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    Mon Apr 10 2000 23:51:00



    KINCHARLSA ANDERSON, 24 - 'intentional death'- autopsy
    Curtis Branch, 23, Robert Thompson, 36, and Jeffrey Sutton, 28 - arrested
    JACKSON, Miss
    Three hospital workers charged with murder in patient's death -- (Boston.com)
    Three workers at a state hospital have been charged with murder in the death of a patient who was restrained after punching a hospital worker in the face, Attorney General Mike Moore said Monday.

    NEW ORLEANS
    Man May Have Known Brother Had Raped -- (Wisconsin Online)
    A south Louisiana sheriff on Monday accused a man wrongly convicted of rape and imprisoned for 19 years of knowing that his own brother may have committed the crime. Clyde Charles was freed last year after a DNA test cleared him of the 1981 rape, but authorities believe they have enough evidence to book him with obstruction of justice, Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Jerry Larpenter said.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 22:22:23



    UGANDA
    Rise of a Cult -- (ABC NEWS)
    Leaders of a Ugandan cult blamed for the murders of 924 people wooed a Catholic priest who apparently got funds from California. Find out more details about the cult's orginins and its practices.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 22:04:47



    NEW YORK
    Study: Parents talking more with kids about drugs--(postnet)
    More parents are speaking frankly with their children about drugs, but many of them fear -- incorrectly -- that the message is not getting through, acccording to a study by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 21:20:00



    Mumia Abu-Jamal, - convicted of killing a police officer
    ANTIOCH, Ohio
    Officer's widow: Abu-Jamal a killer, not celebrity victim -- (Observer-Reporter)
    On April 29, while holding a picture of her murdered husband in her arms, Maureen Faulkner will listen to the taped rhetoric from the man charged, convicted and sentenced to die for ending the life of 25-year-old Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981.

    CYBERSPACE
    Mom Hunts Pedophiles On Internet -- (Washington Post)
    Nancy Casey--wife, mother of two and master seamstress--hunts Internet predators from the sewing room of a small Pennsylvania apartment .

    Abigail V. Caliboso, 19, Jose E. Ocampo, 18 - facing manslaughter and second-degree conspiracy charges
    HARRISONBURG, VA
    Va. Couple Accused Of Abandoning Infant -- (Washington Post)
    A James Madison University student and her boyfriend were behind bars last night, charged with abandoning their newborn daughter in a portable toilet at a construction site in Delaware, authorities said.

    WATERBURY, CT
    Woman arrested in slaying -- (Republican-American)
    A 23-year-old woman allegedly stabbed and killed her estranged lover early Sunday morning as he was gathering his belongings from her Violet Street apartment, police said. Police arrested Latoya Abney, soon after she stabbed Kirk McLeod, 23, of Pennsylvania.

    HARTLAND, WI
    Chmura arrested for alleged sexual assault -- (Freeman Online)
    Green Bay Packers tight end Mark Chmura was arrested and jailed in Waukesha County early today, police confirmed.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 18:59:03



    LONNIE "TED" BINION - murdered casino mogul
    Rick Tabish - charged with murder and theft
    Sandra Murphy - charged with murder and theft
    LAS VEGAS, NV
    Drug dealer testifies about his last delivery to Ted Binion -- (Court TV)
    The drug dealer who admits selling Ted Binion 12 balloons of tar heroin the night before his death took the stand Monday, without so much as a charge of possession against him.
    Several witnesses didn't think Binion was planning suicide -- (Las Vegas Sun)
    The mystery surrounding Ted Binion's death did not become any clearer Friday, but what became glaringly obvious is something changed drastically in the former casino owner's life the day before he died.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 18:54:21



    MARILYN SHEPPARD - murdered in 1954
    Dr. Sam Sheppard - served 10 years before aquittal
    Sam Reese Sheppard - seeking to clear father's name
    CLEVELAND, Ohio
    Closing arguments in Sheppard trial set for Tuesday -- (Court TV)
    Nowhere is the case that spawned "The Fugitive" television series more alive than the Cuyahoga County courthouse. This week, for a third time since the 30-year-old housewife was bludgeoned to death, a jury will pore over evidence and decide whether Sheppard was the victim of an enraged husband or a murderous intruder.
    Vindication for his father is purpose of Sheppard suit -- (Chicago Sun-Times)
    The trial is the climax of more than a decade of work by Sheppard to clear his father's name and solve his mother's murder.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 18:48:39



