| FORT CAMPBELL, Ky Soldier Reaches Plea Agreement In Killing of Barracks Mate -- (Fox) Army Spc. Justin R. Fisher, charged as an accessory to murder in the beating death of a barracks mate rumored to be gay, pleaded guilty to lesser charges Saturday. |
| CAROLINE DICKINSON, 13 - murdered in France while on holiday Cornwall, England Mother of murdered girl tells of her horror--(The Guardian and Observer) The mother of murdered schoolgirl Caroline Dickinson has spoken of the horror of identifying her daughter in a morgue and her three traumatic years since the schoolgirl's murder. |
| DENVER, Colorado Ex-DA joins lineup of law shows --(Inside Denver) Move over, Judge Judy. Forget The People's Court. Denver's own legal beagle Norm Early is crashing the airwaves next fall with a syndicated TV law show. He hosts Judgment Day, a 30-minute show that will be shown five days a week. |
| Michele Dorr (6) - Murdered Hadden Clark - Convicted of Murder SILVER SPRING, MD Killer's Help Cracked Dorr Case (Washington Post ) A fellow prison inmate who had won the confidence of convicted murderer Hadden Clark raised a simple issue with him last fall: Where was the dead girl buried? Body of Girl Who Disappeared in 1986 Is Found (NY Times ) Officials confirm body buried in park is missing girl (Postnet ) |
| ZACHARY, LA Police say murder plot foiled; ex-husband, 2 others arrested (Baton Rouge (LA) Advocate ) Two would-be hitmen apparently got cold feet Thursday morning and led police to the man they said hired them to kill his former wife, police said. CLEVELAND, OH Police review baby's death in wake of hit-man case (Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer ) Cuyahoga County law enforcement officials said yesterday that they had reopened an investigation into the death of Tammy Martinez's baby daughter in 1987 GRAY, GA Police: Woman offered wedding ring to have husband killed (The Macon Telegraph ) So eager to end her nine-month marriage was Linda Faye Mosley that Jones County sheriff's investigators say she used her husband's wedding ring as a down payment to have him killed HOUSTON, TX Man accused of asking officer to kill wife, infant child charged on 2 counts ( Houston Chronical ) A 32-year-old man has been charged with two counts of solicitation of capital murder for allegedly asking an undercover officer posing as a hit man to kill his wife and 9-month-old child. CHICAGO, IL Dentist at large after wife's slaying (Chicago (IL) Sun-Times ) Wednesday night, police found Judith Sanders sprawled on the porch of a neighbor's house, stabbed and shot to death--allegedly by her husband, who fled. |
| DALLAS, TX Drifter calmly described six slayings, authorities say (Dallas (TX) Morning News ) When investigators began interrogating Tommy Lynn Sells about the brutal New Year's Eve assault of two young girls near Del Rio, they knew they had their man Rail-riding drifter admits to 10 slayings around U.S. (Houston Chronical ) |
| WEST VALLEY, AZ Threat puts schools on alert status (The Arizona Republic ) Thousands of West Valley parents were alerted Friday about a message scratched on a restaurant bathroom's chalkboard threatening to shoot 10 high school students and staff on Monday. |
| REGINA, CANADA Police question child-prostitution figures (Canada Globe & Mail ) Child outreach workers say as many as 180 children under 18 have sold sex on the streets of Regina, some as young as seven years old, GARRETT, IN Police say mom scratched vulgarity on baby's back (Fort Wayne (IN) News-Sentinel ) A rural Garrett woman is free on bond after she was charged Thursday with scratching the word "BASTARD" onto her infant son's back with a safety pin. NORTH ANDOVER, MA Driver too enraged to notice police station? (Lawrence Eagle-Tribune ) A man wielding a small, souvenir-sized bat was arrested after he followed his victim to the police station, Detective Lt. Paul J. Gallagher said yesterday DRACUT, MA Dracut police star in wild sequel to bizarre summer chase (Lowell Sun ) The dramatic sequel to one of Lowell's most bizarre police chases began in Dracut last night, and it ended again in a jail cell for Hector Olivo CAMBRIDGE, OH Ohio prosecutors handling case of Amish man charged with rape (Court TV ) An elderly Amish man has been charged with raping three young girls, giving prosecutors a rare criminal case in an Amish society. TOLEDO, OH Man allegedly placed two girls inside dryer (Toledo (OH) Blade ) A College Drive man charged in December with dipping a 7-year-old girl in scalding water and her 6-year-old sister in cold water faces additional child-endangering charges |
