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Fri Mar 16 2001 10:10:07  Los Angeles, California Downey rejects offer; court date set -- (CNN) Actor Robert Downey Jr. must face felony drug charges next month after he and prosecutors failed to reach a settlement regarding felony drug charges, his lawyer said Thursday. Fri Mar 16 2001 09:59:33  Palatka, Florida Palatka boy, 15, gets life sentence for murdering playmate -- (Sun Sentinel) John Silva, who showed no reaction to the sentence, was tried as an adult and convicted of first-degree murder. His victim, 12-year-old Jerry Lee Alley Jr., was found hog-tied at the bottom of the tank last May. Fri Mar 16 2001 09:51:42  Falls County, Texas Man arrested in connection with Falls County rape, slaying -- (Access Waco) man suspected of raping and killing a Tarleton State University student in an apparent random encounter along a Falls County highway was arrested in Conroe Monday night. John Edward Wilburn, 24, of Conroe is accused of the March 4 slaying of Ashley Beasley, a 24-year-old Stephenville resident. Fri Mar 16 2001 09:47:44  Detroit, Michigan Four-year-old girl killed after neighborhood fight -- (Detnews) Four-year-old Shania Salter was shot to death because of an argument earlier in front of her northwest Detroit home. On Wednesday, police obtained warrants charging Timothy Barnes, 25, and Rodney Green, 25, with first- degree murder and nine counts of attempted murder. Thur Mar 15 2001 17:18:38  New Castle County, Delaware Police try to find link in murder -- (Michigan Live) A woman's body found in a field during the summer of 1977 in New Castle County, Del., has never been identified, but police there believe the trail could lead back to Michigan. A cold case team there is now trying to determine whether the unidentified body found unclothed in Delaware could be the work of Henry Lee Lucas, who died in prison this week. Thur Mar 15 2001 17:12:38  Prince George's County, Maryland No Convictions in Pr. George's Dog Attack -- (Washington Post) A federal jury considering civil rights charges against two Prince George's County police officers and an FBI agent acquitted each of the county officers of one count yesterday and deadlocked on the other charges. Thur Mar 15 2001 15:54:28  Margaret Rudin Murder Trial Las Vegas, Nevada Mistrial request considered: Attorneys, defendant huddle with judge -- (Las Vegas Sun) A mistrial in the Margaret Rudin trial appeared possible this morning. Rudin has a history of hiring and firing attorneys, going back to her several divorces and a civil trial against her husband's estate in 1996. Sister testifies against Rudin -- (Las Vegas R-J) Dona Cantrell Robinson attributed to her sister a series of statements and actions that support the prosecution's contention that Margaret Rudin shot her millionaire husband Ron Rudin to death at their Alpine Place home. Ron Rudin Slaying archives and Timeline -- (Las Vegas R-J) Thur Mar 15 2001 15:35:08  Las Vegas, Nevada National media revisiting case of Binion murder -- (Las Vegas Sun) The Ted Binion murder trial is coming back under the national media spotlight. NBC's "Dateline" news magazine is airing its long-awaited broadcast Friday on the most high-profile murder case in Las Vegas history. Thur Mar 15 2001 15:29:53  London Kentucky Man charged with anhydrous amonia theft -- (The Gleaner) Michael Wayne Dusenberry, 38, was charged with theft of anhydrous ammonia, first-degree criminal mischief, second-degree criminal mischief and knowingly possessing anhydrous ammonia other than an approved container. With anhydrous being one of the main ingredients of methamphetamine, it's become a target for manufacturers. Thur Mar 15 2001 15:26:17  Westerville, Ohio Man who was shot is charged with robbery -- (Columbus Dispatch) A Westerville man who was shot by a shopkeeper while he allegedly tried to rob a Clinton Township market last week has been charged in the incident. Michael Thomas, 20, is charged with aggravated robbery. He was being held in the Franklin County jail last night. South Bend, Indiana Rape-robbery linked to 2nd home invasion -- (South Bend Tribune) Police