| VALIREE JACKSON, 9 - reported missing, found dead BRAD JACKSON - charged with first degree murder Spokane, Washington New evidence uncovered in Jackson case--(MSNBC) Investigators made a cast of a suspicious footprint in a wooded area three miles from where Valiree's body was found. |
| Lassen County, California Women's bodies found in shallow graves--(MSNBC) In the hills east of Hallelujah Junction, California, body remains were found in shallow graves. According to the Lassen County Sheriff’s Department the bodies have been buried for several months. |
| SHEILA WHITE, 41 - criminal charges being considered Columbus, Ohio Missing woman found--(MSNBC) A missing woman turns herself into police after faking her abduction. Manager was never abducted--(Columbus Dispatch) White told police that she had taken money missing from a Payless shoe store. |
| Ray Roberts Lake, Texas Human jawbone found--(Denton Record-Chronicle) Investigators search for dental link to one of two missing women. |
| 'TWIN M' and 'TWIN J' BAWCUM, 12 - sentenced Henderson, North Carolina Twins sent to reformatory for killing father, wounding mother, sister--(Boston Globe) Twin brothers who turned 12 Tuesday were sentenced to up to six years in a state reformatory for killing their father and wounding their mother and sister earlier this year. |
| Burden of Proof - November 23, 1999--(CNN) Police track murder suspect with satellite surveillance: progressive crime fighting or a violation of constitutional rights? |
| Moorpark, California Three boys murdered in Ventura County--(CH2000) Three children were found shot to death in their Ventura County home Monday night. |
| Russia Four jailed for killing man, stewing flesh--(Reuters) A court Monday jailed four people in the western Russian town of Pskov for killing one of their friends, chopping him into pieces and trying to sell his flesh as stewed meat. |
| Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Cody Holtam 'a remarkable kid...he's doing just fine'--(The Province) More than two years ago, eight-year-old Cody Holtam was bludgeoned over the head with a blunt instrument and left for dead in the hallway outside his upstairs bedroom. B&E software dropped--(The Province) Vancouver police have pulled the plug on a $120,000-a-year computer system purchased at the insistence of former chief Bruce Chambers a year ago over the objections of senior officers. |
| TAMPA, FLA. Coping with our new neighbor, the unspeakable (St. Petersburg Times ) The good news is that Patrick Joseph Richards does not live in my neighborhood. The bad news is that a baker's dozen of other sexual offenders do, according to the records of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement |
| RALEIGH, S.C. Doctor admits fantasies of sex with patients (Raleigh News & Observer ) Attorneys for the women who are suing Dr. Wallace Evans concluded their case Monday by using the former physician's own words against him through his videotaped depositions |
| KENLY, S.C. Kenly police chief charged with striking his wife's former husband (Raleigh News & Observer ) Police Chief Larry Carter has been charged with breaking into and entering the home of his wife's ex-husband and striking him in the head. The State Bureau of Investigation looked into the matter. |
| BLYTHEVILLE, ARK. Police get 9 weapons in pager-gun swap (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ) on Thursday night, two days before the swap was to begin, a clerk was shot and killed at the Silver Screens Video store on North Sixth Street. It was a sickening reminder of why King wants guns off the streets. On Saturday, police traded nine pagers for nine firearms. They were expecting to collect 100. LOS ANGELES, CAL. Coroner identifies boy shot by police (Los Angeles Daily News ) The coroner's office identified Monday a teen who was shot early Saturday morning after police said the naked boy repeatedly tried to grab an officer's gun. |
| PAINESVILLE, Ohio Preschooler brings gun to class -- (AP) A 5-year-old boy brought a loaded .22-caliber semiautomatic handgun to his preschool class Monday, police said. It was seized by the teacher without incident |
| LOS ANGELES Man Pleads Guilty in Caviar Case -- (LA Times) A Muscovite who arrived at Los Angeles International Airport lugging two suitcases pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to lying about their contents--200 jars of expensive sturgeon caviar. |
CAROLYN HAMPTON - murdered MILTON HAMPTON - estranged husband convicted Miami-Dade, Florida Rules of the Game--(Miami Daily Business Review / Law News Network) Man who surrendered in wife's murder then tried to collect insurance undone when coaxed into taking the 5th in civil deposition. |
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. - murder JAMES EARL RAY - convicted MEMPHIS, Tenn. Judge Cites Rifle in King Inquiry --(Wash Post/AP) The judge who presided over confessed killer James Earl Ray's most recent try for freedom said Monday he does not believe the rifle identified as the one used to kill Martin Luther King Jr. was the murder weapon. |
