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Sun July 30 2000 11:25:30  BARRY GRUNOW, 35 - shot at point-blank range in the face Nathaniel Brazill, 13 - to be tried in adult court WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. When a child kills -- (Miami Herald) Nathaniel will be tried as an adult for the first-degree murder of his friend -- his English teacher, Barry Grunow. If convicted, Nathaniel will join 30 other people serving life sentences without parole in Florida for crimes committed when they were 14 or younger. Prosecutor gets tough with violent youths -- (Miami Herald) Palm Beach County prosecutor Barry Krischer is nothing if he's not controversial. Friend of the victim and the victim's family and foe to anyone who commits a felony, Krischer, 56, has earned a reputation for being tough on crime -- for some, too tough. Sun July 30 2000 11:06:19  perp and victim not identified LANCASTER, Mass. Teen arrested in abduction -- (Boston Herald) A 16-year-old boy was arrested yesterday and is expected to be charged with the kidnapping and attempted rape of a 10-year-old Lancaster girl who was abducted as she walked her dog Friday, according to media reports. METHUEN, Mass. Woman attacked while praying in Methuen -- (Boston Herald) A woman praying the rosary outside a Methuen hospital chapel was grabbed by a man, robbed and sexually assaulted, police said yesterday. As of yesterday, police had made no arrest and had few leads despite releasing a composite sketch of the alleged attacker. ORANGE, N.J. New probe sought in death of a man arrested in Orange -- (Bergen Record) Activists and relatives of Earl Faison have petitioned the state Attorney General's Office to reopen an investigation and file criminal charges against the five Orange police officers who stopped and beat Faison. Brandon Austin Lee Steele, 2 - died may '97 of abuse Leigh Ann Lucas - murder conviction overturned BREWTON, Ala. Ruling outrages family of slain boy -- (Alabama Live) Debra Freeman cried for hours on Friday. On Saturday, she cried some more. "I know the end of this story already," she said. "In Brewton, Alabama, you can murder somebody and get away with it." Derrick Lynch, 2 - murdered March 26 Andrew Lennon Johnson, 21 - in custody MIAMI, Fla. Suspect in boy's slaying jailed -- (Miami Herald) A man accused of killing an Overtown toddler in a botched drive-by shooting confessed to the murder Saturday morning after he was arrested near Miami Beach's South Pointe Park, police said. Sun July 30 2000 10:48:16  FLORES family - 4 dead, one injured Suspects, 16 and 17 - in custody Pico Rivera, California Communities Struggle to Cope With Brutal Slayings -- (LA Times) Pico Rivera, a middle-class suburb 11 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, was punctured by the fatal stabbings of four members of the Flores family and the wounding of another. Sun July 30 2000 10:40:46  Kenneth A. Gallipoli, 45 - wanted JACKSON, N.J. Police seek stabbing suspect -- (Ashbury Park Press) Township police are seeking the public's assistance in locating a state corrections officer charged with the attempted murder of his wife at their Butterfly Road home early Friday morning. John H. Craparotta, 35 - crushed, smothered Daryl Froriep - arrested TOMS RIVER, N.J. Man is charged in death of friend -- (Ashbury Park Press) A 45-year-old Dover Township man has been charged with the murder of his childhood friend after an evening of roughhousing and amicable insults turned deadly, authorities said. Vimalaben Patel - doused with mineral spirits and set ablaze Rameshbhai Patel - held on murder charge BANGOR TWP Husband ruled victim's home with heavy hand -- (Michigan Live) Vimalaben Patel lived in a world of dirty sheets and dingy motel rooms. Dressed in the ankle-length sari of her native India, she moved from room to room at the White Lake Motel in Bangor Township - dusting, vacuuming, changing sheets. Sat July 29 2000 21:49:24  FRANKFURT U.S. Soldier Pleads Guilty to Murder of Kosovo Girl -- (REUTERS) U.S. Staff Sergeant Frank Ronghi pleaded guilty late on Friday to the forcible sodomy