believe the same man who sexually assaulted a 77-year-old woman on the city's near northeast side Monday is responsible for a second home invasion on Tuesday just a few blocks away. Police are warning city residents, especially those in that area, of the potential danger as the culprit remains at large. Thur Mar 15 2001 13:03:22  San Diego, California Three shot dead in San Diego home -- (Nando) A 5-month-old boy, a 4-year-old girl and a man were each shot in the head and killed, and a woman believed to be the children's mother was injured, San Diego police said Wednesday. Thur Mar 15 2001 13:01:07  Newark, New Jersey N.J. State Police Recall New Guns -- (Newsday) The State Police have recalled hundreds of 9 mm guns recently issued to troopers after several of the weapons jammed or otherwise malfunctioned during training. Thur Mar 15 2001 12:58:43  Jesse Dirkhising, 13 - bound, gagged, repeatedly raped Bentonville, Arkansas Police Say They Couldn't Help Boy -- (Newsday) Police officers didn't try to revive a dying boy at a gay couple's apartment because they weren't carrying their disease-deterrent masks, the officers testified Thursday. Jesse Dirkhising, 13, died Sept. 26, 1999, in the apartment of Joshua Macabe Brown, 23, and Davis Don Carpenter, 39. Thur Mar 15 2001 12:36:02  Austin, Texas Missing Atheist's Remains Identified -- (Fox) A relative says federal authorities have positively identified the remains of atheist activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who's been missing since 1995. O'Hair's estranged son says officials have also identified the remains of two other family members. Federal officials plan to release details at a news conference. Thur Mar 15 2001 12:34:01  Springfield, Massachusetts Nurse convicted in veterans hospital deaths -- (CNN) A former nurse at a veterans hospital was convicted Wednesday of murdering four patients with drug injections in what prosecutors said was an attempt to impress her boyfriend with the way she handled emergencies. Kristen Gilbert, 33, could get the death penalty. Thur Mar 15 2001 10:51:53  New York Jury deliberates in trial of rap star "Puffy" Combs -- (abcNews) A jury began its first full day of deliberations Thursday in the gun possession and bribery trial of multimillionaire hip hop mogul Sean "Puffy" Combs, who faces up to 15 years in jail if convicted on charges stemming from a 1999 New York night club shooting. What does this case mean to Combs' entertainment empire? -- (abcNews) Puffy: 'I Like the Sense of Being in Trouble' -- (abcNews) Awaiting the Verdict -- (abcNews) Thur Mar 15 2001 10:39:13  Boston, Massachusetts Police in Oklahoma have new tips on fugitive Bulger's whereabouts -- (Boston.com) Fugitive James ''Whitey'' Bulger, who was allegedly a much-feared mobster in Boston with an explosive, murderous temper, may be hiding out in homosexual communities or nudist facilities, according to police in Oklahoma. Bulger is already on the FBI's ''Ten Most Wanted'' list and a reward of $1 million is being offered for information leading to his arrest. Thur Mar 15 2001 10:35:48  Plattsburgh, New York Police arrest Kansas man wanted for murder -- (Boston.com) Police have arrested a Kansas man wanted for murder who they said was headed for Canada. Julio Cesar Paniagua, 37, of Topeka is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the March 1 shooting death of Nazario Hernandez-Portuges, 31, at a gas-station parking lot. Thur Mar 15 2001 09:42:45  Mountain Home, Arkansas Collector says he paid $6,500 for stolen Lindbergh artifacts -- (STL Today) Seven or eight years ago, at a gun show somewhere in northern Arkansas or southern Missouri, Ray Woodruff was approached by a man standing alongside a Cadillac who offered two glittering objects for sale. Thur Mar 15 2001 09:37:33  Tacoma, Washington Man steals $100 in Girl Scout cookie receipts; police, stranger make it right -- (Oregon Live) A thief who stole $100 from Girl Scouts selling cookies in front of a grocery store stunned Marie Aasted and her troop. Thur Mar 15 2001 09:18:39  Lisa Small, 16 - manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn girl busted in baby slay -- (NY Daily News) A Brooklyn schoolgirl was arrested last night on charges of smothering her newborn child before hurling the infant out a tenement window to a hungry dog, police said. Thur Mar 15 2001 09:14:12  BENNIE BERGMAN, 91 - conned and robbed Des Moines, Iowa Elderly east-sider accuses impostor grandson of theft -- (DM Register) A man posing as the grandson of an elderly Des Moines man allegedly stole everything of value after the old man went to bed. Thur Mar 15 2001 09:08:10  VERONICA GUERIN - murdered Irish journalist John Gilligan, 48 - "great suspicions" Dublin, Ireland Man cleared of Guerin murder -- (BBC) A Dublin drugs dealer has been found not guilty of the murder of the Irish journalist Veronica Guerin. Wed Mar 14 2001 20:58:02  Albuquerque, New Mexico 'Son' Was Told of Adoption Gone Bad -- (ABQjournal) A man accused by New York authorities of kidnapping a toddler from the Big Apple and raising him as his own son said he had always intended to tell the boy about his past. Barry Smiley, 56, made the comments in a brief statement to the media upon arriving in Albuquerque one day after being released from a New York-area jail. Two families remain devoted to the boy both call son -- (Boston.com) Now, the child is a 22-year-old man called Matthew Propp, an adult torn between the couple who raised him and the couple who gave him life. One, the Smileys, face criminal charges including kidnapping; the other wonders whether a belated reunion will be a lasting one. Wed Mar 14 2001 20:54:24  St. Johnsbury, Vermont Kirby man pleads guilty to molesting young girl -- (Boston.com) Stephen E. Brown, 39, agreed to plead guilty to child molestation this week in a deal in which the prosecutor dropped a far more serious charge of child rape. Brown was arrested last March after an armed standoff at his home and jailed for lack of $50,000 bail. Boston, Massachusetts Sister of murder suspect became a lawyer in order to defend him -- (Boston.com) Betty Ann Waters was a college dropout with two children and no plans for her future. It wasn't until her brother, Kenneth, was convicted of murder for beating and stabbing a woman 30 times that she found a real career path. New York Baby's death ruled homicide -- (Boston.com) The death of a baby, found half eaten by the family dog in Brooklyn, has been ruled a homicide, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday. Wed Mar 14 2001 20:50:18  Tulsa, Oklahoma Oklahoma, Florida prosecutors file murder charges against three -- (Boston.com) Two Boston mobsters who once served as federal informants were charged Wednesday in murders in Florida and Oklahoma, and prosecutors here plan to seek the death penalty. Tulsa prosecutors charged James ''Whitey'' Bulger, Stephen ''The Rifleman'' Flemmi and John Martorano with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the 1981 slaying of Tulsa executive Roger Wheeler. Wed Mar 14 2001 16:34:40  Decatur, Georgia Man accused of lying in Brown case -- (Atlanta J-C) A lawyer representing a former deputy accused of providing false alibis for himself and another deputy the night Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown was killed says his client stands by his original story. Wed Mar 14 2001 16:32:22  Virginia Beach, Virginia Warrants unsealed in woman's death -- (Virginian-Pilot) Stephano Colosi Jr., the man police believe engineered a murder-for-hire of his estranged wife, may have paid one of the two accused hit men as much as $10,000 in the days before the killing, search warrants released Tuesday indicate. Colosi's wife, 29-year-old Robyn L. Rogers, died in August, three weeks after a gruesome attack at her office. Wed Mar 14 2001 16:29:29  Cleveland, Ohio Man Nabbed in Ohio Wanted in Deaths -- (Las Vegas Sun) - A man arrested after a 25-hour standoff with police is wanted in Alabama for questioning in the beating deaths of his girlfriend and her mother, and Cleveland authorities want to talk to him about a 1994 killing here. Cleveland police identified the man arrested Tuesday as Wakilii Brown, 25. Wed Mar 14 2001 16:27:51  Grande Prairie, Alberta 'Kill them