| JOHN D. CAMPBELL - Attempted to burn down workplace LAWRENCE, MA Police: Job anger sparked arson (Lawrence Eagle Tribune ) Angry after losing a paid week's vacation from last year and being passed over for a job promotion, Cabot House employee John D. Campbell lashed out by trying to burn down the furniture store, investigators said ALLEN RUMPLE - Died in fire JENNIFER STEINBERGER - Died in fire HENRY ALLEN RUMPEL JR.(4 mo) - Died in fire SHAWN L. BALD(17) - Charged in fatal fire JEFFERSONVILLE, IN Police say racial fight led to Indiana fire (The Courier-Journal ) "You have to go to sleep sometime, and you will all burn." |
| ROCHESTER, N.Y. Witness said police threats drove testimony in old murder trial -- (Boston Globe) Nearly 30 years after he helped send a convicted murderer to prison, Wayne Wright says fear not truth drove his testimony. In addition to allegedly being beaten by police while in custody, Wright testified on Thursday in the retrial of John Duval that the chief detective in the case threatened to charge him with murder if he didn't testify for the prosecution. |
| YORK, SC York man sentenced for taking sexual pictures of girls -- (Rock Hill Herald) - A York man was sentenced to five more years in prison after he pleaded guilty Thursday to taking nude and sexually explicit photos of teen-age girls. Ben Lail, 68, was charged with two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, one count of sexual exploitation of a minor and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. |
| MINDY TRAN 8, sexually assaulted and murdered Shannon Murrin , tried and found not guilty ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. Murrin calls for public inquiry after five-year legal battle ending in acquittal in murder case -- (sympatico) Shannon Murrin is demanding a public inquiry and compensation following a legal nightmare that ended this week when a jury declared him not guilty in the 1994 murder of an eight-year-old girl. Murrin doesn't deserve compensation: juror -- (National Post) The man acquitted this week of murdering eight-year-old Mindy Tran should consider himself lucky and not press his demand for compensation for the years he spent in jail awaiting trial, a juror on the case said yesterday. "There's a difference between a person who's innocent and a person who's found not guilty. He was found not guilty. But the DNA evidence didn't exclude him." |
| SASKATOON, Sask Husband still attacked after he was stabbed, court hears -- (National Post) A Saskatoon dentist told police her enraged husband ambushed her with a knife while she slept and continued to lunge at her, even after he was slashed across the throat and bleeding to death. The prosecution in the first-degree murder trial of Dr. Alpna Patel played an audiotape yesterday of a statement she made to police two hours after the killing. |
| BINGHAMTON, N.Y. Rabbi sentenced for smuggling drugs to inmates -- (National Post) Montreal rabbi Eli Gottesman was sentenced yesterday to six months' home detention for smuggling drugs to inmates he was ministering to in an upstate New York federal prison. |
| GERMANTOWN, Md Mother of abandoned newborn faces charges -- (MSNBC) The young woman accused of abandoning her newborn baby in a trash can in Wednesday is still in police custody, her bond hearing postponed until today. Eighteen-year-old Tanisha Montague has already been charged with attempted first-degree murder. HUNTSVILLE, Tx Man executed for 1982 fatal knifing in Eustace -- (Austin American-Statesman) James Walter Moreland, condemned for a knife attack 17 years ago that left two East Texas men dead, was executed Thursday night. Strapped to the gurney, Moreland gave a lengthy final statement in which he told his father and brother, watching through a window nearby, that he loved them. Moreland then turned to his victims' relatives and apologized. PHILADELPHIA, Pa Snow Shoveling Argument Ends in Murder -- (Fox) A Philadelphia man allegedly shot and killed a neighbor who complained about where he was piling shoveled snow after this week's monster winter storm on the East Coast, police said on Thursday. Louis Mockewich, 34, was charged late on Wednesday with murdering Michael Kirkpatrick, 31, who lived behind his row house in southwest Philadelphia. LONDON, UK Man held in hunt for missing family -- (BBC) Police have arrested a man on suspicion of conspiracy to murder a missing woman whose husband and two sons have also vanished. Scotland Yard said a 19-year-old man was arrested on Thursday for possession of drugs and conspiracy to murder Sharon Malone, 28. She disappeared in November last year. LAPLATA, Md. Charles County victim counselor murdered -- () A 60-year-old Charles County woman who worked with crime victims was murdered Tuesday night. Gayle Cook worked as the victim-witness coordinator in the Charles County state’s attorney’s office. IRVINE, CA Man Found Dead in Trunk of Burned Car -- (LA Times) Police are looking for witnesses to help their investigation into the slaying of a 20-year-old student whose charred body was found in the trunk of his car near Laguna Canyon Road. The body of Yichen Eric Liu of El Monte was found Monday afternoon. ALBUQUERQUE, NM Detective: Avalos Link to Victim -- (Albuquerque Journal) Murder defendant Jesse Avalos Jr. laughed and joked with police and appeared to cooperate in their search for missing New Mexico State University freshman Carly Martinez, a detective testified Thursday. VENTURA COUNTY, CA Judge Denies Venue Move in Alvarez Murder Trial -- (LA Times) Courts: Defense argues that publicity surrounding the death of Kali Manley has tainted the jury pool. Two women who dated the suspect are allowed to testify. WEST COVINA, CA Trial Set for Man Accused of Killing Sandra Rosas -- (LA Times) A trial date was set Thursday for Gabriel Gomez, 39, who could face the death penalty for charges of kidnapping and murdering his half-sister Sandra Rosas, the wife of Los Lobos guitarist Cesar Rosas. |