    WINNIPEG, Manitoba
    Assistant headmaster at former Anglican school faces more sex charges dating back 15 years -- (Cnews)
    A teacher and assistant headmaster at the former St. John's Cathedral Boy's School faces more charges of sexually interfering with students at the school about 15 years ago. Kenneth Mackinnon Mealey, 50, currently living in North Bay, Ont., has been charged with four counts of sexual assault and four counts of gross indecency.

    DAKOTA COUNTY, MN
    Junior high instructor pleads guilty to sex charge in incident involving student -- (Star-Tribune)
    Kristin Osterbauer 31, the junior high instructor who was charged with having sex with a 13-year-old student, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge on Monday as her trial began.

    BOTSWANA, South Africa
    Sexual Abuse Of Students Widespread - Report -- (Africa News)
    New research suggests 60 percent of secondary school students in Botswana are abused by their teachers - shocking figures anywhere, but particularly so in southern Africa's mot peaceful and admired country.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 15:16:49



    Dr. Kevin Ward - barred from any contact with patients
    NEWARK, N.J.
    N.J. Suspends Dentist's License -- (Las Vegas Sun)
    A state board Monday suspended the license of a dentist accused of holding five children down so hard while he worked on their teeth that he left them with broken bones and bruises.

    TUCSON, Ariz.
    Ariz. Teacher Wounded at School -- (Las Vegas Sun)
    A teacher who had been receiving threatening notes for several weeks was shot and wounded this morning in her classroom at a Tucson-area middle school.

    Const. Mike Ferguson - due for a court date today
    PINCHER CREEK, Alta.
    Mountie charged with murder -- (Cnews)
    A veteran RCMP constable has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a man who was shot last fall during an altercation in an RCMP holding cell.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 15:06:27



    BOSTON
    MA Museum IDs Allegedly Stolen Art -- (Newsday)
    Boston's Museum of Fine Arts posted photographs on its Web site Monday of seven paintings that may have been stolen from their rightful owners by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
    BERLIN
    Germany Launches Web Site for Stolen Nazi Art -- (Reuters)
    Germany launched an Internet Web site Monday listing thousands of works of art plundered by the Nazis from museums and victims during World War II. The Web site, www.lostart.de, includes unclaimed treasures amassed by Hitler for the lavish ``Fuehrer Museum'' he dreamed of building in the Austrian town of Linz near where he grew up.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 12:46:18



    DETROIT, Mich
    Detroit police: three bodies found along railroad tracks -- (Michigan Live)
    The bodies of three women were discovered along Conrail tracks this morning after a passenger on a train saw something suspicious, officials said.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 10:26:57



    PABLO PINEDA, 38 - shot execution style
    LOS INDIOS, Tex
    Mexican journalist slain, dumped across border -- (Nando)
    The body of a Mexican journalist was dumped across the border in Texas on Sunday as federal agents looked on.

    ST. LOUIS, MS
    Dennis Rabbitt reflects on why he committed series of rapes -- (Postnet)
    Rabbitt conducts his first interview with the press after he is sentenced to five more life prison terms, for raping and sodomizing 13 women and attempting to rape one other in the city of St. Louis.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 09:29:19



    KAREN KLAAS(Ex-wife of Bill Medley) - Raped and murdered
    MANHATTAN BEACH, CA
    Pop singer haunted by ex-wife's killing (Orange County (CA) Register )





    Mon Apr 10 2000 09:20:23



    Charlie White -Sentenced to four years in prison for unlawful imprisonment and second-degree child assault
    KENT, OH
    Father sentenced to 4 years in jail in abuse of daughter (Everett (WA) Herald )
    According to prosecutors, the daughter said her father and stepmother, Magdalena White, beat her with an electrical cord, tortured her with knives and imprisoned her from about November 1997 to May 13, 1999. The stepmother was sentenced to two years in prison in December.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 09:18:49



    Robert Blair - Convicted of murdering his wife and son in 1996
    MONTPELIER, VT
    N.H. murderer admits to murders in Vermont (Nashua (NH) Telegraph )
    A man in prison for murdering his family in New Hampshire claims he killed two people in Rutland 17 years ago.

