| NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. Murder suspect who police believe committed suicide was also suspected in wife's disappearance–(The Boston Herald) Mrs. Marfeo vanished without a trace in March, 1990. Johnston police have long suspected her husband in her disappearance, but he was never charged. |
| DALLAS, Texas Mother charged with stabbing daughter to death –(MSNBC) A 25-year-old Dallas hospital worker is accused of murder in the stabbing death of her seven-year-old daughter. ARLINGTON, Texas Arlington boy beaten –(MSNBC) The boy was found at a closed, fenced off apartment complex. Investigators say he was brutally beaten, possibly with a pipe |
| YOSEMITE MURDERS California For famies of murdered Yosemite tourists, there will never be closure--(Press Dem0crat) Stayner: A master at life in the shadows--(Modesto Bee) Controvery swirls around FBI agent--(Modesto Bee) Special team to probe Stayner ties to unsolved killings--(Modesto Bee) Maddock: Agent in the line of fire--(SF Examiner) Stayner's quest for notoriety succeeds--(Sacramento Bee) Haunted by death od friend: neighbour reassured naturalist over fear Cases highlight frustrations of police work--(Times Union) |
| LOS ANGELES, California Woman Arrested in Adoption Scam–(Newsday) A 21-year-old woman more than eight months pregnant was arrested and charged with fraud for allegedly promising her unborn child to seven would-be adoptive mothers for $16,000 each. |
| MALCOLM HOBBS - murdered in 1997 North Berwick, Maine Relatives of slain farmer long for answers, closure -- (Portland Press Herald) Police described Hobbs' killing as brutal, but wouldn't say how he died. To this day, even his relatives don't know. Nor is a cause of death listed on Hobbs' death certificate. |
| Quincy, Mass.
Quarry search yields no victim (Boston Globe) Despite dangers, divers to continue recovery effort in Quincy. The search began in 1997 when investigators received a tip from a jailed informant that the body of a female murder victim was in the quarry. |
| New Hampshire
Embattled gadfly keeps N.H. courts on defensive (Boston Globe) In the abandoned bed and breakfast where Theodore Kamasinski has based his assault on New Hampshire's legal system, most of the furniture has been seized by the state, with the exception of seven dining-room chairs, which stand arranged in a perfect rectangle around nothing. |
| SHEILA BELLUSH murdered mom of quads
JOSE LUIS DEL TORO, JR. accused Sarasota, Fla. Slaying saga twists, turns (SP Times) Poor weather, help from friends and a hard-fought extradition battle in Mexico keep a suspect in a Sarasota slaying out of U.S. reach for 20 months. Del Toro case shocks hometown (Sarasota Herald-Trib) Authorities investigate Del Toro's legal benefactor (Sarasota Herald-Trib) Bellush Special Section (SA Express-News) |
| CRIME FILES JUSTICE STORY
Los Angeles -- May 24, 1933 Accused & Spellbound (NY Daily News) The body of young, black-haired man, his face all but blown away by a shotgun blast, lay on a desolate hill in Agua Dulce Canyon, 70 miles east of Los Angeles. |
| JONBENET RAMSEY Case Boulder, Colorado JonBenet's birthday a sad milestone (Inside Denver) While grand jury drags on, some who recall murdered 6-year-old lose hope that crime will ever be solved. |
| Colorado
State public defender proud of successes (Denver Post) David Wymore's most recent success was winning a 'not guilty' verdict for his client James Garner, accused of murder his wife and in-laws. |
| CHARLOTTE, N.C. Worker, supervisor dead in shooting at North Carolina trucking terminal –(Alabama Live) A maintenance worker shot and killed himself after fatally shooting his supervisor at a local trucking terminal. DUDLEY, N.C. Teen shoots woman and child –(MSNBC) It all started in the middleof the night when an armed man broke through Peggy Lofton's front door. HALIFAX, Canada Mother, infant girl slain - Police seek suspect after two-month-old and mom, 19, killed –(CNEWS) Police said the victims had been dead for 12 to 24 hours, but they weren't saying how they were murdered or whether a weapon was found. YAKIMA, Washington Man charged with killing Yakima woman –(Oregon Live) A man has been charged with aggravated first-degree murder and could face the death penalty if convicted for the March slaying of a Yakima woman. |
| YOSEMITE MURDERS California Stayner's co-defendant in pot case got 7-month term--(Fresno Bee) Though repulsed by four Yosemite killings, tourists keep visiting park--(Fresno Bee) Memorial fund for Joie Armstrong--(Fresno Bee) Law class considers Stayner insanity defense--(Sacramento Bee) |
