| LUBBOCK, TX Johnson pleads guilty to rapes -- (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal) Elmo Johnson, 36, of Lubbock pleaded guilty Wednesday to raping a mother and her daughter last June. He was given two 20-year sentences . Williams guilty of child porn -- (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal) Kenneth Ray Williams was convicted on 17 counts of distributing child pornography via the Internet and a count of possessing child pornography . Man indicted in beating death -- (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal) Francisco Vela III could face the death penalty if convicted of beating 60-year-old Welch resident Edwin Henson to death last month. A person who commits murder during the commission of another felony can be tried for capital murder. The punishment is life imprisonment or death by lethal injection. |
| AMADOU DIALLO, 22 - unarmed, shot 41 times Kenneth Boss, 28, Sean Carroll, 36, Edward McMellon, 27, and Richard Murphy, 27, could get 25 years to life in prison if convicted. ALBANY, N.Y Diallo jurors to enter third day of deliberations and hear more readbacks -- (Court TV) After over 16 hours of deliberations, jurors deciding the fate of the four NYPD officers who gunned down Amadou Diallo have been unable to reach a verdict. Review lesser included charges -- (Court TV) On Thursday, Albany Justice Joseph Teresi ruled that jurors deciding the fate of the four officers accused of murdering Amadou Diallo will consider several lesser-included charges, some of which could lead to relatively little or no jail time. Behind the badge with your hand on the trigger: Our reporters try out the NYPD's crisis simulator. -- (Court TV) Late night. Tough neighborhood. Uncooperative citizen. We know what the four officers did. What would you have done? New Yorkers pay respects to Diallo as they await verdict -- (Newsday) On Wednesday, religious leaders in the Bronx held a service to urge calm when the verdict is announced. Chronology of the Diallo Police Shooting Case -- (Court TV) |
| Sean Murphy, 35 - conspiracy and two counts of attempted larceny. Sylvia Murphy, 57 - conspiracy and two counts of attempted larceny. Byron Worth, 41 - one count attempted larceny and conspiracy SUFFOLK COUNTY, MA Three accused of making false accusations of sexual abuse against priest -- (Boston Herald) Three people, including a mother and son, were indicted today for allegedly trying to bilk the Archdiocese of Boston out of $850,000 by falsely claiming sexual abuse against a priest, authorities said. No money was ever paid. |
| ALEX ASBURY, 2 - died from cerebral edema DAVIDSON COUNTY, N.C. Stokes found guilty of first-degree murder -- (The-Dispatch) A Davidson County jury found Richard Allen Stokes guilty Thursday afternoon of first-degree murder and felonious child abuse in the death of his girlfriend's 2-year-old son. Prosecutors argued throughout the trial that Stokes became angry and hit Alex in the head when the boy would not fall asleep. PORTLAND, Maine Supreme court throws out conviction, defines acceptable parental discipline -- (Boston Globe) A father grabbing his son hard on the shoulder, putting his hand over his mouth and telling him to ''shut up!'' does not constitute child abuse, the state supreme court ruled Thursday. The court unanimously overturned three assault convictions . victim remains unidentified COLUMBUS, GA Women guilty in boy's abuse -- (Ledger-Enquirer) Two Columbus women pleaded guilty Wednesday to beating and starving a 9-year-old boy who was left malnourished, emaciated and scarred. The child's mother, 31-year-old Chanta Alexander, and the woman she lived with, 36-year-old Latonya Mitchell, ate in front of the boy and fed their other children but rarely allowed him to eat anything. |
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| suspect is at large and considered dangerous DULUTH, Minn. Suspect charged in fatal shooting -- (Duluth News) Police are seeking a former Chicago man on charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with a shooting Tuesday night in a Central Hillside apartment.James Andred Tinnel, 21, was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder in the shooting death of David Ernest Greenwood, 19, of Duluth around 9:45 p.m. Tuesday. Police search for suspect in fatal shooting -- (Star Tribune) |
| Sheppard case didn't inspire TV series -- (Post Gazette) Every news story coming out of the third Sam Sheppard trial contains the same fascinating sentence: Sheppard's case inspired "The Fugitive" television series and movie. "I invented 'The Fugitive' in 1960, and I had never heard of Sam Sheppard," said Huggins, an 85-year-old screenwriter and novelist, who lives in Los Angeles. |
