CHARLOTTE, N.C.
Man charged in shooting at federal officers -- (Miami Herald)
A man has been charged with firing several shots at the federal command post for the Eric Rudolph manhunt in 1998. At an initial appearance before a federal magistrate Friday in Asheville, Eddie DeWayne ``Red'' Carringer, 31, was ordered held without bail until a hearing this week.

BIRMINGHAM, AL
Woman charged in Ensley death -- (Birmingham News)
Birmingham police made one arrest Friday in connection with an Ensley homicide, but still are looking for leads in the death of another homicide victim found Friday in his home.

Tucson, AZ
Tucsonan charged in fatal stabbing -- (Arizona Star)
A 21-year-old Tucson man faces a first-degree murder charge in the fatal stabbing of another man during a fight outside a northwest-side bar early yesterday morning, police said.

BOULDER, CO
Boulder man accused of offering cop $1,000 to kidnap ex-girlfriend -- (Inside Denver)
A 61-year-old Boulder man was arrested Saturday after he asked an undercover police officer to kidnap a former girlfriend. Lloyd Gerbitz was being held for investigation of second-degree kidnapping.




Sun Mar 5 2000 08:59:12

NICHOLAS, 7, EMILY, 6, THOMAS LEMAK, 3 - sedated and then suffocated
Marilyn Lemak - on death row
DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill.
The kindness of strangers -- (Naperville Sun)
Twenty Naperville-area residents are taking tentative steps in socio-political activism in the Lemak case. They will work to keep the 43-year-old nurse off Death Row should she be convicted of the suffocation deaths of her children -- Nicholas, 7, Emily, 6, and Thomas, 3 -- at the family's Naperville home on March 5, 1999
Jailers keep close watch on Lemak -- (Naperville Sun)
A loving family until marriage dissolves -- (Naperville Sun)
Former Lemak home now painful symbol -- (Naperville Sun)




Sun Mar 5 2000 08:39:18

LOS ANGELES, CA
History of L.A. police the stuff of real-life pulp fiction -- (Nando)
In this city where everything and everyone can be reinvented, true crime has long become true drama. The Los Angeles Police Department stars in both.
Coalition seeks probe in LAPD scandal -- (Atlanta Journal)
"By now it should be painfully clear to any impartial observer that nothing less than a truly independent investigation of the ever-deepening LAPD corruption and brutality scandal can ever hope to uncover the full truth,"




Sun Mar 5 2000 08:09:52

CRIME FILES JUSTICE STORY
New York - April 5, 1956
Blind Justice --(NY Daily News)
It was a splash of acid that shocked the nation, for it claimed the eyes of crusading columnist Victor Riesel, eyes that peered into the darkened corners of labor racketeering, corners that too many people wanted to keep shielded from the light.



Sat Mar 4 2000 21:10:51

MARILYN SHEPPARD - murdered in her home
DR. SAM SHEPPARD - convicted, aquitted after serving 10 years
CLEVELAND OH
Expert: Sheppard blood test flawed -- (Beacon Journal)
The state opened one door too many in the Sam Sheppard wrongful imprisonment case yesterday, allowing an expert witness to dismantle a theory by the county prosecutor's office that blood found at Marilyn Sheppard's 1954 murder scene disproved DNA test results that pointed to handyman Richard Eberling as the killer.
Sheppard expert says third person present for 1954 murder -- (Court TV)
Dr. Mohammad Tahir told the jury that this third person had the same DNA profile as Sheppard family window-washer Richard Eberling, the man the estate claims killed Mrs. Sheppard in 1954.




Sat Mar 4 2000 21:05:26

Benny Nance, 50 - accused of rape
DECATUR, AL
Rape trial protesters say judge prohibits evidence of innocence -- (Alabama Live)
While a Morgan County jury heard testimony Friday in the rape trial of a former state mental health center supervisor, about a dozen people protested outside, claiming the judge won't allow the jury to hear evidence that could clear him. The woman's mother testified her 28-year-old daughter has the mentality of a child between the ages of 2 and 3.

