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    Fri Mar 10 2000 16:10:35



    Ventura, California
    Jewelry found with bones described -- (LA Times) Ventura County coroner's officials hope that jewelry found with the skeletal remains of a woman in Los Padres National Forest will help determine her identity.



    Fri Mar 10 2000 16:05:25



    Ian Brady, 62 - child killer
    Merseyside, England
    Brady refused right to die -- (BBC) Moors murderer Ian Brady has been refused the right to starve himself to death.




    Fri Mar 10 2000 14:48:03



    JONBENET RAMSEY - case related
    scroll to third article, this will be gone in 24 hours
    BOULDER, CO
    Messages warn therapist to avoid figure in sex ring -- (Longmont)
    The California therapist who is treating the so-called Mystery Woman in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case has received telephone messages ordering her to stay away from her patient, who has come forward with allegations of lifelong sexual abuse by a ring that includes figures in the Ramsey case.




    Fri Mar 10 2000 14:46:30



    Annette Selix - Murdered
    Darrell Rich - Serial killer sentenced to die

    Killer requests final rites in sweat lodge -- (San Jose Mercury News)
    REDDING, Calif.
    Serial killer Darrell Rich says he won't ask to be buried in a cemetery where one of his victims already lies.He had told prison officials he wanted to be buried in Cottonwood Cemetery next to his mother. Rich's lawyers say he changed his mind out of respect for the family of one of his victims, Annette Selix, who is buried 100 yards from the Rich plot.



    Fri Mar 10 2000 13:29:17



    Jessica Rodriguez, 10 - Released by abductor

    Mother Thanks Abductor for Releasing Daughter, Says Jessica 'doing Great' -- (AP)
    TRENTON, Fla.
    The mother of the 10-year-old girl held captive for three days thanked the man Friday for safely releasing her daughter. She said the girl was "doing great." Investigators said they are focusing their search for the kidnapper in the area around where Jessica Rodriguez lives, based on information from the girl.
    Police: Florida girl provides good clues about kidnapping -- (CNN)
    GAINESVILLE, Fla.
    Authorities investigating the kidnapping of Jessica Rodriguez said Friday they were confident of making an arrest in the case of the 10-year-old Florida girl who's "doing great" following three days of captivity by a stranger.
    CNN TRANSCRIPT-Florida Law Enforcement Officials Hold News Conference on Investigation Into Kidnapping of 10-Year-Old Girl
    Aired March 10, 2000 - 10:00 a.m. ET
    -- (CNN)
    GAINESVILLE, Fla.
    DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: We want to get right to Gainesville, Florida where we expect a news conference to begin any moment. This on the return of 10-year-old Jessica Rodriguez.




    Fri Mar 10 2000 09:51:39



    Officer Bart Vallaro, 28, - conspired to undermine an investigation
    Officer James "Barry" Bishop, 53 - conspiracy, falsifying documents
    WEST PATERSON, NJ
    2 Paterson Cops Arrested in Jail Death -- (Herald & News)
    Suspended Paterson police Officer Bart Vallaro left a municipal courtroom Thursday thinking he had two more weeks before a judge decides his fate on drunken-driving charges. Instead, Vallaro and another officer were arrested by detectives from their own department on charges related to the death of a prisoner last year.




    Fri Mar 10 2000 09:38:49



    XIANA FAIRCHILD, 7 - vanished December 9, 1999
    VALLEJO, California
    Vocal group to perform Xiana song -- (Vallejo Times-Herald)
    It's a simple song about a missing girl whose prolonged disappearance has broken Vallejo hearts.
    Use our news page search -- (Cybersleuths.com)
    More information on this an other cases in the archives




    Fri Mar 10 2000 09:26:50



    BOULDER, CO
    DA Hunter won't seek re-election -- (Denver Post)
    After 28 years of blistering criticism and unparalleled popularity, the man both critics and fans describe as the perfect prosecutor for Boulder is leaving office.
    Hunter won't run again -- (Daily Camera)
    Alex Hunter's statement -- (Daily Camera)
    Chuck Green: Ramseys find a use for media -- (Denver Post)
    After more than three years of virtual silence, John and Patsy Ramsey are talking. And talking, and talking and talking. Of course, they're still not talking to police detectives investigating the murder of their daughter, JonBenét.




    Fri Mar 10 2000 09:08:51



    CHARLESTON, S.C.
    Internet Romance Turns Bizarre--(AP) All Trevor Tasker wanted to do was fly to this historic South Carolina town, meet up with his Internet love and get married. Instead, it turns out that the 30-something woman he met and wooed over the Internet is really a 65-year-old woman jailed earlier this month after authorities found the body of her former roommate in a freezer at her home.



