| Killer Scheduled To Die Oct. 15 by Lethal Injection (THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE) Loner and drifter Joseph Mitchell "Mitch" Parsons, one of Utah's 12 death row inmates, was ordered Monday to die in 60 days by lethal injection. |
| Manchester, New Hampshire Accused killer captured in Texas (Manchester Union Leader) The man charged with killing and dismembering Mary K. Stetson will be returned to New Hampshire this week after being arrested in Texas, officials said yesterday. |
| 68-Year-Old Faces Charges in Daughter’s Shooting Mom Goes on Trial (ABc News) An elderly woman on trial for shooting and paralyzing her daughter — who eventually died after winning the right to be taken off life support — was on medication that altered her sensibilities at the time, her defense attorney said. |
| ELKHART, Ind Teen father free pending report on baby's death (The Star News) Prosecutors said Monday they will wait for a pathological report before deciding whether to charge an Elkhart man in his son's death. |
| Youth testifies he, victim had sexual relationship for 2 years 16-year-old pleads guilty in burning death of E. Texas man (The Dallas Morning News ) A 16-year-old Lone Oak youth could serve up to 40 years in prison for murder after pleading guilty Monday to helping an older friend lure a black man to nearby Rains County, where he was set afire with gasoline to exact revenge for a soured $30 drug deal. |
| Las Vegas Surviving carjacking suspect faces murder charges ( Las Vegas Review-Journal) Murder charges were filed Monday against a hospitalized man after Las Vegas police said they suspect he helped carjack a vehicle. |
| Montreal, Canada Pierrefonds girl assaulted near scene of July murder (Montreal Gazette) A 17-year-old girl was assaulted by a man late Saturday night while out walking her dog - just two blocks away from where a Pierrefonds woman was found bludgeoned to death on July 10, police said yesterday. |
| Congress: America's Criminal Class Rep. Corrine Brown and her long trail of lies, deceit and unpaid bills (Capitol Hill Blue) America, Mark Twain once said, is a nation without a distinct criminal class "with the possible exception of Congress." |
| Congress: America's Criminal Class Virginia's bombastic Congressman Jim Moran: "I like to hit people" (Capitol Hill Blue) Del Rey residential area of Alexandria weren't surprised earlier this year when police cars showed up at the home of Democratic Congressman James Moran and his wife of 11 years. |
| PORTERVILLE, Calif Gonzalez/Lopez family Family members stabbed before explosion--(Fox News) A man apparently killed his wife and two of their daughters before killing himself and their youngest child in a house fire, police said Monday. |
| NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON Los Angeles, California Simpson's sister wants state to pursue perjury allegation--(WRAL) There is a possibility of filing perjury charges against O.J. Simpson. |
MARTHA MOXLEY murder case Greenwich, Conn. Beyond Rich Man's Justice-- (Connecticut Law Tribune) Related: Martha Moxley website-- (marthamoxley.com) |
| ADRIAN ROSALES San Antonio, Texas Tyler man arrested--(UPI) He could be a suspect in other child assaults from Arkansas to Arizona. |
| WETMORE, Colorado Benjamin S. Snell, escaped convict Aurora man dug way out of prison Thursday –(Inside Denver) About 20 searchers on foot, horseback and in vehicles, scoured the area around this southeast Colorado town but found no sign Sunday of an armed convict who dug his way out of prison on Thursday EL LLANO, New Mexico Carlos Vigil, murdered attorney Miguel Trujillo, wanted for questioning Truck Seized In Lawyer's Shooting–(Albuquerque Journal) State Police received an anonymous tip about 9:30 a.m. Saturday that the 1978 Ford F-150 pickup with a white camper shell could be found in the garage of a home on Duran Lane in El Llano northeast of Españñola. Attorney's killer still at large But police find mint-green truck that was seen leaving crime scene –(Amarillo Globe-News) The home where the truck was discovered belongs to friends of Trujillo. Trujillo has had run-in with the law before, but police only want to question him. |
| COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho Trooper Linda Huff, murdered in July 1998 Scott Yager, sentenced Yager gets life without parole in trooper's death –(Oregon Live) Teary-eyed members of Huff's family said they did not agree with the sentence but would accept it. Huff’’s family calls the life sentence an insult–(MSNBC) Huff’’s father, Ed Laughlin, was unhappy that his daughter’’s killer didn’’t receive the death penalty from Judge James Judd |
 AVONDALE, Pennsylvania Norman Johnston, fugitive - murderer 50 calls follow TV spot on Johnston ``America's Most Wanted'' featured the fugitive from Pa. –(The Philadelphia Inquirer) Also yesterday, state police said that the reward being offered for information leading to Johnston's arrest had increased from $12,000 to $40,000 4-time murderer continues to elude police–(MSNBC) He escaped from state prison by making a lifelike dummy and cutting through his window and two security fences Johnston's trail cools despite "Most Wanted' –(Lancaster New Era) The tips and possible sightings have slowed to a trickle, and the trail of escaped murderer Norman Johnston has gotten a little cooler since the Saturday airing of a national television program. |
| JURA ISLAND, Scotland James Law, 50 Island fire death 'suspicious' –(BBC News) It is understood a detective inspector has gone to the island, which has a population of just 200 people, to lead the inquiry. POLICE PROBE ISLAND FIRE DEATH –(PA NewsCentre) Strathclyde Police said the death of James Law is being treated as suspicious Bletchley, England Police hunt serial sex attacker after weekend rape–(Yahoo UK & Ireland) A woman in her thirties was raped at knifepoint on Saturday morning by a man she discovered in her bedroom in Bletchley. RAPE MAY BE LINKED TO SERIAL SEX ATTACKER –(PA NewsCentre) Detectives are linking a number of reported attacks over the past few months |
| SHIRLEY EGAN trial Orlando, Florida Florida court first to broadcast trial on the Internet--(Reuters) When 68-year-old Shirley Egan goes on trial Monday on charges of fatally shooting her daughter, the ailing woman will be center stage in the first trial the U.S. judicial system has ever broadcast over the Internet. |
| Deaths shock Liberty Town grapples with police killing two teens (Tulsa World) Jenks and Glenpool police shot and killed two teen-agers late Saturday who allegedly tried to run them over in a stolen truck. |
| Report: Inmates Use Phones for Crime (Newsday) |
| RAFFI KODIKIAN camper slay suspect Doylestown, Penn. Hometown rallies around camper slay suspect (Boston Herald) Raffi Kodikian sought the solitude of his parents' home in the Pennsylvania woods yesterday, far from the glare of New Mexico where he allegedly killed his best friend from Massachusetts out of mercy as the pair languished without water lost in the desert. Accused killer's small-town pals are in disbelief (Boston Herald) |
| Trio accused of abducting, killing man Victim was suspected of molesting girl, 11 (Detroit Free Press) Two men and a woman were arraigned Sunday on charges of abducting and killing a 23-year-old Benton Harbor man they accused of molesting the woman's 11-year-old daughter. |
| Police say dad killed kids, self (Orlando Sentinal) A father and his young daughter and young son were found dead Sunday in the man's apartment in this Fort Lauderdale suburb in what police said was an apparent murder-suicide. |
4 Dead, 5 Wounded in D.C., Pr. George's Shootings (Washington Post) Four people were shot to death and three others were wounded in a five-hour period over the weekend. |
| TAMPA Suspect arrested in teen bicyclist's shooting death (St. Petersburg Times) A 27-year-old man was arrested Friday in the shooting death of a teenager who was riding a bicycle in Tampa last week. |
| VIRGINIA BEACH Trial in LSD-related death to begin (The Virginian-Pilot) When 20-year-old Nathan L. Kraviec died in September after ingesting LSD during a noisy party of enlisted Navy personnel, nine people were charged with his murder. |
