| ANGEL MATURINO RESENDIZ - "The Railroad Killer" Houston, Texas Alleged killer wants to move trial--(Houston Chronicle) Angel Maturino Resendiz said he still wants his capital murder trial moved from Houston, despite a judge's decision not to guarantee that it would be held in one of three cities preferred by the alleged serial killer. |
| MAHESWAR PADHY, 26 - serial killer Bhubaneswar, Berhampur, India Berhampur's serial killer arrested--(The Times of India) Residents of the southern city of Berhampur heaved a sigh of relief when the police finally nabbed a man who had allegedly killed seven persons causing panic in the area. |
| JonBenet Ramsey BOULDER,CO Boulder not happy with TV movie of JonBenet (Reuters ) - A TV mini-series about the grisly murder of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, like the investigation itself, has run into obstacles Boulder paper organizes Ramsey movie protest (Scripps Howard News Service ) |
| GULPH MILLS, PA Cops wait test on 'red stains' (Philadelphia (PA) Daily News ) Five swabs of "red stains" that might be blood have been taken from the home of a Gulph Mills woman who has been missing since early December, authorities said |
| DENVER, CO Police sow confusion about beating death (Denver Rocky Mountain News ) Denver police say they don't consider Robert Davis a suspect in the beating death of Emily Johnson, even though an affidavit says he was found naked in her house with blood on his hands. |
| HAMILTON, OH Killer's sister gets probation for help (The Cincinnati Enquirer ) Karla Edwards confronted in court Tuesday one of the two women who buried the body parts of her slain sister in garbage bags GRAND HAVEN, MI Killer enters plea, says movie made him 'evil' (Grand Rapids (MI) Press ) The Muskegon man accused of strangling his girlfriend with a pillow case two days after watching "The Blair Witch Project" in August pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder GREENFIELD, TN Hearing scheduled on child-killer's competency (Tennessean (TN) ) Coe is set to be executed March 23 for the murder of 8-year-old Cary Ann Medlin in Greenfield, in rural West Tennessee, in 1979. He was also convicted of kidnapping and raping the girl, who was out riding bicycles with her brother. OMAHA, NE Judge Sets Trial in Slaying of Mom, Sons (Omaha (NE) Wold-Herald ) Michael R. Blair was ordered to stand trial on first-degree murder charges Wednesday in the slayings of Victoria Huffman and her sons, Matthew and Joshua, whose bodies were discovered Nov. 29, about 18 days after they had been killed CLEVELAND, OH Man out on bond accused of raping two more girls (Cleveland Plain Dealer ) A Cleveland man allegedly raped two 15-year-old girls and then tried to kill himself Monday - just five days after he was arraigned on an earlier rape charge WELCH, OK Few clues on missing girls (The Oklahoman ) The whereabouts of two teen-age girls who disappeared from the scene of a double homicide continued to baffle investigators Wednesday |
| Seattle Shipyard Shooting SEATTLE, WA Suspected Seattle shooter once worked at targeted shipyard (Postnet ) The man arrested on suspicion of killing two people in a shipyard shooting in November that set Seattle on edge admitted that he owned a backpack that contained the murder weapon, a prosecutor said |
| CAMDEN, N.J Ex N.J. Police Chief Gets 4 Years -- (Newsday) A former police chief was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday for leading a band of rogue officers in what prosecutors say was the most corrupt department in New Jersey history. |
| LOS ANGELES Former Disney Exec to Be Retried on Sex Charges -- (Fox) The former head of Walt Disney Co.'s (DIS.N) Internet portal Go Network will be tried again on charges that he crossed state lines seeking sex with a 13-year-old girl after arranging via the Internet to meet her, prosecutors said on Wednesday. WASHINGTON Judge defends comments in sex case involving 11-year-old girl -- (Fox) A judge who said in court "it takes two to tango'' in sentencing a man for having sex with an 11-year-old girl made a victim of the child, a prosecutor said. The judge blamed the little girl and not the defendant,'' said Doug Gansler, the state's attorney for suburban Montgomery County, Md. |
