIRLEY EGAN mother Orlando, Fla. Woman removed from life support, murder case likely against mom (TBO-FL) Georgette Smith had to be on a ventilator after her aging mother shot her. Smith asked to be removed from life support. She died on Wednesday. |
Burke Ramsey
JONBENET RAMSEY Case Photo of Burke Ramsey courtesy A Ramsey Case Primer (Redd Herring) |
| JONBENET RAMSEY Case Boulder, Colorado No News Is ... No News (FOX News) And absolutely nothing doing in the JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation. Then in mid-April we were told that Patsy Ramsey herself was preparing for an imminent arrest to coincide with the conclusion of the grand jury's initial one-year term. If the grand jury hasn't reach a decision yet anyway, how in the world could someone know what that decision is? |
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| MARY KAY LETOUREAU Kent, Washington Letourneau divorce case gets underway--(WRAL) Divorce proceedings have begun for a former teacher who had two children with one of her students. |
| MARIA MENDEZ Panama City Thrown off balcony, she takes boyfriend with her--(Reuters) |
| KENNY KRAMER, 3 Brownsville, Minnesota Father of missing boy arrested in his disappearance--(Star-Tribune) Body found in Brownsville, father in custody--(MSNBC) "Some people are not being truthful." Father Jailed In Brownsville Boy's Death--(Channel 4000) Today, Kenny Kramer's grandparents left their home -- a home they shared with their son and grandson -- in a visibly shaken state... (Has photos & additional story links) |
| GARY CURTIS "Babyface" FAISON Dallas, Texas Faison guilty in 2nd trial--(Dallas Morning News) Ex-radio host can get life for sexual assault. RICHARD BAKER, 34 Cornwall, England "I need help" - DJ sex attacker--(BBC) A resort disc jockey accused of sexually assaulting 12 women. |
| Alma, Colorado
Alma murder suspect refuses insanity plea (Denver Post) Thomas Leask is accused of first-degree murder in the execution-style slaying of former Alma Mayor Willie Morrison, a popular "industrial artist,'' and of a bizarre rampage on a bulldozer that plowed into the town hall, fire station, post office and water-treatment facility in February 1998. |
| TZEYANG "JASON" CHOU murder
TIMOTHEY CHANG in custody Rockville, Maryland Man Held In Killing of High-Tech Executive (Wash Post) A 74-year-old man dressed in a business suit and carrying a briefcase walked into a Rockville office building at lunchtime yesterday, asked to see the president of a small medical imaging firm, Tzeyang "Jason" Chou, then followed the company head down a hallway to a conference room where he allegedly shot him to death. |
| UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN slain
KARINA HOLMER murder case link Florida and Boston Gruesome Fla. slaying likened to nanny case (Boston Globe) Boston police detectives have contacted police in Hollywood, Fla., to try to determine whether a murder there this week is linked to the gruesome slaying of Swedish nanny Karina Holmer, whose torso was found in a Fenway dumpster in 1996. |
| CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN
Police: Man helped boy take heroin (SP Times) A 12-year-old boy with needle marks on his arm was removed from a Largo apartment Monday and a 23-year-old man was arrested on charges of aggravated child abuse. 2 witnesses saw man who seized, raped girl (Denver Post) "He drove right up next to her, reached out through the window and dragged her through the window,'' a witness said. The girl was 11. In alleged rape of KCK twins, investigation goes on (KC Star) Two six-yr-olds claim they were raped by six boys at the babysitter's home. Woman charged in stabbing death of newborn daughter (AJC) Police believe Ms. Harvey repeatedly stabbed the baby with a kitchen knife after giving birth in her home May 10. Tearful Mom Tells Court of Effort to Save Starving Son (NY Daily News) Tabitha Walrond, 21, took the stand in a Bronx courtroom to defend herself against charges that she intentionally let Tyler starve to death two years ago. The Trial of Tabitha Walrond, Charged with Starving her Infant to Death (Burden of Proof transcript) |
| JONBENET RAMSEY Case Boulder, Colorado Signs indicate grand jury finishing work (Denver Post) The grand jury investigating JonBenet Ramsey's death did not meet again Tuesday - sparking speculation the jurors are wrapping up their work. Two-and-a-Half Years Later, Is the JonBenet Ramsey Investigation Stalled? (Larry King Live - transcript) |
