| ERIE TOWNSHIP, Michigan Bodies discovered in field near Erie -- (The Blade) The bodies of two women were found yesterday buried in a field near Sterns Road between M-125 and Telegraph Road in Monroe County's Erie Township, authorities said. |
| LONDON , Ont Jailed killer Walker wants to serve time here -- (Toronto Star) Convicted murderer Albert Walker is frustrated by the fact he has not yet been transferred to a Canadian prison and warns the delay may cost his creditors. |
| XIANA FAIRCHILD, 7 - missing since December 9, 1999 Vallejo, California Xiana search gets gift from Pac Bell Internet--(Contra Costa Times) Xiana's never lost in heart of relative--(Contra Costa Times) Xiana's case spurs parents to document kids--(SF Gate) A missing girl wo had a sad life--(Inside Denver) |
| KANSAS CITY, Missouri House explosion kills man in south KC--(KC Star) Inside the home, fire officials found a large amount of explosive materials, including several six- to eight-inch tubes of pyrotechnic material used in making fireworks. |
| CRIME FILES JUSTICE STORY Manhattan, New York -- Jan. 14, 1941 Mad Dogs of Midtown --(NY Daily News) In what had been labeled a deadly new chapter in New York's history of crime, gun-happy brothers Anthony and William Esposito killed two men and wounded two others in a heist-spiked chase through the very heart of Manhattan. L.A. THEN AND NOW Los Angeles, Calif -- late 1800's Muckraker Bested Chief of LAPD--(LA Times) He was an outspoken critic of 19th century Los Angeles' notorious civic corruption, an irrepressible gadfly whose weapons of choice were twin six-shooters and a muckraking weekly newspaper, The Porcupine. |
| LOS ANGELES, Calif. Los Angeles police want 3 officers charged--(CNN) The Los Angeles Police Department has asked prosecutors to charge at least three officers linked to the city's worst police corruption scandal in decades. An ongoing probe into the department has uncovered alleged unjustified shootings, beatings, drug dealing, evidence planting and false arrests. |
 BEIJING, CHINA Dozens of Chinese children reportedly kidnapped, sold--(Dallas News/AP) Police arrest 28 suspected of membership in ring; search begins for parents of kids. BOULDER, Colo. Hunter writes letter opposing parole for child rapist,killer --(Boulder Camera) Boulder County District Attorney Alex Hunter is opposing parole for Peter Roy Fisher who was convicted of murdering an 11-year-old girl in 1972 shortly after raping both her and her friend. |
| WASHINGTON, D.C. FBI had 33-page file on John Denver --(Inside Denver) The FBI maintained a 33-page file on singer John Denver that mentions narcotics use, a vague reference to the mafia and an instance when his life was threatened repeatedly. OAKLAND, Calif. Concert Devolves Into Riot--(Reuters) A rap concert at the Oakland Coliseum was cancelled on Friday after a crowd stormed the arena to gain entry and battled with the audience already inside. |
| JILL DANDO - murdered LONDON, ENGLAND Dando Murder Detective Suspended Over Leaks--(Reuters) A police officer investigating the murder of British television presenter Jill Dando has been suspended in a probe over leaks to the media. The Times said he was a detective constable and leaks have included surveillance of one man and interest in another who lived close to Dando. |
| BRIAN WELZIEN, 21 - missing since New Year's Day CHICAGO, IL A case unlike any other for police--(Chicago Sun-Times ) Stephany Welzien still hears the reassuring words of Chicago police who called to say her son--her well-behaved, straight-A college student son--was missing New Year's Day. Search of Lake Set For Missing Student--(Chicago Trib) Divers from the Chicago Police Marine Unit plan to search Lake Michigan on Saturday for the body of a missing Northern Illinois University student from Elgin, police said Friday. |
| Xiana Fairchild (7) Missing Grand Jury Quizzes 5 In Missing Girl Case (San Francisco (CA) Chronicle & Examiner ) Questions reportedly focused on home life |
| Lois Jurgens - Convicted in 1987 of beating death of 3 yr old adopted son - Now suspected in poisoning death of husband Harold Jurgens - Police investigating suspicious death Before death, sheriff gets tip (Pioneer Planet ) The day before a rural Stillwater man died, a tipster called police to say the man might have been poisoned. |