    Fri Mar 10 2000 08:32:49



    Abe Hirschfeld - Trial for alleged murder-for-hire plot to have his former business partner killed ended in mistrial
    NEW YORK, NY
    Tycoon given 90 days in jail (Palm Beach Post )
    A real estate tycoon who promised to pay Paula Jones to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton, was sentenced to 90 days in jail and fined $8,000 Thursday for defying a gag order in his murder-for-hire trial.
    Real estate mogul Abe Hirschfeld sentenced to 90 days in jail (Nando Times )




    Fri Mar 10 2000 08:30:49



    Marc A. Uvanni - Guilty on two counts of third-degree sodomy, a felony
    BINGHAMTON, NY
    No jail for guard who sodomized inmates (Binghamton (NY) Press )
    A plea agreement saved a former Broome County corrections officer from going to jail after admitting he sodomized two female prisoners held in the Broome County Jail

    JOSEPHINE LEE - Beaten to death
    Vincent Ferraiuolo - Charged with murder
    MILFORD, CT
    Murder defendant own lawyer (Bridgeport (CT) Connecticut Post )
    Calling the court proceedings "a dog and pony show," a New York man representing himself against a murder charge won two motions Wednesday in Milford Superior Court but lost the third

    CINCINATTI, OH
    3-year-old unharmed after carjacking (The Cincinnati Enquirer )
    Three-year-old Molly Meyer was in a car seat in a car outside her parents' Vi enna Woods Drive apartment about 8:20 p.m. when someone jumped in the car and drove away.

    Samuel and Elizabeth Glick - Daughter's death caused by illness not abuse
    SUNBURY, PA
    Amish Parents Won't Be Charged With Death of Infant (Fox News )
    The girl had large bruises, and the autopsy showed brain and retinal hemorrhaging, classic signs of shaken-baby syndrome. The coroner quickly ruled the death a homicide

    Victoria Payne - embezzled more than $70,000 during the 11/2 years she worked as caregiver
    GRAND RAPIDS, MI
    Caregiver held in plot to murder 3 people (The Grand Rapids Press )
    A woman who once worked as caregiver for a woman with severe arthritis was ordered Wednesday to stand trial for plotting to kill her former patient as well as the woman's husband and daughter

    Sgt. Ernest Vitolo, Officers Miguel Paniss, Francis Mazzella and Kenneth Dunn - charged with official misconduct, receiving a reward for official misconduct, receiving unlawful gratuities and attempted criminal possession of stolen property
    NEW YORK, NY
    Corruption Probe Fingers 8 Brooklyn Cops (New York Post )
    Eight cops were implicated in a burgeoning corruption scandal last night that included allegedly promoting gambling and fixing parking tickets while using a mob-tied social club as their hangout in Bensonhurst.




    Fri Mar 10 2000 08:26:50



    JESSICA RODRIGUEZ(10) - Abducted as she got off school bus
    GAINESVILLE, FL
    Florida Kidnap Mystery (ABC News )
    Three days after she was abducted as she got off her school bus, a 10-year-old girl walked alone into a Wal-Mart 25 miles from her home and asked for help
    Girl welcomed home by family as police search for kidnapper (ABC News )
    Girl Says Abductor Was Stranger (Austin (TX) American-Statesman )
    Fla. girl, 10, reappears 3 days after abduction (Baltimore (MD) Sun )
    Girl Welcomed Home by Family As Police Search for Kidnapper (Fox News )




    Fri Mar 10 2000 08:25:19



    Oscar Alfredo Lopez - no dental or medical training
    Miami, Florida
    'Filling station' on wheels -- (Reuters) Florida police have arrested a man who allegedly ran a mobile dentistry practice from the back of his dilapidated 1980 Ford Mustang.




