| FRENCH RAIL MURDERS ISABEL PEAKE, 20 - murdered October 13, 1999 EMILY BASIN, 20 - unknown date of death CORRINNE CAILLAUX, 36 - murdered December 14, 1999 SID AHMED REZALA - under arrest Lisbon, Portugal French rail murder suspect arrested--(BBC) A man suspected of three murders in France has been arrested in Portugal. |
| BOSTON Report finds Top 10 jury verdicts totaled nearly $9 billion in 1999 -- (AP) The 10 largest jury awards to individuals and families last year totaled nearly $9 billion -- nearly three times the amount from a year earlier, according to a legal publication. |
| PHOENIX Mother of Abused Quads Sentenced -- (Newsday) A mother of quadruplets was sentenced Tuesday to more than 150 years in prison for shaking the babies so hard they suffered broken skulls and brain damage. |
| MIDVALE, Utah Judge who favored unorthodox sentences loses post -- (CNN) A judge who was reprimanded for ordering a convicted stalker to take his victim to dinner will not be reappointed to the post he has held for 16 years. |
| JEREMY SODER, 19 - arrested Fort Myers, Florida Man's Overdue Books Lead to Arrest--(TBO-FL) After spending a night in jail because of overdue library books, a 19-year-old man says the next time he's planning a vacation, he'll just go to the book store. |
| BALTIMORE Maryland guards fired over juvenile camp assaults -- (CNN) The guards were among 14 from three camps placed on administrative duty last month because of accusations they assaulted teens for more than three years |
| MIAMI Florida jeweler charged in $80 million scam -- (CNN) For years, Jack Hasson sold, cleaned, cut, appraised and consigned diamonds and other jewelry for the rich and famous of Palm Beach County. According to prosecutors, he substituted imitations at almost every turn, fleecing customers of at least $80 million in a complex scam involving fake, flawed, filled and painted jewelry. |
| TAMPA Mother's death remains unexplained -- (St. Petersburg Times) Neighbors say they wish they had investigated further when the mother of four children hadn't been seen in days. |
| LOS ANGELES Father from Italy pleads innocent to kidnapping daughter -- (Boston.com) An Italian man pleaded innocent Monday to a federal charge that he kidnapped his 2-year-old daughter from Southern California and took her to Rome, where her mother was killed during an argument when she went to retrieve the child. |
| Ropes on bonfire were cut, report says -- (Dallas Morning News) Four of the eight ropes that stabilized the center pole of the Texas A&M University bonfire were removed hours before the 60-foot-tall log stack collapsed in November, according to an engineering report released Monday. |
| WASHINGTON Court considers victims' rights to sue attackers -- (Modesto Bee) "State justice systems don't treat gender-motivated violence cases as seriously as other cases," one of those lawyers, Kathy Rodgers of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, said at a recent news conference. "This statute is about discrimination. It's about civil rights. It does not tread on state authority." |
| JARRATT, VA Thomas executed for death of couple / He was 17 years old at time of slayings (Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch ) Douglas Christopher Thomas, the first of three juvenile offenders scheduled to be executed in Virginia and Texas this month, died by injection last night for the 1990 slayings of his girlfriend's parents. |
| CLEVELAND, OH Before release, ex-doctor may face murder charge (Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer ) Michael Swango is expected to be arrested in connection with a murder before July 15 when he finishes a 42-month prison sentence for lying about his criminal past on a medical college application, according to sources close to the investigation. |
| ARDMORE, PA Cops, dogs search for woman's body (Philadelphia (PA) Daily News ) The search continued yesterday for the wife of an Ardmore dentist who has been missing for two weeks and is presumed murdered. |
| WASHINGTON Attorneys general consider new laws to address Internet crime (Capitol Watch ) ``I envision a network that extends from local detectives to the FBI to investigators abroad,'' Reno said Monday |
