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Sat Mar 10 2001 11:26:39  Boulder, Colorado Homeless man Boulder's 1st homicide in 3 years -- (Denver Post) A homeless man was found dead Friday at a makeshift camp in a north Boulder open space area in what authorities believe is the city's first homicide in three years. Sat Mar 10 2001 11:24:15  Fitchburg, Massachusetts Authorities baffled by discovery of charred body -- (Boston.com) Police are treating the discovery of a burned body on a dead-end street here as a homicide. Police have not identified the body, but a source close to the investigation told The Telegram & Gazette of Worcester that the male victim found on Caswell Road is believed to have at least two stab wounds to the back, and may have been burned where he was found. Sat Mar 10 2001 09:46:49  Halifax, Nova Scotia Shrubsall placed Legend signs on car after killing mother, court told -- (Cnews) Days after he clubbed his mother to death with a baseball bat, William Shrubsall placed signs on his car saying Legend on Board and The Legend Lives. That evidence was heard Friday at Shrubsall's dangerous-offender hearing in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax through a taped interview of one of his former neighbours. Crown prosecutors want Shrubsall behind bars indefinitely. Sat Mar 10 2001 09:42:09  New York Homeless man pleads guilty to killing five women -- (Postnet) A homeless man will serve life in prison without parole after he pleaded guilty to strangling five women during a 10-month killing spree that began in August, 1999. Vincent Johnson, 31, admitted to the murders a week before prosecutors were to decide on whether or not to seek the death penalty. Fri Mar 9 2001 21:15:57  Burlington, Vermont Burlington man kills self after 20 hour standoff with police -- (Boston.com) A Burlington man shot himself to death Friday after holding police at bay for 18 hours while firing more than 120 shots inside his home. Joseph Hayes, 33, was armed with a .44 magnum handgun and plenty of ammunition when the incident began as a domestic dispute Thursday evening. Fri Mar 9 2001 21:14:21  Bellingham, Washington Bail set at $1 million -- (Boston.com) James Allan Kinney is charged with aggravated first-degree murder in the death of 20-year-old Keri Sherlock, of Braintree, Mass., two years ago. Fri Mar 9 2001 21:12:22  Burlington, Vermont Former lawmaker imprisoned for murder due to be released on furlough -- (Boston.com) Vermont Corrections Department officials say Gregory Reed, 48, needs to begin the process of being reintroduced into the community. He is due to be released March 15 and will live at an undisclosed location in Colchester. Furlough is a restrictive form of freedom in which inmates can be immediately returned to prison for violating any number of conditions. Fri Mar 9 2001 21:04:31  Des Moines, Washington Four dead in home invasion robbery in Des Moines -- (Seattle P-I) A man, woman and two teenagers -- a male and a female -- are dead in what authorities believe was a home invasion robbery. Investigators said it appeared all four were shot. When word first spread about the multiple homicide, people wondered if there was any connection to the slaying earlier in the week of a Des Moines police officer. Investigators do not believe there is a connection. Fri Mar 9 2001 21:00:52  Denver, Colorado McVeigh's Body Won't Be Autopsied -- (Access Waco) The body of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh will not be autopsied after his scheduled execution May 16, his attorneys and an Indiana coroner agreed Friday. Fri Mar 9 2001 19:48:57  Napa, California Suarez multiple-murder trial opens Monday -- (Sacbee) Arturo Juarez Suarez, 33, could be sentenced to death if he is convicted of quadruple murder in the gunshot deaths of Jose Luis Martinez, 37; Juan Manuel Martinez, 28; and the burial and suffocation deaths of Jose Martinez’s children, Jack, 5, and Arele, 3. Fri Mar 9 2001 19:46:28  Santa Clara, California Jury recommends death for suspected serial killer -- (Sacbee) A jury recommended the death penalty