    Fri Mar 10 2000 08:18:11

    LAPD Corruption Probe
    LOS ANGELES, CA
    L.A. police scandal souvenir-hunters keep Web site busy (Contra Costa Times-Walnut Creek (CA) )
    While the Los Angeles Police Department focuses on weeding out rogue officers and taking criticism over corruption, one of its own and a former officer are raking in big bucks from their lapdgear.com Web site




    Fri Mar 10 2000 08:10:02



    MELISSA ANN TREMBLAY(11) - Murdered in 1988
    Tommy Lynn Sells - Texas jail awaiting trial on charges of capital murder and attempted murder
    Drifter linked to girl's murder (Lawrence Eagle Tribune )
    A 35-year-old drifter who has confessed to 13 murders in seven states is being eyed as a possible suspect in the murder of a Salem, N.H., girl almost 12 years ago in Lawrence, police said




    Fri Mar 10 2000 08:08:04



    MARTHA GAIL FULTON - Shot to death
    Kevin Oulette, Donna Trapani, Sybil Padgett and Patrick Alexander - On trial for murder
    ROCHESTER HILLS, MI
    Rejection spurred murder plot (The Detroit News )
    For seven months Donna K. Trapani plotted ways to hang on to her ex-lover, including claiming to be pregnant and then terminally ill




    Thur Mar 9 2000 22:30:50



    ABNER LOUIMA, - sodomized with a broom
    Justin Volpe - sentenced Dec '99
    NEW YORK, NY
    Volpe appeals 30-year sentence -- (Boston.com)
    Former police officer Justin Volpe has appealed his 30-year sentence for torturing a handcuffed prisoner, arguing that it is excessive.

    REBBECA MIDDLETON, 17 - sexually assaulted and stabbed
    HAMILTON, Bermuda
    Public inquiry called into teen's murder -- (National Post)
    The governor of Bermuda yesterday announced he will call a public inquiry into the murder of a Belleville, Ont., teenager and the way the case was handled by the island's justice system.

    REENA VIRK, 14 - swarmed, beaten, drown
    Kelly Ellard, now 17 - on trial for 2nd degree murder
    VANCOUVER, B.C.
    Crown: Teen beat Reena Virk -- (Cnews)
    A jury trial opens today in Vancouver for the last of eight teenagers accused in the swarming death of 14-year-old Reena Virk. A 15-year-old girl told her classmates that she held Reena Virk's head under water until the girl drowned, a Crown prosecutor told court today.
    Case archive -- (Cnews)




    Thur Mar 9 2000 21:39:02



    Joseph C. Palczynski, 31 - extensive criminal record dating to 1988
    BALTIMORE, MD
    Residents wary as police hunt murder suspect -- (NJO News)
    Schoolchildren were kept indoors and residents locked their homes in a neighborhood just outside the city Thursday as police hunted for a man accused of killing four people in a two-day rampage.

    BRIDGEPORT, Conn
    Federal agent cleared of federal charges in shooting -- (Boston.com)
    The U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has ended its probe into the shooting death of an unarmed fugitive by an FBI agent, saying there was no evidence to support a federal criminal prosecution.

    Hector Jaiman, 24 - sentenced
    PROVIDENCE, R.I.
    Hector Jaiman sentenced to life in prison -- (Boston.com)
    A Providence man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the 1993 murder of 15-year-old Tommie DeGrafft.




    Thur Mar 9 2000 19:00:01



    Dennis 'Coolio' Moran, 17 - two counts of unauthorized access to a computer system
    CONCORD, N.H.
    Teen arrested on hacking charge -- (AP)
    Moran, a high school dropout with an equivalency degree, allegedly hacked into the Los Angeles Police Department Web site DARE.com twice in November and defaced it with pro-drug slogans and images, including one depicting Donald Duck with a hypodermic syringe in his arm.




    Thur Mar 9 2000 17:48:58



    ARTHUR `Bucky' BARRETT, 45 - took part in the infamous $1.5 million Depositor Trust Bank heist in 1980, disappeared in 1983.
    BOSTON, MA
    Family finally learns truth: Long-missing man was in alleged Mob grave -- (Boston Herald)
    Seventeen years ago, after warning his wife to leave their Quincy home, Arthur ``Bucky'' Barrett disappeared. His distraught family never knew exactly what had happened to him - until yesterday. The state medical examiner yesterday confirmed Barrett, who would have turned 63 on Tuesday, was one of the three victims dug out of a near-frozen Dorchester gravesite in January.
    Burglar caught in the web -- (Boston Globe)
    Yesterday, on his birthday, Barrett, who was 45 when he disappeared July 26, 1983, was positively identified through dental records as one of three victims unearthed in January from a gully alongside the Southeast Expressway in Dorchester.
    Second of three bodies identified -- (Boston Herald)




    Thur Mar 9 2000 17:33:18



    POLICE CHIEF ALFREDO DE LA TORRE - shot 57 times on Feb. 27
    TIJUANA, Mexico
    6 Arrested in Slaying of Tijuana Chief -- (LA Times)
    In a stunning announcement late Wednesday, authorities said they have arrested six suspects, including one current and some former police officers, in the ambush slaying of Tijuana Municipal Police Chief Alfredo de la Torre and the killings of 14 other people, some of them high-profile citizens.




