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    Thur Apr 6 2000 17:29:41



    PHILADELPHIA, PA
    A cry for help that went unheeded -- (Philadelphia Inquirer)
    In 1996, a girl, 8, said she was raped at her baby-sitter's. Only now is a city man charged in that case and another.Prosecutors say the Kensington man repeatedly raped and sodomized two girls whom his wife was baby-sitting at their rowhouse. He allegedly employed a plastic baseball bat on one occasion.




    Thur Apr 6 2000 17:25:41



    JENNIFER BUSH - former victim of Munchausen's by Proxy
    Kathy Bush - convicted
    Miami, Florida
    Mom to give up parental rights -- (Miami Herald) Plan will give custody of girl to mother's Illinois cousins.



    Thur Apr 6 2000 16:51:50



    MARILYN SHEPPARD - murdered in 1954
    Dr. Sam Sheppard - convicted, later aquitted
    Sam Reese Sheppard - initiated civil trial
    The state rests in Sheppard civil trial -- (UPI) Lawyers for the estate of the late Dr. Sam Sheppard presented rebuttal evidence Thursday, focusing on a blood-stained watch worn by the suburban Cleveland osteopathic surgeon the night his wife was slain.



    Thur Apr 6 2000 16:46:59



    Anthony Cook, 51 - serial killer
    Nathaniel Cook, 42 - serial killer
    Toledo, Ohio
    Man admits to role in nine slayings; brother admits in three -- (Cleveland Live) Two brothers admitted Thursday to being involved in a killing spree more than 20 years ago that left nine people dead and terrorized Toledo during the early 1980s.
    Old slayings -- (Cleveland Live) List of people killed during Anthony and Nathaniel Cook's crime spree in Toledo.



    Thur Apr 6 2000 16:34:30



    Anthony Cook, 52, and Nathaniel Cook, 42 - confessed, plea agreement
    TOLEDO, Ohio
    Man admits to role in nine slayings; brother admits to three -- (Boston.com)
    A man admitted Thursday to being involved in a string of nine killings in Toledo during the 1970s and early 1980s, and his brother acknowledged taking part in three of them.

    APPLE VALLEY, Cal
    Pastor allegedly starved baby to death -- (MSNBC)
    42-year-old pastor Mark Boesch and Janet Boesch, 39, were arrested Wednesday by Victorville sheriffs for the starvation death of their 5-month-old child.




    Thur Apr 6 2000 13:05:46



    PASADENA, California
    6 Plead Not Guilty in Boy's Kidnapping -- (LA Times)
    Six people pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony kidnapping charges in the abduction of a 3-year-old San Marino boy. Their bail was set at $1 million.
    6 plea innocent to child kidnapping -- (KNBC TV) Six people pleaded innocent today to charges that they kidnapped a 3-year-old San Marino boy and held him for more than two weeks while demanding $1.5 million in ransom from his parents.
    Watch NBC4's report and excerpts from the FBI conference




    Thur Apr 6 2000 11:51:28



    SABRINA AISENBERG - Still missing
    Steve and Marlene Aisenberg - Face July 2000 trial
    TAMPA, Florida
    Aisenberg lawyers say officers lied to judge -- (St. Petersburg Times)
    A neighbor of Steven and Marlene Aisenberg's reported hearing a baby's cry the morning the couple said their daughter Sabrina was kidnapped, according to a motion filed Wednesday by the Aisenbergs' defense attorneys.



    Thur Apr 6 2000 10:55:37



    Dr. Kevin Ward, license revoked temporarily
    UNION CITY, New Jersey
    Dental Horror--(ABC News)--A New Jersey dentist had his license yanked temporarily and could lose the right to practice altogether for allegedly breaking the bones and bruising some of the children he treated



    Thur Apr 6 2000 10:34:33



    ALICE SIN, 21 - murdered
    Raymond Wong, 28 - primary suspect
    SAN FRANCISCO, Cal
    Wong released from jail after posting $500,000 bail -- (Contra Costa)
    The boyfriend of a slain Pinole woman was released from jail Wednesday after posting $500,000 bail on federal child pornography charges.




    Thur Apr 6 2000 10:27:49



    ASHEVILLE, NC
    Jury takes only 25 minutes to convict man of animal cruelty -- (Asheville Citizen)
    A Fairview man was found guilty Tuesday in Buncombe County's first felony animal cruelty case that local animal lovers say will send a message that harming animals can cost you your civil rights. As a convicted felon, James Sandlin won't be able to vote, hold professional certificates or own a gun.

    MOBILE, Ala
    3 men face charges of beating puppy -- (Alabama Live)
    The trial of three Coden men accused of beating a puppy almost to death last September began this week in Mobile County District Court but was postponed until April 18 because all of the witnesses were not available.




