| JAMES FRANKLIN GREENFIELD accused of murdering prostitutes
Largo, Fla. Slayings case hits another hurdle (SP Times) A new trial in a kidnapping case complicates efforts to build a case in a string of prostitute killings. |
| Denver, Colo. Judge gives girl's rapist probation (Insided Denver) The 12-yr-old girl was home sick when the rapist attacked. The District Judge handed out a 10-year prison sentence saying probation was, "entirely inappropriate." But this summer, he changed his mind. |
| Home invaders kill man; 2 arrested (The Arizona Republic) Jose Luis Alvarez-Escobedo had just put up bars on his windows and a fence around his house, a neighbor said. They didn't save him. |
| MURDER HUNT AFTER BODY FOUND IN FIELD ("PA" NewsCentre) Police have launched a murder inquiry after the body of a woman was found in a field. |
| Murder charge baffles couple (The Arizona Republic) Tung and Minh Tuong say they sit in jail wondering why their daughter died, why they're accused of killing her, and why their two other daughters are telling stories about beatings. |
| QUEENS, New York Cop stable after taking bullet in face --(The Boston Globe) The officer, Marcos Hui, 29, was parked in the Glendale section at about 7:15 a.m. when the gunman walked up and fired a single bullet into his jaw, said police spokeswoman Detective Madelyne Colon. |
| HORSEHEADS, New York Kathleen Scotchmer, 39, murder victim Ronald Brewer, 35, murder victim Woman and her boyfriend slain, 21-year-old son charged --(The Boston Globe) A woman and her boyfriend were shot to death in their home, and state police said the woman's 21-year-old son confessed to killing them with a shotgun. HARTFORD, Connecticut Luis Figueroa, 20, murder victim Hartford man charged in fatal shooting --(The Boston Globe) A 21-year-old man was arrested and charged with murder Sunday in connection with a fatal shooting in which the victim was chased down by his assailant. |
| NEW BRITAIN, Connecticut Accused child molester returns to Conn. to face charges --(The Boston Globe) Joseph Gaetan Menard of Ontario, Canada, had been successfully fighting extradition for four years before he surrendered to authorities Thursday. |
 NOTTINGHAM, Pennsylvania; Norman Johnston, escaped murderer Escaped murderer likely stole car in escape, police says --(The Nando Times) Police found no trace Saturday of an escaped quadruple murderer in their search of a wooded park near the Maryland border, and said the suspect may have left the area in a stolen car.Authorities said it was likely that he has left the Nottingham area in a silver Buick that was stolen Friday night. |
| TROY, Michigan Investigation continues in slaying of Troy man two years ago--(Michigan Live) The relatives of a man found dead in his home two years ago with a single gunshot to the back of the head are still looking for closure. |
| WAYNE ADAM FORD Eureka, California Confessed killer stays in county--(Eureka Times-Standard) Ford told investigators he murdered a woman whose torso was found floating in Ryan Slough in October 1997. Over the next year he allegedly murdered three other women before turning himself in at Humboldt County Sheriff's Department in November 1998. He was carrying a woman's severed breast when he surrendered. |
| YOSEMITE MURDERS California Media storm Fresno to hear Stayner plea--(Fresno Bee) His day in court begins: Stayner enters not guilty plea in federal court--(Fresno Bee) Trial will test old Mariposa courthouse--(Fresno Bee) A constable's lot...--(New York Post) |
| Kathy Bush, Munchausen allegation Girl's treatment puzzles specialist –(The Sun Sentinel) There is no medical reason why Jennifer Bush's condition suddenly improved when she was taken from her parents, a medical expert said Friday in her mother's trial. |