| KNOX COUNTY, TN Defendant released in error -- (Knox News) Jackie F. Curry's lawyer said his client tried to tell Knox County jailers Tuesday night that he wasn't supposed to be released, but they let him go anyway. He was in the middle of a trial on charges he raped a Knoxville woman in 1997. Bennie A. Campbell, 26 - facing up to 10 years WATERVILLE, ME Local cocaine probe nets Waterville coach -- (Blethen Maine) An assistant boys' basketball coach at Waterville Senior High School was arrested early Wednesday at his apartment on a cocaine-trafficking charge, according to police. BRENDA LYNNE JUDD, 14, and SANDRA KAYE COLLEY, 13 - remains found LASSEN COUNTY, Calif Tests confirm remains of suspected Gallego victims -- (Las Vegas Review) Nearly 21 years after they disappeared from a Reno fairground, the remains of two missing Sparks teens have been positively identified. They are suspected victims of convicted sex-slave killer Gerald Gallego, who faces execution in both Nevada and California for four other killings. LEAVENWORTH, KS Dragging death suspect also held for hotel robbery -- (Leavenworth Times ) 39-year-old Margaret Patterson of St. Joseph, faces charges in a robbery of a Lansing hotel, as well as the dragging death of Cassandra Mercer. |
| TIPPECANOE COUNTY, IN Safe proves undoing for trio -- (Federated Publications) Police didn't have to search far for the suspects in three recent fast-food restaurant burglaries, an officer said. Ryan E. Zink, 20, and a 17-year-old male called police with a tip on the burglaries at 5:14 a.m. Wednesday. Soon afterward, the same two and another 17-year-old were arrested on three counts of burglary. "It's nice when the bad guys come to you," said Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Todd Tyrie. "This has to be one for America's Dumbest Criminals." |
| HUNTSVILLE, Texas Texas woman's execution is hours away--(CNN)--Betty Lou Beets is scheduled to die sometime after 6 p.m. CST at a state prison in Huntsville, Texas. "She's very scared," Beets' attorney Joe Margulies told CNN. "She doesn't want to be strapped down to that gurney all alone." |
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| SAMANTHA WALSH, 13 - murdered Murderer cannot be named under the Young Offenders Act FLEUR DE LYS, NFLD, Canada RCMP arrest youth in Samantha Walsh murder -- (CBC) People in a small community in Newfoundland are in shock after RCMP have arrested one of the town's youths in connection with the murder of 13-year old Samantha Walsh. The RCMP found the body of the young girl late Wednesday night. The Disappearance of Samantha Walsh -- (Here & Now) case background |
| CHICAGO, Ill Telephone tycoon gets 5 years in $38 million fraud case -- (Nando) A man who bilked thousands of investors in a pay-telephone business out of $38 million and spent the money on fast cars and luxury vacations was sentenced to five years in federal prison. Scott Holmberg was also told Wednesday to forget about honeymooning with the woman he plans to marry before he reports to prison in 45 days. |
| SANDRA CONTRERAS COMMERCE CITY, Colo Missing Commerce City girl, 13, has authorities perplexed -- (Rocky Mountain News) Commerce City police are perplexed about the whereabouts of a 13-year-old girl who remained missing Wednesday five days after she was last seen with a man leaving a restaurant. The man and teen were last seen in either a 1986 or 1987 blue and gray Mercury Cougar. |
| XIANA FAIRCHILD, 9 - missing since dec 9 OAKLAND, Cal. Oakland removes Xiana posters -- (MediaNews Group) As Vallejo police scale back efforts to solve the case of missing Xiana Fairchild, volunteers lament that posters of the girl are being torn down in Oakland by overzealous city crews. Xiana tips dwindling -- (Vallejo Times-Herald) |
| DENVER, Colo Three killed in northeast Denver neighborhood -- (Denver Publishing) A possible suspect was taken into custody early Thursday after five people were found shot, three fatally, at a home in northeast Denver at about midnight. The bodies would have to be positively identified and next of kin notified before names could be released. |
| DANIEL HERNANDEZ, 26 - shooting victim DES MOINES, IA Court voids 2 murder convictions -- (Des Moines Register) The Iowa Court of Appeals on Wednesday threw out first-degree murder convictions of two Des Moines men, saying their victim may have died from medical mistakes at the hospital, rather than from the gunshot wounds suffered during an attack. FERNDALE, Mon. Olson to enter plea -- (Daily Inter Lake) Teen-ager Terry Olson is set to enter a plea at 9 a.m. today in the shooting death of his father. Flathead District Judge Kitty Curtis will conduct the arraignment on the deliberate homicide charge. She ruled last week that Olson, 16, can be tried as an adult for allegedly killing his father, John, 43, with a single shot to the temple. CHANNAHON, ILL. Two dead, two critical in wake of angry driver -- (Daily Journal) Police say Elwood's Douglas Florey sped away from a Wilmington Township tavern Tuesday night after a bartender shut him off. Within minutes, two motorists lay dead along I-55, and three more were being rushed to a Joliet hospital where two were fighting for their lives today. |