GREENFIELD, Mass. Internet merchant accused of intercepting rival's e-mail--(Boston Globe) An Internet bookseller based in Greenfield has been accused of using a computer program to intercept thousands of e-mail messages illegally from Amazon.com, possibly to steal corporate strategies from its giant on-line rival, federal prosecutors said yesterday. |
OLATHE, Kan. A tape recording replays sounds of fatal shooting--(KC Star) Romel Abufakher's face showed no emotion Monday while he listened to the sounds of his wife moaning her last breaths. They were sounds that he recorded Sept. 21 -- sounds that prosecutors say prove he is guilty of premeditated murder. BOSTON, Mass. Baby sitter, 16, admits he killed toddler --(Boston Globe) Akeem Jackson was 15 and a seventh-grade dropout with no training as a baby sitter when he was caring for a neighbor's toddler for as long as 12 hours a day in 1998. LONG BEACH, Calif. Convicted Rapist Held in Recent Attacks - (LA Times) A convicted child rapist, just five months out of prison, has been charged with the kidnapping and sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl and the abduction and attempted rape of a 16-year-old girl. KANSAS CITY, Mo. DNA database leads to conviction in murder case--(KC Star) Almost three years ago, a Kansas City killer stabbed a teen-age girl more than 80 times, left a carving knife stuck in her head and got away clean -- except for traces of his own blood. PORTLAND, Maine Attack victim, suspect can meet--(Portland Press Herald) Daniel MacArthur finally received what he wanted Monday — permission from a judge to get together with the woman accused of stabbing him four times in the chest . |
MARTHA MOXLEY, 15 - murdered in 1975 MICHAEL and THOMAS SKAKEL - teen neighbors suspected Greenwich, Connecticut Moxley's mother publicly names Kennedy nephew as suspected killer for first time - (Boston Herald/AP) The mother of a teenage girl who was beaten to death 24 years ago has for the first time publicly stated who she believes is the killer. Dorthy Moxley said she thinks Michael Skakel is responsible for the Oct. 30, 1975 murder of her 15-year-old daughter, Martha. Who Killed Martha Moxley? - (marthamoxley.com) Comprehensive website on the case maintained by a former classmate. |
| CHRISTINE ELKINS - kidnapped, murdered drug informant Maryville, Missouri LAST IN A 10-PART SERIES: Verdict, sentencing bring closure in case--(KC Star) Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Green forces a professionally plastic look onto his face. But his heart is beating so hard he's sure the jurors can hear. "I understand you've reached a verdict," Judge Howard F. Sachs says. |
| SCHOOL SHOOTING DEMING, N.M., 12-year-old charged in school slaying (Reuters ) A seventh-grade boy was charged with first-degree murder Monday in the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Araceli Tena during lunch at a Deming, N.M., school last Friday. |
| BOSTON, MASS. Spouse Abuse Crackdown, Surprisingly, Nets Many Women (New York Times ) Defenders of battered women long struggled to persuade authorities to crack down on brutal men who reigned by the fist at home. But those crackdowns have produced an unexpected consequence: in some places, one-quarter or more of arrests for domestic assault are not of men but of women |
| WILMINGTON, DEL. Couple's killers are hunted (Wilmington (DE) News Journal ) Unidentified man also shot at their home HUNTINGTON BEACH, CAL. Couple found shot to death in parked car (The Orange County Register ) A Huntington Beach couple were found shot to death in a car parked on desolate Ortega (74) Highway with its engine running and headlights on. |
| SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Murdered tycoon's possible wife sought (San Francisco Chronical & Examiner ) A year after the unsolved slaying of Sonoma real estate tycoon Horst Hans Grahlmann, media around the world are searching for his rumored long-lost family, and a $30 million lawsuit over his estate has landed in court. $15 million estate focuses on unknown woman, two children in Kansas (The Kansas City Star ) |
| ANGOLA, IN Party Crasher Fatally Shoots 3, Wounds 2 -- (Chicago Tribune) A man angry at being thrown out of a party in northeastern Indiana returned with a gun early Sunday, killing three people and injuring two others before taking his own life, authorities said. |
| SPOKANE, WASH. Cops tail suspect from orbit (Dayton Daily News ) 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. |
| ROCHESTER, Wash. Family of four found dead -- (AP) A man apparently killed his wife and two young children Monday, told a friend he had harmed his family, then fatally shot himself in the head, a Thurston County sheriff's officer said. |