| SEATTLE SHIPYARD SHOOTING Seattle, WA Speculation in Shipyard Killings (NY Times ) A fired shipyard employee gunned down two men in a deliberate act of revenge that was elaborately plotted, prosecutors alleged in filing murder charges Friday Prosecutors: Shipyard shootings were revenge (Chicago tribune ) |
| DA: Case may never be solved--(Denver Post)--Meanwhile, filming of outdoor scenes for a television movie about the murder was put on hold. DA requests funds, says he 'can still feel a heartbeat' in the case --(Inside Denver)--Hunter said he still devotes half his work week to the investigation, consulting with experts involved with various aspects of the exhaustive investigation. District Attorney Alex Hunter received $24,000 and no opposition--(Boulder News)--Fleet and Priscilla White, former friends of the Ramseys, attended Thursday's hearing but left without commenting. |
| UNIDENTIFIED TEENAGE GIRL - murdered in 1996 TOMMY LYNN SELLS - railroad drifter suspect Manatee County, Florida Officials focus on drifter --(Sarasota Herald-Trib) A railroad-riding drifter charged with murders in Texas and Kentucky is under scrutiny from Manatee County detectives trying to solve a 4-year-old mystery. |
SHEILA BELLUSH - murdered mom of quads ALLEN BLACKTHORNE - ex-husband charged Sarasota, Fla. -- San Antonio, Tex Reno to decide murder penalty--(SP Times) The attorney general will determine whether prosecutors should seek the death penalty for Allen Blackthorne. Blackthorne's Twin Cases Aren't 'double Jeopardy'--(San Antonio Express-News) The nearly simultaneous indictments against Allen Blackthorne in the murder case of his former wife Sheila Bellush may be confusing to a nation accustomed to the idea that a citizen can't be tried twice for the same crime. |
| TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA Lethal Injection Approved--(SP Times) Florida's electric chair, the state's sole means of executing condemned murderers for the past 77 years, is virtually out of business. Nudged by a string of botched executions and threats from the U.S. Supreme Court, the state Legislature voted Thursday to make lethal injection Florida's chief method of capital punishment. |
LAURIA BIBLE and ASHLEY FREEMAN - missing Picher, Oklahoma Mine shaft search begun --(Tulsa World) Authorities are looking near Picher for two Welch girls who have been missing for more than a week. Lauria Jaylene Bible --(FBI poster) Ashley Renae Freeman --(FBI poster) |
| MICHELE DORR - missing, presumed dead HADDEN CLARK - convicted of murder Silver Spring, Maryland Search's Sad Discovery Brings Closure to Seekers -- (Washington Post) On Sept. 24, 1998, Clark--then, as now, in prison--was charged with killing Michele Dorr and carrying her body off in a duffel bag. Much of the case against him was circumstantial. Michele Dorr's Remains Found, Police Believe -- (Washington Post) Montgomery County police officers yesterday found what they believe are the skeletal remains of Michele Dorr buried in a wooded ravine in Silver Spring, ending a 13-year search after being directed to the grave by Hadden Clark, the man convicted of killing the 6-year-old. |
| From the LAW NEWS NETWORK: Defendant Delivers a Blow To Attorney While in Court -- ..."I was standing at the podium, and the next thing I knew I'm lying on the ground," Barg said Thursday after his client, Duane Schinner, threw a fist that struck Barg in the right eye. Court Says Police Don't Need Warrant If Public Safety Jeopardized -- For the first time, the Court of Criminal Appeals has recognized Texas police officers' right to stop and search cars without a search warrant if they feel the public's safety could be in jeopardy. |
| TORONTO A warm body and the wall of deceit on a summer night -- (National Post) This is the only reasonable conclusion that can be drawn from a lengthy investigative brief prepared by internal affairs detectives assigned last fall to probe allegations that two of Detective-Constable Hancox's team members had been drinking on the job and not where they should have been on the night he was murdered. Cop tale sparks call for mistrial -- (Toronto Sun) Officers in 2 bars night Hancox slain, papers show TORONTO Man who recently won lottery charged with sexual assault -- (Cnews) A millionaire lottery winner has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a downtown hotel Thursday night. YARMOUTH, N.S. Nova Scotia man accused of killing 13-month-old boy -- (Cnews) Jeffrey Bruce Trask, 27, didn't enter a plea during his brief appearance to face a second-degree murder charge. SASKATOON Police question child-prostitution figures -- (Globe & Mail) Social workers' estimates of up to 300 minors working streets in Regina and Saskatoon