    Thur Mar 9 2000 17:26:03



    LOS ANGELES, CA
    LAPD to Charge 15 Officers in Scandal -- (LA Times)
    Signaling his desire to begin cleaning house at the Los Angeles Police Department, Chief Bernard C. Parks is charging at least 15 officers swept up in the department's corruption scandal with misconduct, for which many could be fired, sources said Wednesday.




    Thur Mar 9 2000 17:19:20



    George Matos Rocha, 51 - pleaded guilty December to explosives charges and extortion
    WINSTON-SALEM, N.C
    N.C. Bomber Gets 40 years in Prison -- (Newsday)
    An electronics repairman who detonated bombs at two Lowe's Home Improvement Stores and tried to extort $250,000 from the chain was sentenced Thursday to more than 40 years in prison.

    PORTLAND, Ore.
    New bomb threat called in -- (Oregon Live)
    A third bomb threat in as many days was phoned in to the Umatilla Chemical Depot near Hermiston today, a day after a man who worked on a huge weapons incinerator at the site was arrested on suspicion of calling in one of the threats.

    John Bernard Koch II, - pleaded guilty
    CHARLOTTE, NC
    Suspect pleads to bomb charges -- ()
    More than two years after he carried a bomb into the Mecklenburg County Courthouse, a Rock Hill man pleaded guilty Wednesday to several federal charges in a plea agreement that could put him in prison for as long as 15 years.




    Thur Mar 9 2000 13:50:27



    found murdered in her parents home Dec. 1996. Parents John and Patsy Ramsey, remain 'under an umbrella of suspicion


    JONBENET RAMSEY, 6 - murdered, case related
    BOULDER, CO
    JonBenet Ramsey DA To Leave Office -- (Washington Post)
    Boulder County District Attorney Alex Hunter, often criticized for his handling of the unsolved JonBenet Ramsey slaying, announced Thursday he will leave office at the end of the year. "I think this case may well be resolved," he said, but added that it won't be any time soon. Hunter said he did everything he could with the evidence he had
    Prosecutor in JonBenet Murder to Quit After Term -- (Reuters)
    Boulder detectives interview therapist -- (Longmontfyi) A family doctor once treated her for what was described as a mild bladder infection, but the procedure actually involved surgical repair of genital injuries.



    Thur Mar 9 2000 13:37:04



    JESSICA RODRIGUEZ
    GAINESVILLE, Florida
    Missing Fla. Girl Found in Store --(AP) A 10-year-old girl was found alive at a department store today, three days after her mother reported that she had been abducted when she got off her school bus.



    Thur Mar 9 2000 11:40:39



    Maria Tarrago - charged with attempted murder
    MIAMI, FL
    Mom accused of setting daughter on fire over boyfriend -- (Trib.com)
    A woman has been charged with attempted murder after her 15-year-old daughter told authorities the woman doused her with gasoline and set her on fire because she didn't like the girl's boyfriend.

    John David Barnett, 37 - wanted on 27 felony charges
    COLUMBIA, S.C.
    Police suspect fugitive in second restaurant robbery -- (Sac Bee)
    Local police and agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been searching for John David Barnett, 37, of California, who is wanted in three states on charges of attempted murder, rape and kidnapping.

    PHILADELPHIA, PA
    Man, 20, guilty in rage killing -- (philly.com)
    Joseph Vasquez died trying to be a peacemaker during a road- rage incident in June 1997, said the prosecutor. He was shot to death by Hector "Pico" Huertos, 20, a member of a street gang called the Crazy Young Criminals, police said.




    Thur Mar 9 2000 11:34:49



    HELEN "Holly" MADDUX - murdered in the U.S.
    Ira Einhorn - convicted fugitive in France
    PHILADELPHIA, PA
    Come home -- (philly.com)
    We've beaten Ira Einhorn at one game: The Daily News yesterday collected more than six times as many petition signatures as the fugitive did. Our 324 signers want the old hippie sent back to Philadelphia.




    Thur Mar 9 2000 10:59:20



    KENNY KRAMER, 3 - murdered May 10, 1999
    Harold "Howie" Kramer, Jr., 27 - father on trial
    Preston, Minnesota
    FBI agent: Kramer knew details of child's death only the killer would know -- (Star-Tribune) Kramer is accused of leaving the boy duct-taped and in a plastic garbage bag in the woods as part of an effort to win back his estranged girlfriend.




