| VALIREE JACKSON, 9 - body found in shallow grave BRAD JACKSON, 33 - charged with first degree murder Spokane, Washington Emotional service held for slain 9-year-old--(Seattle Times) Law officers continue to search for evidence. Police tail murder suspect with satellites--(AP) When William "Brad" Jackson said his 9-year-old daughter disappeared without a sound from his front yard early one school morning, police were skeptical. |
| KATIE POIRIER, 19 - abducted and presumed murdered DONALD BLOM, 50 - confessed, then recanted Moose Lake, Minnesota Transcript: Blom's murder account implausible--(WCCO) Donald Blom's account of the abduction of Katie Poirier was vague and he had problems remembering details. Remains found on Blom's land could be identified this week--(Star-Tribune) Prosecutors have an answer to the question of whether human remains found on Donald Blom's property belong to the teen-ager he is accused of kidnapping and killing. |
| MATTY BARANOVSKI, 15 - victim of teen violence Toronto, Ontario, Canada 'We know who did it'--(National Post) Teenager Matty Baranovski was beaten to death this week. His fellow students are too scared to rat on the killers. |
| Social Justice: Quit Drugging Prisoners--(Law News Network) Forcing prisoners to ingest powerful, mind-altering drugs raises extremely troubling issues, both legal and ethical, especially in the capital setting. |
KAREN SILKWOOD - mysterious car accident death CRESCENT, Okla. The Silkwood saga - (Dallas Morning News) Karen Silkwood died in a mystery-shrouded car crash 25 years ago, a tragic end to events that made her a heroine to anti-nuclear activists and dumbfounded Crescent residents. |
| Law catching up to rings that stage auto accidents --(Dallas News) The light turned green, and a Nissan Sentra ahead of Jennifer Resnick moved into the intersection a few feet before the driver suddenly stomped his brakes causing her to rearend the Sentra. It took five years of courtroom warfare to prove that she was among thousands of victims snared by staged-accident rings each year in the United States. |
CRIMES OF THE CENTURY: THE PONZI SCHEME 1920 swindler left victims, imitators --(Boston Globe) Charles Ponzi did something few other criminals - not Al Capone or Jesse James - could manage: He got his name attached to his crime. Charles K. Ponzi Website (website by Mark C. Knutson) The Remarkable Criminal Financial Career of Charles K. Ponzi |
| ATTLEBORO, Mass. Search for Attleboro boys resumes in Maine woods --(Boston Globe) Investigators resumed searching the woods of Baxter State Park in northern Maine yesterday but failed to find the bodies of two Attleboro children, who were part of a reclusive religious sect. |
| CHRISTINE ELKINS - kidnapped, murdered drug informant Maryville, Missouri PART 9 OF A 10-PART SERIES: For jury, an eyewitness account of struggle that ended Elkins' life--(KC Star) Given that his case is now 8 years old, U.S. Attorney Mike Green prays that sense is present for this trial. |
PILAR RODRIGUEZ, 4 - missing, presumed dead Punta Gorda, Florida Remains reportedly recovered from lake--(Sarasota Herald-Trib) Pilar Rodriguez was last seen nine months ago when a baby sitter took her 135 miles from her Hollywood, Fla., home to Punta Gorda. |
| CRIME NEWS FROM COLORADO State to intensify search for fugitives --(Inside Denver) The Colorado Bureau of Investigation wants state law clarified so it can officially help local law enforcement track down and arrest fugitives involved in the most serious crimes. The CBI can help police and sheriffs but has no explicit authority to go after fugitives. NATALIE MIRABEL - murdered, decapitated MATTHEW MIRABEL - husband arrested Longmont, Colorado Second arrest possible in murder --(Boulder News) Matthew Mirabal supporters are offering $10,000 for arrest, conviction of real killer. JONBENET RAMSEY, 6 - murdered in her home Boulder, Colorado Here She Is, the TV Version of JonBenet--(Newsweek) At least one person is smart enough to say upfront that she won't be watching the CBS mini-series about JonBenet Ramsey: actress Dyanne Iandoli, 7, who will be portraying the murdered beauty queen in "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town." |