| Heather White (6) - Beaten to death Lora Ellen Moseley - Indicted for murder Donnie Wright - Indicted for murder MINDEN, LA Couple indicted for girl's death (Shreveport (LA) Times ) Heather, 6, died Dec. 15 of injuries received during repeated severe beatings. Wright allegedly beat the girl with a leather rifle strap and 1/4-inch thick boards and threw her against the wall of a mobile home in which the couple lived. |
| Girly Chew Hossencofft - Missing - Presumed dead Diazien Hossencofft - Charged with murder and kidnapping ALBUQUERQUE, NM Husband Denies Murder Charge (Albuquerque (NM) Journal ) Diazien Hossencofft entered innocent pleas Friday to murder, kidnapping and a host of other charges in connection with the disappearance of his still-missing estranged wife in September Michelle Witherell - Fell three stories to her death Jeremy Witherell - Charged with murdering wife GREENSBURG, PA Pair seek justice for dead daughter (Greensburg (PA) Tribune-Review ) Former son-in-law's arrest `bitter and sweet together' |
| VANCOUVER, BC Saanich police to probe claims against six Vancouver officers (Vancouver Sun ) Vancouver Chief Constable Terry Blythe has asked Saanich police to investigate the conduct of six officers accused of vandalizing a home during a minor drug bust and trying to cover up their actions in court CLARION, MI Escapee eluding police (Clarion-Ledger ) Jackson police continued to search Saturday for a woman suspected of causing a fatal car crash and later escaping from two officers at a hospital MILFORD, NH Man sets himself on fire as police serve warrant (Manchester Union Leader ) A disabled man with a troubled police history doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire yesterday afternoon rather than be arrested for making annoying 911 telephone calls PHILADELPHIA, PA Police reopen thousands of dumped cases (Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer ) Forty-five detectives are reinvestigating more than 2,000 sex offenses that were improperly downgraded since '95. RUTLAND, VT Police get first tips on rapist's car ( Rutland (VT) Herald ) Rutland state police said they have received leads on the car driven by an unknown man who kidnapped and raped a 17-year-old girl early Friday morning. PRISTINA U.S. soldier held in probe of Kosovo girl's murder (San Diego (CA) Union-Tribune ) U.S. forces in eastern Kosovo said on Saturday they had detained one of their own soldiers in connection with the murder of a local girl, believed to have been in her early teens |
| TAMPA, Florida SABRINA AISENBERG, missing 5 month-old Steve & Marlene Aisenberg, under indictment Magistrate says he will not listen to tape of Aisenbergs --(The Tampa Tribune)--A U.S. magistrate refused Friday to listen to a tape of a conversation between Steve and Marlene Aisenberg, but he has not decided whether to resolve a dispute over what it says. Aisenberg tape review sought --(The Tampa Tribune Friday edition)--Defense lawyers renewed their call Thursday for a federal magistrate to independently evaluate secret tape recordings made of conversations between Steve and Marlene Aisenberg. |
| TULSA, Oklahoma Man pleads guilty to taping underage girl having sex --(KJRH2 TV Team Tulsa)--A Commerce man has pleaded guilty to videotaping his underage former stepdaughter having sex with men he met through a "swinger's'' magazine. ENID, Oklahoma Veteran teacher accused of having computer porn --(KJRH2 TV Team Tulsa)--A veteran junior high school teacher has been charged with one felony count of possessing obscene material involving a minor child. TULSA, Oklahoma Jenks teacher quits before termination hearing --(KJRH2 TV Team Tulsa)-- Williams, who taught civics and served as a track coach at the Jenks East Middle School in Tulsa, was arrested Nov. 24 He reportedly confessed that he had engaged in phone sex with a 14-year-old former student. TULSA, Oklahoma Tulsa man sentenced to federal prison in child porn case --(KJRH2 TV Team Tulsa)--A Tulsa man who admitted to trading in images of children having sex will spend the next three years in a federal prison.Patrick Bruce McCurdy, 31, pleaded guilty in October to two counts of distributing child pornography. |
| New Delhi, India Tribal Indian kills 'witch' wife, family--(Daily News) A tribal man in northeast India killed his entire family after being told that his wife was a witch. |
