Nelson, New Zealand
Attack case shrouded in mystery -- (The Press) Every evening at precisely 6:30 Karen Hill delivered a home-cooked meal to her elderly neighbour. On Tuesday last week she was late.

Honolulu, Hawaii
Boy kidnapped during car theft -- (Honolulu Advertiser) Louie Lazo, wondering what was taking his wife so long shopping for Easter dinner yesterday, went to look for her inside the market and left 4-year-old Louie Jr. asleep in the back seat of his car.

Kowloon City, Hong Kong
Body wrapped in tablecloth -- (Hong Kong Standard) A woman was found dead and wrapped in a tablecloth inside the storeroom of a restaurant yesterday.

Bangkok, Thailand
Tourist police told to watch Centre Point -- (The Nation) Center Point has reportedly become a scene for teenage drug abuse while it is alleged commercial sex services are available within the complex.




Mon Apr 24 2000 09:03:20



Andre Rand - convicted in 1987 murder
New York
Jailed sex fiend suspected of slaying four children -- (NY Post) Cops have uncovered evidence they hope will prove that Rand is a serial killer.

REGINA THYRONE, 35 - last seen alive April 14, 2000
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Man arrested after missing woman's body found in forest -- (National Post) Walker found belongings: Suspect had been questioned earlier and released.

Rudolf Nyari, 64 - x-ray revealed bracelet in throat
Dublin, Ohio
Cops: Cough it up -- (Fox News) Thief tries to hide 9 1/2 carat bracelet by swallowing it.

DONNA FOOTE - remains found beneath rose bush
Roy Douglas Foote, 50 - suspect in mother's murder
Sapulpa, Oklahoma
Man wants another hearing on DNA evidence -- (MSNBC) Attorneys for a man who is a suspect in his mother’s 1976 disappearance in New Mexico say he should not have had blood, hair and saliva samples taken from him.

MIKE THOMAS - investigator
Los Angeles, California
Cyber sleuth catches crooks in webs of deceit -- (LA Times) District attorney's computer expert breaks passwords and cloaks to track child porn and other offenses.

PAUL JEFFREY GALE, 23 - possibly abducted by romantic rival
Greg Marcinski, 23 - suspect in custody
Florence, New Jersey
Kidnapping suspect to be moved to Kentucky -- (Philadelphia Enquirer) Every day, it is less likely that a computer consultant abducted from a local motel will be found alive, Police Sgt. Bruce Graham said on Sunday.



Sun Apr 23 2000 19:02:59



The Forgotten Children:
TERRELL PETERSON, 3 - murdered
CHRISTINA BASS, 7 weeks - questionable death
DREAHON MAINOR, 22 months - overdosed and strangled
Georgia
Justice undone: Bungled investigations let killers off -- (Access Atlanta) These three Georgia children, and many others, have something in common: a flawed investigation into their deaths.




Sun Apr 23 2000 18:52:01



Prokopyevsk, Russia
Russian thieves sacrifice lives for copper wire -- (Star-Tribune) In an epidemic that has led to 500 deaths from electric shock last year, thieves and pilferers, among them the desperately poor and homeless, and criminal gangs are shredding Russia's networks of electric transmission lines, communication cables and anything else that can be sold as scrap metal in a market that has surged tenfold to twentyfold in the past five years.



Sun Apr 23 2000 17:40:37



SUSAN RANDALL - beaten to death
Robert Breest - serving 40 years to life
Concord, New Hampshire
Evidence in murder trials kept for years just in case -- (Boston Globe) If convicted murderer Robert Breest is granted his request to reopen his 26-year-old case, authorities will know where to go to retrieve the evidence.




Sun Apr 23 2000 17:01:20



DEBI FARIS - behind Bill SB 1368
Sacramento, California
Mother strives to save unwanted babies -- (LA Times) Debi Faris has buried 'trash can' babies from across the state. She's behind bills to create a system for mothers to give up their newborns legally.



Sun Apr 23 2000 14:21:53



JOE REAVEY, 6 - body found in River Lee, July 1999
Nazeing, Essex, England
Boy's death still a mystery -- (Mercury News) The circumstances surrounding the death of a six-year-old Broxbourne boy in the River Lee have never fully come to light after a vital witness failed to come forward and help police with their inquiries.



Sun Apr 23 2000 13:43:06



New Delhi, India
Indian housewife beheads mother-in-law after quarrel -- (AFP) A housewife in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh allegedly beheaded her mother-in-law following a quarrel, the Press Trust of India reported.



Sun Apr 23 2000 13:07:43



Crime File - A Justice Story
New York
A Girl's Honor -- (New York Daily News) In view of the recent troubles involving New York City police, the accusation of a pretty 16-year-old girl that a powerful sergeant on the force had trampled on her virtue may seem tepid. But in Gotham's gaslight days of 1885, the sensational charge divided the populace into belligerent camps that involved the luminaries of the era.



Sun Apr 23 2000 12:40:38



CHRISTINA PIPKIN, 9 - last seen alive May 4, 1991
Robbie Dale Tubbs - on trial
Wynne, Arkansas
DNA test results may be key factort in trial's outcome -- (Democrat-Gazette) Robbie Dale Tubbs' fate hangs by a strand of short brown hair.



Sun Apr 23 2000 11:31:56



SAM STREINER - ex-cop turned private investigator
Miami, Florida
Hollywood private eye locates missing persons -- (The Herald) Licensed investigator Sam Streiner doesn't wear a London Fog raincoat and a wide-brimmed hat like the private eyes in the movies, but he does work to find missing people and solve crimes.