| THOMAS MARSHALL, 12 - body found 50 miles from home KEVAN ROBERTS, 52 - on trial Norfolk, England Shopkeeper 'strangled streetwise schoolboy'--(BBC) A 12-year-old boy was strangled to death by a shopkeeper with whom he was sexually involved, a court has heard on the first day of his murder trial. |
| SCHOOL SHOOTING DEMING, N.M. Prior Threats? ( ABC News) Angry at Mom’s Death, Boy Allegedly Talked of ‘Blasting School’ Murder charge likely in school shooting (The Dallas Morning News ) Classes to resume at site of N.M. school shooting (Chicago tribune ) Boy's case reviewed after NM girl dies (The Dallas Morning News ) |
MATTY BARANOVSKI, 15 - beaten to death Northview Heights Secondary School TORONTO, CANADA 'We know who did it'--(National Post) Teenager Matty Baranovski was beaten to death this week. His fellow students are too scared to rat on the killers. |
| As crime goes cyber, police follow (Christian Scoence Monitor ) Crime on the Internet is proliferating, forcing police to beef up their still-tiny e-crime staffs - and technical savvy. Increasingly, police are going high-tech to track suspects (Spokane Spokesman-Review ) Global Positioning System tracking devices are just one tool in a growing arsenal of spy gear available to the public and police agencies. |
| YORKTON, Sask Jury in Fisher trial ponders Milgaard evidence -- (Cnews) They were deciding the fate of Larry Fisher, but jurors had David Milgaard on their minds at Fisher's murder trial Sunday. Jurors interrupted their second day of deliberations to review evidence involving Milgaard. |
| VANCOUVER, BC Human rights commission to hear transsexual case -- (Cnews) Corrections Canada's decision to let a transsexual prisoner have sex change surgery and complete her sentence in a female prison is a major victory, say her supporters. |
| Justin Lee Marlow (Lewter)murdered Park suggested in young victim's neighborhood -- (Charlotte Observer) The developer of a southeast Mecklenburg neighborhood where an 8-year-old boy was recently slain has decided to construct a park in the boy's memory. Andria Nichole Brewer, murdered Uncle charged in girl's killing strains family -- (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) It has been six months since Andi was kidnapped, raped and strangled. The man accused of killing her is in the Polk County jail, awaiting a trial where he faces the death penalty. He is Andi's uncle, a man she had known since she was 2. |
| PILAR RODRIGUEZ, 4 missing PUNTA GORDA, Fla. Police find biological evidence on long-missing girl -- (AP) Detectives have recovered a trace of the remains of a 4-year-old girl missing since February, prompting authorities to shift the focus of the case to a murder investigation, a newspaper reported. Search for Pilar expands with use of cadaver dogs -- (MSNBC) Cadaver dogs will be looking around Preacher’s Lake in Charlotte County for any evidence related to Pilar Rodriguez. No finds so far in lake search for missing 4-year-old -- (AP) - Law enforcement officers, hoping to find clues to a missing girl, scoured a lakebed Saturday where so far they have retrieved just tattered pieces of cloth, cinder blocks, fishing lines and bicycle parts. |
MABLE LEE CONIC - skeleton found near others BOLTON, Miss. Ex-husband: Drugs led to woman's tragic end--(Clarion Ledger) Hunters found Mable Conic's skeletal remains in a wooded area near Bolton last month. She'd been missing since July. |
CHRISTINE ELKINS - kidnapped, murdered drug informant Maryville, Missouri PART 8 OF A 10-PART SERIES: Longshot search in Missouri River leads to an important discovery --(KC Star) Iinvestigators learned Christine Elkins' body probably had been stuffed in the trunk of a car and dumped in the river. Where she is now is anybody's guess. [Story includes a RealVideo clip of a pivotal discovery.] |