CHICAGO, IL.
Rewards in slaying debated -- (Chicago Sun Times)
A South Side alderman wants to give the mother of suspected serial killer Andre Crawford a $1,250 reward because she provided DNA evidence that resulted in her son's arrest.

HENNEPIN COUNTY, MN
Judge rules new DNA test method can be used in court -- (Star Tribune)
A new method used by the Minnesota crime lab to compare DNA samples in homicide, rape and other criminal investigations is scientifically sound and may be used as evidence in court.

KENT, WA
Man sentenced to 42 years for rape, murder of 14-year-old -- (Oregon Live)
A 29-year-old man was sentenced to 42 years in prison for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl. Corey Scott Beito Jr., 29, was originally charged with aggravated first-degree murder in the 1998 slaying of Jessica Seim. He pleaded guilty to the lesser crime of first-degree murder under a plea-bargain arrangement.




Sat Mar 4 2000 20:40:17

VANCOUVER, BC
Customs officials seize 85 kilograms of cocaine from Italian freighter in Vancouver port -- (Cnews)
Customs officers, backed by the Vancouver police emergency response team, boarded the Cielo d'Italia after it arrived at the Centerm container port. The vessel's last port of call was Los Angeles, said a spokesman for Anglo Canadian Shipping Co., the ship's agent.




Sat Mar 4 2000 20:36:38

ATLANTA, GA
Black workers: Coke layoffs 'ethnic cleansing' -- (ABC News Internet)
Hundreds of black former Coca-Cola employees rallied Saturday, calling the company's massive job cuts "ethnic cleansing" and accusing the soft-drink giant of severely mistreating workers. "Blacks in the company are humiliated, intimidated, yelled at, called the N-word, treated with disrespect," said Larry Jones, a former Coke manager.




Sat Mar 4 2000 19:32:56

VISHAL MEHROTRA, 8 - vanished in July, 1981
London, England
'Royal wedding day' murder re-examined--(BBC) Advances in DNA technology may allow police to reopen an investigation into the death of a boy who went missing on the day of the royal wedding.




Sat Mar 4 2000 19:30:15

FULL CASE COVERAGE
Steve Kaplan - Owner and 16 defendants charged with racketeering
ATLANTA, GA
Club testimony paints lurid picture -- (Access Atlanta)
Grand jury testimony in the Gold Club racketeering case offers a portrait of nightly fun and games driven by overpriced champagne, overworked credit cards and lust--lust for sex, celebrity and power. Kaplan, who has said the club made as much as $9 million a year, paid the New York Gambino crime family protection payments, FBI search warrant affidavits said.
Celebrities got star treatment -- (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)




Sat Mar 4 2000 19:04:37

BOULDER, CO
DA to prosecute ransom-note case -- (Denver Post)
The Jefferson County District Attorney's office can continue to prosecute alleged criminal violations stemming from attempts to buy a copy of the JonBenet Ramsey ransom note, a senior judge ruled Friday.




Sat Mar 4 2000 18:40:10

WALTER HORACE BELL, 19 - Unsolved Murder
ORANGE COUNTY, CA
McKinney acquittal leaves widow in pain -- (Orange County Register)
Laurie Bell furiously clicked the television remote control at her Orange home, trying to escape a painful memory. But on every channel she saw the same thing: DeWayne McKinney's face. McKinney was freed Jan. 28 after spending 19 years in prison for an Orange County murder that prosecutors now believe likely was committed by another man.




Sat Mar 4 2000 16:56:46

TIFFANY EUNICK, 6 - victim
Lionel Tate, 12 - facing 1st degree murder
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.
'The Rock' To Testify in Kid's Death -- (New York Times)
The attorney for a 12-year-old boy accused of killing a 6-year-old playmate by slamming her onto a table and railing has subpoenaed a professional wrestler to testify at the boy's trial.

