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Mon Jan 22 2001 07:42:39  DAVID BULLER - stabbed to death Thursday Toronto, Ontario, Canada 'A spooky old building,' a murder mystery -- National Post) One of the last people to have seen David Buller alive said the University of Toronto instructor and artist who specialized in homoerotic art was relaxed and untroubled during an elevator ride just hours before he was slain in his office. Sun Jan 21 2001 21:53:29  a view of society baby sitters Oakland, California Aftershocks of a crime spree -- (Freep) Bryan Doyle has his finger on the trigger, the shotgun pointed at his head. "If you don't like how I'm treating you," he screams, "then why should I live?""If you kill yourself," she says, "I'll kill myself." Sun Jan 21 2001 19:40:41  Greenfield, Massachusetts Greenfield councilor gets anthrax threat -- (Boston.com) A state laboratory on Friday determined that the powder included in the letter to councilor Deena Ferguson was not anthrax, an infectious disease caused by spore-forming bacteria commonly found in cattle, sheep and other animals that can be transferred to humans. Sun Jan 21 2001 19:38:08  Portland, Maine Woman sought in 10-year-old murder arrested in Arizona -- (Boston.com) A local fugitive task force arrested Sawan Navarat, 47, on a homicide warrant in Flagstaff, Ariz., according to the U.S. Marshals Service. Navarat is accused of shooting Opapin Ponvisutrakul, 37, with a .38-caliber gun in Los Angeles in 1991. Sun Jan 21 2001 18:09:51  Washington The freedom to kill again -- (Cnews) Crackpot theories about "rehabilitation" and "curing" criminals are rooted in the utopian belief that man is perfectible, a silly notion that gained popularity around the time of the Enlightenment. Modern psychoanalysis compounded the error by suggesting all behaviour is a "symptom" of psychological "disease" that can be "treated" with "therapy." Sun Jan 21 2001 18:02:16  Updated Medicine Hat, Alberta Alta man charged with first-degree murder in deaths of parents, brother -- (CP) Chris Anton LeClaire is charged in the slayings of his father Raymond LeClaire Sr., 60, his mother Janet LeClaire, 58, and his brother, Raymond LeClaire Jr., 21, police said. Sun Jan 21 2001 17:59:19  Mindy Tran, - unsolved murder Shannon Murrin, - acquitted Vancopuver, B.C. One year after Tran acquittal, Murrin and MacDonald work on book -- (Ottawa Citizen) One year ago, Shannon Murrin clapped his hands in the prisoner's box, exclaimed, "oh, man" and flashed a thumbs-up sign after a B.C. jury found acquitted him of killing an eight-year-old girl in 1994. The verdict in the emotional, high-profile case triggered an outpouring of recrimination against the way the RCMP handled the investigation and the Crown's strategy during the trial. Sun Jan 21 2001 17:54:48  McAlester, Oklahoma Medlock executed for the murder of 7-year-old girl -- (Shawnee News-Star) A man who made a curious 7-year-old girl macaroni and cheese in his apartment, then fatally stabbed, beat and sexually molested her was executed Tuesday night at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. Floyd Allen Medlock, 29, was pronounced dead at 9:20 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection. Sun Jan 21 2001 17:52:01  New York Death penalty reportedly to be sought against one of two men charged in Wendy's massacre -- (Newsday) Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown intends to seek the death penalty against one of the two men charged in a massacre that left five dead and two wounded at a Wendy's restaurant in Queens last May, according to news reports Sunday. Sun Jan 21 2001 17:49:01  Livingston, Texas 'Sleeping Lawyer' Case Under Review -- (Newsday) While Calvin Burdine stood trial for murder, was convicted and was sentenced to death, his lawyer dozed off repeatedly in the courtroom. Sun Jan 21 2001 13:16:30  Charlotte, N. Carolina Rae Carruth jurors explain split verdict -- (Postnet) Jurors in the Rae Carruth murder trial, sensitive to the second-guessing that followed their split verdict, say they knew deliberations would not be easy after two months of emotional and conflicting testimony. Sun Jan 21 2001 12:20:29  Fresno, California Police chase of