PORTLAND, Maine Child pornographer sent to prison--(Portland Press-Herald) Gregory J. Grant of South Portland was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison Friday for his role in the "Wonderland club," an online child pornography ring that spanned 32 U.S. cities and 12 countries. ALEXANDRIA, Virginia Teen Who Hacked Into Federal Web Sites Gets 15 Months --(Wash Post) A teenage hacker who broke into computer systems all over the country was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in prison for scrawling his cyber name and his love for a high school classmate across a series of Web sites. PONTIAC, Michigan Fear of Crime Trumps the Fear of Lost Youth--(NY Times) To look at a photograph of Nathaniel Abraham is to search for the face of a child. Nathaniel, 13, was convicted last week for planting himself on a hillside in this Detroit suburb, shooting at a stranger walking out of a convenience store and killing him -- a crime he committed at the age of 11. LOS ANGELES Case Involving Medical Use of Marijuana Results in Plea--(NY Times) Two advocates of the medicinal use of marijuana pleaded guilty Friday to growing more than 6,000 plants and selling the drug, saying their only hope was to ask for a judge's mercy after they were precluded from raising medical issues in their defense. |
SETH and RONNA ROBERTS - murdered attorneys WOODSTOCK, New York Police Say They Know L.I. Couple's Killer--(NY Times) After days of speculation and false leads, the state police say they know who killed a husband-and-wife legal team from Long Island whose bodies were found charred in a fire at their country home in Woodstock last week. Police suspect arson set to cover double homicide--(Newsday) Police have released three men charged in Brooklyn in connection with an arson-homicide in the second home of a Long Island couple, but continue to chase leads. |
MILLSTONE, N.J. Legal Woes for a Latter-Day Noah --(NY Times) They didn't have zoning regulations in Noah's day, so he didn't have to deal with the kinds of problems Lorraine Zdeb, a professional pet sitter, had to face after the floods of Tropical Storm Floyd. Good Samaritan Charged in Pet Flap --(Wash Post) When Tropical Storm Floyd struck, flooding out thousands of people, Lorraine Zdeb rushed to the aid of friends, neighbors and strangers and took in nearly 100 of their pets. For her trouble, she was issued a summons for violating the borough's zoning ordinance by operating a temporary animal shelter and could face a fine of up to $1,000. |
CRIME FILES JUSTICE STORY London - Nov. 2, 1952 'Let Him Have It'--(NY Daily News) It was on the roof of a darkened candy warehouse in Croyden, an outlying district of London, that a police constable was killed by a shot between the eyes and British justice was pushed to its most severe test. |
  UNSOLVED CASES: Featured Website of the Week MISSING: CYNDI VANDERHEIDEN, 25 Cyndi Vanderheiden is missing -- (website maintained by "Cindy J") Cyndi was last seen pulling into the driveway of her residence in Clements, CA on 11-14-98 at approximately 2:30am. Her vehicle was located later that day at the Glenview Cemetery located approximately 1 mile away on Mackeville Road in Clements. Her car was unoccupied and unlocked and her key chain with a plastic "TIGGER", 5" leather braid containing less then 10 keys are missing. She has not been seen or heard from since and her whereabouts are unknown. |
KENDRA WEBDALE - pushed onto subway tracks ANDREW GOLDSTEIN - confessed New York, NY The Jurors' Dilemma --(NY Times) In Andrew Goldstein's case, the choice of guilty or insane was no choice at all. Andrew Goldstein pushed Kendra Webdale to her death on Jan. 3, 1999. Here is a portion of his taped confession, taken the next morning. |
| MUNCHAUSEN BY PROXY San Antonio, Texas Lyda's baby allowed to live with father --(Express-News) Cynthia Lyda lost custody of her sons after a hidden video camera at Wilford Hall Medical Center taped her blowing into her infant son's stomach tube in 1994. The next year, she was diagnosed with Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, a rare disorder in which caretakers injure their wards while pretending to nurse them to health. Undiagnosed Tragedy--(San Antonio Express-News) Special story coverage of the Cynthia Martinez Lyda Munchausen-by-Proxy case |
DEMING, N.M. Student Shot in Deming--(ABQ Journal) Children cowered in their classrooms Friday at Deming Middle School after a teen-age boy dressed in camouflage and wielding a handgun shot a 13-year-old girl in the school lobby during the lunch hour. Girl In N.M. Shooting Dies--(CBS) A 13-year-old girl who police said had been shot in the head by a fellow student at a Deming, N.M., school, died Saturday. |
| BOULDER, Colo CBI checking DNA from murder suspect in Fort Collins for link to Boulder killing -- (Gazette.com) The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is comparing a DNA sample from a Fort Collins murder suspect with genetic evidence in the 1997 beating death of University of Colorado student Susannah Chase |