RICHARD LOLLAR and JACINTH BAKER - victims
Ray Lewis, Reginald Oakley and Joseph Sweeting - face murder charges
BALTIMORE, MD
Report: Robbery Plot at Lewis' Party -- (Reuters)
A woman who contends she was with Ray Lewis when two men were stabbed after the Super Bowl reportedly is ready to say the victims were part of a group preparing to rob members of the NFL star's party.

ST. PAUL, MN
Minnesota representative charged for allegedly fondling young girl -- (Duluth News)
State Rep. Jim Rostberg was charged Friday with three counts of felony criminal sexual conduct for allegedly fondling a girl multiple times, starting when she was 6 years old.

GERTRUDE RITTERSON,49 and BILL DUTCH, 46 - victims
John Taylor, 20, and Willie Johnson, 20 - arrested
PHILADELPHIA, PA
Ex-employee, friend held in dollar store killings. -- (Buck County Courier Times)
A former employee of Dollar Express and his friend were arrested yesterday and charged with last week's early morning killing of two workers who were opening the store in the Home and Design Center across from Franklin Mills Mall in Northeast Philadelphia.




Sat Mar 4 2000 16:42:36

MAX CASTRO, 11 - recovering
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Boy calls 911 with disastrous results -- (San Fransico Examiner)
When Rebecca Alberti-Castro heard the gunshot blast, she bolted from her bedroom toward the living room and her son because she thought "some maniac was out in the street" shooting people. She never dreamed that her 11-year-old son would be the victim, and the shooter would be a police officer.




Sat Mar 4 2000 16:34:32

LOS ANGELES, CA
Chief Parks Orders Current Anti-Gang Units Disbanded -- (LA Times)
Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks on Friday abolished the department's anti-gang CRASH units like the one at the center of the LAPD's growing corruption scandal.

PONTIAC, MI
Injured police dog dies -- (freep.com)
He went off roof during search. Kodi's full name was Warrick vom Frolich Haus. He was one of two Pontiac canine cops, joining his colleague Yager about 18 months ago.




Sat Mar 4 2000 16:23:03

Thomas Craft, 37 - pleaded guilty
WAUSEON, OH
Man who said he dismembered wife convicted -- (Detroit News)
A man who admitted he dismembered his wife's body and dumped parts of it in trash bins pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, officials said.

Linda Limratana, 27 - arraigned
Danielle Fields, 24 - arraigned
DETROIT, MI
Women charged with using sex videotape in extortion attempt -- (Detroit News)
Two Oakland County women are charged with trying to extort $7,500 from a radiologist after they allegedly videotaped him having sex with one of them.




Sat Mar 4 2000 13:15:59

PAUL C. BUENO, 34 - remains in a shallow grave
ADAMS COUNTY, CO
Key witness in drug case found dead -- (Inside Denver)
A man who disappeared nine weeks ago and was found dead this week in a field was a key witness in an upcoming Jefferson County drug trial.

BREANNA MOES, 3 - victim
Eugene Smith, 31 - facing life sentence
ROCK ISLAND COUNTY, IA
Smith's guilty plea brings closure -- (QCTimes.com)
Rock Island County prosecutors said they opted to accept a plea agreement with a Davenport murder suspect -- rather than seeking the death penalty -- out of consideration for the family of the 3-year-old girl he abducted and killed in September.

Marshall Ray Custard II, kidnapping, rape
CRESENT, OK
Crescent man faces rape charges -- (The Oklahoman)
Law officers are investigating claims that a 37-year-old Crescent truck driver may have raped a 14-year-old Edmond girl, police said Thursday.




Sat Mar 4 2000 13:11:57

Joshua James Kyler, 23 - arrested
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
Child porn ring linked to suspect -- (The Oklahoman)
A man arrested Friday on complaints of performing lewd acts with children and forcible sodomy may be connected to a child pornography ring, police said.

George Emmett Trumpore Jr, 43 - arrested
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
City man held on porn complaint -- (The Oklahoman)
A man who has taught Sunday school in south Oklahoma City has been arrested on complaints of performing lewd acts with children and making pornography.




