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Fri Jan 19 2001 17:28:06  Woodbridge, Virginia FBI Technician Is Charged With Possessing Child Porn -- (Washington Post) An FBI technician was arrested yesterday on a child pornography charge after authorities discovered sexually explicit materials on a laptop computer he kept at his desk at FBI headquarters, prosecutors said. Ricardo F. Villanueva, a video communication specialist, was ordered held without bond. Fri Jan 19 2001 16:13:56  Carol Neulander - murder-for-hire victim Rabbi Fred J. Neulander - eligible for the death penalty if he is convicted Camden, New Jersey Judge sets tentative trial date for accused rabbi -- (Boston.com) Although she has not ruled where it will be held, a judge Friday set a tentative date of Sept. 10 for the trial of a prominent Cherry Hill rabbi accused of arranging his wife's killing. Fri Jan 19 2001 16:01:59  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Telecast of McVeigh Execution Mulled -- (Las Vegas Sun) Federal officials are considering a closed-circuit telecast of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's execution because of the large number of victims and relatives who might want to watch him die. Fri Jan 19 2001 15:37:42  Omaha, Nebraska Wal-Mart backed for firing employee who turned in photos of abuse -- (The Intelligencer) A Wal-Mart store did nothing wrong in firing an employee who gave a customer's photographs indicating child abuse to police, a federal jury ruled. Fri Jan 19 2001 15:17:29  HELEN GILLEN, 25 - murdered in 1992 James Gillin, 53 - sentenced Uniontown, Pennsylvania Man convicted in daughter's death -- (Newsday) A man who stomped his mentally retarded adopted daughter to death and burned the body in a pit was sentenced to life in prison Friday. Fri Jan 19 2001 14:58:45  CHERICA ADAMS - died of gun wounds Rae Carruth - murder trial ends Charlotte, North Carolina NFL player convicted of conspiracy in girlfriend's slaying -- (Postnet) Former NFL player Rae Carruth was acquitted of first-degree murder but convicted of conspiracy Friday in the slaying of his pregnant girlfriend. Fri Jan 19 2001 12:53:50  Sean "Puffy" Combs - charges stem from nightclub shootings New York Huffy over Puff's lead counsel -- (NY Daily News) Compared with his lawyer, Sean 'Puffy' Combs was just another pretty face in court yesterday, potential jurors in his gun and bribery trial said. O.J.'s shadow hangs over Puffy trial jury selection -- (NY Post) The Sean 'Puffy' Combs gun case seemed almost to gain a fourth co-defendant yesterday - O.J. Simpson. Fri Jan 19 2001 12:16:00  Bayonee, New Jersey 78-year-old woman charged with bank robbery -- (WABC-TV) Police say a 78-year-old woman robbed a bank Thursday afternoon, walked a few blocks, then calmly sat down on the steps of a nursery school, where she was arrested. Fri Jan 19 2001 10:51:20  WILLIAM EXUM, 39 - slain March 21, 1999 Carolyn Ann Exum, 36 - spared death sentence by plea agreement Allen Daniel Browning, 36 - pleaded guilty, testified against lover Gresham, Oregon Woman details role in killing of her husband -- (The Oregonian) A former church preschool teacher admitted in court Thursday that she had her lover bludgeon her husband to death last year so they could be together. Fri Jan 19 2001 08:49:25  ABBY DROVER, 38 - victim of horrific 1976 kidnapping Donald Hay - seeking parole British Columbia, Canada Abby Drover speaks out as her abductor seeks parole -- (Vancouver Sun) Nearly 25 years ago, Abby Drover emerged ghost-like into the arms of stunned police officers after being confined for 181 days in the dank underground bunker of a sadistic Port Moody pedophile. Fri Jan 19 2001 08:17:10 PEGYE BECHLER, 38 - drowning alleged to be murder Eric Bechler, 33 - denied guilt despite confession Santa Ana, California Accused murderer sticks to sex and drugs defense -- (CH2000) A Newport Beach man on trial for the alleged murder of his triathlete wife was adamant, during testimony Thursday, about his innocence. Fri Jan 19 2001 08:12:15  ALICIA VERSLUIS, 3 - missing and presumed dead Simona Denise Demery, 20 and Jeffery Jones, 25 - charged with murder Pomona, California Police search for girl who has been missing since last May -- (abc7) Police investigators searched today near an unpaved road in Pomona for the body of a 3-year-old girl missing since last May, and whose mother and live-in