stolen ambulance ends in Fresno schoolyard -- (Fresno Bee) Have pity on the man suspected of taking an ambulance and leading police on a one-hour chase that ended with a destructive drive through a Fresno schoolyard, the man's caretaker said Saturday. Sun Jan 21 2001 12:18:15  Police Chief Rick Pfaff and officer James Dixon - suspended with pay Somerset, Wisconsin Misconduct allegations lead to suspension of police chief, officer -- (Duluth News Tribune) The allegations include providing alcohol to women under the legal drinking age, skinny dipping with one of them, falsifying time sheets, mishandling seized firearms and taking for their personal use liquor and beer confiscated during summer concerts, according an employment complaint the village board filed with a Police Review Board. Sun Jan 21 2001 12:09:54  Colorado City, Texas Inmate escapes by scaling 12-foot fence -- (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal) A prisoner in the Mitchell County Jail took advantage of his Friday afternoon moment in the exercise yard and climbed up and over the 12-foot fence topped with razor wire. He fled the area on foot and has not been caught, authorities said Saturday evening. Sun Jan 21 2001 12:04:03  Las Vegas, Nevada Ex-shelter resident arrested -- (Las Vegas Review-Journal) Las Vegas police arrested a former resident of St. Vincent's homeless shelter Friday in connection with a 3 1/2-hour bomb scare that closed several blocks downtown. Robert Whitefell, 33, was booked on possession of a hoax device, a gross misdemeanor, police said. Sun Jan 21 2001 10:34:59  Medicine Hat, Alberta Man in custody after police discover three bodies in Medicine Hat home -- (CP) Officers had been negotiating since Friday night with a man who was discovered barricaded in the basement of the house where the bodies were found. Police said the man was armed with a high-powered rifle. Sun Jan 21 2001 10:32:51  Irvington, New Jersey Police arrest 10-year-old driving stolen car -- (Boston.com) The tattooed boy, who was not identified because of his age, was arrested Friday by police who saw the vehicle moving in a jerky fashion down a street with no driver visible through the car's windows. Sun Jan 21 2001 10:30:13  Boston, Massachusetts Troubled teens will be sentenced to perform Shakespeare -- (Boston.com) Like the character Macduff in Shakespeare's ''Macbeth,'' juvenile court Judge Paul Perachi knows troubled youths, unable to articulate their frustrations, often lash out violently. But Perachi believes he has found a way to help troubled youth find the words to express themselves: by sentencing them to perform Shakespeare. Sun Jan 21 2001 10:25:36  Rancho Palos Verdes, California Detectives investigate 4-year-old girl's cliff fall as homicide -- (Sac Bee) Lauren Key-Marer was walking with her father Cameron John Brown along Palos Verdes Drive near Inspiration Point Nov. 8 when she fell about 100 feet. Paramedics were unable to resuscitate her. Sat Jan 20 2001 19:49:12 London, England Brit Cops Eye Theft of Di's Stuff, say the Butler didn't do it -- (NY Daily News) Police questioned former butler Paul Burrell about the disappearance of some of Diana's property, which reportedly included a jewel-encrusted model boat given to her and Prince Charles by the emir of Bahrain. Sat Jan 20 2001 19:45:04 Ronald Scott Beckley - charged with molesting now-deceased Jonathan D. Jackson between 1995 and 1997 Knox County, Tennessee Ex-fireman charged with child rape vanishes -- (Knoxville News) A former Knoxville firefighter charged with child rape has sent his lawyer a Bible, bullet, and last will and testament and then disappeared. Sat Jan 20 2001 18:29:26  Summerfield, North Carolina Family waits to learn daughter's fate -- (News & Record) The search for Lisa Myers Neugent has become a waiting game. Neugent, 23, disappeared on Labor Day weekend 1999 from the home she shared with her boyfriend, Frank Isley Jr., in Conway, S.C. Isley disappeared soon after Lisa and turned up in Georgia after being charged with cocaine possession. Sat Jan 20 2001 18:26:34  Greensboro, North Carolina Alamance Court translator jailed on federal cocaine charges -- (News & Record) Viviana Lillette Maltby, 48, of Burlington was