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Mon Feb 26 2001 08:51:08  Mason County, Washington Suspect held in girl's death -- (Seattle P-I) One of Mason County's most dangerous sex offenders was being held yesterday as a suspect in the death of a 15-year-old Lake Cushman girl. Joseph Rosenow -- recently released from prison for raping an acquaintance -- was arrested and taken to Mason County Jail in Shelton soon after he brought the injured girl to a nursing home in Shelton late Saturday night. Mon Feb 26 2001 08:47:42  Santa Barbara, California Police investigating California deaths -- (Nando) Authorities are investigating whether a college freshman intentionally drove his car into a crowd of people, killing four and wounding another person. David Edward Attias, an 18-year-old student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Santa Barbara Superior Court in connection with the Friday crash. Mon Feb 26 2001 08:45:37  Oklahoma City Hearing scheduled on prosecutor's disqualification from Terry Nichols case -- (Nando) The judge who dismissed District Attorney Bob Macy from the team prosecuting Terry Nichols wants to know if the lawyer's staff is preventing him from influencing the case. Judge Ray Dean Linder scheduled a hearing Monday to review Macy's disqualification and how Macy is being screened from Nichols' prosecution on 160 counts of first-degree murder for the April 19, 1995, federal building bombing. Sun Feb 25 2001 22:35:33  Ventura, California Parent to Use Spousal Fear as Defense in Baby's Death -- (LA Times) Six months after her conviction in the beating death of her 2-year-old daughter was overturned, Gabriela Hernandez is preparing for a new trial and a new defense. Unlike the first trial, Hernandez's attorneys will argue that she was a battered woman so paralyzed by fear that she could not stop her husband Rogelio from killing their daughter, Joselin. Sun Feb 25 2001 19:28:43  Cincinnati, Ohio Police looking for man seen near site of teen-ager's slaying -- (Cincinnati Enquirer) Police hope to question a man in connection with the death of a 19-year-old Avondale man whose body was found Friday morning at his apartment in the 500 block of Hale Avenue. Police identified the victim as Robert Lamar White. Neighbors said Mr. White would have turned 20 years old Wednesday. Sun Feb 25 2001 18:53:58  Beltrami County, Minnesota Volunteer found slain in trunk; man charged in her killing -- (Star Tribune) Katherine Rose Bronczyk loved to drive and chat. But most of all, the 65-year-old lived to help people. And it's how she died. Sun Feb 25 2001 18:50:40  Las Vegas, Nevada Minnesota man found dead in Las Vegas hotel -- (Star Tribune) Jimmy Ron Tanem, of Grygla, was found dead by hotel security officers about 12:30 a.m. Friday. His friends asked officers to check on him after they had not heard or seen from him. He was last seen alive Wednesday evening. Sun Feb 25 2001 17:16:35  Louise Reynolds, 26 - mother of victim; murder charge dropped Kingston, Ontario Police defend investigation into child's death despite dropped charges -- (Ottawa Citizen) An hour after dusk on the evening of June 12, 1997, a police officer found a dead little girl in the basement of a townhouse in the north end of this eastern Ontario city. Sprawled over a pile of clothes and wearing only a T-shirt, the mangled body of seven-year-old Sharon Reynolds was creating a pool of blood on the floor. The top part of her scalp lay nearby, surrounded by dog feces of both recent and not-so-recent origin. Sun Feb 25 2001 17:07:14  Boston, Massachusetts Judge Reinstates Suit Filed By Family of Strangler Victim -- (Chicago Tribune) A federal judge has reinstated a lawsuit filed by families of the alleged Boston Strangler and the killer's last victim seeking new evidence for their own investigation. Relatives of Albert DeSalvo and victim Mary Sullivan believe someone else is the Strangler, the man who sexually assaulted and killed 11 women beginning in 1962. Strangler scientists silenced -- (Boston Herald) A federal judge yesterday refused to stop the state's DNA testing in the Boston Strangler case and silenced a team of scientists hours before the experts were set to release new tests on the body of the killer's last victim. Sun Feb 25 2001 17:03:23  Springfield, Ohio Forgiving daughter's killer was healing -- (Cincinnati Enquirer) A Springfield Township couple who lost their daughter in a stabbing death asked a thousand people Saturday to bow their heads and pray. They did, even though Don and Irma Olberding had asked them to pray for their daughter's killer. Forgiveness, the Olberdings said, is crucial to healing. Sun Feb 25 2001 16:58:03  Raleigh, North Carolina Bill would add a felony to fight drunken driving -- (News & Record) Habitual drunken driving would be another felony that could be used by prosecutors to seek the death penalty under a new bill pushed by Forsyth County's district attorney. Sun Feb 25 2001 14:59:56  Ravenna, Florida Officials to close bizarre murder-suicide case -- (Daytona Daily) Investigators are expected to announce that Michelle Bica acted alone when she kidnapped and