Sat Mar 4 2000 13:09:56

OCTAVIA BRYANT, 3 - victim
Rosie Mae Webb, 43, - denied hitting the child
DALLAS, TX
Woman given life sentence in beating death of girl, 3 -- (Dallas News)
Ms. Webb and her 26-year-old son, Ennis Dewayne Davis, were arrested two days after the toddler died at Children's Medical Center from blunt force trauma to her head. Mr. Davis faces trial this spring on similar charges.

DALLAS, TX
Prison killing adds 17 1/2 years to inmate's term -- (Dallas News)
Randy Gene Yost was scheduled to be released this month from the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth after serving two years for a wire-fraud conviction in West Virginia. Last year, however, Mr. Yost, 39, threw scalding water in the face of another inmate, who later died.

FORT WORTH, TX
FW clerk fatally shoots man at store -- (Dallas News)
When a convenience store clerk was shot and killed last month only a couple of streets over, Getachew Alemayehu decided to buy a gun - just in case.




Sat Mar 4 2000 12:35:21

Recanted to murders of CAROLE SUND, 42, JULIE SUND, 15, and SILVINA PELLOSO, 16,
Eugene "Rufus" Dykes - charges: robbery, false imprisonment, possession of a firearm
MODESTO, CA
Dykes misled FBI; charged in other cases -- (Modesto Bee)
The man who played a major role in misleading FBI agents investigating the murders of three Yosemite sightseers last year, came back to Stanislaus County on Friday to face a host of new charges.





Sat Mar 4 2000 06:32:21

KAYLA ROLLAND(6) - Shot to death in classroom
MT MORRIS, MI
With Pink Ribbons and Tokens of Love, Community Gathers to Mourn Kayla (Fox News )
Three days after Kayla Rollens was shot to death in her elementary school by a 6-year-old classmate, hundreds of tearful mourners bearing flowers, cards and stuffed animals paid their respects during a visitation and memorial service Friday.
Tears for Slain First-Grader (ABC News )




Sat Mar 4 2000 06:29:41

LAPD CORRUPTION PROBE

TIMOTHY SCOTT JOHNSON(3) - Beaten to death
Barry Louis Strickland - charged with capital murder
PICAYUNE, MS
Sitter charged with murder (THE SUN HERALD )
A Pearl River County man with a history of violence towards children has been charged with capital murder in the death of his girlfriend's 3-year-old son

MABEL GREINEDER - Stabbed to death near her home
Dr. Dirk Greineder - On trial for murder
WELLESLY, MA
Prosecutor: Insurance not motive in Wellesley murder (Boston Herald )
Prosecutors suggested Mabel Greineder's death was somehow linked to the doctor's alleged double life involving on-line porn and prostitutes.

Dennis Moran aka "Coolio"(17) - focus of a cross-country probe into Web disruptions
WOLFEBORO, NH
N.H. hacker says he's not behind Web attacks (Boston Herald )
A 17-year-old New Hampshire computer hacker who dropped out of high school because he was bored isn't afraid of being arrested, but he's angry agents seized his three homemade computers, his sister said yesterday
Target Of FBI Probe Denies Major 'Net Attacks (Chicago (IL) Tribune )




Sat Mar 4 2000 06:26:06

CHAMICA L. HARDAWAY - Shot to death
REGINALD JOHNSON - Shot to death
DE'KEESYIAH HARDAWAY (3yr) - Shot to death
MACON,GA
Man, woman & child found shot to death in Decatur (Macon Telegraph )
Three people, including a woman and her 3-year-old daughter, were found dead in the woman's DeKalb County apartment Friday morning, police said.