    Thur Apr 6 2000 10:21:53



    LOS ANGELES, Cal.
    Suspect Sought in Freeway Shooting -- (LA Times)
    Authorities were searching Wednesday for the man who shot a 2-year-old girl on the Pomona Freeway in a case of apparent road rage.
    Baby shot in road rage attack -- (MSNBC)

    ROANOKE, Vir.
    Vinton man charged in possible road rage case -- (Roanoke Times)
    William Simmons thought the driver in front of him was in trouble. He didn't think he soon would be. But such was the case in what he called a road rage incident in Roanoke on Tuesday afternoon.




    Thur Apr 6 2000 10:12:10



    SYDNEY, Australia
    DNA test for town's male population after 91-year-old raped -- (AFP)
    Every man and boy in a small Australian town has been asked to undergo DNA saliva testing after a 91-year-old woman was raped. Elderly people in the New South Wales town of Wee Waa had been living in fear since the woman was beaten and raped in her bed on New Year's Eve 1998.

    MIDFIELD, Ala
    Lawyer Plans Insanity Defense Based on Viagra Use -- (Fox)
    An attorney for a man charged with rape says he will base an insanity defense on his client's use of Viagra, the popular anti-impotence medicine. Will Wright, 42, is charged with raping and sodomizing the 19-year-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend.

    SUMMERDALE, Ala
    City worker charged with raping girls -- (Alabama Live)
    Glenn Dale Summers, 33, a maintenance man for the city of Gulf Shores Parks and Recreation Department, has been charged with raping the two young daughters of a female friend who was staying at his Summerdale home last weekend.

    GUELPH, Ont
    Serial rape charges -- (Ottawa Sun)
    A man currently in prison for dangerous driving now faces 20 charges linked to a series of rapes in southwestern Ontario.

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla
    N. Lauderdale man held in rape of runaway teen -- (Miami Herald)
    Police charged a North Lauderdale man with raping a 13-year-old runaway girl after he allegedly forced the girl into his car Tuesday afternoon and took her to his home. Herve Adrian Lanoue, 31, was charged with sexual battery of a minor, kidnapping and battery.




    Thur Apr 6 2000 09:33:57



    Woodland, California
    Teachers accused of giving out test -- (Washington Post/AP) Eight high school teachers have been accused of sharing a standardized state test with students preparing to take the exam.



    Thur Apr 6 2000 08:44:54



    Michele Pauley - Charged with credit card theft to pay for girlfriend's breasts
    ELYRIA , OH
    Man heads to trial in theft, breast case (Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer)
    After telling his story to talk-show hosts, Michael Copp wants to tell it to a jury to clear his name. Copp of Sheffield Lake pleaded guilty last year to a charge of stealing his mom’s credit card to pay for his girlfriend’s breast enlargements.



    Thur Apr 6 2000 08:42:06



    JONBENET RAMSEY, 6 - unsolved murder
    Boulder, Colorado
    Two candidates discuss Ramsey case -- (Daily Camera) Trip DeMuth and Mary Keenan are legally barred from talking about the case.
    DA candidates disagree over conviction records -- (Daily Camera) Ben Thompson and Mary Keenan trade accusations.
    Bringing up the dead -- (Philadelphia Daily) We can stop helping TV exploit slain kids.



    Thur Apr 6 2000 08:25:10



    DR. HENRY LEE - world-renowned forensics expert
    Hartford, Connecticut
    Lee stepping down as public safety commissioner and head of crime lab -- (Boston Globe) State Public Safety Commissioner Henry Lee says he plans to retire July 1 in order to spend more time investigating unsolved murders as a forensic scientist.



    Thur Apr 6 2000 07:55:18



    BRUCE MARTIN - Killed by shotgun blast to the head
    Jeremy Dean Martin - On trial for murder
    VANCLEAVE, MS
    Murder tale unfolds,grows more bizarre (Biloxi (MS) Sun Herald )
    Bruce Martin's actions suggest he believed in his son, Jeremy. When the teen-ager got into trouble, his father paid the legal costs. When the boy needed a place to stay, his father provided it. But Martin, some say, was afraid that his son would fall in with the wrong crowd and come to no good.

    Aileen Wuornos - Convicted serial killer
    DAYTONA BEACH, FL
    Serial killer appeals conviction for Daytona Beach murder (Daytona Beach (FL) News-Journal )
    Convicted serial killer Aileen Wuornos endured an upbringing marred by verbal and physical abuse, according to childhood friends who testified in court Wednesday.

    BRENNAN DOUGHERTY(3 MO) -Killed
    Jared Dougherty - On trial for the murder of his son
    LARGO, FL
    Trial begins for father accused of murder (St. Petersburg (FL) Times )
    Prosecutors say he slammed his 3-month-old son against a floor, killing him. He could face the death penalty.