killed a pregnant woman for her baby. Portage County Prosecutor Victor Vigluicci has called a news conference for Monday to discuss the case. Sun Feb 25 2001 14:56:42  Chicago, Illinios Foster mother charged with murdering boy -- (Chicago S-T) A West Side woman whose foster child died Thursday after being submerged in a tub of freezing water was charged Saturday with first-degree murder. Police say 29-year-old Flora Stewart punished 6-year-old Allen Kalfus for misbehaving by holding him under a shower of cold water. Sun Feb 25 2001 14:54:14  Atlantic City, New Jersey Facial recognition surveillance nothing new in casinos -- (Boston.com) Taking photographic images of innocent customers and then checking the images against those in criminal files didn't start at Super Bowl XXXV. Sun Feb 25 2001 14:52:26  New York Old-guard mob suspect and bird lover faces murder trial -- (Boston.com) In the late 1990s, Anthony Spero was banned by authorities from his Brooklyn social club. But he still had his feathered friends. Sun Feb 25 2001 14:50:24  St.Paul, Minnesota Tracking child porn online -- (Nando) Fifteen seconds. That's all it took for St. Paul police Sgt. Brook Schaub to receive child pornography while visiting a chat room during a training course on investigating computer sex crimes. Sun Feb 25 2001 14:48:26  Golden, Colorado Autopsy rules Columbine shooter's death a suicide -- (Nando) Autopsy reports revealed Dylan Klebold, one of the two young gunmen responsible for the 1999 deaths of 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the left side of his head. Sun Feb 25 2001 12:28:43  Jefferson County, Alabama 15-year-old girl said to have killed, burned, stabbed, robbed relatives -- (Alabama Live) Fifteen-year-old Ashley Jones will answer this week to charges that she carried out a bloody rampage against her North Smithfield family, killing two and wounding two others. Sun Feb 25 2001 12:27:09  Birmingham, Alabama Capital murder trials open on Monday -- (Alabama Live) Jurors this week will be asked to consider whether Terry Wayne Bonner is the man who robbed and killed Brittney Temples or a convenient scapegoat to solve the highly publicized Southside slaying. Sun Feb 25 2001 12:23:28  Concord, New Hampshire Former prosecutors say plea bargain for teen murder suspects will take time -- (Boston.com) Robert Tulloch, 17, and James Parker, 16, face first-degree murder charges in the deaths of Half and Susanne Zantop. The Chelsea, Vt., teens are accused of stabbing the couple to death at their Hanover home Jan. 27. Sun Feb 25 2001 12:21:04  Flint, Michigan Drive-by slaying tragic no matter who the victim's brother is -- (Michigan Live) Herbert Cleaves Jr. had his own name. He had his own life. Like all of us he had his own set of triumphs, accomplishments, disappointments and failures. What made the story worthy of a scrolling bulletin was the fact Herbert was the brother of Mateen, one of Flint's most celebrated athletes. Sun Feb 25 2001 12:18:02  Toronto, Ontario Gunman wounds two at Toronto shopping mall -- (Cnews) A gunman opened fire in a crowded Toronto shopping mall, wounding two people, news reports said Sunday. "It was like a war zone," witness Bruce Glover said of the gunfire that broke out Saturday at the Albion Mall in western Toronto. Sun Feb 25 2001 12:14:02  Seattle, Washington Second night of Mardi Gras partying ends in violence -- (Seattle P-I) Before the crowds had dispersed from the bar and nightclub district by 3 a.m. this morning, at least six people were arrested, one person had been stabbed and an officer was hospitalized with a possible broken arm. See related photo gallery -- (Seattle P-I) New Orleans, Louisianna Mardi Gras' racial divide -- (AJC) New Orleans --- It has been 10 years since the city barred racial discrimination in "krewes," the exclusive private clubs that organize much of Mardi Gras. But that hasn't ended racial division in the groups, which still tend to be mostly white or mostly black. Sun Feb 25 2001 11:56:07  Margaret Rudin, 56 - accused of murder Ronald Rudin, 64 - shot in the head numerous times Las Vegas, Nevada Murder puzzle unfolds -- (Las Vegas Sun) Defense attorney Michael Amador has made a promise to those eagerly awaiting this week's murder trial of Margaret Rudin. "This trial will be the single-most complex and intriguing case in Las Vegas history," Amador said. "What I will present is the whole story, and not bits and pieces offered by paranoid prosecutors who are afraid of losing on national TV." Ronald Rudin described as a workaholic who treasured his privacy -- (Lss Vegas Sun) Prosecutors believe Margaret and an unknown accomplice shot Ron Rudin several times in the head on Dec. 18, 1994, decapitated him and burned his remains in a trunk at Lake Mead. earlier article:Judge withholds ruling on Rudin dismissal -- (Las Vegas Sun) District Judge Joseph Bonaventure made it clear Thursday that he believes a defense attorney's allegations of misconduct against a prosecutor in the Margaret Rudin case are without merit. Sun Feb 25 2001 11:45:25  Anchorage, Alaska Cops Seize Paintball Assault Video -- (Las Vegas Sun) Police have