| YOSEMITE SLAYING
(Modesto Bee Coverage) Yosemite murders connected Stayner Family Chronology Yosemite slaying shocks Sund, Carrington families |
| YOSEMITE SLAYING - Joie Ruth Armstrong
Carey Stayner in custody Handyman taken into custody in Yosemite murder (SF Examiner) Brother of prominent kidnap victim taken into custody; link to sightseers slayings possible. FBI Says Yosemite Slaying May Have Link to 3 Tourists (LA Times) A motel handyman is being held for questioning in the latest attack. Official says new information suggests possible connection with last spring's deaths. |
| MARY VINCENT serial killer victim who lived
Anaheim Hills, Calif. From Victim to a Voice for the Suffering (LA Times) Emerging from years of fear and depression, Mary Vincent has set up a foundation to help other victims of crime. It was 21 years ago that Vincent, then a 15-year-old hitchhiker, was picked up by Lawrence Singleton, who hit her head with a hammer, raped her and cut her forearms off with a hatchet. He left her for dead in a drainage ditch near Modesto. |
| CRIME FILE JUSTICE STORY
Charmed Wife (NY Daily News) Iva Phoebus was big, robust and jolly and enjoyed the belief that in the world of Maryland she could do pretty much what she pleased. She was right. |
| JONBENET RAMSEY Case Boulder, Colorado DNA ID key to Ramsey case (Boulder News) DNA hasn't been matched to anyone in the Ramsey family |
| JAMES GARNER found not guilty in murder of wife, in-laws
Castle Rock, Colo. Garner has chance at custody (Inside Denver) Even if civil courts conclude that James Garner killed his wife and in-laws, he could still win custody of his three daughters. |
| IRA EINHORN accused of killing Helen "Holly" Maddux
Ira Einhorn Civil Trial to Begin (American Lawyer) Civil lawsuit against Einhorn is headed to court without him (Philadelphia Inquirer) The victim's family is seeking damages in the event that he profits from her death. He remains in France. |
 YOSEMITE SLAYING -- Joie Ruth Armstrong Yosemite National Park Yosemite Slaying Manhunt (SF Chronicle) Motel worker disappeared after questioning. Investigators want to re-question the brother of a victim in a famous 1970s sex-kidnapping case. VIDEO Report (KRON TV) Discovery of Slain Naturalist Another Blow for Yosemite (LA Times) The park, reeling from the murder of three female sightseers in the area earlier this year, is jarred as a 26-year-old environmental educator is found dead near her home. Naturalist's death investigated as homicide (Sac Bee) |
| Clearwater, Fla.
Bank robber stuns police with bold approach (SP Times) He seemed no different from any other bank customer who wanted to talk with a manager. |
| SID WELLS murder
THAYNE SMIKA accused Boulder, Colo. Police draft warrant in Wells case (Boulder News) Police prepare warrant in '83 Sid Wells murder (Inside Denver) Police are writing a warrant for the arrest of the prime suspect in the 16-year-old shooting of Sid Wells, one of Boulder's most infamous unsolved killings. Wells, a popular University of Colorado student who was dating the daughter of actor Robert Redford at the time, was shot to death in his apartment Aug. 1, 1983. |
| JONBENET RAMSEY Case Boulder, Colorado Hearing postponed for 2 men in Ramsey grand jury incident (Boulder News) A Boulder court has postponed a hearing for two men accused of sending information to the county grand jury investigating the JonBenét Ramsey case. |
| JOIE RUTH ARMSTRONG, 26 Yosemite National Park, California FBI investigating new Yosemite killing--(Reuters) Authorities announced Friday what appeared to be a grisly new homicide at Yosemite National Park. |
| NICO LLOYD child death ANTWAN DIXON and ALTOVISE LORRELL LLOYD charged Pleasantville, New Jersey Mother, boyfriend charged in connection with 4-year-old found dead in attic |
| WENDY UPTON murder Staffordshire, U.K. Man charged after skeleton find--(BBC) A 31-year-old man has been charged with murdering a housewife who vanished nine months ago after setting out on a shopping trip. |