| NEW YORK Anti-drug colonel's wife pleads guilty to drug charges -- (CNN) The wife of a former Army anti-drug officer in Colombia has pleaded guilty to drug charges in a scheme to smuggle $700,000 worth of heroin into the United States from her husband's post. Laurie Anne Hiett said her husband, Col. James Hiett, the former head of U.S. anti-drug operations in Bogota, never knew of her plan. |
| TACOMA, Wash. Teen Pleads Guilty in Wash. Deaths -- (Las Vegas Sun) A teen-ager has decided to spend the rest of his life in prison instead of testifying against three people charged in the city's worst mass killing. |
| LOS ANGELES LAPD officer reportedly backs up corruption claims -- (Nando) A policeman who worked with a disgraced former officer at the center of a corruption probe is supporting allegations that officers engaged in unjustified shootings and planted evidence to frame innocent people, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. |
| SPRINGFIELD, Ill. State justices order retrial in Illinois death penalty case -- (Nando) The state's high court has ordered a new trial for a death row inmate convicted of killing a Chicago police officer whose bloodstained uniform was displayed on a mannequin in the jury room. |
| NEWARK, N.J. Detectives seize student's computer in Seton Hall fire probe -- (Nando) Investigators have seized a student's computer from a college dormitory where three died in a fire, after an e-mail threatened an even worse blaze, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported Friday. |
| INTERNATIONAL - warning: verbally graphic Butchering of a people is caught on camera -- (Independent News) Smuggled into Kenya by aid workers, and seen by The Independent, the video is the first direct documentary evidence of ethnic massacres in former Zaire, renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo after the overthrow of the Mobutu dictatorship in 1997. |
| Boulder authorities still investigating JonBenet Ramsey case -- (Nando) She declined to give details of what was discussed |
| LOS ANGELES Police scandal could mean financial ruin for L.A -- () Los Angeles could wind up being sued for hundreds of millions of dollars over its worst police scandal in 60 years and one prominent attorney is even predicting financial ruin for America's second largest city. |
| NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y <Bobbitt Found Guilty of Harassment -- (Las Vegas Sun) John Wayne Bobbitt, who made national headlines after his then-wife Lorena Bobbitt cut off his penis in 1993, was found guilty of harassment Wednesday. TIMOTHY HAWTHORN, 52 - murdered ROCHESTER, N.Y Witness: Police Made Me Lie -- (Las Vegas Sun) A key witness in a 1973 murder trial testified Thursday that a police detective terrorized him into lying on the stand, at one point spinning the barrel of his gun as they sat in a jail cell. |
| JONBENET RAMSEY, slain 6 year-old BOULDER, Colorado Officials to get Ramsey update --(Boulder News)--"We intend to hear from both as to the current status of evidence analysis and where they believe the case is,"Beckner said Wednesday. " |
Marjie Lundstrom: Sensational stories put media credibility at riskl--(The Sacramento Bee)--Already, there is a sense that the crime story unfolding in Greenwich, Conn., has the fixings of yet another case of media hyperventilation -- a condition overtly displayed in the coverage of Monica, JonBenet, JFK Jr., O.J., Princess Diana, even Gennifer Flowers |
| LENOIR, N.C Accused Internet killer pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter -- (Nando) With the approval of the victim's family, a man accused of strangling a Maryland woman he met in an Internet chat room pleaded guilty Thursday to voluntary manslaughter after prosecutors dropped a murder charge. |
| Anchorage Alaska 2 men jailed in slaying : Ex-worker shot boss -- (Anchorage Daily News) A week after quitting their jobs in anger, two former Wendy's employees talked their way into the closed restaurant early Tuesday and shot a former boss in the head after forcing her to open the safe, Anchorage police said Wednesday. |
| EVERGREEN , AL Slaying stuns small town -- (Alabama Live) Guy Chavers, weakened by cancer but still known hereabouts for the popular Hillside Bar-B-Q that he ran, was bludgeoned to death at home Tuesday by two men who then beat his wife, officials said |
| Vijay Kumar Lakireddy charged for illegal immigration Lakireddy Bali Reddy charged for illegal immigration BERKLEY CA Landlord case details revealed -- (San Fransisco Examiner) After helping his multimillionaire father in an alleged scheme to smuggle three teenage girls from India, a 30-year-old Berkeley man sought his dad's permission to have sex with one of them, court records state. |