    Laurie Cousino - Shot to death by police
    DALLAS, TX
    Woman who pointed gun at officers fatally shot, police say (Dallas (TX) Morning News-Metro )
    A Plano woman who had several run-ins with Frisco police in recent years was shot and killed by a police officer early Sunday after pointing a gun at officers, officials said.

    AMY BLUMBERG - Shot to death
    O'FALLON, IL
    Apparent lack of motive makes woman's slaying harder to solve Amy Blumberg's killer was likely a stranger, police say (St. Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch )
    Authorities launched an extensive investigation involving more than 200 interviews, a reward that has grown to $18,600 and an FBI work-up of the case. Yet the crime remains unsolved -- the first unsolved homicide in O'Fallon in 20 years.

    VILLA-RECENDIZ - Stabbed
    Gina Gasca - Shot to death
    NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FL
    Shooting fatality couples with stabbing in deadly 'love triangle' (Daytona Beach (FL) News-Journal )
    One man was fatally shot and another stabbed several times Sunday in what Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Judy Edwards called a "love triangle turned deadly."

    SANDRA LEE JACKSON - Predicted her own death
    PITTSBURGH, PA
    Brother claims woman knew she would be killed (Greensburg (PA) Tribune-Review )
    "She told us we're gonna find her in the gutter on the side of the road, and that's exactly what happened, ain't it? If someone told you for months that something was gonna happen, and it ended up happening, what would you think?

    Hadden Clark - Convicted serial killer
    MERIDEN, CT
    Serial killer fails to lead cops to victim (New Haven (CT) Register )
    Convicted serial killer Hadden Clark claims to have murdered someone in Connecticut, but police who searched two undisclosed locations Sunday were unable to determine if it is a grim reality or just a sick fantasy.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 09:12:38



    BRIAN BLUNT(5) - Died of cerebral injuries and head trauma
    Judith N. Madourie - Sentenced to 25 years in prison
    NORTHBROOK, IL
    Officials call 5-year-old boy's death homicide (Arlington Heights (IL) Daily Herald )
    The death of a 5-year-old Northbrook boy, who was left blind and brain-damaged by the abuse in December 1994, was ruled a homicide Sunday by the Cook County medical examiner's office.

    RIPON, CA
    Baby found dead in canal near Ripon (Modesto (CA) Bee )
    A couple out for a walk found the unclothed body of a newborn girl floating in an irrigation canal east of here Saturday morning.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 08:59:12



    XIANA FAIRCHILD, 7 - Still missing
    VALLEJO, California
    A special volunteer for Xiana -- (Vallejo Times-Herald)
    Danelle Herran embodies volunteerism.The 21-year-old leaves her San Francisco home every Saturday at 2 a.m.She makes her way toward a city bus stop and catches a ride through the early morning darkness to a nearly vacant Greyhound station. There, she connects with yet another bus enroute to Vallejo.



    Mon Apr 10 2000 08:39:48



    JONBENET RAMSEY - Unsolved murder since 1996
    Cops Bugged Jonbenet's Grave Site (New York (NY) Post )
    Cops were so desperate to prove that John and Patsy Ramsey killed their 6-year-old beauty-queen daughter, they bugged a cemetery, hoping for a graveside confession, a detective has revealed.
    JonBenet's grave 'bugged' (Denver (CO) Post )
    JonBenet's Mother Was Killer, Detective Says (New York (NY) Times-National )
    Thomas: Ramseys were target of stakeouts (The Daily Camera ) Police, DA to meet today to discuss Ramseys' polygraph offer.
    JonBenet burial plot bugged (Inside Denver ) Ex-Boulder detective's book says police hoped to record killer's graveside confession.
    Book lays blame on Patsy (Denver Post ) On Dec. 26, 1996, John Ramsey "woke up a completely innocent man, a deer in the headlights," a former Boulder detective believes.
    Governor must act (Denver Post ) Gov. Bill Owens needs, more than anyone on Earth, to read the book written by Detective Steve Thomas.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 08:19:37