| Betty Lou Beets - To be executed for the shooting death of her husband HUNTSVILLE, TX 62-year-old woman on death row set to die in Texas (Court TV ) The fate of a 62-year-old woman on death row now rests with Gov. George W, Bush, a death penalty supporter who has permitted 119 executions since taking office five years ago Bush Returns Home To Decide Life-or-Death Matter (CNS ) Daughter pleads for mom's life--(Amarillo Globe) Florida executes killer; Texas prepares to execute woman--(The Boston Globe Dark Day On Death Row (Fox News ) |
| RENO, NV Police may charge man involved in road rage incident (RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL ) Six Galena High students escaped serious injury Wednesday when police say a construction worker used his van to stop their vehicle, then smashed in a window and attacked them |
| TIFFANY LONG((10) - Raped and murdered Joseph Jones(15) - Sentenced to life in prison FAYETTEVILLE, NC Joseph Jones convicted of Burlington girl's murder (Greensboro (NC) News & Record ) "I pray to the almighty," Jones said, reading from a handwritten letter he composed Wednesday morning. "I stand before you expressing my sorrow, my sympathy." AMY ROBINSON(19) - Murdered Michael Wayne Hall - Sentenced to death FORT WORTH, TX Second man sentenced to death for Texas torture killing (Nando Times-Nation ) After taking just 20 minutes to convict a former grocery store worker of torturing and killing an Arlington woman, a jury sentenced him to die for the crime Wednesday. JILL ALLEN - Murdered in her home Paul Christopher Allen - Convicted of capital murder FARMINGTON, UT Jury finds Allen guilty of arranging murder of his wife (Deseret News-Salt Lake City (UT) ) Long suspected of arranging his wife's murder, Paul Christopher Allen was convicted Wednesday of capital murder after a jury deliberated for more than nine hours. Cleveland C. Bynum - Charged with five counts of murder CROWN POINT, IN Multiple-murder suspect appears in court (Gary (IN) Post-Tribune ) The man police say was behind the deadliest day in Gary in five years appeared Wednesday morning in court |
FBI Joins Probe Of L.A. Police Corruption (Baltimore (MD) Sun ) Twenty officers have been suspended and 40 criminal convictions have been reversed since a former anti-gang officer accused of stealing cocaine from an evidence locker began regaling prosecutors with tales of fellow officers framing innocent people, lying in court and attacking suspects. Investigation Into Police Is Broadened In Los Angeles (New York (NY) Times-National ) |
| Jack Kevorkian - Convicted murderer DETROIT,MI Kevorkian criticizes `how-to' suicide video (Fox News ) Jack Kevorkian, who admitted to helping more than 100 people commit suicide before he was imprisoned, is criticizing a how-to video for the terminally ill who want to die MONTREAL, CANADA Thieves net art worth $2 million (Montreal Gazette ) Cunning art thieves have snared $2 million worth of paintings and sculptures in well-planned robberies at two Westmount homes. George Wayne Scott - accused of seducing girl over the Internet JEFFERSON CITY, MO Internet seduction case leads to child porn (Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer ) According to the new indictment, which was filed Feb. 18, FBI agents examined Scott's home computer and found 223 photographs and two video files of children "engaging in sexually explicit conduct." KEY WEST, FL Six naked men arrested for jumping, urinating on police car (Daytona Beach (FL) News-Journal ) Police arrested six nude men who allegedly jumped on a patrol car and began taking photographs of themselves urinating on the vehicle for a Japanese Web site NEOSHO, MO Three accused in sexual abuse of boy (Joplin Globe ) A Neosho couple have been charged and warrants have been issued against a state prison inmate in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of a 7-year-old boy |
| TRENTON, New Jersy Supreme Court rejects using crime 'profiler' to pinpoint killer --(NJONewsFlash)--But Associate Justice Daniel O'Hern, speaking for an unanimous court, said Hollywood and the Behavioral Science Unit shall not intrude into the New Jersey courtrooms in the guise of scientific evidence. |