seized a videotape showing three white teen-agers assaulting Natives with a paintball gun from a car on downtown streets. Sun Feb 25 2001 11:43:43  Hillsboro, Oregon Oregon Man Accused of Killing Wife -- (Las Vegas Sun) A man accused of killing his wife and dismembering and burning her body had once received a pardon from President Reagan. Sat Feb 24 2001 22:52:56  Springfield, Virginia Va. Mother Charged in Kids' Stabbing -- (Newsday) A 38-year-old woman was charged with malicious wounding after her three young children were hospitalized in critical condition with life-threatening injuries, police said. Children -- ages 2, 3 and 4 Sat Feb 24 2001 21:15:44  London, Ontario Cops won't quit cold cases -- (LFP) One phone call. That's what Det. Supt. Rick Gillespie believes is all that separates London police from the solution to major unsolved crimes in the city. And he vows police will never give up on the cold cases until that call, that final tip comes in. Sat Feb 24 2001 20:56:15  Flint, Michigan Community Remembers Kayla Rolland -- (Newsday) On Feb. 29, 2000, Kayla died in her Buell Elementary School classroom. She was shot once in the chest as the children piled out of the classroom. Police said a 6-year-old classmate pulled the trigger. Sat Feb 24 2001 20:53:56  Las Vegas, Nevada Coroner's Inquest Clears Officers -- (Newsday) Nine officers who tried to restrain a French citizen inside a jail cell were not criminally responsible for his death by asphyxiation, a coroner's inquest found Saturday. Sat Feb 24 2001 19:58:27  Sabrina Aisenberg - missing Hillsborough County, Florida, and Bethesda, Maryland Case Dismissed for Md. Parents of Missing Girl -- (Washington Post) A federal judge in Florida has officially dismissed the case against a Bethesda couple who had been charged with conspiracy and lying in connection with the disappearance of their infant daughter three years ago. Sat Feb 24 2001 19:55:16  Washington, D.C. The Many Mistrials of a D.C. Murder Suspect -- (Washington Post) Next week in D.C. Superior Court, the U.S. attorney's office will try for a record fourth time to convict Corey Antonio Moore, now 25, of killing Byron Hammond, 19 and wounding Reginald Jackson, 22, the night of Oct. 27, 1994. Sat Feb 24 2001 18:27:31  Eric Jetson Lyons, 37 - arraigned friday Erie, Pennsylvania Police charge man with rape in 8-year-old's abduction -- (NJO) A convicted pedophile has been charged with the rape, kidnapping and attempted homicide of an 8-year-old girl who was abducted from her home and left for dead in a snow bank. Sat Feb 24 2001 18:20:26  Sydney, Australia Gang's reign of fear results in 40 shootings or stabbings -- (Sun-Herald) An investigation by The Sun-Herald reveals that despite police raids on Sydney's most infamous gang, a crisis of violence among Lebanese Australian youths is turning areas of the city into a gangland. Sat Feb 24 2001 18:16:37  Chicago, Illinois Cops find loot worth millions -- (Chicago Sun-Times) Crates of Tommy Hilfiger sunglasses, racks of Eddie Bauer clothes and boxes of other brand new merchandise were found jammed in a Northwest Side storefront Friday--part of what police called a multimillion-dollar cache of stolen goods. Sat Feb 24 2001 18:04:31  Half Zantop, 62 and his wife, Susanne Zantop, 55 - victims Concord, New Hampshire Former prosecutor says adult certification for teen is likely -- (Fox) A 16-year-old accused in the murder of two Dartmouth College professors was returned to New Hampshire on Saturday, and one former prosecutor said he is likely to stand trial as an adult. James Parker arrived at Lebanon Airport from Indiana, escorted by state police troopers. Sat Feb 24 2001 15:28:03  Clinton, Illinois Police Search for Illinois Escapee -- (Las Vegas Sun) -- Police warned abortion clinics to be particularly cautious Saturday as they searched for an escaped inmate who allegedly threatened abortion doctors. Clayton Lee Waagner -- who once said he was on a mission from God to kill abortion providers -- escaped from the DeWitt County jail. Sat Feb 24 2001 15:21:44  Rome, Italy Italian murder case sparks xenophobic outburst, then recriminations -- (abcNews.com) When an Italian woman and her 12-year-old son were murdered this week in the town of Novi Ligure, Italian newspapers were quick to point the finger. Immigrants, they declared, must be to blame. Sat Feb 24 2001 15:15:13  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Police: ATM Thief Stole to Support Drug Habit -- (Fox) An ATM repairman accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the machines was financing a crack cocaine habit so severe that he can't remember all of his crimes, police said. Sat Feb 24 2001 15:13:39 Somersworth, New Hampshire Man charged with giving teen alcohol while job shadowing -- (Union Leader) A car dealership employee has been charged with providing alcohol to a 17-year-old girl who spent the day with him as part of a job shadowing program. Sat Feb 24 2001 15:11:34  Santa Barbara, California Man Arrested in Pedestrian Deaths -- (Star Tribune) A drunken driver killed four people walking the streets of a small college town, police said. |