| NOTTINGHAM, Pennsylvania Norman Johnston, escaped murderer Escaped Murderer Hunted in Pa.–(Contra Costa Times ) Norman Johnston was spotted talking on a pay phone Friday night but escaped into the 600-acre Nottingham County Park after a scuffle with one of the rangers, said state police Capt. Henry Oleyniczak. FT. MEYERS, Florida Lillian Glenn, 39 murder victim Dead woman found naked, stabbed –(MSNBC) The sheriff’’s office took her husband into custody for questioning, while they began a full crime scene investigation. He told police it was a suicide. 13 year-old allegedly gang raped –(MSNBC) If you have any information about this case, you’’re urged to call the sheriff’’s office LEWISBURG, Pennsylvania Arrest made in year-old rape –(MSNBC) Nearly a year after a shocking crime in Union County, a man has been charged with brutally raping and robbing a Lewisburg woman and then leaving her to die. HALEDON, New Jersey Two male exotic dancers charged in Haledon fatal shooting –(The Bergen Record Online) Authorities investigating Haledon's first murder in nearly 20 years arrested two alleged male prostitutes in the killing, and brought down two sex- for-hire operations in the process. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Amy Quinton, 22, murder victime Father of Slain Woman Says: `This Guy Has Just Got to Be Caught Before He Kills Someone Else'–(The Salt Lake Tribune) Police were still searching for the elusive killer of a University of Utah student Friday as she was laid to rest in a Sandy cemetery DETROIT, Michigan Chanel Roberts 18 murder victim Amanda Hodges, 17 murder victim Mom: Slain teen 'didn't get chance'–(The Toronto Sun) Police have five Detroit men in custody, aged 23 to 52, after three of the men, who are related, turned themselves in yesterday morning |
| JONBENET RAMSEY Case Boulder, Colorado New police figures nudge cost of Ramsey probe past $2 million–(Inside Denver) Boulder police have now, however, released an updated accounting that is current through Aug. 1. The department's latest numbers pushed the combined city, county and state costs to $2,007,019.51. |
| Father acquitted of sexually assaulting daughter but gets probation for injury (Houston Chronicle) A father convicted of injuring his 10-week-old daughter after being acquitted of sexually assaulting her was placed on nine years probation Friday. |
| Police checking if 7 rapes were work of 1 man (Indianapolis Star/News) Investigators hope new interviews with all the victims will shed light on a series of attacks that has plagued an Eastside neighborhood. |
| Man given 12 years in girl's rape (The Anchorage Daily News) The man who raped a 6-year-old after state child protection workers failed to heed repeated warnings of harm to the child was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison. |
| NEW NORTHERN CYPRUS CHARGE IN MENSON MURDER (SKy News) connection with the murder of the black musician Michael Menson has been charged. |
| HORROR FILM BOYS GUILTY OF MURDER BID ("PA" NewsCentre) Two schoolboys who stabbed a friend and left him for dead after watching the horror film Scream have been convicted of attempted murder. |
| Woman receives life sentence for murder (St. Petersburg Times) Vuzhuan Johnson was convicted of first-degree murder for shooting her stepfather in the head as he slept. |
| Five men being held in slaying of two teens (The Globe and Mail) Five men are in custody as suspects in the killings of two Ontario teenagers, Detroit police said yesterday. |
| MINDY THOMAS, 15 JENNIFER TCHIR, 12 TODD ALAN REED - Forest Park Serial Killer Suspect Portland, Oregon Forest Park Suspect Tied To 2 More Murders (Ch. 6000) |
| MARY STETSON murder, dismemberment
Manchester, N.H. Police search nationwide for possible links to Manchester case (Boston Globe) Police are searching nationwide to see if the dismemberment murder of a Manchester woman is linked to any similar crimes. |
| VERNON L. CLARK convicted murderer
Elkridge, Maryland DNA Leads To Charges In Unsolved Homicides (Wash Post) An Elkridge man serving a life sentence for murder was formally charged yesterday with two more killings and is suspected of several others, possibly bringing closure to a series of unsolved homicides that frightened Howard County residents and baffled police almost two decades ago. |
| CHARLES MANSON 30 Years Later: Manson Inc. (LA Times) If Charles Manson did not exist, we would have had to invent him--or someone just as irresistibly grotesque. We need a gold-standard boogeyman, a human monster incarnate, against whose misdeeds all others can be measured--and there he is. |
| MARTHA MOXLEY murder case
MICHAEL SKAKEL suspect Stamford, Conn. Judge rules suspect's statements to doctor are privileged --(Boston Globe) A nephew of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy has won one round in a legal battle to prevent a grand jury from hearing potentially incriminating statements he may have made about the unsolved 1975 killing of a Greenwich teen-ager. |
| JONBENET RAMSEY Case Boulder, Colorado Cost of JonBenet Ramsey Case More Than $2 Million (POSTnet/SHNS) |