| DENVER, Colo. Investigation into School Teacher's Murder -- (KMGH Denver) Denver police are investigating if others may have been involved in the death of a school teacher. Skinner Middle School teacher Emily Johnson was found beaten and left for dead outside her northwest Denver home Saturday. |
| LOS ANGELES Ex-NFL Star Jim Brown Gets Six Months in Jail -- (Yahoo/Reuters) National Football League legend Jim Brown was sentenced to six months in jail on Wednesday for refusing to attend court-ordered domestic violence counseling after he was convicted of vandalizing his wife's car. |
| CHICAGO Reward is Offered in Disappearance -- (Chicago Tribune) A $5,000 reward is being offered for information on the Northern Illinois University student who disappeared early Saturday while celebrating the new year in Chicago. Brian Welzien, 21, of Elgin, was last seen outside the Ambassador East Hotel, at Goethe Street and State Parkway, between 2 and 3 a.m. |
| SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Accused Bank Robber Left Name There --(AP) It wouldn't be surprising if Johnny Lee Miller got upset at the mention of his anger-management course. FBI agents seeking a man who took $34,804 from First Utah Bank on New Year's Eve caught up with Miller after finding his course graduation certificate in the bank's vault. |
SHEILA BELLUSH - murdered mom of quads ALLEN BLACKTHORNE - ex-husband indicted Sarasota, Florida -- San Antonio, Texas Blackthorne arrested by FBI --(San Antonio Express-News) Near the lush Bermuda greens of an exclusive San Antonio golf course, a defiant Allen Blackthorne was arrested Tuesday on federal charges connecting him to the death of his ex-wife. He faces a conspiracy charge. Watch the press conference--(KENS 5 Video) Two years later, ex-husband indicted in death of quadruplets' mother --(Sarasota Herald-Trib) Both federal and state prosecutors charged a businessman today with arranging the 1997 murder in Florida of his ex-wife, whose quadruplet toddlers were found crawling through her blood. Bellush's former husband indicted--(SP Times) A federal grand jury in Texas indicts Allen Blackthorne in the murder of Sheila Bellush, mother of quadruplets. |
| Xiana Fairchild (7) - Missing VALLEJO, CA Found clothing, shoes mean missing-girl poster is wrong (Mercury News ) Stymied after four weeks of searching for 7-year-old Xiana Fairchild, police said Tuesday they are disturbed that Xiana's mother didn't immediately notify them she had found a pair of gray sweatpants the 7-year-old was supposedly wearing when she disappeared. |
| "QUEEN SHAHMIA" Fort Myers, Florida Eight Children Taken Into State Custody--(TBO-FL) Eight children in the care of a religious leader who calls herself Queen Shahmia were placed in state custody following the arrest of followers on robbery charges. |
| ALONZO A. SOLIS, 28 - deceased fugitive Happy Valley, Oregon Body dug up behind house is identified--(Oregon Live) Human remains unearthed behind a house several months ago have been identified as those of a fugitive from Missouri wanted on burglary charges. |
| CLAREMONT, Calif. City Council Apologizes For Response to Police Shooting -- (Fox) In a letter to the community, city officials have apologized for what some regarded as an insensitive response to a police shooting that left a black motorist dead. |
| FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Boy Handcuffed During Helmet Spat -- (Yahoo/AP) A 9-year-old boy was handcuffed by a sheriff's deputy who spotted him riding his bicycle without a helmet after officials say the deputy told him to wear one. |
| JonBenet Ramsey BOULDER, CO Police not part of Ramsey murder movie (Knoxville (TN) News-Sentinel ) Film crews for a television movie about the JonBenet Ramsey murder case are coming to Boulder this week, but they won't be receiving a police escort |