called too high. MONTREAL Appeal court sends pair to jail for gang rape -- (Montreal Gazette) Quebec's highest court has sent two gang-rapists to jail, overturning a controversial ruling that suggested Haitian men regularly mistreat women. The original sentence caused an outcry two years ago when Quebec Court Judge Monique Dubreuil let the two men avoid jail. VANCOUVER Defence: police committed perjury during Murrin trial -- (Vancouver Province) The lead officer investigating eight-year-old Mindy Tran's murder lied while he testified at the accused killer's trial, the defendant's lawyer said Thursday. CALGARY Alberta man who prostituted wife to be sentenced -- (National Post) A man who had his wife prostitute herself to fulfill his sexual fantasies is scheduled to be sentenced today on procurement and other sex charges dating back more than 20 years. |
| JAMIE ELLEN WEISS - murdered August 7, 1996 Salt Lake City, Utah $10,000 Reward Offered in Unsolved Homicide Case--(The Salt Lake Tribune) After Jamie Ellen Weiss's grandmother found the body of her granddaughter in the bathtub of the young woman's Magna home, police initially thought it was an accidental drowning. |
| Hicksville, New York Driver sends letter in unsolved hit-and-run--(The Record Online) The confession came in an anonymous one-page letter to police: "I felt sick to my stomach when I realized that maybe I had run over a dead body." |
| DEBORA GREEN - mother sentenced to life in prison Prairie Village, Kansas Green asks to withdraw pleas of no contest to killing children--(KC Star) Claiming that her thinking was clouded by medication and mental problems, former physician Debora Green asked Thursday to withdraw pleas of no contest to killing two of her children. Green's case drew national media attention and was the subject of a book by Seattle author Ann Rule. |
| SPOKANE SERIAL KILLER Spokane, Washington Budget ax slashes serial killer investigation--(MSNBC) Spokanes serial killer task force has been cut in half. The drastic cut will make it even tougher to track down a killer who has murdered ten women. |
| XIANA FAIRCHILD - missing Vallejo, California Xiana case unlike so many others--(San Jose Mercury News) Spotlight shifts from child to mother and ex-boyfriend -- Vallejo detectives sift through trash at Washington landfill. -- Spotlight turns to mother and ex-boyfriend. Even to those familiar with the unpredictable highs and lows of a missing-child case, the search for 7-year-old Xiana Fairchild of Vallejo has been unlike any other high-profile disappearance they can recall. Police search Washington State landfill for Vallejo girl--(Sacramento Bee) The search for a missing 7-year-old girl was focused Thursday on a landfill on the Oregon-Washington State border, KGO-TV reported. Police search Washington State landfill--(SF Gate/AP) KCBS radio reported that Vallejo police had been searching the landfill for the past three days and had not found anything linked to Xiana by Thursday afternoon. Police Search NW Landfill For Missing Ca. Girl--(KOIN) According to KOIN, officials were too late to search the dumpsters in California, but records at the Washington landfill indicate where the Vallejo trash -- where Fairchild's body is suspected to be -- may be buried. Local Vallejo Coverage: Police search Washington landfill for Xiana evidence--(Vallejo Times-Herald) Nichelini: Police nowhere near an arrest--(Vallejo Times-Herald) A lesson in endurance for Xiania family--(Vallejo Times-Herald) |
| JONBENET RAMSEY, 6 - unsolved homicide Boulder, Colorado Ramsey probe gets more money--(APB) Boulder County District Attorney Alex Hunter today vowed, after securing an additional $24,000 to continue the investigation, that authorities would not give up on solving the mystery of who brutally killed JonBenet Ramsey. |
| Washington FBI probing possible cyber-attacks--(UPI) The FBI has begun six investigations into possible cyber-attacks against private companies over the last week and a half, the nation's top cyber-cop said Thursday. |
| MICHELE DORR, 6 - disappeared May 31, 1986 Silver Spring, Maryland Body of child missing since 1986 believed to be found--(Nando Times) Acting on a tip, police uncovered remains Thursday believed to be that of a 6-year-old girl who vanished more than 13 years ago. |
| B.J. BROWN, 8 - young witness murdered KAREN CLARKE - murdered mother RUSSELL and ADRIAN PEELER - accused Bridgeport, Conn. Jury selection begins in Peeler brothers murder trial--(WVIT/MSNBC) As jury selection began in the trial of Russell and Adrian Peeler, accused in the slayings of 8-year-old B.J. Brown and his mother, Adrian Peeler asked the judge to dismiss his lawyer. |