and premeditated murder of an 11-year-old ethnic Albanian girl while on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo. Sat July 29 2000 21:15:43  PARMA, Ohio Man charged with trying to kill wife with bomb -- (UPI) As The Cleveland Plain Dealer tells it in Saturday's paper, Corinthian Snider was counting on his wife, Kara, lighting her customary cigarette when she awoke from her afternoon nap. The reason: Nearby was five feet of tubing connected to a homemade bomb, crafted from a one-pound propane gas tank. A little explosion, and no more Kara. Sat July 29 2000 21:05:45  CHICAGO, Ill. Chicago-area IRS workers suspended during bribery investigation -- (Fox) At least eight Internal Revenue Service employees have been suspended during an investigation into whether IRS workers took bribes in exchange for helping taxpayers with such things as halting collection actions and providing transcripts of accounts, according to published reports. Sat July 29 2000 19:43:34  Nancy Campbell-Panitz, 52 - found murdered after talk show appearance DETROIT, Mich. 'Jenny Jones' attorney to represent 'Springer' show victim's survivors -- (Sun Sentinel) Geoffrey Fieger said he will meet with Nancy Campbell-Panitz's sons Tuesday to discuss any grounds for a lawsuit perhaps against Springer's show or those behind it. Sat July 29 2000 19:40:48  Derrick Lynch, 2 - died from bullets to the head and heart MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Man arrested for drive-by killing of 2-year-old -- (Sun Sentinel) Police arrested a 21-year-old suspect Saturday in the slaying last March of a 2-year-old boy in a Miami drive-by shooting. Andrew Johnson was arrested at a park after witnesses told officers he was a murder suspect, Det. Al Boza said. Sat July 29 2000 19:37:16  Jamie Dean Petron - committed suicide during hostage taking BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. Police check hostage-taker's murder claims -- (Sun Sentinel) Sometime during the 51 hours last week that Jamie Dean Petron was holed up in a suburban Orlando home, he told hostage negotiators he was responsible for a half-dozen murders in Broward County. Deputy nearly bled to death -- (Orlando Sentinel) Deputy Scott Winters was taking his wife and mother-in-law to lunch a week ago when he was called to help locate a South Florida killer who fled to Orlando. Less than an hour later, Winters, 26, lay in the street bleeding heavily from a gunshot wound to his groin after exchanging gunfire with Jamie Dean Petron. Petron planned killing for weeks -- (Orlando Sentinel) Sat July 29 2000 18:11:34  CALIFORNIA STATE Execution witnesses get right to see it all -- (Arkansas Online) After a federal court ruling in California this week, witnesses and media there will no longer have to wonder what happens between the time a prisoner is led into the execution chamber and the time the deadly chemicals begin flowing. Sat July 29 2000 16:40:10  CAROL JENKINS, 21 - stabbed to death while selling encyclopedias Indianapolis, Indiana Phone call reopens 32-year-old murder case -- (MSNBC) Martinsville police may have a lead in a 32-year-old murder mystery. It’s a crime that hurt a family and a town’s reputation. Sat July 29 2000 14:47:09  VICTIM, 6 months - identity unknown Ruth Falero, 48 - sold baby Cherokee County, Georgia No sale on baby as Cherokee cops jail woman -- (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) A Cherokee County woman faces criminal charges for allegedly trying to sell a baby to an undercover officer. Sat July 29 2000 13:46:44  BRIDGEPORT, Conn. 52-year-old man stabbed to death in Bridgeport store -- (Boston.com) A 52-year-old city man was found stabbed to death Saturday in a convenience store. Police said robbery may have been the motive in the slaying of Juan Vasquez. BRAMPTON, Ont. Arrest in slaying of Peel teen -- (Toronto Sun) A young teen is in custody facing charges in yesterday's murder of an older teen stabbed in an area where youths had battled with bats and knives hours earlier. MALDEN, Mass. Man fatally stabbed at Malden bar -- (Boston Globe) Just before midnight, police