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Tues Apr 3 2001 21:20:12  Pinellas Park, Florida Man fatally shot after police standoff -- (St Petersburg Times) Panicked, the wife of Ronald Sexton arrived at the police station, pleading for help. Her husband was firing a shotgun inside the house, threatening to kill himself. Tues Apr 3 2001 19:53:01  Boston, Massachusetts Woman arrested in alleged murder-for-hire scheme -- (Boston Herald) Yarnik Meiles, 33, is accused of conspiring with her brother-in-law, Maxene Pierre, to kill Pierre's wife during a trip to Haiti. Police said the pair planned to use the insurance money to pay for Pierre's bail from Suffolk County's Nashua Street jail. Pierre's wife was ambushed and shot four times in the head and abdomen but survived the attack. Police would not release her name because she is now a protected witness. Tues Apr 3 2001 19:49:07  Miami, Florida Alleged Hingis Stalker Says It Was Just Courting -- (Reuters) A man accused of stalking Martina Hingis after following the tennis star to tournaments, hanging around outside her home and sending her flowers and faxes told a Miami court on Tuesday he would have stopped if she had told him his behavior worried her. Tues Apr 3 2001 18:16:31  Salem Township, Michigan Michigan man accused of trying to suffocate wife in smoke-filled box -- (Cnews) A man tried to kill his wife by wrapping her in cellophane and blankets and sealing her in a smoke-filled box, authorities say. Timothy Brandt, 33, allegedly hit his wife in the head with a hammer after she escaped from the box, but she managed to telephone for help Tues Apr 3 2001 18:14:02  Decatur, Alabama Trickery nets murder suspect -- (Alabama Live) A belated April Fool's trick by Falkville police netted a murder suspect. Falkville Police Chief Ken Winkles lured Dennis Lynn Eddy, 35, into the police department on Monday to pick up a truck seized last month. Then, he held Eddy until investigators from Walker County arrived to pick him up on charges stemming from a 1995 murder. Tues Apr 3 2001 18:11:26  New York Detective Mulzac is the bug cop -- (Sun Sentinel) In the film ``The Silence of the Lambs,'' when a moth's cocoon is discovered in the throat of a murder victim, the FBI consults an entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution to identify the moth. Tues Apr 3 2001 16:30:24  Boston, Massachusetts Court hears arguments over rights to shipwreck, gold coins -- (Boston.com) Nearly a century after the luxury liner RMS Republic sank off Nantucket, treasure hunters are still battling over the ship's cargo, which some believe includes gold coins now worth more than $1 billion. Tues Apr 3 2001 15:40:59  Murray Brandis Jordan, 64 - arrested for DUI Atlanta, Georgia Taste of reality: 'Cops' producer charged with DUI in Buckhead -- (Atlanta J-C) The producer for the Fox reality show "Cops" got a dose of reality himself when he was busted for DUI in Buckhead. A police officer stopped Jordan after the producer made an illegal left-hand turn onto Peachtree Road from East Paces Ferry Road in a rented Oldsmobile Aurora at 11:42 p.m. Monday. Roger Clinton, 44 - charged with drunken driving February 21 Torrence, California Roger Clinton fights DUI charge -- (ABC News) The lawyer for former first brother Roger Clinton claimed Hermosa Beach police targeted his client for a drunken driving arrest because he's famous. Tues Apr 3 2001 15:38:40  Albany, New York Serial killer's art sale upsets families of victims -- (Atlanta J-C) A portrait of Britain's late Princess Diana is among 10 paintings and sketches by convicted serial killer Arthur Shawcross for sale at a state-sponsored inmates' art show. Relatives of Shawcross' victims say they are outraged that his art, and the work of several other New York state inmates, is on display as part of the 35th Annual Corrections on Canvas art show. Tues Apr 3 2001 14:38:10  Austin, Texas DNA Testing Bill Gets Final OK -- (Newsday) A bill making it easier for Texas inmates to use DNA testing to try to prove their innocence received final approval from the Legislature on