| JONBENET RAMSEY, 6 - murdered December 26, 1996 Boulder, Colorado JonBenet, Inc.--(Brill's Content Feature Article) Take a murder tale that has nothing to it except some alluring video of a little girl dolled up for a beauty contest. Add media hunger to fill the gap between O.J., Monica, and the Next Big Story. What do you get? Lots of local media people cashing in on the ravenous appetite of national news outlets for a story that had only one problem: There was never any real news. |
| FRESNO, Calif. Teens Plead Not Guilty in Calif. Explosives Heist -- (Fox) Prosecutors are seeking prison time for five teenagers accused of stealing a huge cache of explosives from a police bomb squad bunker in a New Year's heist that sent jitters through California. CAMBRIDGE, Ohio Prosecutors Handling Case Of Amish Man Charged With Rape -- (Fox) An Amish man was charged with raping three young girls, giving prosecutors a rare criminal case in an Amish society. LOS ANGELES City Councilman Charged With 17 Child Molestation Counts -- (Fox) Authorities are searching for a city councilman and former sex abuse investigator who has been charged with numerous counts of child molestation NASSAU, Bahamas Despite Appeals, Bahamas Hangs Convicted Killer -- (Yahoo/Reuters) - A 27-year-old Bahamian man convicted of stabbing a German couple to death in 1994 was executed by hanging on Thursday despite international appeals for the authorities to show mercy. David Mitchell was hanged early in the morning. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio Man Sentenced For Espionage -- (Newsday) A federal judge sentenced a man to six months of home confinement and fined his Taiwanese corporation $5 million for stealing trade secrets in the first case prosecuted under the 1996 Economic Espionage Act. |
| LONDON Brontė book paints murderous deeds among sisters -- (CBC) A British writer has a new theory about those famous literary sisters, the Brontės. In particular he's concerned about how they met the Grim Reaper. According to James Tully, their deaths were caused by poison. |
| COLWOOD, B.C Puppy's hammer beating stirs emotions beyond those expressed during similar murder cases -- (Cnews) A lawyer says he's perplexed a dog beating case is the subject of national attention, especially when some murder cases receive little or no attention. |
| XIANA FAIRCHILD, 7 - missing since December 9, 1999 Vallejo, California Xiana's mother defends her actions--(San Jose Mercury News) The mother of a missing 7-year-old girl offered a written explanation Wednesday in response to criticisms that she and ex-boyfriend Bobby Turnbough have hampered the search for her daughter. Cops start from scratch in Vallejo missing girl case--(San Francisco Examiner) Police started with the premise that Xiana Fairchild had last been seen waiting for a school bus, wearing gray sweats and black boots. Police take two Xiana case autos--(San Francisco Examiner) They lend minivan to ex-boyfriend of girl's mother while examining his cars. While family feuds, volunteers look for missing girl--(Sacramento Bee) This much is known: Xiana Fairchild, a wavy-haired 7-year-old with a gap-toothed grin, is missing. Demand more of would-be parents--(San Jose Mercury News) Editorial: The case of Xiana Fairchild speaks volumes concerning the plight that children born into dysfunctional, neglectful, and abusive environments face each day. |
| "Hurricane" RUBIN CARTER, 63 - served 19 years for a triple murder, before being exonerated Toronto, Canada His Long Ordeal Is Over, His Story Told on Film. 'Hurricane' Carter Has Won Justice.--(Washington Post) But the fighter still remains. |
| JANICE LANCASTER, 36 - murdered by husband STEVE LANCASTER, 34 - died of self-inflicted wound Faulkner, Maryland The murder of Janice Lancaster--(Washington Post) Editorial: How horrible to realize that the murder of Janice Lancaster in her kitchen Monday was no surprise. No one sensed its coming more than Ms. Lancaster herself. She had taken every legal step she could to protect herself from her violent, threatening, stalking husband. |
| SABRINA AISNBERG, 5 months - reported missing in November, 1997 Florida Transcript of couple's tape released--(TBO-FL) Complying with a judge's order, federal prosecutors issued a detailed transcript of a conversation between a couple whose infant daughter Sabrina disappeared without a trace two years ago. Transcript mentions drug, not baby--(St. Petersburg Times) Federal prosecutors repeated their claim Wednesday that Steven Aisenberg admitted to cocaine use in a secret recording investigators made after the disappearance of his 5-month-old daughter, Sabrina. |