| CLAIRE HUNT murder CRAIG AARON SMITH trial Cheshire, England Sinister signs from Claire's killer--(BBC) Smith was a "jobless loner" who dressed in combat gear and carried an airgun. Loner jailed for callous murder--(BBC) A jury found Smith guilty of beating the 13-year-old before shooting her with an air rifle and strangling her. |
| KENNY KRAMER Brownsville, Minnesota Police find child's body near home of missing 3-year-old--(Star-Tribune) The body was found after an FBI dog trained to detect human remains, brought in from Ohio, searched near the boy's home. |
| CHRISTY RYNO Irving, Texas Child's Death Ruled Homicide(Excite News)New information from the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office on the death of three-year-old Christy Ryno. The child abducted from her apartment last month died a violent death Death of Irving girl is ruled a homicide (Star-Telegram)Three-year-old Cristy Ryno was killed violently, the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office has ruled in listing the child's death as a homicide. |
| CHRISTOPHER EVAN OLIVER SMITH death MANJIT BASUTA trial San Diego, California Trial starts in tot's day-care death--(Union-Tribune) Grandmother gives emotional testimony. |
| SUND/PELOSSO case California Sightseer's kin talk on Oprah--(Fresno Bee) |
| CHRISTY RYNO Irving, Texas Child's death ruled homicide--(UPI) |
| AMANDA LEE MILLER and DOMINICK LOGAN CORNELIUS deaths TINA CORNELIUS charged Williamson County, Texas Case of two dead children advances--(Austin American-Statesman) State to seek indictment against mother of kids found south of Hutto. |
| GUNTER HERMANN EWEN Europe Cross-border murder suspect found dead--(BBC) The body of a man, suspected of embarking on a killing spree which left five people dead in France and Germany, has been found in a hotel in Luxembourg where he apparently killed himself. |
JIM OSTERBROCK murder LANCE WAYNE LOVE fugitive Cincinnati, Ohio Suspect 'on the run all his life' - (Cincinnati Enquirer) Reported sightings of Lance Wayne Love in Over-the-Rhine and Corryville turned up nothing for police Monday, three days after the homicide suspect eluded a manhunt that included three helicopters, two search dogs and about 50 officers. |
| RONALD JONES freed from death row
DEBRA SMITH murder Illinois Freed from Death Row (Chicago Sun-Times) This marks the 12th time in 12 years that someone on Illinois's Death Row has had his case dropped or was acquitted. Ronald Jones was given the death penalty for the 1985 rape and murder of Debra Smith on Chicago's South Side. DNA tests performed in April 1997 showed that Jones couldn't have been the source of the semen found in Smith's body after the murder. |
Woman Charged in Boy's Scalding Death (LA Times) Murder and assault charges were filed Monday against the daughter of the foster mother of 3-year-old Elijah Johnson, who died after he was scalded in a bathtub at the foster home. Jury selection begins in Labor Day murders case (Denver Post) Jury selection began Monday in the murder trial of Alexander Pogosyan, accused of one of the metro area's worst killing rampages. Police say Pogosyan and his friend Michael Martinez tied bandanas across their faces, armed themselves with pistols and shotguns and then went on a murderous rampage. When they were done, five were dead. Girl, 11, abducted, raped (Denver Post) An 11-year-old girl was raped Monday after being abducted from a Denver street as she walked to school. Six-year-old twin girls tell police they were raped (KC Star) Six-year-old twin girls told police Sunday that six boys raped them Saturday afternoon at their baby sitter's home in Kansas City, Kan. Keeping the curtain shut on the jury (Boulder News) Three years ago, Laura Kriho was a juror in a criminal drug case. Today, the courts are still sorting out whether she obstructed justice by not revealing information about her views on drug laws. |
| MALCOLM X
Missing Malcolm X diary up for auction in Calif. (Boston Globe) The tattered, tiny diary became evidence when three men went on trial for Malcom X's murder in 1965, and a valuable piece of history, logged and stored in New York City's municipal archives. Now, somehow it has been removed from its file in a Brooklyn warehouse, and turned up for sale at a San Francisco auction house. |