all' boy released -- (Edmonton Sun) A 15-year-old boy arrested for allegedly threatening to kill three classmates was released yesterday into the custody of his parents. Wed Mar 14 2001 12:47:15  Oregon Women's Correctional Center Puppies in the pokey: Inmates raise dogs for the disabled -- (ABC News) Hardened criminals and soft, fuzzy puppies? Maybe the two don't always go together. Wed Mar 14 2001 12:40:40  WALTER JONES, 53 - body found holding gun BARBARA WASHINGTON, 54 - shot in head and chest Brooklyn, New York Murder-suicide now a double homicide -- (Newsday) When Walter Jones was found fatally wounded in his Brooklyn apartment, his right hand clutching a .38-caliber Colt in an apparent death grip and his longtime girlfriend shot dead, investigators concluded they'd come across a murder-suicide. Wed Mar 14 2001 12:35:15 JESSE DIRKISING, 13 - died September 1996 Joshua McCabe and Doin Carpenter - could face execution Bentonville, Arkansas Jury seated in case or rape-murder of boy, 13 -- (Postnet) A jury was seated Wednesday for the trial of a gay man accused of taking part in the murder of a 13-year-old boy who suffocated after he was tied up and sodomized. Jesse Dirkhising Memorial Page -- (Americans for Truth) Why Aren’t Media Covering Jesse Dirkhising Murder Like that of Matthew Shepard? Wed Mar 14 2001 10:59:37  Newark, New Jersey Megan's Law for murder -- (NJO News) A ranking Republican legislator is proposing a law that would require Megan's Law-style community notification before a murderer is released from prison. Wed Mar 14 2001 10:54:18  Sheffield, England 'Body in the bag' pair jailed for life -- (BBC) Two men have been jailed for life for the murder of a pensioner whose decomposed body was found dumped in a bag on wasteland in Sheffield. Wed Mar 14 2001 10:46:49  Fort Pierce, Florida Two girls, 12, charged with drowning attempt -- (CNN) Two 12-year-old girls were charged with trying to drown a classmate who refused to lend her swim mask and flippers. Wed Mar 14 2001 10:28:36  Virginia Beach, Virginia Beach man found slain in a field near Norfolk airport -- (Pilot Online) A 30-year-old man who had been reported missing was found slain Tuesday morning in a field near Norfolk International Airport. Wed Mar 14 2001 10:17:29  Robert Tulloch, 17 and James Parker, 16 - murder charges in the Jan. 27 stabbing deaths of Half and Susanne Zantop Lebanon, New Hampshire Parents of boys charged in Dartmouth murders seek deal on grand jury -- (Boston.com) The parents of two Vermont teen-agers charged in the murders of two Dartmouth College professors are seeking a deal with prosecutors on grand jury testimony, one of their lawyers says. Vt. Town split over slay case subpoenas -- (Boston Globe) Though neighbors are sympathetic to the plight of the parents of two teenagers charged with killing Susanne and Half Zantop, they are split on whether the state's decision to order the parents to testify before a grand jury is an unjustified intrusion into family privacy. Link for suspects, victims lacking in Dartmouth case -- (Boston Herald) More than six weeks after a popular Dartmouth College couple was brutally hacked to death in their home, investigators have still found no link between the alleged teenage killers and the victims, sources said yesterday. Wed Mar 14 2001 10:10:23  Los Angeles, California 3 Inmates Convicted of Killing in 1998 at Men's Central Jail -- (Los Angeles Times) Three inmates were convicted of first-degree murder Tuesday in a 1998 Los Angeles jailhouse killing that authorities believe was a hit ordered by the Mexican Mafia. Christian Knighten, Frankie Lujan and Dennis Ray Morris were convicted of killing Robert Tiernan, 32, while Tiernan and the defendants were locked up at the Men's Central Jail. Wed Mar 14 2001 10:07:20  Beverly, Massachusetts Man arrested after threatening to shoot potato into girlfriend -- (Boston.com) Police arrested a man who allegedly threatened to shoot his girlfriend with a homemade bazooka that shoots potatoes. Sean McGrath, 30, allegedly told his girlfriend Tuesday night he would ''put a potato through'' her head using the potato launcher. |