| Steven Ray Thacker - Serial killer CHOUTEAU, OK Slaying suspect hid darker side (The Oklahoman ) Steven Ray Thacker lived in Chouteau about six months. Most people didn't know him, but those that did said he was "friendly, likable and charming." |
| NEWARK, CA Newark police baffled by three dead in home (Contra Costa Times-Walnut Creek (CA) ) Police tried to unravel a violent mystery Monday -- the apparent double-slaying-suicide of two women roommates and a teen-age son. COLTON, CA Colton police Fake doctor a sex offender (Ontario (CA) Daily Bulletin ) A man who dressed up as a doctor and fondled female patients at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in November has been identified by police as a registered sex offender, police and hospital officials said Monday PORT CLINTON, MI Dearborn police join body parts inquiry (Toledo (OH) Blade ) Dearborn, Mich., police have joined the process of trying to identify the headless body of a white woman found in Ottawa County last week. HOLYOKE, MA Boy, 4, who survived triple slaying still hospitalized (Boston Herald ) A 4-year-old boy, sole survivor of a horrific triple shooting in Holyoke, remained hospitalized last night while police pored over the crime scene, baffled by the motive for the cold-blooded violence FAULKNER, MD Md. man kills wife as arrest order languishes in court clerk's office (Court TV ) A man shot and killed his estranged wife, then killed himself, even as a judge's order for his arrest on harassment charges sat unprocessed in a court clerk's office NEW ORLEANS, LA Killer wife gets life at hard labor (NOLA ) Jill Miller, a Franklinton woman convicted in November of murdering her husband in their bed, was sentenced Monday to life in prison |
| Xiana La-Shay Fairchild (7) Missing VALLEJO, CA Angry outbursts in search for girl (San Jose (CA) Mercury News ) After nearly a month of bizarre twists but little progress, the case of missing 7-year-old Xiana Fairchild erupted into angry accusations Monday Mom's boyfriend: I didn't hurt girl (Sacramento Bee ) |
| Seattle Shipyard Shooting SEATTLE, WA Seattle Police Arrest Man in Shipyard Shootings (FOX News ) Seattle police said on Tuesday that they had arrested a 30-year-old man in connection with execution-style shootings at a local shipyard that left two dead and two injured in November. Arrest Made in Shipyard Killings (NY Times ) |
| HARTFORD CITY, IN Ind. teen held for allegedly sending threatening e-mail (Chicago Tribune ) A 16-year-old Hartford City boy was in custody Tuesday for allegedly sending an e-mail message threatening to shoot people and blow up Blackford County High School. PAINESVILLE, OH Chardon man held in Web sex sting (Cleveland Plain Dealer ) A Chardon carpet cleaner was arraigned yesterday after Lake County sheriff's deputies said he used the Internet to send child pornography to try to lure a 13-year-old girl. WELLS, ME Police say boys sent threats via e-mail (Portland (ME) Press Herald ) Two local boys have been charged with terrorizing after an 11-year-old girl received an e-mail message threatening her life. MAPLEWOOD, MN World Wide Wanted: Victim's son puts manhunt online (Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune ) For Scott Roberts, it's time for Dragnet to meet the Internet. Roberts, whose mother was shot in the chest at her Maplewood home Dec. 8, allegedly by her estranged husband, has posted a Web site asking for help in finding the suspect. |
| SHEILA BELLUSH - murdered mom of quads ALLEN BLACKTHORN - ex-husband indicted Sarasota, Florida -- San Antonio, Texas Breaking News: Blackthorne Indicted--(Express-News) A federal grand jury returned a sealed indictment today against Allen Blackthorne, the ex-husband of a mother of quadruplets slain more than two years ago, law enforcement sources said. BULLETIN: Blackthorne indicted in Bellush conspiracy--(Sarasota Herald Trib) The ex-husband of Sheila Bellush was indicted in Texas Tuesday on a charge that he hatched the conspiracy that led to her stabbing and shooting death in November 1997. Special Section: The Sheila Bellush Murder Case Sarasota Herald-Tribune Coverage of the Bellush Murder |
| MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR and her two children - mysteriously disappeared GARY KARR - suspect SAN ANTONIO, Texas O'Hair Suspect Says Atheist Plotted Own Disappearance (San Antonio Express-News) Madalyn Murray O'Hair and her two children were not kidnapped at gunpoint and then murdered for $500,000 in gold coins as federal authorities allege, according to the only man charged so far in connection with their disappearances in 1995. |
| ALABAMA Police: Body pulled from river Jan. 1 is Smith Sharifi's friend -- (Alabama Live) Police say preliminary autopsy reports show both Smith Sharifi and Brown died of gunshots to the head, and investigators are seeking a capital murder warrant for Smith Sharifi's husband, Mohammad Sharifi. |
| LEXINGTON, Ky. Transient charged with killing 2 teenage girls -- (Nando) A rail-riding transient has been charged with killing teenage girls in two states and wounding a third, authorities said. Tommy Lynn Sells, 35, of Del Rio, Texas, was arrested Sunday in the stabbing death of Kaylene Harris, 13, and the slashing of 10-year-old Krystal Surles. |
| Brian Peterson pleaded guilty in 1998 to manslaughter Amy Grossberg also Pleaded guilty WILMINGTON, Del U.S. father who killed son freed from jail -- (Boston Herald) A clean-cut college kid whose conviction for the 1996 death of his infant son in a case that transfixed the nation was released from prison Tuesday after serving 20 months of a two-year sentence for the crime. |
| MINNESOTA Man sentenced in Mall of America murder of girlfriend -- (Star Tribune) A man convicted of stabbing his former girlfriend to death as she left work at the Mall of America was sentenced Tuesday to 25 1/2 years in prison. |
| BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Jury selection begins for brothers accused in boy witness slaying -- (Boston.com) On the quiet cul-de-sac where 8-year-old Leroy ''B.J.'' Brown Jr. lived with his mother, there are no traces of the horror that ended their lives. No blood, no bullet casings, no yellow police tape cordoning off the wood-shingled duplex where they lived. |
| NEW YORK Sean `Puffy' Combs leaves grand jury proclaiming his innocence -- (Boston.com) Rap mogul Sean ''Puffy'' Combs left a Manhattan grand jury Tuesday declaring that he is innocent of felony gun charges filed against him after a Times Square nightclub shooting. |
| Two charged in execution of Brockton man -- (Boston Herald) Two Boston men were charged yesterday with executing a Brockton man Christmas Eve whose bullet-riddled body was found several days later bound and gagged in the trunk of his luxury sedan. |
| ONTARIO Suspect arrested in robbery spree -- (National Post) Undercover police officers in Kitchener were tailing a man they suspected as being the serial robber dubbed Joe Cool -- because of his calm demeanour during a dozen heists -- when they watched him walk into a bank and rob it at gunpoint. VANCOUVER Murder victim was son of informant on arms smuggling -- (National Post) One of two victims of an "execution-style" shooting in a popular Vancouver neighbourhood was the son of an informant in a case of alleged arms smuggling. EDMONTON Teenager's death treated as suspicious -- (National Post) A teenage girl found frozen on a sidewalk mere blocks from home may have been walking back from a New Year's Eve party across town unprepared for frigid temperatures, police said. VANCOUVER Final arguments begin in first-degree murder trial of Shannon Murrin -- (CP) The fate of accused murderer Shannon Murrin may be before the jury by the end of the week as final arguments begin Tuesday. Murrin, a 49-year-old Newfoundland native, was charged in 1997 with first-degree murder in the death of Mindy Tran. OTTAWA New spy museum is so secret that no one's allowed to visit -- (Ottawa Citizen) Heard about Canada's new spy museum? Of course not -- it's secret. And the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, home of the confidential collection, isn't planning guided tours any time soon. TORONTO Family hopes to see tape of shooting -- (Globe&mail) Relatives ask why Toronto police did not call them to scene of deadly hospital hostage-taking. |