    Jeffrey Corbett - charged with seven counts of sexual battery involving five female inmates
    STRYKER, OH
    Special report: Silence, fear let sexual predator prowl jail cells (Toledo (OH) Blade )
    Right before lunch, a Toledo woman made a quick but frantic plea to a guard at the five-county regional jail.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 08:09:24



    VICKI ROBINSON, 49 - Murdered
    Valessa Robinson, 17 - First degree murder trial starts today
    Mad love -- (St. Petersburg Times)
    The dust had barely begun to settle when the law split them up. Valessa Robinson, Adam Davis and Jon Whispel were handcuffed and lying on their stomachs along a ragged two-lane road in Texas, trying to keep their faces out of the dirt. Beside them was Vicki Robinson's green minivan, its tires shot out.




    Mon Apr 10 2000 00:10:17



    Pennsylvania
    The neighborhood watch is moving to cyberspace
    The Washington Post - article
    Posse hunts pedophiles on Internet--(Msnbc)
    One man knew her as Noel, a 14-year-old born on Christmas Day who sang in her school chorus and called herself a born troublemaker. To another she was Angie, a cheerleader with a brand new driver's license and a little sister who twirls baton. A third man thought she was Sabrina, a 15-year-old blonde who used the computer name Satin Witch. But she's really a 45-year-old housewife. And talking to her led to the arrest of all three men.





    Mon Apr 10 2000 00:06:48



    SIDNEY, Ohio
    Hensley: 'I turned into something I couldn't control' -- (AP)
    Veronica Eagy never got to testify at the murder trial of Michael Lensley. But police interviews of witnesses and other evidence released recently by the prosecutor's office help illuminate how Hensley, a man bedeviled by sexual compulsions, drew his small-town confidants into his life as it was careening out of control.




    Sun Apr 9 2000 23:51:21



    JESSICA RODRIGUEZ, 9 - Abducted and then released
    TRENTON, Florida
    County thanks those assisting in search for Jessica -- (Ganiesville Sun)
    The county sheriff who worked around the clock last month to help solve the Jessica Rodriguez kidnapping case finally broke down publicly Saturday afternoon.




    Sun Apr 9 2000 23:42:14



    SPOKANE and DENVER
    Cult remnant still believes 22 years later; Murder-suicides in Salt Lake City didn't finish Family of David -- (Spokane,net)
    Rachel David marched her seven children to an 11th-floor balcony of a Salt Lake City hotel in 1978. One by one, she threw or coaxed them over the railing. Then she jumped. Three days earlier, her husband, Immanuel David, who believed he was God, killed himself because the FBI was investigating his cult. About a dozen members of the Family of David in Spokane and Denver.



    Sun Apr 9 2000 23:23:18



    MICHELE DORR, 6 - Murdered in 1986
    LAURA HOUGHTELING, 23 - Murdered in 1992
    Hadden Clark, 47 - Serving 60 years for the murders of Michele Dorr and Laura Houghteling
    MERIDEN, Conn.
    Serial killer leads Connecticut police on another fruitless search -- (AP)
    A convicted serial killer was brought to Connecticut this weekend but was unable to find the location where he claims to have buried a victim about 20 years ago.
    Police Take Convicted Killer Hadden Clark on Search for More Bodies -- (Washington Post)
    Convicted murderer Hadden Clark was taken from a Maryland prison to Connecticut yesterday to help police there and in two other states search for the bodies of four young women he claims to have killed, authorities said.



    Sun Apr 9 2000 22:57:50



    SIDNEY, Ohio
    The Way International's president accused in lawsuit of forcing sex -- (AP)
    Two former members are suing the religious organization The Way International, accusing its president of forcing one of them into a sexual relationship.




    Sun Apr 9 2000 22:49:16
    AUSTIN, TEXAS
    Bonfire Probe Winding Down--(dailynews)
    The investigation into last fall's deadly A&M bonfire collapse is close to wrapping up. The commission looking into the collapse has examined thousands of documents and conducted hundreds of interviews.



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