| OTTAWA, CANADA A man who heard about possible plot to kill bus company managers took his own life, inquest into shooting rampage told (Vancouver Sun ) An inquest into last April's deadly shooting rampage at a city bus garage opened Monday with revelations that a co-worker of gunman Pierre Lebrun had discussed "at great length" Lebrun's homicidal plan. PORT ST. LUCIE,FL Fired Employee Kills Boss, Co-Worker, Police Say (FOX News ) A man suspected of killing his boss and a co-worker after losing his job was being sought Tuesday by authorities who feared he had his young daughter with him. |
| GLENDALE, AZ Police seek identity of wanderer (The Arizona Republic ) Glendale police are trying to identify a man who was found Monday trying to get into a home where he didn't belong BLUE SPRINGS, MO Family, police search for missing teen-ager (Blue Springs (MO) Examiner ) On Dec. 24, John Daniel Owens walked away from his home on First Street in south Blue Springs and hasn't been back FORT WORTH, TX Driver in crash that killed 5 was only 14; FW police investigating (The Dallas Morning News ) None of the five cousins killed in a dramatic freeway crash this month was old enough to drive, and they had taken a family truck without permission, a relative said Monday. DAYTONA BEACH, FL Man posing as police officer pulls woman over on LPGA (Daytona Beach (FL) News-Journal ) A man posing as a police officer stopped a 19-year-old woman motorist on a darkened stretch of LPGA Boulevard Sunday night and robbed her of her paycheck and $150 cash. BETHLEHEM, PA Couple abducted and shot (Allentown (PA) Morning Call ) Bethlehem area man's companion was raped in York ordeal. Suspect is arrested. |
| CRIME FILE JUSTICE STORY Houston Texas - November 3, 1971 Lady Wrecker --(NY Daily News) A pretty blond, she had been riddled with two loads of buckshot and one of birdshot and left like a torn rag doll in a desolate spot in Montgomery County, north of Houston. Though the body was fully clad, there were indications of sex before the slaying, forced or otherwise. |
NINA LIEBMAN DONNEY - murdered mom KENNETH DONNEY - husband arrested Crime Story: The Life and Death of Nina Liebman Donney--(SF Examiner) Strange cries in the night woke 7-year-old Philip Donney and drew him to the door of the study where his mother had been sleeping since she filed for divorce. |
| New York Police decry rise of so-called 'intimate murders'--(CNN) A mother doused with gasoline and set afire. The pregnant girlfriend of a pro football player. A woman desperate to get her ex-husband arrested. |
| Beware of the new mouse trap--(The Independant) The obstacles involved in arranging a killing via the Internet make it difficult to pull off. Difficult, but not impossible. |
| XIANA FAIRCHILD - missing Vallejo, California Grand jury subpoenas in missing girl case -- (SF Examiner) In a twist veterans of other missing children investigations say is "highly unusual," authorities on Saturday announced they have served federal grand jury subpoenas to several witnesses in the baffling case of Xiana Fairchild. Hundreds search for Xiana--(Times-Herald) The men and women of Search Team 55, assigned to comb an open field of dead brush and clumps of dirt along Sonoma Boulevard, poke the ground with sticks and carefully lift manholes, their spirits high with hope that they will find something, anything that will help solve the mystery. Swartz can never forget her own horror--(Times-Herald) "Look at these," Kim Swartz says, running her hands through a large cardboard box stuffed with file folders. "All these are dead kids. There are dozens of folders, each with a state and the name of a child neatly labeled on it. Witnesses testify before grand jury in Xiana case--(Times-Herald) A number of possible witnesses have been called to testify before a federal grand jury about the disappearance of Xiana Fairchild, it was revealed Saturday. |
JEANNA NORTH - murdered child KYLE BELL - escaped convict Dallas, Texas Child killer recaptured in East Dallas--(Dallas Morning News) 'America's Most Wanted' profiled N. Dakota escapee. |