| EMMA GARDNER, 82 - victim LEWIS GARDNER, 83 - charged with wife's murder Kernersville, North Carolina Mental examination ordered for man charged with killing wife with frying pan--(WRAL) A judge had ordered a man charged with beating his wife to death to undergo a mental evaluation to determine whether he is competent to stand trial. |
| MELBOURNE LEE, 40 - scored 39 out of 40 on the psychopathy scale Toronto, Ontario, Canada Perv jailed for keeps: World-class psychopath ruled a dangerous offender--(Toronto Sun) Canada's "worst" psychopath Melbourne Lee, who during two decades cut a terror swath through Toronto's female population, was declared a dangerous offender yesterday and jailed indefinitely. |
| BRITTANY LOCKLEAR, 5 - murdered two years ago Raeford, NC Brittany Locklear’s death still painful to remember--(Fayetteville (NC) Online) Two years have not dulled the pain for Connie Chavis. She thinks about her 5-year-old daughter, Brittany Locklear, every day and prays that the child’s killer will be brought to justice. |
| TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan Charlevoix man held, raped 13-year-old girl over three days, police say --(Traverse Record-Eagle) Police arrested a man late Wednesday who they say kept a 13-year-old in two East Bay Township motel rooms for three days and raped her. |
| DESTINY LEE, 8 - found dead in bathtub DAWN LEE - mother charged NEW CASTLE, DE Mother charged in death of Destiny Lee (Wilmington (DE) News Journal ) Dawn Lee was charged in her daughter's death Thursday, more than a month after she fled Delaware, leaving her child dead in a bathtub. |
| JEAN LAVELLE "CORA" HOWARD - missing since last summer DAWNIA NOLEN VOKMAN - missing since 1985 RICHARD C. HOWARD - husband to both, suspect San Antonio, Texas -- Branch, Michigan Missing wife is sought; San Antonio police join Michigan hunt --(Express-News) Richard C. Howard, who now lives in rural western Michigan, told authorities last summer that his second wife, Jean Lavelle "Cora" Howard, boarded a bus for San Antonio to care for a sick aunt named Edna Johnson. Authorities here haven't located anyone by that name and suspect foul play. For a short time, Howard faced murder charges in San Antonio after the December 1985 disappearance of his first wife, Dawnia Nolen Vokman, then 28. Authorities eventually dropped the charges because they couldn't find the woman's body or a murder weapon. |
| SHEILA BELLUSH - murdered mom of quads ALLEN BLACKTHORNE - ex-husband indicted San Antonio, Texas Prosecutors paint Blackthorne as violent, vindictive --(Sarasota Herald Trib) Allen Blackthorne, charged with killing ex-wife Sheila Bellush, also threatened and abused two other ex-wives who fear him to this day, according to revelations prosecutors unveiled in federal court here Thursday. Judge Denies Bond for Blackthorne--(Express-News) Feared by his former wives and daughter, independently wealthy and familiar with far-off Taiwan, Allen Blackthorne is a flight risk, a potential threat to witnesses and will remain behind bars pending trial, a judge ruled Thursday. Exclusive: Jamie Bellush Reacts--(KENS 5) Video: Listen to Jamie Bellush's Reaction--(KENS 5) |
| KYLE BELL - escaped child killer captured DALLAS, TX Dallas couple uses Bell reward to help destitute mother (Fargo (ND) Forum ) Rick and Mattie Wilson, the Dallas couple who turned in escaped murderer Kyle Bell a week ago, plan to share the $50,000 reward with the destitute mother of five who was living with Bell, saying she also was a victim of Bell. Schafer to deliver reward today --(Grand Forks Herald) Governor will present Dallas couple with $50,000 on 'America's Most Wanted' Bell's Life on Loose --(Albuquerque Journal) Kyle Bell's girlfriend and co-workers say they saw ominous signs that frighten them now that they know he is a convicted child molester and murderer. Bell waives extradition; ND authorities searching for a prison for him --(Grand Forks Herald) EDITORIAL: The technology net that snared Kyle Bell--(Grand Forks Herald) Bell relatives relieved he's caught; Aunt only sorry North Dakota doesn't have death penalty--(Grand Forks Herald) |
| ATLANTA, GA Letters vow harm against blacks, Jews (Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer ) Thirty organizations and colleges received copies. Federal officials are trying to find out who sent them. |