Friday for suspected serial killer Wesley Shermantine Jr., who was convicted last month of four San Joaquin County murders. Fri Mar 9 2001 18:32:15  Nashville, Tennessee Two women shot to death outside Tennessee courthouse -- (Nando) A man shot and killed two women in a parking lot outside a courthouse Friday after a child-support hearing that did not go his way, police said. Police said Michael Angelo Hill, 45, shot the mother of his child and another woman several times with a shotgun. Fri Mar 9 2001 18:29:58  Chattanooga, Tennessee : Three convicted in Tennessee bank extortion spree -- (Nando) Three men received sentences on Friday ranging from 15 to 52 years in prison for abducting the families of female bank managers and holding them hostage in an extortion scheme that helped them make off with $1.5 million. Fri Mar 9 2001 16:02:14  King County, Washington Canadian fugitives to be spared death penalty -- (Globe&Mail) The King County, Wash., prosecutor announced Friday that he will give the Canadian government assurances that Glen Sebastian Burns and Atif Rafay won't face capital punishment if they're found guilty of the killings. Mr. Burns and Mr. Rafay are wanted in Washington state for the slaying of Mr. Rafay's father, mother and sister, who were found beaten to death with a baseball bat in their Bellevue, Wash., home on July 12, 1994. Fri Mar 9 2001 15:50:38  Camden, New Jersey Man admits posting abortion threat online -- (Boston.com) A 30-year-old Cape May County man pleaded guilty Friday offering a $1.5 million bounty over the Internet for anyone who killed an abortion provider. Fri Mar 9 2001 15:47:47  Clayton, Missouri Man ordered to give lottery winnings to girl he molested -- (Cnn) A man who won a $2.7 million lottery was ordered to give almost all of it to a girl he molested when she was 6. The girl, now a teen-, still suffers mentally and emotionally from the 1992 assault, one of her attorneys said Thursday. Thomas Bisso, 51, pleaded guilty to sodomy in 1994 and spent 120 days in prison. Fri Mar 9 2001 13:49:15  Boulder, Colorado Lawsuit: Patsy Ramsey did it -- (Rocky Mountain News) -- Lawyers for a former housekeeper of Patsy Ramsey will attempt to prove in their $50 million civil lawsuit that Patsy murdered her daughter. Darnay Hoffman, an attorney for Linda Hoffmann-Pugh, said that proving Patsy Ramsey wrote a bogus ransom note the night JonBenet Ramsey was strangled is the key to his client's libel claim, filed Thursday in Atlanta. Fri Mar 9 2001 12:46:04  Washington FBI: 1 Million Credit Card Numbers Stolen From Web Sites in Last Year -- (Fox) More than a million credit card numbers have been stolen from e-commerce Web sites over the past year, according to the FBI, which blamed the crimes on organized hacker groups in Russia and the Ukraine. Fri Mar 9 2001 12:43:02  St. Louis, Missouri Boy, 10, Mauled to Death by Pack of Dogs; Mother Jailed -- (Fox) Ten-year-old Rodney McAllister was found mauled to death by a pack of dogs Tuesday, bite wounds on most of his body, pieces of his clothing scattered around the park across the street from his home. The attack has horrified many in St. Louis and led to the jailing of the boy's own mother for not keeping closer watch over him. Fri Mar 9 2001 12:39:00  Broward County, Florida Teen Gets Life Behind Bars for Wrestling Death -- (Fox) Soundly rejecting defense claims that the beating death of Tiffany Eunick was accidental, Judge Joel Lazarus said Lionel Tate's actions were as sadistic as any adult's - and that he should pay for his crime with an adult's punishment. Fri Mar 9 2001 10:42:13  Rochester, New York Teen gets 50 years for crime spree -- (Boston.com) A 19-year-old man drew a 50-year prison sentence for shooting two men and robbing a third during a two-month crime spree. Romel Lewis pleaded guilty in January to robbery, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. But defense attorney Charles Schiano Jr. called Thursday's sentence ''excessive'' and said he would appeal. Fri Mar 9 2001 10:35:47  Belfast, Maine Charges brought 17 years after slaying -- (Boston.com) Joel Fuller faces a murder charge in the death of Mervin ''Sonny'' Grotton, who was gunned down outside his home in December 1983. Fuller was expected to be arraigned Friday in Waldo County Superior Court. Fri Mar 9 2001 10:24:35  Raleigh, North Carolina Killer Seeks Supreme Court Review -- (AP) Attorneys for a convicted killer asked the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) on Friday to review a state ruling that lifted a last-minute stay of execution. Willie Fisher, 39, was convicted for killing his girlfriend by stabbing her 32 times in 1992. He requested clemency from Gov. Mike Easley, a former attorney general who had represented the state during Fisher's appeals. Easley denied the clemency request Thursday evening, citing the ``heinous nature'' of the slaying. Fri Mar 9 2001 10:16:49  Lionel Tate, 14 - found guilty of murder Broward County, Florida Letters support mercy as Tate sentencing scheduled for today -- (Sun Sentinel) The letters written to Broward County Judge Joel T. Lazarus about Lionel Tate's sentencing come from around the nation and the state, including some from children, grandmothers, a prisoner and a juror. Overwhelmingly, the letters ask Lazarus to show mercy and compassion for Tate, or to at least give the 14-year-old a chance to be rehabilitated instead of spending the rest of his life in prison for the first-degree murder of Tiffany Eunick, 6. Crucial events in the murder of TIffany Eunick and the trial of Lionel Tate -- (Sun Sentinel) The State of Florida vs. Lionel Tate -- (Sun Sentinel) Photo gallery Fri Mar 9 2001 10:08:02  Dupage County, Illinois New developments on second anniversary of Lemak murders -- (Copley/Sun) A doctor who was treating Marilyn Lemak for depression in the months preceding the deaths of her three young children has been accused of negligence and could be held liable for monetary damages. Robert F. Hubbard, a family practitioner in Naperville, was named late last week in a Third Party Contribution Act complaint filed by Michael F. Roe, Lemak's civil attorney. Lemak is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the drugging and suffocation of her three children on March 5, 1999. Thur Mar 8 2001 23:02:35  Center Line, Michigan Decades-old murder may have been solved -- (WDIV) Police arrested Jerald Leroy Wingeart, 60, of Center Line on Wednesday and formally charged him with the 1973 murder of a Chesaning woman, Dawn Lee Magyar, 20. Thur Mar 8 2001 22:50:46  John Eric Armstrong, 27 - murderous sailor Detroit, Michigan Accused serial killer convicted of murder in U.S. -- (ABC News) An accused serial killer who may have left a trail of blood from Seattle to Singapore was found guilty on Thursday of strangling to death a Detroit area woman. Thur Mar 8 2001 22:45:25  Ireland Body exhumed in murder inquiry -- (BBC) British detectives have exhumed the body of a woman from a graveyard in Ireland in an attempt to discover how she died. Thur Mar 8 2001 21:55:57  Golden, Colorado Prosecutor admits posing as public defender to capture ax murderer -- (ABC News) Chief deputy district attorney Mark Pautler told a three-judge disciplinary panel Wednesday that he wanted to "take a killer off the streets." Thur Mar 8 2001 18:41:20  Pasadena, California Pediatrician sentenced for killing his pregnant lover -- (Contra Costa) A pediatrician was sentenced Thursday to 20 years to life in prison for strangling his pregnant lover and colleague before pushing her car over a cliff in the Angeles National Forest. A jury in December convicted Dr. Kevin Anderson, 42, of second-degree murder in the killing of Dr. Deepti Gupta on Nov. 11, 1999. Thur Mar 8 2001 18:38:21  Trenton, New Jersey Bill would make jury duty pay more for first time in decades -- (Boston.com) Right now jurors make good money if $5 a day is anybody's idea of a healthy paycheck. Lawmakers want to give citizen judges a $35 pay raise. However, people would only see those big bucks if a trial goes into its third day. Thur Mar 8 2001 18:35:52  Lake Worth, Florida Teen mom charged with murder attempt on newborn baby -- (Sun