boyfriend are charged with her murder. Thur Jan 18 2001 22:14:59  Albany, New York State sues town police alleging stops for sex, dates -- (Boston.com) The state on Thursday accused a small town of having several rogue police officers who repeatedly menaced, intimidated and sexually harassed citizens including several 16-year-old girls. Thur Jan 18 2001 22:11:00  Hilton Head Island, North Carolina Teen says she cooperated in killing to spare lives of siblings -- (Boston.com) Sarah Nickel testified at her murder trial Thursday that she cooperated with two teen-age boys who killed her mother in order to save the lives of her two younger siblings. Nickel, 17, is charged in the Oct. 20, 1999, beating and stabbing murder of her mother, Nell Davis, 36, of Okatie. Nickel faces life in prison if convicted. Thur Jan 18 2001 22:04:15 Irving, Texas Reward grows to $500,000 -- (Dallas Morning News) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms on Thursday increased the reward to $500,000 for information leading to the capture of the seven Texas prison escapees accused of killing an Irving police officer. Thur Jan 18 2001 21:42:53  Vancouver, British Columbia Woman held for six months, sexually assaulted as child speaks for kid victims -- (Cnews) A woman who as a child was abducted, held for six months in an underground dungeon and sexually assaulted spoke publicly Thursday on the eve of her captor's parole hearing. Abby Drover said she was moved to go public by a spate of recent attempted abductions of children in the Vancouver area. Drover was 12 years old in 1976 when Donald Hay, a neighbour in suburban Port Moody, kidnapped her and confined her in a tiny room under his garage. She was held for 181 days and repeatedly sexually abused before she was rescued. Thur Jan 18 2001 21:39:33  Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Latimer begins minimum 10 years in prison, but mercy-killing debate goes on -- (Ottawa Citizen) After more than seven years and two trips to the highest court in the land, Robert Latimer's legal fight to justify why he killed his severely disabled daughter came to an end Thursday. But there was no such clear end to the impassioned national debate set off by 12-year-old Tracy's death. Latimer's mistake was not the killing but the way killed: ethicist -- (Cnews) "The very nature of the case is you have somebody gassing a child -- horrors of Auschwitz," he said referring to the Nazi-run death camp in Poland where Jews and other prisoners were gassed during the Second World War. "If Latimer had allowed Tracy to starve to death, would the situation have been different?" Thur Jan 18 2001 21:21:57  San Diego, Cal. 12 Inmates' Cases Chosen for Review Under DNA Projects -- (LA Times) Twelve California prisoners serving lengthy sentences are pinning their hopes on two projects launched independently by prosecutors and defense teams in San Diego to reexamine old cases for wrongful convictions. Thur Jan 18 2001 21:18:20  Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin Man accused of killing woman at fire station ordered to stand trial -- (Star Tribune) David Beck, 35, was charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the Jan. 6 death of Kim Paswaters, 34, a fellow volunteer paramedic. The mother of four was shot five times outside the fire department. Thur Jan 18 2001 21:06:00  Amadou Diallo, - shot at 41 times Feb. 4, 1999 Washington Diallo attorney decries Justice Department inaction in federal probe -- (Boston.com) An attorney for the parents of Amadou Diallo sent a a stinging letter to the Justice Department on Wednesday decrying officials there for failing to act against four New York City Police officers acquitted of slaying the unarmed West African immigrant. Thur Jan 18 2001 19:55:06  Shalimar, Florida Prosecutor says quadruple Panhandle killings premeditated -- (Florida Times-Union) A prosecutor repeatedly cocked and pulled the trigger of a pump-action, pistol-grip shotgun Thursday as he argued that a Persian Gulf War veteran used the weapon to kill his girlfriend and her three children. Defendant Jeffrey Hutchinson, a former Army Ranger, silently shook his head no from time to time during Assistant State Attorney Robert Elmore's closing argument on the ninth day of his murder trial. Thur Jan 18 2001 17:37:00  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Medical examiner contradicts