| VICKIE RENEE NEWTON WILKE murdered
VINCENT QUEVEDO confessed Tampa, Fla. Family seeks closure in daughter's murder (SP Times) For 15 years, Vickie Renee Newton Wilke's family lived with the mystery of her disappearance, solved sadly this year after they saw a Jane Doe sketch on the Internet and learned she had been killed in Florida in 1983. |
| DAVID MILGAARD Saskatchewan, Canada Milgaard gets $10 million compensation--(CP Online) The $4 million from Ottawa and $6 million from Saskatchewan compensates Milgaard for more than 22 years of abuse and torment he endured in prison for the 1969 rape and murder of Gail Miller in Saskatoon. |
| CALLY JO LARSON, 12, murdered April 21, 1999 Waseca, Minnesota Waseca police seeking girl's murderer--(WCCO-CH4000) Police have released a computer-generated sketch of a man they are seeking in connection with the murder. |
| Port Huron, Michigan Schools reopen after alleged plot(MSNBC)Authorities say four students planned to outdo Littleton killers |
| OLIVER SMITH death MANJIT BASUTA, 43, accused San Diego, California British nurse on child death charge--(BBC) She allegedly shook Oliver because he refused to stop watching television so that she could change his nappy. |
| JUAREZ SERIAL MURDERS Ciudad, Juárez, Mexico Serial killings 'ordered by jailed gangster'--(The London Times) In a Mexican border city on the Rio Grande, police may have solved a six-year murder mystery that has left 187 women dead and thousands in fear of their lives. |
| Tampa, Florida Police: Cross-dresser likely linked to 15 crimes--(TBO-FL) Boredom is the motivation for a cross-dressing man whom police believe is responsible for two sexual assaults and 13 other crimes, including exposing himself to children. |
| DAVID MILGAARD Saskatchewan, Canada Wrongly convicted Canadian to be paid millions--(Reuters) Milgaard gets largest ever compensation--(UPI) |
| Los Angeles Paparazzo sentenced in Tom Cruise case--(UPI) He illegally intercepted a cellular phone call and sold the info to two tabloids. Washington Tabloid loses appeal in Kennedy assassination case--(Reuters) In 1989, the Globe accused the wrong man of killing Robert F. Kennedy 31 years ago. |
| KENNY KRAMER Brownsville, Minnesota Search continues for 3-year-old boy who disappeared--(Star Tribune) |
| Fayetteville, North Carolina Maid found dead in motel room, murder suspected--(WRAL) Police say the worker went to clean Room 414. Several hours later when she did not come out, her co-workers got worried. |
| Hollywood, Florida Autopsy to be completed on woman's body found cut in half--(TBO-FL) An autopsy was to be completed Monday on the severed body of a woman found decaying inside a dumpster in the parking lot of a supermarket. |
| Dillingen, Germany French-German police in killer manhunt--(UPI) More than 200 French and German police are in a cross-border manhunt for a burly red-haired German, who reportedly went on a rampage with a pump-action shotgun and killed five persons. |
| ALFREDO ENRIQUE TELLO, Jr. murder
SAMUEL SHEINBEIN suspect fled to Israel Tel Aviv Sheinbein Hearing in Israel Delayed for a Month (Wash Post) The first stage of Samuel Sheinbein's murder trial was delayed in Tel Aviv yesterday after the teenager's attorney said he had not received all of the information that Maryland authorities gleaned from their investigation. Sheinbein is accused of murdering and dismembering teenager Alfredo Tello, Jr. |
| SHEILA BELLUSH slain mom of quads
ALLEN BLACKTHORNE ex-husband suspected in murder-for-hire San Antonio, Texas Slain woman's ex-husband trying to clear his name (Tampa Trib) Sheila Bellush's former husband, Allen Blackthorne, insists he had nothing to do with her murder. He and the victim's widower have accused one another of masterminding the murder plot. Blackthorne presses innocence (Express News) With two go-betweens in prison and the man accused as the triggerman fighting extradition from Mexico, the criminal investigation into Sheila Bellush's murder seemed to have sputtered to a halt. Bellush special section (San Antonio Express) |
| JOE PALMER Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow Gang San Antonio, Texas Gangster of 1930's at last gets tombstone--(San Antonio Express) On Saturday, Palmer's niece and a few members of Partners in Crime, an Internet group that conducts research on Depression-era outlaws, dedicated a headstone over his grave. |