found Robert Rogers, 20 of Medford on a sidewalk outside the bar, lying in a pool of blood. Wounded in the heart, he died shortly after at Massachusetts General Hospital, police said. HENNEPIN COUNTY, Minn. Blaine man killed; roommate arrested -- (Star Tribune) A Blaine man was fatally stabbed early Friday during an argument, and his 23-year-old roommate was arrested in their mobile home. An 8-year-old girl was in the home during the incident, authorities said. Sat July 29 2000 13:38:27  CLEVELAND, OH. Sheppard appeals wrongful imprisonment verdict -- (Boston.com) The son of Dr. Sam Sheppard has filed an appeal seeking to overturn a jury's ruling that his father could not be cleared of his mother's 1954 beating death. Sat July 29 2000 11:55:24  Wayne Adam Ford, 38 - indicted San Bernadino, California Grand jury indicts trucker charged with mutilation deaths of women -- (Sacramento Bee) A trucker carrying a severed woman's breast when he surrendered and confessed to a series of mutilation deaths was indicted for the murder of at least one woman in a move designed to expedite his trial. Sat July 29 2000 11:50:06  John Peral 24, - charges of kidnap and sodomy TURLOCK, Cal. 1 held in sex assault on boy -- (Mod Bee) Police arrested a Livingston man Thursday night in connection with the kidnap and sexual assault of an 11-year- old Turlock boy. PRICHARD, Ala. Man charged with trying to kill cop -- (Alabama Live) Jason Rowell, 23, of Eight Mile was charged with attempted murder and reckless driving in connection with an early Friday incident in which police said Rowell drove his car into Prichard police officer Felton Cooley. RICHARD BOURK, 27 - murder victim Darlene Bourk, 31 - found guilty RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Cal. Wife Convicted of Killing Man Found in Potting Soil -- (LA Times) A jury convicted a San Dimas woman on Friday of second-degree murder in the 1996 shooting of her husband, whose body was found stuffed in potting soil in an Upland storage unit. Sat July 29 2000 11:40:19  AUSTIN, Tex. State's DNA files lead to arrest of rape suspect -- (Austin American) Jerry Allen Johnson, 43, was arrested Thursday and charged with aggravated sexual assault and aggravated robbery. He was being held Friday on $150,000 bail. Sat July 29 2000 11:35:10  Larry P. Scott, 36 - attempted murder charge BOONE, Ia. Woman fights off ax attack -- (DM Register) Mary Eischeid, 38, of Ames suffered a skull fracture in the attack at Ledges State Park, southeast of Boone. Sat July 29 2000 11:31:33  SHELBY DUIS, 2 - no justice for Shelby Jesse Wendelsdorf - accused of beating and killing Spirit Lake toddler Storm Lake, Iowa Wendelsdorf acquitted of killing Shelby Duis -- (DM Register) Wendelsdorf lowered his head and walked past the crowd of television cameras and reporters without uttering a word. Murder verdict stuns many in Spirit Lake -- (DM Register) "Oh my gosh," said Cristene Rens, 45, upon hearing that Wendelsdorf had been set free on all counts. "With such a history of everything that's happened to that child? I think I'm going to be sick to my stomach." Advocate says justice denied to Shelby Duis -- (DM Register) "It is hard not to feel a little embarrassed right now to be living in this state," said Stephen Scott, executive director of Prevent Child Abuse Iowa. Child murders hard to prove -- (DM Register) "Adults can kill tiny children with their bare hands, so there's not a trail of evidence left behind," said Virginia Barchman, a prosecutor in the state attorney general's office. "The kind of physical evidence you have is not the same you would have if you could trace a murder weapon." Sat July 29 2000 11:15:55 John Edward Robinson, Sr. - alleged 'Slavemaster' serial killer Johnson County, Missouri Sixth murder charge filed against Robinson -- (KC Star) Murder suspect Robinson killed a teen-age mother in 1985 and brokered the phony adoption of her infant daughter, Johnson County prosecutors alleged Friday. Sat July 29 2000 10:49:39  VICTIM, 10 - survived abduction and assault Lancaster, Mass. Girl reportedly abducted from Lancaster -- (Boston Globe) The