coroner -- (Rocky Mountain News) A medical examiner from Michigan testified Wednesday that Michelle Witherell died in an accidental fall from the balcony of the Monroeville, Pa., apartment she shared with her husband. Dr. Werner U. Spitz, a forensic pathologist who was called as a defense expert, disagreed with the conclusion of Allegheny County Coroner Dr. Cyril H. Wecht that her death was a homicide. Thur Jan 18 2001 17:33:50  Arapahoe County, Colorado Killer of three won't be tried -- (Rocky Mountain News) Arapahoe County prosecutors will not put confessed killer Robert Spangler on trial for the 1978 slaying of his wife and two children, choosing instead to let divine justice take its course. The district attorney's office consulted with families of Spangler's victims and determined it would be "a waste of money" to bring the 68-year-old Grand Junction man to Colorado for trial, prosecution spokesman Michael Knight said Wednesday. Thur Jan 18 2001 17:11:08  Montreal, Quebec Computer hacker known as Mafiaboy enters guilty plea on 56 charges -- (Cnews) The 16-year-old Montrealer's pleas came as his trial was to begin on 66 charges relating to attacks last February on several major Web sites as well as security breaches of other sites at such institutions as Yale and Harvard universities. Thur Jan 18 2001 16:32:32  THE TEXAS SEVEN - escaped December 7 from maximum security unit New York NYPD alerted that some of Texas prison escapees may be in city -- (NJO News) There's a "possibility" that one or more of the seven dangerous convicts who escaped from a Texas prison a month ago may be in the New York City area, Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik said Thursday. Thur Jan 18 2001 15:38:09  Edinburgh, Scotland Constipated jewel theif gives up loot -- (Reuters) A suspected Scottish jewel thief who swallowed his haul to avoid being arrested has won his four-day fight against constipation, allowing police to recover the stolen loot, police sources said Thursday. Thur Jan 18 2001 15:30:32 JOEL KIRKPATRICK, 10 - found stabbed inside home Julie Rea, 32 - facing first-degree murder charge Lawrenceville, Illinois Woman charged with killing son won't face death penalty -- (Postnet) The boy had been at the center of a bitter custody battle. Two months before his death, an Illinois appeals court rejected Rea's request to grant her custody. Thur Jan 18 2001 14:42:41  Washington Peers, Income, Access to Guns Among Contributors to Youth Violence -- (Fox) Youth violence frequently is part of a lifestyle that includes drugs, guns and sex, and teen-agers likely to participate are low-income males who associate with delinquent peers, the surgeon general said Wednesday. Thur Jan 18 2001 13:44:06  Charlotte, North Carolina Jurors report split on all charges against ex-NFL player Rae Carruth -- (Postnet) Jurors in the Rae Carruth murder trial are divided on all four charges against the former NFL player, they said in a note to the judge Thursday. He told them to keep trying. Charges against Rae Carruth -- (Postnet) Thur Jan 18 2001 11:18:01  Milwaukee, Wisconsin Burglar who enlisted son, 9, gets 30 years -- (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Juan Xarine-Berchar's son testified with tears streaming down his face about how "Poppy" had him knock on the doors to be sure no one was home and used him to help haul valuables out to the car. Thur Jan 18 2001 11:06:45  Vancouver, Washington Teen's confession describes murder, police say -- (Oregon Live) A teen-ager has confessed that he murdered a co-worker, cutting the victim's throat, hiding the body and then cleaning the murder scene inside a stockroom at the Battle Ground Safeway, police say. Jay Richard Rich, 18, was ordered held on $750,000 bail Wednesday on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of Bryce Allan Powers. Thur Jan 18 2001 11:05:35 Robert Latimer - Sureme Court decision Wilkie, Saskatchewan, Canada Latimer must serve 10 years: Supreme Court -- (Toronto Star) A bitter, resigned but unapologetic Robert Latimer attacked the justice system today after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled he must serve 10 years in prison for killing his 12-year-old severely disabled daughter Tracy. Latimer goes to jail for mercy killing -- (CBC News) Latimer said he killed his daughter Tracy in 1993 to end her suffering. He was convicted of second-degree murder. Thur