Sentinel) A Lake Worth teenager who threw her newborn baby into a neighbor's backyard was charged as an adult on Wednesday with attempting to kill her son. Wilmene Florestal, 15, now could face up to 15 years in prison if she is convicted of attempted second-degree murder -- the charge leveled against her by the State Attorney's Office. Thur Mar 8 2001 16:30:55  Brewer, Maine Used needle sticks hand of deputy -- (Bangor Daily News) A Penobscot County sheriff’s deputy was stuck by a used hypodermic needle Wednesday while searching a vehicle driven by a suspected drug user. Thur Mar 8 2001 16:28:49  Auburn, Maine Man arrested for soliciting someone to kill estranged wife -- (Boston.com) A Bath man is being held in Androscoggin County Jail on charges he conspired to have his estranged wife murdered. Bath police arrested Joel Bagley, 38, last Friday for solicitation to commit murder. Thur Mar 8 2001 16:26:00  Ottawa, Ontario Homolka denied early release, ordered to remain detained by parole board -- (Vancouver Sun) Karla Homolka, convicted in the sex-slayings of two Ontario teenage girls, has been denied early statutory release. Thur Mar 8 2001 16:22:53  Hagerstown, Maryland Priest charged with sex abuse waives extradition; will face charges -- (Postnet) An Episcopal priest charged with molesting two boys at the St. James School more than 15 years ago has waived extradition from Illinois and will soon be back in Maryland, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Thur Mar 8 2001 16:21:05  Atlanta, Georgia Ex-Housekeeper Sues Ramseys for $50 Million -- (Reuters) Linda Hoffmann-Pugh alleged in her complaint that the Ramseys raised her name in connection with the crime in an effort to direct suspicion away from Patsy Ramsey, whom Hoffmann-Pugh alleged killed 6-year-old JonBenet. Thur Mar 8 2001 11:36:37  Los Angeles, California Couple Found Guilty of Son's Murder -- (LA Times) Superior Court Judge Curtis B. Rappe found Maria Tinoco, 37, guilty of first-degree murder for her son Edwin's strangulation death, and her husband, Saul Tinoco, 39, guilty of second-degree murder. Both were convicted of torture acts and child abuse involving their son and their nephew, who lived with them. Thur Mar 8 2001 11:33:19  Sylmar, California Body Parts Found on Street in Sylmar -- (LA Times) Two severed feet and other body parts were discovered Wednesday on a Sylmar street, authorities said. Authorities don't know where the body parts, which they would not describe, came from but said the feet appeared to match. Thur Mar 8 2001 11:30:16  Half and Susan Zantop, - murdered Dartmouth College Professors Montpelier, Vermont Fight brews over release of Zantop documents -- (Union Leader) Law-enforcement officials say they are concerned that witnesses might tailor their testimony about the deaths of two Dartmouth College professors if Vermont court documents on the case are released. Zantop Case archives -- (Union Leader) Thur Mar 8 2001 11:23:33  Greer, South Carolina Woman, children found dead at home -- (AP) A man allegedly shot and killed his estranged wife, her daughter and their son and then tried to destroy the couple's antique shop before fleeing. Police have begun a nationwide search for Michael Hilderbrand Sr., 43, and have signed arrest warrants charging him with three counts of murder in the deaths of his wife, Sandra, 36; his stepdaughter, Caitlin Williams, 8; and his son, Michael Jr., 5. Thur Mar 8 2001 11:21:21  Owosso, Michigan Arrest in '73 slaying -- (Michigan Live) State police said Wednesday they have used DNA evidence to arrest a man in the slaying of a Chesaning woman 28 years ago. Police are investigating Center Line resident Jerald L. Wingeart, charged with killing Dawn Lee Magyar in 1973. Thur Mar 8 2001 11:18:46  Hamburg, New York Man accused of killing live-in girlfriend -- (Boston.com) Police found the dismembered body of a missing woman in boxes in her basement and charged her live-in boyfriend with killing her. Brian Faust, 32, was arraigned Thursday on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of Kym Kraffert, 27. |