| SALT LAKE CITY, UT Domestic Violence Deaths Climbing (Salt Lake (UT) Tribune ) Domestic violence-related deaths in Utah increased from seven in 1997 to 13 in 1998. The toll for 1999 is just as high. Whether the jump is due to better reporting and investigations or actual deaths, domestic violence experts say, one such death is one too many. MACOMB, MI Woman kidnapped, raped by ex-boyfriend (Macomb (MI) Daily ) You walk into the cold morning air to warm up your car. An angry ex-lover lurking in your back yard grabs you from behind, forces you into your home and demands that you pack up the child he fathered ESSEX, CT Son, 29, sues father in mom's slaying (New Haven (CT) Register ) - A 29-year-old man is suing his father, who is in jail awaiting trial on criminal charges in the fatal shooting of his wife during a dispute at the family's home. |
| CHESTERTOWN, MD Md. grand jury calls shooting a hate crime (Wilmington (DE) News Journal ) A grand jury has indicted two Maryland brothers on murder and hate crime charges after police said they shot into a car carrying three black women home from a Dover shopping trip HOUSTON, TX Man who says he molested 70 boys gets six life terms (Houston Chronical ) "I'm guilty of what I've done ... The best place for me is to spend my life in prison." CLEARWATER, FL Woman plans wedding, then holds funeral with empty casket (St. Petersburg Times ) Funeral directors deal with death for a living. But two women who walked into Clearwater Funeral Home in November made owner Charles Scalisi uneasy DETROIT, MI Girl gone; traveler suspected (Detroit Free Press ) A 13-year-old Redford Township girl who disappeared from a movie complex two weeks ago may have been befriended by a cyber-predator, police said Friday. NORTH WILKESBORO, NC Woman shot and killed, sister wounded in dispute (Winston-Salem (NC) Journal ) North Wilkesboro man, 44, arrested in shooting at the home of victims' neighbors JACKSON, MS Female escapee sought on manslaughter charge (Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger ) Jackson police are trying to recapture a woman accused of causing a fatal car crash as she unsuccessfully fled from police and later escaped from two officers while at a hospital. TAMPA, FL Mystery deepens in widow's death (The Tampa Tribune ) Despite an inability to match hairs, federal prosecutors plan new charges in connection with a New Port Richey slaying. The hairs might have solved the maddening mystery of who killed the wealthy and trusting Pasco widow, Jean Schwarzkopf . Instead, they've deepened it. |
| Angel Maturino Resendiz - Suspected railroad Killer HOUSTON, TX Suspected railroad killer drops request for change of venue (Court TV ) Angel Maturino Resendiz, suspected in the deaths of nine people while he was riding freight trains across the country, dropped a request Thursday to have his murder trial moved from Houston, saying he did not want to risk facing a jury composed of "rednecks and Germans |
| Xiana Fairchild - Missing VALLEJO, CA Clothes do not belong to missing Vallejo girl (Sacramento Bee ) The great-grandmother of the Vallejo girl said the items were not Xiana's and were too large |
| PROVIDENCE, RI 3-month-old's death termed `very suspicious' (Providence (RI) Journal ) The infant was being watched by her father while the mother was at work. No one else appears to have been with them. PERRIS, CA Pair plead not guilty in death of boy, 4 (Riverside (CA) - Inland Empire Online ) A Perris couple accused of abusing and beating to death a 4-year-old boy in their unlicensed foster home pleaded not guilty to murder, torture and child-abuse charges Friday RALEIGH, NC Infant's mother says minister raped her (The News & Observer Publishing ) In testimony Thursday, Lisa Fortner says Howard Hunichen forced her into a sexual relationship |
| LISA STEINBERG, 6 - beaten to death in 1987 JOEL STEINBERG - convicted of manslaughter New York Remorseless Joel is denied parole--(New York Post) Notorious kid-killer Joel Steinberg still shows little remorse for beating his little girl, Lisa, to death, officials said yesterday in denying him parole for the third time. Child-killer Steinberg denied parole (Bergen Record Corp ) -- Joel Steinberg, serving a prison sentence for the highly-publicized 1987 beating death of his adopted daughter Lisa, has been denied parole again. |
| China 35 stolen children rescued--(South China Morning Post) Mainland police have rescued 35 children snatched from the families of migrant workers and sold in Guangdong, police and a social worker said yesterday. |
