| England and Wales Rights fears over DNA plan--(BBC) Government plans to keep DNA samples collected during major police investigations in England and Wales for use in other criminal inquiries have come under attack. |
| YOSEMITE MURDERS California News media scramble to get jailhouse interviews with Stayner--(Fresno Bee) Overshadowed all his life--(SF Examiner) Stayner probers look for links to ex-felons--(Sacramento Bee) Stayner taken to Fresno, put under suicide watch--(San Jose Mercury News) Pittsburg mother sees Stayner link to '94 death--(Contra Costa Times) Links between city, Yosemite killings--(Arizona Central) Utahn wonders whether Stayner murdered her ex--(Salt Lake Tribune) |
| MISSING: Sandra Lynn Kerby
Fresno, Calif. Kerby knew of affair: source (Fresno Bee) Meanwhile, daughter says it is unrelated to her disappearance. |
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| ANGEL MATURINO RESENDIZ railway serial killer suspect
a.k.a. Rafael Resendez-Ramirez Houston, Texas Sister of serial killer suspect gets $86,000 in reward funds (Houston Chronicle) The sister of suspected serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz has received $86,000 in reward money for her role in getting him to surrender, the FBI announced Thursday. |
| Phoenix, Ariz. 'Ugly Robber' suspect confesses, police say (Arizona Republic) |
| SHEILA BELLUSH murdered mom of quads
JOSE LUIS DEL TORO charged Sarasota, Fla. Defense funding probed (Express-News) Mexican authorities believe whoever hired murder suspect Jose Luis del Toro to kill Sheila Bellush also paid for his high-powered attorneys here to prevent his extradition to the United States, the government lawyer who oversees extraditions said Thursday. |
| GARRET ELDRED WILSON convicted - infant murder for insurance money
Montgomery County, Maryland Father Guilty Of Smothering His Infant Son (Wash Post) A Montgomery County jury yesterday convicted Garrett Eldred Wilson of murdering his 5-month-old son 12 years ago in a death that originally was attributed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. |
Teenage stowaway to London dressed in Hasidic attire (Boston Globe) Spy novel fan wanted to fly on to Israel Leicester woman, daughter found slain in home (Boston Globe) Deborah Kucher, an outgoing and friendly nurse's aide, was found murdered in her home yesterday along with her 9-year-old daughter. Judge seals teen murder suspect's journals (SP Times)The personal journals of Valessa Robinson, the Carrollwood teenager charged with murdering her mother, Vicki Robinson, will be sealed until after her December trial Woman Settles Rights Suit Over Breast-Feeding (LA Times) A woman who was told not to breast-feed at a Borders bookstore has settled her civil rights lawsuit against the chain. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. |
| JONBENET RAMSEY Case Boulder, Colorado Boulder DA will seek $57,000 for Ramsey probe (Inside Denver) The $56,999 being requested next week will be enough to cover the grand jury's potential costs through Oct. 20, when the jurors' legal commission expires. |
| ATLANTA SHOOTINGS
Mark O. Barton - mass killer Incongruous killer: Chilling portrait of Barton emerges (AJC) Full coverage from the Atlanta Journal and local WSB-TV. Images from the scene (AJC) |
| First published March 26, 1994 Truth of bloody slashing remains hidden CEDAR BLUFF, Alabama Eloise Powell Spivey, 59, and daughter, Debra Spivey Barton, 36, unsolved murder--(Access Atlanta) Although the murder weapon has never been recovered and no one has been charged, investigators said they are looking closely at Debra Barton's husband of 15 years, Mark Orrin Barton. |
| Mark O. Barton, 44, DEAD After going on Shooting Rampage ATLANTA, Georgia 9 slain, 12 injured in city; 3 bodies found at suburban apartment Suspect in Atlanta shooting spree dead–(CNN) The suspect in shootings that left 12 people dead in two Atlanta office buildings and in an apartment south of Atlanta killed himself after being pulled over by police north of Atlanta, officials say. |