girl was reportedly snatched from near South Meadow Pond as she was walking her dog, police said. Cops hunt man for abduction, sex assault of young girl -- (Boston Herald) Police last night were looking for a man suspected of abducting a 10-year-old girl from a Lancaster pond yesterday, sexually assaulting her and leaving her for dead in a Leominster Dumpster. Sat July 29 2000 10:26:21  SHANA McINTYRE, 12 - dismembered and decapitated John Hefelfinger, 37 - family friend, confessed to murder Norfolk, Virginia Judge rules suspect's confession of killing girl can be used in trial -- (Virginia Pilot Online) Shanna McIntyre vanished from her home in the early morning hours of Aug. 11, 1999 while her mother and her mother's boyfriend were delivering newspapers. Sat July 29 2000 09:29:11  KATIE POIRIER, 19 - kidnapped, murdered Donald Blom, 51 - on trial VIRGINIA, Minn Tooth experts questioned aggressively at Blom trial -- (Star Tribune) Donald Blom's lead attorney pressed forensic dental experts Friday to explain their mistakes and reversals of opinion on their way to concluding that a tooth found in Blom's fire pit came from Katie Poirier. JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. Missing girl returned to camp; man jailed -- (Denver Post) Lakewood police have jailed a man who allegedly took an 11-year-old girl without her grandmother's permission and kept her for hours, sparking a widespread search. Fri July 28 2000 21:07:51  Mark Anthony Lewis, 33 - suspected in handcuffing, pistol-whipping and sexually assaulting 9 women CHICAGO, Ill. Suspect identified in series of attacks -- (Chicago Tribune) Chicago police this afternoon identified a suspect in a recent string of attacks on Asian-American women on the city's North Side and adjacent suburbs. But the man reportedly has fled the country. Fri July 28 2000 19:01:07  BURLINGTON, Vt. Jury convicts woman of child abuse -- (Boston.com) A former Richford woman faces up to 35 years in prison and a $25,000 fine after being convicted of sexually abusing two of her sons five years ago. After four days of testimony, it took the jury four hours to decide Elsie Oscarson, 40, was guilty of two counts of aggravated sexual assault. Fri July 28 2000 18:56:59  MARK ROWLAND, 36 - shot Daniel Ayer, 35 - convicted NASHUA, N.H. Ayer verdict: First degree murder -- (Nashua Telegraph) A Hillsborough County Superior Court jury found Daniel Ayer guilty of first-degree murder Friday morning for shooting a city social worker. Prosecution paints Ayer as executioner -- (Nashua Telegraph) Wife of murdered social worker calls killer the devil -- (Boston.com) Ayer Trial Archive -- (Nashua Telegraph) Fri July 28 2000 18:49:25  JACOB TOMBLIN, 4 - missing since 6 am Friday LOWELL, Mass. Police search Lowell and beyond for missing 4-year-old -- (Boston.com) A Lowell mother who says she put her son to bed Thursday night, woke up Friday, and discovered he was gone. Missing Lowell Boy Believed to be With Grandparents -- (WHDH-TV) video clip Fri July 28 2000 18:35:42  LOIS LIVINGSTON McMILLEN - body discovered Jan. 15 ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands Four witnesses testify at inquiry in death of Connecticut artist -- (Boston.com) Eleven witnesses have testified this week at an inquiry to determine whether four Americans should stand trial in the slaying of a Connecticut artist. Fri July 28 2000 18:27:31  PENSACOLA, Fla. Pensacola nursing homes deaths, attacks under investigation -- (TBO) The deaths of at least three patients shortly after being transferred from a state mental hospital and attacks by residents on each other are under investigation at a nursing home. Fri July 28 2000 18:25:23  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Ad exec convicted in car crash deaths of six to serve 15 years -- (TBO) "At least you will have time to reflect on your life," Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Edward Garrison told Robert Carratelli, who sobbed during the hearing, but showed no emotion when the judge sentenced him. "That luxury was not afforded to the lives of the six you snuffed out." |