| SOUTH DAKOTA Stacy Pudwill - professional misconduct Pudwill escapes further charges -- (Bismarck Tribune) The Burleigh County state's attorney has decided not to file charges against former Strasburg teacher Stacy Pudwill for writing a letter to his friend asking the friend to talk to two people who, at the time, were potential jurors in an upcoming South Dakota trial. |
| BILOXI, Miss. Cops Say Man Phoned in Robbery -- (Ap/excite) A man's scheme to win money from a casino without gambling landed him in jail, police said. Ronald Dean Cherry, 52, phoned the Treasure Bay Casino on Tuesday and demanded that employees deliver $100,000 to his home within two hours or he would start shooting people at the casino, police said. He even gave them his address, they said. |
| LARRY WITT - strangled while incarcerated LINCOLN, Neb. Three-time convicted killer sentenced to die -- (Oregon Live) Three-time convicted murderer David Dunster received his wish. He was sentenced to die in the state's electric chair. |
| CARY ANN MEDLIN 8, raped and killed Robert Glen Coe playing games MEMPHIS, Tenn Kid Killer Spews Curses in Court -- (Access Arizona) A convicted child killer-rapist kept screaming obscenities at his sanity hearing despite being gagged twice, and was finally sent to watch from another room. |
| JAVIER RAMOS, 28 - victim Vancleve Ashley, 30 and Bobby Jackson, 27 - indicted Three indicted in gunning down of Haledon man -- (Bergen Record) Three Passaic County men were indicted on charges of felony murder Wednesday in a case that could have been torn from a pulp fiction novel, with two wannabe enforcers allegedly killing a man while trying to prove they were needed to protect a prostitution ring. |
| FALMOUTH, Mass. Sexual harassment policy enforcer fired for sexual harassment -- (Boston Globe) A man hired to enforce the town's sexual harassment policy has been fired for sexually harassing a town employee. |
| LOVELAND, Colo. Authorities discover four dead in Loveland home -- (AP) A dairy farmer shot and killed his ex-wife, two children and himself early Thursday in a trailer on a rural road about 10 miles southeast of Loveland. Police said a third child survived and was being treated for a gunshot wound. The names of the victims will be released later. JACKSONVILLE, Fla Fla. Robbery Attempt Ends in Death -- (Las Vegas Sun) A man who tried to hold up a convenience store apparently was gunned down by a clerk who opened fire with an automatic pistol, police said. |
| FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla FBI denies covering up for agent in car crash -- (Miami Herald) The FBI on Wednesday vehemently denied impeding the investigation into a fatal wrong-way crash involving one of its agents, but questions lingered about how the agency responded in the aftermath of the accident. FBI agent pleads innocent to drunken driving manslaughter -- (Boston Globe) David R. Farrall, 36, a Miami-based FBI agent, is charged with vehicular homicide and committing manslaughter while driving drunk. Farrall is on administrative leave from the FBI and faces disciplinary measures. He is out of jail on a $75,000 bond. |
| IRENE SILVERMAN - Presumed dead Sante Kimes, 65 - accused of murder and kidnapping Kenneth Kimes, 24 - accused of murder and kidnapping NEW YORK Trial of mother and son in presumed murder of millionaire begins -- (Court TV) Though they have no corpse, no eyewitnesses, nor the blood of the victim, Manhattan prosecutors Thursday begin selecting a jury Thursday for the trial of a mother and son accused of murdering a millionaire widow who has been missing since July 1998. |
| DETROIT Detroit officer kills himself at casino blackjack table -- (Nando) An off-duty police officer gambling in a high-stakes casino room killed himself after losing a blackjack hand. The man shot himself in the head Wednesday while participating in a $100-minimum game in a VIP room at the MotorCity Casino, Detroit police Inspector William Rice said. |
| FORT GIBSON, Okla Okla. Teen Faces Shooting Hearing -- (New York Times) Almost two months since a 13-year-old boy fired 15 rounds into a crowd of students before school, this small community is learning to heal while prosecutors fight to charge the boy as an adult. A closed hearing is scheduled today to determine whether there is enough evidence to prosecute the boy. |
| NEW YORK Report: Evidence Links Bin Laden To Algerian Group -- (Fox) Investigators believe they have found links between Osama bin Laden and Algerians charged with plotting a terror attack in the United States, The New York Times reported Thursday. WASHINGTON House Panel Examines Border Security in Wake of Arrests -- (Fox) Heightened U.S. border security and stricter Canadian immigration laws are needed to keep terrorists from entering the United States through Canada, experts say. |
| MINDY TRAN(8) - Murdered SHANNON MURRIN - Aquitted of murder VANCOUVER, BC Juror sure Murrin killed girl but 'evidence wasn't there' (Vancouver Sun ) One of the jurors who voted to acquit Shannon Murrin of murdering eight-year-old Mindy Tran said Wednesday she is sure he is a killer |
| PATRICIA BOOHER - Mutilated corpse found in passenger seat HAYWARD BISSELL - Charged with attempted murder NORWALK, OH Authorities seek answers in grisly death (Toledo (OH) Blade ) Officers said they found the victim, dead, strapped into the front seat of Mr. Bissell's car Sunday. Her eyes and heart had been gouged out, and an arm and a leg had been severed. All the body parts except the eyes were found in the car 'Secret source' told Ohio man to kill girlfriend (Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer ) |