| GARRETT ELDRED WILSON - convicted of murdering infant for insurance money Montgomery County, Maryland Man found guilty of killing baby son –(TBO) A Frostburg, Md., man accused of killing two of his children for $190,000 in life insurance money was found guilty Thursday in the 1987 smothering death of his 5-month-old son. |
| JACOB DAVIS trial Fayetteville, Tennessee Tenn. teen convicted of first-degree murder in shooting of rival--(Court TV) |
| YOSEMITE MURDERS California Family visits cabin of slain naturalist--(SF Examiner) FBI accused of botching Yosemite case--(SF Chronicle) Taxi driver left to wonder--(Modesto Bee) Stayner statement called dubious--(SF Examiner) FBI seeks links in unsolved killings--(SF Examiner) Critisicm growing over probe of killings--(San Jose Mercury News) Joie Armstrong at her best teaching kids--(Santa Rosa Press Democrat) |
| ATLANTA SHOOTING At least 2 dead, 9 injured in Atlanta office shooting, CEO says (CNN News) An angry former customer of an investment firm returned to the office Thursday afternoon and methodically opened fire with two guns, killing at least two people and injuring nine, the company's CEO told CNN. Police are still looking for the gunman. Atlanta shooting (MSNBC) |
| TEEN LOVE TRIANGLE JACOB DAVIS trial NICK CRESON murder Fayetteville, Tennessee Both sides rest in Tennessee love triangle murder trial--(Court TV) Jacob Davis' letter to family, friends and Tonya Baker--(Court TV) Jacob Davis' letter to Tonya Bishop--(Court TV) |
| HOLLY MADDUX murdered IRA EINHORN civil case Philadelphia, Penn. Philly Jury Awards $907 Million to Maddux Family in Civil Trial (American Lawyer) Following a two-day trial with no defense, it took just over an hour Wednesday for a jury to decide fugitive Ira Einhorn should pay $907 million to the family of the woman he was convicted of killing two decades ago. |
 Sarasota, Fla. Old murder cases get fresh look (Sarasota Herald-Trib) From the murders of Gettis (pictured) and Merrill Lee in Parrish in 1957 to the killing of Jefferson Blanton in Myakka City in August, 1996, the Manatee County investigative Criminal Enforcement Unit, or ICE, reviews unsolved cases. |
| New York
Designing Bandits Steal Couture Line (NY Daily News) |
Shabazz Flees Detention (NY Daily News) Malcolm X's troubled grandson, who set a fire that killed his grandmother Betty Shabazz, escaped for the third time yesterday from juvenile detention. Man Had Sex With Girl, 11, Police Say (Wash Post) A man was charged last week with having sex with an 11-year-old girl he met via the Internet after the girl's mother found him at 3 a.m. hiding in the child's bedroom closet. Teen breaches security, boards plane at Boston airport (Boston Herald) A 17-year-old boy wanting to impress Israeli intelligence officials sliced through a fence at Logan International Airport and stowed away on a British Airways flight to London. D.C. Officials Press Prison Firm on Escape (Wash Post) District officials are trying to determine how two D.C. inmates serving time for murder were able to escape from two guards. Faces Year in Slay Of Ailing Wife (NY Daily News) A man who shot and killed his ailing wife on her 88th birthday will face no more than one year in jail. |
| A FISHY STORY Kentucky Red snapper helped hide $100,000 in ice chest--(Access Alanta) A deputy making a routine traffic stop knew something was amiss when he found a rotting red snapper in an ice chest inside a car traveling from Kentucky to Florida. |
| MARTHA MOXLEY murder case
RUSHTON SKAKEL father of suspects Greenwich, Conn. Father must testify in Kennedy nephews' murder trial (Boston Herald) Ethel Kennedy's elder brother must testify in the unsolved 1975 bludgeoning death of a 15-year-old Connecticut girl in which two of his sons are the key suspects, a Florida appellate court has ruled. Martha Moxley case website (marthamoxley.com) |
| GARRETT ELDRED WILSON - accused of murdering infant for insurance money
Montgomery County, Maryland Infant Died After Seizure, Father's Defense Argues (Wash Post) A forensic pathologist working for the defense yesterday testified that he believes Garrett Eldred Wilson's infant son died after a seizure and not by smothering, as prosecution experts have contended. |