arrested along with nine others by teams of federal, state and local law enforcement officers on charges of conspiring to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Greensboro. Sat Jan 20 2001 18:20:40  Anastasia Soloveva King, 20 - body was found Dec. 28 in a shallow grave Snohomish County, Washington Murder informant becomes a suspect -- (HeraldNet) A Mountlake Terrace man pinned down his mail-order bride by lying on her chest while his male lover strangled her with a necktie, Snohomish County prosecutors alleged in court papers filed Friday. Prosecutors made the claim in a Snohomish County Superior Court affidavit filed along with a felony perjury charge against Indle Gifford King Jr., 39. Sat Jan 20 2001 18:15:37  Baltimore. Maryland Dancer gets 7 years for murder plan -- (Sunspot) Basil Brown Bradford Jr., a Ruxton businessman, has no hard feelings against his former girlfriend, who admitted hiring a would-be hit man to kill him so she could collect a $300,000 insurance policy. Prosecutors - and the judge - said there is no mistake about it: Rosemary A. Cing, a nightclub dancer known as Ruby, wanted him dead. Sat Jan 20 2001 18:11:45  Oklahoma City Some Seats Open to Oklahoma City Bombing Victims for McVeigh Execution -- (Fox) The government is sending out letters to 1,100 people asking if they want to attend the May 16 execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Sat Jan 20 2001 18:09:15  Flemington, New Jersey Bank Manager Admits to Fake Heist -- (Newsday) A bank branch manager admitted faking a robbery in order to conceal stealing $80,000 she had moved into a relative's account. Barbara Hachtmann was sentenced Friday to two years probation and 90 days of jail time that can be served on weekends. Sat Jan 20 2001 15:07:12  Mona Najar, 25 - arrested Jerusalem, Israel Suspect Captured in Internet Killing -- (Washington Post) Elite Israeli soldiers posing as Arabs on Saturday captured a Palestinian woman suspected of luring an Israeli youth to his death in the West Bank through an exchange of e-mails, officials and news reports said. Sat Jan 20 2001 14:55:29  Turlock, California 4 men arrested in raid on working meth lab -- (Mod Bee) Four Turlock men were arrested Friday when drug agents raided a farm and found a working methamphetamine lab, the Stanislaus Drug Enforcement Agency reported. Sat Jan 20 2001 14:52:46  DuPage County, Illinios `Monkey doctor' witness for Lemak -- (Chicago Sun Times) Prosecutors sparred Friday with lawyers for Marilyn Lemak over whether the Naperville woman should be allowed to offer testimony from a psychiatrist prosecutors belittled as "the monkey doctor." Dr. William McKinney hasn't examined Lemak, who is accused of murdering her three young children. But her lawyers want him to testify that depression can make a person insane--her defense. Sat Jan 20 2001 14:46:20  Washington, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania man pleads guilty in starving death -- (Nando) Douglas Bittinger, 28, did nothing to help the child when his girlfriend refused to feed her, prosecutors said. Bittinger testified at the trial of Michelle Sue Tharp that she would force Tausha to go hungry while the rest of the family ate and that the girl foraged for food, eating from garbage cans and drinking water from a toilet, at their home near Burgettstown, near Pittsburgh. Sat Jan 20 2001 14:43:46  Minneapolis, Minnesota Northwest fires pilot for drinking -- (Nando) A Northwest Airlines co-pilot who failed two blood-alcohol tests after a flight from San Antonio to Minneapolis has been fired, the company announced Friday. Sat Jan 20 2001 12:35:37  David Buller, 50 - suffered numerous defensive wounds Toronto, Ontario U of T prof slain in campus office -- (Toronto Sun) A University of Toronto professor was found stabbed to death yesterday in a studio office where he had taught painting for the past 15 years. Sat Jan 20 2001 12:29:33  Seth Woods, - victim San Francisco, California Murderer of Disabled Man Gets 21 Years -- (SF Gate) Calling the case "ghastly beyond words," a judge sentenced a 21-year-old San Francisco man yesterday to 21 years to life in prison for the murder, torture and sodomy attack of a developmentally disabled man. Sat