JAMES PATRICKRILEY - Shot in the face
Dr. Larry Ford - suspect in the shooting of business partner
ALTADENA, CA
Doctor suspected in shooting plot found dead (Orange County Register )
The gynecologist apparently shot himself, police say. His lawyer says he feared arrest

AMY BLUMBERG - Shot while working at her father's store
O'FALLON, IL
Killer's profile widens (Belleville (IL) News-Democrat )
Police on the trail of 20-year-old Amy Blumberg's killer want to forget about their composite drawing of a man who frightened another woman in O'Fallon the same day Blumberg was shot

SANTA CLARA, CA
Dog killer reward money pours in (San Jose Mercury News )
Swept up in a rush of sympathy for a woman whose dog was hurled into traffic in an act of road rage, Silicon Valley residents responded Thursday with more than $40,000 in reward money and provided so many tips that San Jose police assigned two officers to the case

Rev. Carl Anthony Schipper - Repeatedly sent harmful material, pornographic material, to several juveniles over the Internet
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
SR Priest Charged With Internet Child Seduction (Santa Rosa (CA) Press Democrat )
A priest at St. Patrick's Seminary, the Bay Area training ground for many Northern California Catholic priests, has been arrested and charged with using the Internet to attempt to seduce children after police seized evidence at his home in Santa Rosa.

Kevin Murcko(19) - May face up to five years in jail for larceny
MILFORD, CT
Alleged computer scammer arraigned; police say Milford teen ripped off eBAY users (New Haven (CT) Register )
An Orange Avenue man who allegedly defrauded Internet auction bidders of up to $6,000 was arraigned Friday in Superior Court in what police say is their first cracked case of computer larceny




Sat Mar 4 2000 06:21:55

Tommy Lynn Sells - linked to 13 slayings
AUSTIN, TX
Drifter's alleged killings may have been interrupted by jail stay in West Virginia (Charleston (WV) Gazette )
Jailed in Texas in the December murder of a 13-year-old girl, Tommy Lynn Sells confessed Thursday to the 1987 murders of a pregnant Illinois woman, her husband and their two children, Texas authorities reported.
'Killing machine' confesses to 7-state slaying spree (Corpus Christi (TX) Caller-Times )
From a jail cell in Texas, Tommy Lynn Sells has now confessed to killing 13 people in seven states with guns, knives, a bat, a shovel, an ice pick and his bare hands
Drifter Says He Killed Illinois Family In 1987 (Houston (TX) Chronicle )




Sat Mar 4 2000 06:16:57

TIMOTHY SCOTT JOHNSON(3) - Beaten to death
Barry Louis Strickland - charged with capital murder
PICAYUNE, MS
Sitter charged with murder (The Sun Herald )
A Pearl River County man with a history of violence towards children has been charged with capital murder in the death of his girlfriend's 3-year-old son




Sat Mar 4 2000 06:15:36

ALBANY, NY
Skip Case, 4 Cops Will Ask Feds (NY Daily News )
"There is no need for the federal government to jump in here," said Steve Brounstein, who represents Officer Kenneth Boss. "This matter was litigated before a diverse and fair jury."
Officers To Meet With Justice Department Over Proposed Diallo Civil Rights Case (Nando Times-Nation )




Sat Mar 4 2000 06:14:04

WILKINSON, PA RESTAURANT SHOOTING

EVELYN SANTOS-ORTIZ - Stabbed, throat slashed, shot
DENISE SANTOS - Stabbed
ERVIN ANGUILAR - Shot and stabbed
EDUARDO SANTOS - Shot and stabbed
ISHMAEL SANTOS(14) - Shot in the head
NEW YORK, NY
Five Kin Murdered in Bronx Massacre ( )
Evelyn Santos-Ortiz was the first to be found, her body slumped in an elevator in the Bronx projects. She had been stabbed in the face, her throat savagely slashed, her head and torso each struck by a single bullet
Five killed in slaughterhouses (NY Post )
Hideous Crime Has Neighbors Scared To Death (New York (NY) Post )
Five Dead In Bronx Killing Spree (Newsday (NY) )
Two Men, Two Women, And Boy Dead In Attacks On Family At 3 Bronx Sites (The Record-Hackensack (NJ) )