    Thur Mar 9 2000 10:00:30



    BOSTON, MA
    Woodward Au Pair Agency Changing -- (Milwaukee Journal)
    The au pair agency that hired British teen-ager Louise Woodward is changing its training and supervision policies in light of her conviction for fatally shaking a baby.

    NORWALK, Conn
    Mother charged with arming 5-year-old and 7-year-old for walk from school -- (Boston Herald)
    - A 27-year-old woman is accused of arming her children with a hammer and screwdriver in an attempt to fend off bullies.

    MOUNT MORRIS TOWNSHIP, Mich.
    Mich. Boy May Get 90-Day Expulsion -- (Access Arizona)
    The 6-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting his first-grade classmate will be expelled for 90 days.

    MEMPHIS, Tenn
    Firefighter arrested in deadly ambush at house fire -- (The Intelligencer)
    The suspect is Fred Williams, a 41-year-old Memphis firefighter. He was wounded in the ambush and was in critical condition early today at a hospital. He was also under arrest.

    PITTSBURGH, PA
    Pa. Shooter Mental Evaluation Sought -- (Newsday)
    The attorney for a man accused of fatally shooting three people and wounding two others wants him evaluated for mental illness. James Ecker was expected today to ask a judge to transfer Ronald Taylor from the Allegheny County Jail to Mayview State Hospital in suburban Pittsburgh.




    Thur Mar 9 2000 08:00:21



    KANSAS CITY, Missouri
    Indictment says Vanover's aide among car-theft ring--(KC Star) Kansas City Chiefs kick returner Tamarick Vanover's personal assistant was among seven persons charged as part of a nationwide car-theft ring that specialized in BMWs, Lexuses and other luxury vehicles.




    Thur Mar 9 2000 07:58:13



    JESSICA ASHLYN RODRIGUEZ, 10 - abducted
    HIGH SPRINGS, Florida
    Family prays as search expands to the sky, roads--(Gainesville Sun) The search for a kidnapped fourth-grader continued Wednesday with state aircraft circling the area that she was taken from Monday afternoon.
    Few child abductions committed by strangers--(Gainesville Sun) The Monday afternoon kidnapping of Jessica Rodriguez has kindled worry among parents who wonder if it could happen to their child, but experts say such cases are relatively rare.
    Abduction of girl, 10, stirs fear in county--(SP Times) The kidnapping is one of the most severe crimes to occur in this quiet, rural Florida community.
    Country comfort broken by crime--(Gainesville Sun) Until Jessica was kidnapped, her neighbors didn't feel a need to lock their doors. It's not the sort of thing that is supposed to happen in Gilchrist County, a mostly agricultural region of 14,500 residents.



    Thur Mar 9 2000 07:20:10



    MARK THROOP, 38 - stabbed 50 times
    Dennis Summers - sentenced
    Scott Motley - to go on trial March 22
    COLUMBIA, Missouri
    Man sentenced to life in murder of Centralia nursing home administrator--(Digital Missourian) A Monroe City man was sentenced to life in prison in the murder of a Centralia nursing home administrator, after the Boone County prosecutor rejected a proposed plea agreement.




    Thur Mar 9 2000 03:48:27



    Joseph C. Palczynski, 31 - wanted
    BALTIMORE, MD
    4 Dead in Rampage -- (Washington Post)
    A man charged with shooting three people to death and abducting his 22-year-old girlfriend in eastern Baltimore County on Tuesday night continued a shooting rampage last night, killing one woman and wounding a child about five miles east of Baltimore, police said.




    Thur Mar 9 2000 03:41:40



    Rory E. Conde, 34 - enraged that female hooker was male
    MIAMI-DADE, FL
    Serial Killer Sentenced to Death -- (Miami Herald)
    Convinced that confessed serial killer Rory E. Conde was a cold, calculating and particularly heinous assassin, a judge sentenced him to death for the strangulation of one of his six victims. An automatic appeal and five more murder trials await Conde, a man defense lawyers describe as a doting dad who snapped after an inadvertent sexual encounter with a man.




    Thur Mar 9 2000 02:28:20


    BOULDER, Colo.
    Boulder police interview therapist--(The Daily Camera)
    Boulder police detectives met for more than an hour Wednesday with the therapist of a woman claiming to have information that could be related to the JonBenét Ramsey homicide investigation.



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