Jan 20 2001 12:22:10  Fort Thomas, Ohio Bones turn out to be man missing 35 years -- (Cincinnati Enquirer) Almost 35 years ago, a stockbroker charged with a $7 million crime stepped into a year-old green Corvette Stingray and drove away from his Connecticut home, never to be seen by his family again. In April, his bones were found along the Ohio River. Sat Jan 20 2001 12:18:23  Muskegon, Michigan Silence is not golden in sexual abuse cases -- (Michigan Live) The story was shocking. A newborn baby found dead in a Muskegon High School trash can, its umbilical cord and placenta still attached. As the story unfolded, it got worse. Sat Jan 20 2001 12:14:00  Jerusalem, Israel Slaying After Online Fling Inflames Mideast Tensions -- (SF Gate) The murder of the Rahums' son, Ofir, 16, is a chilling tale commingling young love, cyberspace, violence and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that riveted Israel yesterday. Israeli boy apparently lured to his death through Internet -- (Star-Telegram) Sat Jan 20 2001 12:09:38  Los Angeles, California Killer Again Sentenced to Death for Slaying 3 of His Relatives -- (LA Times) A judge on Friday sent Robert Bloom Jr. back to death row, where the 37-year-old had spent half his life before his retrial last year for the killings of his father, stepmother and stepsister in Sun Valley. His lawyers had tried to portray Bloom, who was then 18, as enraged when he shot his abusive father, Robert Bloom Sr., and insane when he later killed his stepmother, Josephine Lou Bloom, and 8-year-old stepsister, Sandra Hughes. Sat Jan 20 2001 12:06:59  Ventura, California Victim Begged for Her Life, Witness Says -- (LA Times) --Justin Merriman plunged a knife into college student Katrina Montgomery's neck, and, as she begged for her life, beat her with a wrench and slit her throat, a witness testified Friday. Witness Says Merriman Told of Killing -- (LA Times) Merriman, 28, is accused of raping and cutting the throat of 20-year-old college student Katrina Montgomery in November 1992. Sat Jan 20 2001 11:58:07  Ballston Spa, New York 19-year-old admits role in murder of elderly relative -- (Boston.com) Katherine M. Seeber's second-degree murder plea Friday saves her from the trial that was to begin Feb. 28. Her former boyfriend, 20-year-old Jeffrey Hampshire, like Seeber of Saratoga County, also is charged with murder and is still scheduled for trial. Sat Jan 20 2001 11:52:20  Rochester, New Hampshire 21-month-old girl suffered for months before being killed -- (Boston.com) It was a family joke that only certain people could baby-sit 21-month-old Kassidy Bortner. That's because anyone else probably would have told someone anyone about the girl's bruises and welts. Abused girl's death prompts legislation in Maine -- (Boston.com) The horrifying death of 21-month-old Kassidy Bortner has brought to light what could be life-and-death differences between Maine and New Hampshire's child abuse reporting laws. And now some lawmakers, including one representing the Kittery area where the child was last seen alive while in a baby sitter's care, are calling for changes. Fri Jan 19 2001 18:25:55  Syracuse, New York Suspect shot by trooper before chase, police say -- (Boston.com) One suspect was fatally shot by a trooper and an ensuing 20-mile police chase and crash left another in critical condition on Friday, authorities said. Dean Richey, 20, of Charleston, S.C., was pronounced dead at the scene. Bryan Joyce, 20, of Bridgeport, remains in University Hospital. Fri Jan 19 2001 18:20:15  Pony, Montana Murder suspect picked up in Montana -- (News-Press) A former Lee County man accused of hog-tying his roommate and leaving him to die two years ago was arrested Thursday in a small Montana town on murder charges. Terry Repp, 32, fled Lee County on May 21, 1999, just one day after killing his North Fort Myers mobile home roommate, Heber Toledo, 23, authorities said. Fri Jan 19 2001 18:17:52 Hamilton, Ohio Baby shaker adjudicated a killer -- (Cincinnati Enquirer) A judge on Thursday found that John C. Cooper recklessly injured Ashley Smith when she was an infant, causing nearly nine years of suffering that culminated in her death in 1999. He faces up to 10 years. |