    Thur Apr 6 2000 07:53:55



    LYNN HARPER(12)-Murdered
    Steven Truscott(14 at time of murder) - Sentenced to life for murder he says he never commited
    Sgt. Alexander Kalichuk - Suspect in murder
    LONDON, ONT.
    Link to more murders probed (Canada-Toronto Sun )
    The man who may have been the real killer in the case for which Steven Truscott served a life term is being probed in two other unsolved murders in southwestern Ontario
    Sergeant Prime Suspect In Two Cold Murder Cases (Canada-Vancouver Sun-National )




    Thur Apr 6 2000 07:52:30

    Columbine School Shootings
    LITTLETON, CO
    In Littleton, Life Goes On One Year After Killing Spree (Fox News )
    At 11:21 a.m. on April 20, the state of Colorado will observe a moment of silence for the victims of last year's massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton.




    Thur Apr 6 2000 07:41:57



    KEDRA WASHINGTON, LYNETTE WASHINGTON, KEISHA RENELLE WASHINGTON and NICHOLAS WASHINGTON(4) - Shot to death
    BATON ROUGE, LA
    Four found murdered in north Baton Rouge (NOLA Live (LA) )
    Four people -- a man, two women and one of the women's young sons -- were found shot to death in a north Baton Rouge home early Wednesday, but police made no arrests immediately and suggested no motive.




    Thur Apr 6 2000 05:01:22



    PASADENA, California
    Six Alleged Kidnappers Plead Innocent -- (Channel 2000)
    Six people pleaded innocent Wednesday to charges that they kidnapped a 3-year-old boy and held him for more than two weeks while demanding $1.5 million in ransom from his parents.




    Thur Apr 6 2000 03:42:50



    DENVER, Colorado
    Social worker charged as accessory in abuse of daughter -- (Rocky Mountain News)
    A Denver woman who worked with sexually abused children is charged with being an accessory to the abuse of her own daughter.




    Thur Apr 6 2000 02:08:38



    JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri
    Bill would restore Missouri law against sex with animals -- (St.Louis Post-Dispatch)
    Having no law that prohibits bestiality "makes us look like some kind of backward hillbilly state," The bill was sparked by a story in the Riverfront Times last fall about a southwest Missouri man's sexual relationship with a horse.




    Thur Apr 6 2000 01:47:17



    PAMELA BUTLER, 10 - Kidnapped, sexually abused and killed
    Keith D. Nelson - Faces death penalty
    KANSAS CITY
    Defendant to face death penalty in abduction, killing -- (The Kansas City Star)
    Keith D. Nelson will be fighting for his life when he goes on trial next fall in the death of 10-year-old Pamela Butler.





    Wed Apr 5 2000 23:41:28



    KAYLA McKEAN, 6 - Beaten to death
    Richard Adams, 26 - Murder trial starts May 1, 2000
    TAVARES, Florida
    Kayla's Dad Could Still Face Death Sentence -- (WESH TV)
    Accused child killer Richard Adams may still get the death penalty for killing his daughter Kayla, despite the fact that he has pleaded guilty.



    Wed Apr 5 2000 23:30:48



    Aileen Wuornos - Convicted serial killer on Death Row
    VOLUSIA COUNTY, Florida
    Wuornos' Attorneys Want New Trial; Will Present Evidence This Week -- (WESH TV) Attorneys for convicted serial killer Aileen Wuornos are trying to get her a new trial in Volusia County.




    Wed Apr 5 2000 23:22:34



    BENITO PEREZ, 3 - Found in lake
    SEBRING, Florida
    Missing Sebring Boy Found Dead -- (WESH TV)
    The body of a 3-year-old boy who disappeared at a lakeside park was found by a television news helicopter Wednesday afternoon.
    Boy's Body Found in Lake -- (TBO.com)



    Wed Apr 5 2000 23:14:17



    TINESHA BOST, 17 - Murdered while pregnant with Graham's child
    Charles Francis Graham, 27 - Death penalty sought
    CHARLOTTE, NC
    Death penalty sought in killing of pregnant teen
    Mecklenburg prosecutors announced Tuesday they will seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend.




    Wed Apr 5 2000 22:49:04



    ORLANDO, Florida
    Wiccan priestess says she was stalked -- (The Orlando Sentinel)
    John Henry Bernard Bosch, 51, is on trial in federal court in Orlando charged with interstate stalking -- a landmark case in Florida.




    Wed Apr 5 2000 22:32:34



    WASHINGTON, DC
    In two languages, Senate panel hears how women became sex slaves -- (AP)
    First, the story was told in Russian by two women who were tricked into lives of forced sexual slavery. Then, a Mexican woman described how her search for a better life unwittingly led her into a life in a brothel.




    Wed Apr 5 2000 22:22:05


    GIG HARBOR, Washington
    Babies behind bars: Prison keeps mothers, children together -- (The Seattle Times)
    Shauna Beals bundles her daughter in a fuzzy pink snowsuit, plops her in a stroller and pushes her into the gray-flannel morning. The stroller wheels thrum along a razor-wire fence, under the watch of the guard tower, to the day-care center.


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