| RACHEL NAIL case
Naples, Fla. Lee deputy honored for finding girl's killer (Naples News) A Lee County Sheriff's deputy whose investigation into the 1992 Satanic murder of a 14-year-old girl led to a conviction more than five years later was honored Friday as one of the area's top officers. |
| London
Man linked to suitcase murder remanded (Vancouver Sun) |
| ANGEL MATURINO RESENDIZ
Houston, Tex. Rail drifter indicted in 2 more deaths (Dallas News) |
| YOSEMITE MURDERS
Slain Naturalist's Relative in Same Jail as Stayner (LA Times) |
SJC orders a new trial in '94 murder (Boston Globe) In a unanimous opinion issued yesterday, the state's highest court ordered a new trial for the man convicted of killing a 49-year-old mother whose body was found in her Lexington apartment in 1994. Hinckley's Outings Won't Be Announced (Wash Post) The most notorious patient at St. Elizabeths Hospital soon will be leaving the grounds on outings supervised by hospital staff. But when John W. Hinckley Jr. starts making day trips, government officials say there will be no public notice because of concerns about his privacy and safety. Sarasota couple won't face death penalty (Herald-Trib) Prosecutors won't seek the death penalty for John and Lela Whiteley, the Sarasota couple accused of murdering a car dealer and severely injuring his live-in companion in June 1997. No criminal charges in fatal fall of wrestler Owen Hart (KC Star) Jackson County Prosecutor Bob Beaird announced Friday that he would not file criminal charges in the death of professional wrestler Owen Hart. Husband gets long probation in death (Denver Post) Almost from the instant she tumbled down 13 stairs in her Longmont home last January, Deanna Furlong's death has frustrated and troubled everyone involved in trying to figure out precisely what happened that day. |
| ATLANTA SHOOTINGS
Mark O. Barton Rampage began after Scout meeting (AJC) Full coverage of Barton mass killings Full text of Barton's letter (AJC) |
| LORD BINGHAM England Lord Lucan's son refused title--(BBC) His father, Lord "Lucky" Lucan, disappeared on November 7, 1974, the night nanny Sandra Rivett was found battered to death with a lead pipe at the family home in London's exclusive Belgravia. |
| Texarkana, Texas Double life--(Dallas Morning News) 27 years and 4 kids after prison escape, fugitive pair captured. |
| OWEN HART death Kansas City, Missouri Prosecutor won't file charges in death of wrestler Owen Hart--(POSTnet) |
| GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan Former educator admits molestations –(The Grand Rapids Press) A retired educator who taught in several Michigan school districts has confessed to sexually assaulting more than a dozen young boys overour decades, Wyoming police say. Teen-ager arrested in slaying of man left in car for hours–(The Grand Rapids Press) The car sat blocking one lane of traffic for more than eight hours, Grand Rapids Police Capt. Kevin Belk said. OAKLAND, California Jaquita Mack, 11-year-old murder victim Slain Oakland girl remembered as investigation continues–(Contra Costa Times ) To date police have only confirmed that asphyxia was a factor in the death  Hacker turning to a life of porn–(ZDNET) Former hacker and FBI informant, Justin Petersen is back in the news -- claiming that he is leaving behind a life of cybercrime to join the cyberporn business ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico Kiddie porn suspect linked to N.Ky. –(The Cincinnati Enquirer) Investigators have arrested an Albuquerque, N.M., man in connection with a child pornography ring with ties to Northern Kentucky. Albuquerque police arrested Tyrone Rust, 36, on Friday and charged him with use of a child in a sexual performance. MONTGOMERY, Ohio Rape attempt has suburbs on alert –(The Cincinnati Enquirer) Through an unlocked door, the assailant entered the girl's house on Berryhill Lane in the early morning and forced her into the back yard. MANCHESTER, England Six years for gynaecologist in hypnosis assaults–(The Weekly Telegraph) A CONSULTANT gynaecologist who hypnotised women patients before sexually assaulting them was jailed for six years yesterday |
| ATLANTA SHOOTINGS Mark O. Barton - mass killer Notes surface from Atlanta killer–(Washington Post) Barton wrote that he killed his children -- 11-year-old Matthew and 8-year-old Mychelle -- to spare them the pain of living without parents. |
| Stockholm, Sweden Zoo 'out' foxed by mystery penguin killer--(Reuters) |
| Miami, Florida Two days after his 15th birthday, boy charged with raping 5-year-old--(TBO-FL) |