Jan 18 2001 11:00:26  Alexandria, Virginia Va. to Review Ex-Foster Child's Case -- (Washington Post) Virginia's Department of Social Services has launched a review of Katelyn Frazier's foster care case to learn whether the Alexandria child's December homicide could have been prevented and whether the state should change its system for protecting children at risk. Thur Jan 18 2001 10:57:15  Haley Wilcox, 18 and Ian Povey, 22 - charged in a drug- and weapons-possession case Grand Junction, Colorado DA will decide whether to prosecute parents in death of infant girl -- (GJ Sentinel) Coroner Rob Kurtzman said Monday he was unable to determine the cause and manner of death of Sidney Marie Povey. The 37-day-old girl was found dead at her parents' home after a call for emergency medical aid. Bail at $150,000 for woman accused in drug, guns case -- (GJ Sentinel) Thur Jan 18 2001 10:48:07  Seattle, Washington Washington state pays $8.8 million to settle rape-murder claims -- (Arizona Republic) The state has agreed to pay $8.8 million to settle two lawsuits involving women attacked by a convicted sex offender who failed to register with police. Julienne Schultz, 39, of Burlington, N.D., and relatives of Alice Underdahl, 52, of Kent, Wash., each sued for $4.4 million. Thur Jan 18 2001 10:42:25  Dallas, Texas Prison worker disciplined in Texas escape -- (Fox) A Texas prison employee was disciplined by supervisors for failing to report what he saw the day seven convicts escaped, but he says he had no clue anything was wrong. Thur Jan 18 2001 10:38:35  York, Maine Maine man accused of threatening woman with live grenade -- (Boston.com) A man accused of using a live hand grenade to force a woman to have sex with him has been indicted on charges including kidnapping, gross sexual assault and criminal threatening. The indictment also charges John Morton, 34, with assault, terrorizing and firearm possession by a felon. Thur Jan 18 2001 10:34:16  Boston, Massachusetts Documents reveal details of murder suspect's sex life -- (Boston.com) Dirk Greineder, 59, is being held without bail at the Norfolk County jail in Dedham while he awaits trial for the 1999 killing of his wife, Mabel. Grundy alleges that Mabel was killed by her husband during an early Halloween morning walk near a Wellesley pond. Thur Jan 18 2001 08:16:14 TIFFANY EUNICK, 6 - died of injuries inflicted July 28, 1999 Lionel Tate, 13 - on trial for first-degree murder Miami, Florida Photos of autopsy shown to Tate jury -- (Miami Herald) Prosecutors used three-foot high autopsy photos and a computer animation of injuries to Tiffany Eunick on Wednesday in an effort to convince jurors that there is no way the injuries inflicted on her could have been accidental. Thur Jan 18 2001 08:07:04  Bakersfield, California Police warn prostitutes about killings -- (The Bakersfield Californian) Bakersfield police took to the streets Wednesday to warn prostitutes that a killer may be targeting them and to ask for their help in finding the killer.The warning - the first of its kind since the 1986 and 1987 killings of two prostitutes by sheriff's Deputy David Keith Rogers - was in response to the killing of two prostitutes in Bakersfield in the last month, Sgt. Ed Bowen said. Thur Jan 18 2001 07:53:38 CHERICA ADAMS, 24 - shot November 16, 1999 Rae Carruth - awaiting verdict in death penalty trial Charlotte, North Carolina Theodry Carruth: "Save Our Sons" -- (Court TV) The mother of Rae Carruth is asking the public to fast six hours a day until the verdict is announced in the ex-Carolina Panther's murder trial. Jury studies exhibits of murder scene -- (ESPN) It's not unusual for jurors to view exhibits in open court, but in this case, the jurors also discussed the exhibits for about 20 minutes while reporters and other courtroom observers watched. Thur Jan 18 2001 07:52:39  United Kingdom Police swoop on more Net child pornographers -- (The Register) Police have arrested 13 people in relation to child porn and seized 27 computers in the largest raid seen so far in the UK. The suspected paedophiles were nabbed by the Met following a huge operation involving 13 forces. New Orleans, Louisiana Attorney says former newsman will plead guilty -- (Nola Live) Mike Longman, a former television newsman was jailed Tuesday after his attorney told a magistrate that he will plead guilty to a federal child pornography charge. |