| SALEM, Mass. Man pleads innocent to attempted murder following road rage incident -- (Boston.com) Pedro Pichardo, 26,stabbed Samuel Weatherbee, 22, of Lynn in the arm and chest around 10:30 p.m. Friday after the two men became angry with each other while driving in Salem, prosecutors said. OTTAWA, Ont Canada fears end of civility -- (Ottawa Citizen) Nation believes rudeness, road rage to rise, poll shows Mysterious incident on I-70 leaves 1 dead -- (Post-Gazette) State police in Washington are looking for witnesses to a shooting early Saturday morning in which a passenger in a car was apparently shot and killed by another motorist on Interstate 70. |
| Dennis Rabbitt, 43, pleaded guilty ST. LOUIS Rapist Promises To Identify Victims -- (Access Atlanta) Before he is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison, a man who admits raping at least 29 women is promising to help detectives resolve even more cases in which he terrorized women. |
| DENVER Columbine shootings helped reshape politics of gun control -- (Nando) Last April, Colorado Gov. Bill Owens was sitting in his office, ready to sign legislation to expand the right to carry concealed firearms. Then gunshots rang out at Columbine High School. |
| NEW YORK Stepped-Up Efforts Urged Against 'Intimate Murders' -- (Fox) A mother doused with gasoline and set afire. The pregnant girlfriend of a pro football player. A woman desperate to get her ex-husband arrested. Police say each was a recent victim of the grimmest oxymoron in the criminal justice lexicon: intimate murder. |
| NEW YORK Report: Blackmailer Reveals Stolen Internet Credit Card Data -- (Fox) A hacker believed to be based in Eastern Europe breached the security of an online music retailer and posted thousands of its customer credit card files on a Web site, in what may be the Internet's largest incident of credit card theft. |
| FORT LAUDERDALE $500,000 in jewelry stolen from trunk, police say -- (Sun-Sentinel) About $500,000 worth of jewelry was stolen from a car parked near a restaurant Sunday night, Fort Lauderdale police said. |
| Man in Black: Drug suspects just wouldn't give up -- (Savannah Morning News) Precinct 4 officer John Cave was dispatched to a gas station on the southside. Someone had called the police after they spotted a suspicious-looking man stuffing a bag under the front seat of his car. |
| MOSCOW Man Shot in U.S. Embassy in Moscow -- (Las Vegas Sun) An intruder identified as a Russian soldier apparently trying to steal a car broke into the U.S. Embassy compound today and was shot and wounded, officials said. |
| PHOENIX 'Sleepwalker' Gets Life Sentence -- (Washington Post) A man who claimed he was sleepwalking when he killed his wife by stabbing her 44 times and holding her head under water was sentenced Monday to life in prison without a chance of parole. |
| LYNWOOD, Calif 2 Killed in Fast Food Shooting -- (Washington Post) Gunmen opened fire on the car in front of them in the drive-through lane of a fast-food restaurant, killing a 3-year-old girl and a teen-age boy and wounding two adults. |
| CHARLOTTE, N.C. Carruth Back in Court on New Charge -- (Star Tribune) Rae Carruth appeared in court today on a new charge that he violated the state' s anti-abortion law by trying to kill his girlfriend' s unborn child. |
EDMONTON, Alta Hunt still on for killer a year later -- (Edmonton Sun) A year after Carlos Mejia was found beaten and stabbed to death in his north Edmonton apartment, relatives and police are still searching for his killer. |
| WASHINGTON Slain GI's Parents Said Considering Suing Army -- (Reuters) The parents of infantryman Barry Winchell, 21, beaten to death because he was suspected of being a homosexual, may sue the Army for failing to protect their son from anti-gay harassment, The Washington Post reported Monday. Mother Sees No End to Ordeal in Slaying -- (NY Times) Military Facing Recruiting Troubles -- (Reuters) |
| BRIAN WELZIEN - mysterious disappearance Chicago, Illinois Mom carries on search--(Chicago Tribune) Student, 21, missing since New Year celebration. |
| BOULDER,CO Footage shot for JonBenet TV show (Colorado Springs Gazette ) A crew filming a television miniseries on the JonBenet Ramsey slaying shot footage in Boulder this weekend without disruption, despite calls for protests |
| Xiana Fairchild (7) Missing VALLEJO, CA U.S. grand jury probes Vallejo girl's disappearance (Sacramento Bee ) A federal grand jury has begun investigating the disappearance of Xiana Fairchild, according to the Vallejo Police Department and federal sources Hundreds search for missing girl (Postnet ) |