| ROCHESTER, N.Y. Motorist convicted of misdemeanor assault in 'road rage' case -- (Nando) A man who became so enraged at an elderly man driving slowly in front of him that he forced him to stop and beat him up was found guilty of assault on Monday. Woman injured in road rage incident in Maple Grove -- (Star Tribune) Two men are suspected of assaulting a woman and calling her a lesbian during a road rage incident Sunday in Maple Grove, police said. |
| DONALD JARRELL JR., 10 months - murdered June 24, 1998 SHARRON JARRELL, 28 - sentenced in son's abuse and death Clover, York County, South Carolina Sharron Jarrell gets life--(Herald Online) Sharron Jarrell covered her face and cried as a judge sentenced her to life in prison without parole plus 10 years for abusing and plotting to kill her 10-month-old son. Jarrell probe, trial left emotional scars--(Herald Online) The coroner and investigators needed counseling. A family was torn apart. And if the prosecutor thinks about the case too long, he cries. |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil Bogus deli delivery frees 60 prisoners--(Reuters) Four Brazilian bandits posing as food delivery boys pulled out pistols instead of pita bread to overpower jail guards and free 60 prisoners early Monday, local media reported. |
MARILYN SHEPPARD - murdered in 1954 DR. SAM SHEPPARD - husband convicted, later acquitted SAM REESE SHEPPARD - son suing state of Ohio for father's wrongful imprisonment CLEVELAND, Ohio Prosecutors say they have Dr. Sam Sheppard's confession --(Court TV) Facing a wrongful imprisonment suit from Dr. Sam Sheppard's only son, Ohio prosecutors believe they have recovered a handwritten confession to murder and want to present it at trial in January. |
| MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. Police charge woman in husband's death (Charlotte observer ) A woman was being held without bond in the Gaston County Jail on Sunday night, charged with shooting her husband to death during an argument. COVINGTON, OH. DNA indicates female assailant in murder case (The Cincinnati Enquirer ) A tiny “X” on an FBI report is sending a local murder investigator looking for something he didn't expect — a female killer. ANGOLA, IND. Man Kills 3, Self in Ind. Shooting (N.Y. Times ) A man angry about being kicked out of a party returned with a gun, killing three people and wounding two others -- including a sheriff's deputy -- before committing suicide, police said SYRACUSE, N.Y. Toddler-Slay mom going free today (N.Y. Post ) Precious Bedell -- the Syracuse woman who killed her 2-year-old daughter in a restaurant bathroom because of the girl's messy table manners -- will be a free woman today |
| JACKIE COUNCIL, 30 - remains identified last week UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE - remains found November 16, 1987 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE - remains found January 25, 1993 Aiken, Georgia Authorities revisit slayings--(Augusta Chronicle) Is a serial killer on the loose near Shaw's Creek? |
| MARIE JACQUELINE ESTIME, 2 - possible abuse death Lake Worth, Florida Police find body of 2-year-old girl in home--(TBO-FL) Police responding early Monday to an emergency call about a child not breathing found the body of a 2-year-old girl laying on the floor inside the front door of her home. |
| KEYRA STEINHARDT, 9 - went missing April 22, 1999 LEONARD JOHN FRASER - committal hearing Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia Murder committal in Rockhampton today--(ABC Online) Girlfriend of accused tells of 'bundle' in car boot--(ABC Online) |
| YORKTON, SASK. Guilty verdict in Fisher trial -- (CBC) Larry Fisher has been convicted of first degree murder for a crime he committed almost 31 years ago -- a crime David Milgaard spent 23 years in prison for. Fisher guilty of 1969 sex slaying -- (Cnews) Jurors deliberated 13 hours over three days before finding Fisher guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Gail Miller Indepth: A Canadian Tragedy -- (CBC) Finally, Joyce Milgaard's got her man. It is she who deserves to take the bow here. Not the Mounties, not the Saskatchewan justice system, certainly not the Saskatoon police, whose bungled investigation into one of the most brutal murders in the city's history put her 16-year-old hippie son in jail for the best years of his life. |
| MARTHA MOXLEY - murdered in 1975 Greenwich, Conn. Moxley: Ex-neighbor killed daughter--(Greenwich Time) For the first time in the 24 years since her daughter was murdered, Martha Moxley's mother has said publicly who she thinks is the killer. Who murdered Martha Moxley? - Tom Alessi's comprehensive website of all case-related information. CHAT: Join us tonight in the #cybersleuths chatroom to discuss the Moxley murder case. Discussion will begin around 9 p.m. Eastern time. Connect with your web browser using the java chat connections or mIRC. The #cybersleuths chatroom is on NewNet. |