Tuesday and was sent to Gov. Rick Perry, who is expected to sign it into law. Tues Apr 3 2001 13:09:48  Fairfax County, Maryland Va. Man Receives Life Sentence for '92 Slaying -- (Washington Post) A Leesburg man who repeatedly stabbed a popular Old Town Alexandria shopkeeper to death in 1992, but wasn't arrested until eight years later, was sentenced in Fairfax County Circuit Court yesterday to life in prison. Mack Reaves III, 31, apologized to the family of Marilyn M. Bandera, who was killed in her Belle Haven home March 18, 1992. Tues Apr 3 2001 11:33:37  Bowmont, New York Man imprisoned over shootout feud that killed passing motorist -- (Boston.com) An intoxicated man who got into a violent quarrel with neighboring campers drew a sentence of one-to-three years in prison for triggering a shootout that killed a family man driving by in his car. Tues Apr 3 2001 10:39:06  JONBENET RAMSEY, 6 - murdered in her home December 1996 Boulder, Colorado Thomas plans for day in court -- (The Daily Camera) Steve Thomas said Monday he has retained the services of Daniel Petrocelli and said he looks forward to the opportunity to "expose in a court of law what happened in the Ramsey home" the night the couple's daughter, JonBenét, was killed. Tues Apr 3 2001 10:28:11  Martinsville, Indiana Judge allows Web site that details Kirby multiple murder trial -- (StarNews) A Morgan County judge has denied a request from accused killer Judy Kirby's attorneys to shut down a court-sanctioned Internet site that includes public documents about her case. Kirby, 32, Indianapolis, is charged with seven counts of murder in connection with a March 25, 2000, wreck on Ind. 67 that killed seven people. Tues Apr 3 2001 10:25:18  St. Charles Township, Illinois Trial in triple murder opens -- (Courier News) Nineteen-year-old Anthony Cooper was found dead on the second-floor landing of an Elgin apartment building with a bullet wound to the head, police said Monday at the trial of one of the suspects in his murder. Officers found Taiwon Jackson, 20, sitting on a couch in a nearby apartment with a bullet wound to the crown of his head. On the floor, Treymane Jackson, 17, lay sprawled out with a gunshot to the right side of his neck. Tues Apr 3 2001 10:21:57  Chino Hills, California Chino Hills man arrested for allegedly killing stepson -- (Sacbee) A Chino Hills chiropractor was arrested Monday for allegedly providing morphine to his stepson who later overdosed on the drug, authorities said. Sidney Polidori, 49, surrendered Monday to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. Tues Apr 3 2001 10:21:48  FREDDIE W. BRUMFIELD, 18 - died of a single gunshot wound Tonya Nickole Dice - wanted for criminal homicide Waynesboro, Pennsylvania AMW features local murder suspect -- (The Record-Herald) AMW program officials said they are getting close to Dice, who is charged with criminal homicide and hindering apprehension or prosecution in connection with a 1995 murder in Chambersburg. Tues Apr 3 2001 10:19:36  Northampton, Massachusetts Trial set for today in torture murder case -- (Boston Herald) The last of three brothers charged in the torture slaying of a mildly retarded Greenfield man is scheduled to stand trial today. The jury-waived trial was ordered by a judge who rejected Roger Perry's attempts to plead guilty to manslaughter in the death of Billy Paige. Tues Apr 3 2001 10:15:46  KENT WALKER - author of 'Son of a Grifter' Sante and Kenneth Kimes - mother-son grifter team New York Murderer's son recalls a life of crime, lies, love -- (CNN) A son of Sante Kimes, the con artist convicted of murdering a wealthy Manhattan widow, says in a magazine article that she burned down the family home, tried to get him to kill someone and doped his wife. Mom was evil, but loving - Kimes other son tells all in book -- (NY daily News) Grifter Sante Kimes' other son says he knew the score on his mother from an early age because she dragged him as a little boy into her "compulsive, ceaseless larceny." Tues Apr 3 2001 10:15:41  UCLA, California LAX Worker Gets 1 Year in Obscene Calls -- (LA