Sun Apr 23 2000 11:18:55



KEVIN SHIFFLETT, 8 - victim of random stabbing
Alexander, Virginia
Police release sketch -- (MSNBC) Police continue their hunt for the man responsible for the stabbing death of eight-year-old Kevin Shifflett, and circulated a sketch of the subject drawn from a witness account.



Sun Apr 23 2000 11:12:38



London, England
Dando namesake's mystery call -- (BBC) A namesake of murdered TV broadcaster Jill Dando has spoken of how a phone call she received months before the Crimewatch presenter was killed has changed her life.



Fri Apr 21 2000 16:51:48



NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON - murder victim
RON GOLDMAN - murder victim
O.J. Simpson - ordered to pay $33.5 million in civil trial
Los Angeles, California
O.J.'s phone bill fight -- (E! Online) O.J. Simpson is heading back to court. No, you're not experiencing a freakish flashback to 1996.



Fri Apr 21 2000 16:34:13



JONBENET RAMSEY, 6 - murdered in her home, Dec. 1996
Boulder, Colorado
Battling crime in media's glare -- (Modesto Bee) School shootings and beauty queen murders bring bedlam. And something worse: international media attention.




Fri Apr 21 2000 14:01:02



DEBORAH FIELDING, 31 -body found in park April 6, 2000
Orlando, Florida
Man spotted using slain woman's credit card -- (TBO - Florida) A man was videotaped using a slain woman's credit card at a downtown Orlando bank about nine hours after her body was found.



Fri Apr 21 2000 13:49:07



ALONDA WOODBERRY, 14 -last seen alive March 12, 2000
Scott Miller - arrested after a tip
Chicago, Illinois
Suspect charged in death of missing Chicago teen -- (Chicago Tribune) A West Side man was charged Thursday in the killing of a 14-year-old missing Austin girl whose burned body was found last month in a trash bin.



Fri Apr 21 2000 13:06:26



Cincinnati, Ohio
Solving old cases causes shock, relief -- (Cincinnati, Ohio) DNA tracking and other technological advances in police work have prompted the reopening of several old cases recently in Greater Cincinnati, but the cases of Mrs. Hoffmann of Greenhills and Mr. Houck of Clayton, Ga., are different. They were reopened in a simpler way: by the caller's apparent respect for the truth.




Fri Apr 21 2000 12:47:02



Chicago, Illinois
New push to monitor ‘bullet DNA’ -- (MSNBC) There is a controversial new call to require gun companies to record the 'bullet DNA', or ballistics, of every weapon they make.



Fri Apr 21 2000 12:31:46



KATIE POIRIER, 19 - abducted and murdered
Donald Blom, 51 - accused: confessed then recanted
Moose Lake, Minnesota
Blom asked about burning remains -- (Duluth News) Brothers-in-law say accused killer asked questions about burying a body in lye, setting fire to deer carcasses.



Fri Apr 21 2000 12:01:38



NATALIA MUJAHID, 3 - died of overdose
DARNIS MUJAHID, 1 - gravely ill
Taj Ali Mujahid, 24 - mother, charged with murder
Asad Mujahid, 27 - father, charged with manslaughter
Pendlebury, Manchester, England
Mother charged over child's death -- (BBC) The mother of a three-year-old girl who died from a suspected drugs overdose has been charged with murder.



Fri Apr 21 2000 09:23:44



COURTNEY DEMMI, 10 - put her concern for police dogs into action
Tampa, Florida
Tampa girl raising money to buy police dogs bulletproof vests -- (TBO-Florida) When a deputy sheriff was saved by his bulletproof vest earlier this month, 10-year-old Courtney Demmi became concerned as she watched news coverage of the search for the gunman.



Fri Apr 21 2000 09:17:43



CHIA YEN "Ann" HSU, 30 -abducted December 3, 1999
Rodney W. Bullock, 20 - remains in jail in lieu of bail
Collingswood, Philadelphia
Body found in river may end mystery -- (Philadelphia Inquirer) A body believed to be that of Chia Yen "Ann" Hsu was found yesterday in the Cooper River in Camden near where her alleged killer said he had dumped the 30-year-old Collingswood woman into the water alive in December.




Fri Apr 21 2000 00:12:45



GLENYS PLUMB - attacked with 12-inch knife
Robert Plumb, 56 - sentenced to four years
Manchester, England
Ex-smoker stabs wife who broke pact on quitting -- (The London Times) A husband who quit his 20-a-day smoking habit in a pact with his wife stabbed her after discovering that she was secretly lighting up in the back garden and at work.



Fri Apr 21 2000 00:00:38



Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania
Car pushed onto railroad tracks, two women, two children dead -- (Boston Globe) A woman fleeing her estranged boyfriend made a frantic cell phone call to a 911 dispatcher Thursday before her car was pushed into the path of a freight train by the car chasing her. The woman was killed, along with another woman and two children in the car.



Thur Apr 20 2000 17:07:41


ASHLEY FREEMAN, 16 - missing since Dec. 30, 1999
LAURIA BIBLE, 16 - missing since Dec. 30, 1999
Welch, Oklahoma
Search for missing girls continues -- (MSNBC) Nearly four months have passed since two teenage girls from Welch disappeared and there are still no signs of them.