| ROME Italy Cardinal Implicated in Loan-sharking Ring -- (AP) Prosecutors in southern Italy have requested indictments against the archbishop of Naples, Cardinal Michele Giordano, in what they allege was a massive loan-sharking ring. |
| MEMPHIS, Tenn. Trial re-opens King Jr. inquiry -- (Detroit News) Theories that someone other than James Earl Ray killed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. are being aired once again in a Memphis courtroom as King's family seeks the "truth" about the assassination. |
| Four Die in Indiana shooting -- (AP) A man who was thrown out of an apartment in a domestic dispute returned with a gun early Sunday, killing three people and injuring two others before shooting himself to death, officials said. Six People Are Wounded In Spate of Gunfire in D.C. -- (Washington Post) Six people were wounded in the District last night, some of them seriously, during four shootings in widely separate neighborhoods LAPD Officer Kills Man Who Allegedly Tried to Get Her Gun -- (Los Angeles Times) Police: Shooting of the unarmed individual who was behaving strangely comes as the department is under scrutiny over slayings of mentally ill people. City shooting puts man in critical care -- (Oklahoman.com) A 21-year-old man was in critical condition in an Oklahoma City hospital after he was shot late Saturday |
| Murder plot weaves web around FBI -- (Oklahoman Online) Boston-born, bull-headed, hot- tempered Tulsa tycoon Roger Wheeler and the state in which he thrived were at the apex of a decade-long economic joyride in 1981 when a trio of Boston mobsters came to town to kill him. Private eye takes case of convicted killer Prade -- (Beacon Journal) Even people remotely familiar with the Douglas Prade case are sure the former police captain is exactly where he belongs -- behind bars in Ohio's Warren Correctional Institution, serving a life sentence for murder. DNA indicates female assailant in murder case -- (Cincinnati Enquirer) DNA analysis of blood found under Doris Bertsch's fingernails leads detectives to believe that before she was killed, she struggled with somebody with only X chromosomes. Because men have Y chromosomes, too, the analysis ruled out a man. |
| NEWTON, Ks Prosecution rests in Kansas murder trial -- (AP/CJonline) In a murder trial of a Newton housewife, the prosecutor put her case to rest with talk of DNA evidence. Forensics expert Mickey Steger testified there was a one in 5.5 billion chance the DNA found on a pair of sunglasses at the murder scene belonged to someone other than Chester L. Higgenbotham. |
| MIAMI, Fla Son gets life for murdering elderly parents -- (AP) A man convicted of murdering his parents in order to inherit their house was sentenced to life in prison. DEMING, N.M Girl dies from school lobby shooting -- (AP) A 13-year-old girl shot in the head at school died Saturday, the same day the father of the suspected shooter said his son had intended to kill himself but was jostled by others in the school lobby. NASHVILLE, Tn Missing woman found murdered -- (MSNBC) Xavier Sinclair Gray and Cleveland DeShaun Russell, both 18, were taken to night court early Saturday morning. According to investigators, Russell confessed to killing 47-year-old Pamela Sue Orend. Hamilton County Oh Convict/lawyer uproar echoes in courthouse -- (Cincinnati Post) The often quiet corridors of the Hamilton County Courthouse were rumbling this week following the revelation that a convicted murderer will be walking down those halls of justice - as a practicing attorney. TORONTO, Ont Kin vow to defend ban on sex tapes -- (Cnews) The families of Paul Bernardo's victims say they will fight any bid by the convicted killer to unseal his sex and torture videos. KANSAS CITY, Mo. Two dead in shooting in parking lot near Kansas City Airport -- (Fox) Two parking lot workers were shot to death at a private lot near Kansas City International Airport early Saturday in a likely murder-suicide, authorities said. LOS ANGELES, Ca Pizzas, Flowers ... Autopsies? -- (ABCNEWS.com) A 1994 white Chevy Astro minivan may not seem terribly eye-catching, but consider that Herrera’s has 1-800-AUTOPSY painted in tall letters on the sides, and a run-down of related corpse services plastered over the rest of it. |