| AMADOU DIALLO- Shot to death by police Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon, Kenneth Boss and Richard Murphy - Charged with murder ALBANY, NY N.Y. judge tells jury acquittal possible if police felt at risk (Baltimore (MD) Sun ) The jury began deliberating yesterday in the case of four white police officers charged with killing an unarmed black man, after the judge said the jurors could vote for acquittal if they believed the officers acted in self-defense Diallo Jury Mulling Cops' Fate (CBS News ) Cops' Fate Up To Diallo Jury (New York (NY) Post ) |
| DARREN SILVER - Suffered facial injuries TONYA HARDING - Arrested for assault Disgraced Skater Bashed Boyfriend With Hubcap, Police Say (ABC News ) Right in the middle of a comeback, figure skater Tonya Harding is in trouble again. Police in Camas, Washington, arrested her for allegedly smashing her live-in boyfriend's face with a metal hubcap in a drunken fury. |
| JAKE ROBEL(6) - Dragged to death Kim L. Davis - Charged with second degree murder INDEPENDENCE, MO Carjacker charged with murder after boy dragged to death (Rutland (VT) Herald ) As the horror unfolded Tuesday, Sharon Irwin was sitting in her car at the strip mall waiting for her granddaughter's dental appointment to end Boy's last moments of life are frozen in mother's memory (The Kansas City Star ) Carjacking horror: Boy is dragged to his death (Atlanta (GA) Journal-Constitution ) Tangled outside in seat belt as car thief sped off (Toronto Sun ) Boy dragged to death in car theft (Sun Times ) KC Man Charged In Dragging Death Of 6-year-old Boy (Kansas City (MO) Star ) |
| WELCH, Oklahoma DANNY and KATHY FREEMAN, murdered ASHLEY FREEMAN and LAURIA BIBLE, missing Suspicions in Welch case lead to testing of law officers--(KJRH2 News)--Two years ago, David Hayes shot and killed the Freemans’ 17-year-old son Shane while on duty. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation found the shooting was justified Relatives of missing girls raise money during weekend benefit--(KJRH2 News)--Officials say the Freeman’s vehicles and Bible’s car and purse were left at the residence; authorities fear the two teens may have been abducted |
| VICTOR HENDERSON, 40 - murdered cabbie POMONA, Calif. $10,000 reward offering in killing--(Daily Bulletin) Yellow Cab Co. employees distributed fliers Tuesday offering up to $10,000 for the arrest and conviction of a gunman who fatally shot a taxi driver this week, a company official said. |
| CHARO KATES, 18 - murdered Ronnie Lyles, 33 - former housemate accused SOMERVILLE, N.J. Somerville man charged in January killing --(NY Online) A Somerville man was charged Wednesday with murdering an 18-year-old man with a claw hammer in late January and then dumping the body in a trash bin whose contents were sent to an incinerator and burned. SHALINE SEGUINOT, 13 - murdered in 1995 Miguel Figueroa, 29 - former neighbor charged CAMDEN, N.J. Suspect charged in 1995 killing of Camden girl --(NJ Online) Nearly five years after a 13-year-old girl was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death, authorities on Wednesday charged a former neighbor with the killing. |
| OFFICER RICK SOWA - murdered Oct 12 '97 ATLANTA, GA Officer's killer scared of cops, his lawyer says -- (Access Atlanta) Two Atlanta police officers scared Gregory Lawler so badly that he killed one of them and maimed the other, his attorney said Tuesday, when all he really wanted to do was watch "The X-Files." Lawler, 47, faces the death penalty |
| BOULDER, Colo 'Ramsey' bill would change grand jury rules -- (Denver Post) When pundits pontificated last fall about why John and Patsy Ramsey weren't called to testify before the grand jury investigating their daughter's slaying, one theory eclipsed most: Had they been subpoenaed, prosecutors could have been forced to turn over to the Ramseys every statement they had made about the case, along with statements others had made about them. Today, state senators are scheduled to vote on a bill that would change that, at least partly. Ramseys name their suspects -- (Denver Post) John and Patsy Ramsey have their own umbrella of suspicion. |
Sheriff's Deputy STAN McKNIGHT - Shot by fugitive ROBERT SEDLACEK - murdered farmer State Patrol Trooper JEFFREY CRYMBLE - Shot Charles Lannis Moses Jr. - accused of murder OMAHA, Neb. Deputy shot in manhunt talks about his future -- (AP) The sheriff's deputy who was the first of three victims shot in a three-day manhunt for a Texas fugitive last week said Tuesday he is ready to get back to work. Charles Lannis Moses Jr. is accused of killing Robert Sedlacek in the second day of the chase, and wounding Stan McKnight and State Patrol trooper Jeffrey Crymble on the first day. |