| SARAH BARHAM victim DONALD McPHERSON charged Lakeland, Florida 15-year-old charged with strangling ex-girlfriend--(TBO-FL) McPherson apparently tapped on Sarah's window and killed her after she came outside. |
| SUND/PELOSSO case Fresno, California Case witness re-examined--(Fresno Bee) The woman, however, was not called to testify before the federal grand jury in Fresno. |
| KENNETH LITTLETON Martha Moxley case Boston, Mass. Key witness stabbed in case tied to Kennedy kin--(Boston Herald) Authorities investigating the 1975 murder of a Greenwich, Conn., teenager in which the prime suspects are nephews of Robert and Ethel Kennedy have contacted Boston police for information on the mysterious stabbing of the suspects' former teacher. Martha Moxley: The Unsolved Murder Comprehensive resource site for all Moxley case-related info. |
 Jennifer Bush was hospitalized approximately 130 times but doctors never found anything wrong with her. MUNCHAUSEN BY PROXY Case Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Mother goes on trial, accused of purposely making child sick - (MSNBC/WTVJ) A local girl spent much of her young life in and out of hospitals. Now the state is contending her mother is the one who is sick. Prosecutors say Kathy Bush has a rare psychiatric disorder called Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome and is on trial, accusing of intentionally making her daughter ill. Nurses draw link between girl's condition, mom's visits - (Naples News) Witness: Doctors tried to stop girl from taking drug that made her sick - (TBO-FL) |
| Ft. Smith, Arkansas
Man robs bank with water gun, pleads guilty (Ark Dem-Gaz) |
| DANNY LEE co-conspirator with Chevie Kehoe
Little Rock, Ark. Reno, deputy likely will testify in LR on killer's sentence (Ark Dem-Gaz) A jury convicted Lee and Chevie Kehoe of racketeering, conspiracy and murder in aid of racketeering. The case, tried in Little Rock, focused on the men's plans to set up a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest and the related January 1996 slayings of a Tilly family -- William Mueller, 53, Nancy Mueller, 28, and Sarah Powell, 8. Lee was sentenced to death by injection. |
| GARRETT ELDRED WILSON - father on trial in death of son
Montgomery County, Maryland Infant's Mother Suspected Spouse (Wash Post) Mary "Missy" Anastasi told a Montgomery County jury yesterday that she believed from the day her 5-month-old son died that her ex-husband, Garrett Eldred Wilson, had killed him. Insurance money possible motive. |
| MELISSA GOSULE murdered Boston schoolteacher
Plymouth, Mass. Teacher stabbed in slaying, judge is told at arraignment (Boston Globe) After offering a ride to the stranded, dark-haired schoolteacher he had just met and thought was ''pretty,'' Melissa Gosule 's alleged killer let her make a final call to her father to say where she was, then pulled a knife and molested her, a prosecutor said yesterday. |
| Chicago
Studs Terkel Gets Burglar To Leave Him A Donation (Chicago Trib) |
| YOSEMITE SLAYING
FBI Probes Woman's Slaying at Yosemite (SF Examiner) A naturalist at Yosemite National Park was found dead yesterday under mysterious circumstances, and tight-lipped FBI investigators would only say last night that the case is being treated as a homicide. Her body found near staff housing. |
| JONBENET RAMSEY Case Boulder, Colorado JonBenet's death linked to Web porn (USA Today) More than 2 1/2 years after the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, there seems little left to write about the child beauty queen's death until authorities officially conclude their investigation. But a Boulder County, Colo., grand jury probing the slaying hasn't met in nearly two months. Even the media hype is stuck in midsummer doldrums. Book review of Stephen Singular's book, Presumed Guilty. |
| TED BINION murdered gaming exec
SANDRA MURPHY suspect Las Vegas Murphy seeks $2 million from estate of Binion An ex-gaming executive's girlfriend filed suit for what she says is her due before she was jailed in his death. |