Times) A baggage handler charged with making obscene telephone calls to female students at UCLA pleaded guilty Monday and was sentenced to one year in jail. Wallace Bouier, 42, was arrested on the job. Tues Apr 3 2001 10:13:36  Los Angeles, California Deputy Stabbed at Men's Central Jail -- (LA Times) A convicted murderer who was sentenced to life in prison faces additional charges after a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was stabbed several times at the Men's Central Jail, officials said Monday. Tues Apr 3 2001 10:11:57  Ventura County, California Lawyer Guilty in Brockovich Extortion Case -- (LA Times) A jury Monday convicted Century City lawyer John Reiner of trying to extort $310,000 from Erin Brockovich and her employer, attorney Ed Masry, in exchange for not going to the tabloids with allegations that Brockovich was a bad mother and Masry's lover. Tues Apr 3 2001 10:10:12  Monterey County, California Rapist Is Convicted in Deaths of 2 Students -- (LA Times) A paroled rapist was convicted Monday of murder, kidnapping and rape in the deaths of two female college students whose bodies were found two years ago, buried on his rural San Luis Obispo property. Rex A. Krebs, 35, will return to a Monterey County courtroom April 17, when jurors will decide whether they should recommend he be put to death. Mon Apr 2 2001 21:58:49  Walter Stadnick - Hell's Angel Jamaica and Canada Canadian fugitive in Jamaican court -- (USA Today) A fugitive wanted in Canada in connection with 13 murders appeared in a Jamaican court Monday saying he knew nothing about the charges and wanted to return to Canada to fight them. Mon Apr 2 2001 21:44:46  Vincent Cianci Jr., 59 - in office for more than 20 years Providence, Rhode Island Grand jury indicts Rhode Island mayor on racketeering charges -- (Nando Times) On Monday, a federal grand jury indicted Providence's longtime mayor on racketeering charges, accusing him of soliciting bribes in exchange for government promotions and city contracts. Mon Apr 2 2001 19:47:42  Chicago, Illinois Prosecution says Girl X must be believed; Defense says not enough evidence -- (Chicago Tribune) A prosecutor urged jurors Monday to believe 13-year-old Girl X's account in sign language of the sexual attack and beating four years ago that left her blind, in a wheelchair and unable to speak. Assistant State's Atty. Anita Alvarez said Patrick Sykes, a 29-year-old ex-convict charged in the case, is the ``monster'' responsible for the attack. Mon Apr 2 2001 19:45:14  Hunterdon County, New Jersey Area man is charged with mob murder -- (New Jersey Online) When a television crime family extended its grip into southern Hunterdon County the other week, it was fiction, a surprise even to the recycling chief portrayed on "The Sopranos." But after a Lebanon man surrendered to authorities late last week, the mob’s alleged existence among the rolling farm fields of this bucolic county is more reality than fantasy, one prosecutor said. Mon Apr 2 2001 18:41:14  New York Two Convicted of Attacking NY Women -- (Newsday) Two men charged with being part of an unruly group of men that doused women with water and groped them in Central Park were convicted Monday of riot and assault charges. Mon Apr 2 2001 18:17:56  Margaret Rudin - on trial Ron Rudin - murdered Las Vegas Sun Rudin jurors hear DNA expert testify -- (Las Vegas Sun) Jurors in the Margaret Rudin trial returned this morning to hear more about the blood evidence prosecutors hope will convince them to convict her of murder in the death of her husband six years ago. Ron Rudin Slaying Archive and Timeline -- (Las Vegas R-J) Mon Apr 2 2001 18:17:02  David Parker Ray, 61 - faces 12 felony charges Alburquerque, New Mexico Jury selection starts in New Mexico sex-torture retrial -- (Reuters) Jury selection began Monday in the retrial of a New Mexico man accused in a headline-grabbing case of kidnapping women for rape and torture in his desert mobile home. Jury selection begins in retrial for Ray -- (ABQ Journal) Jury selection resumed Monday in the trial of an Elephant Butte man accused of kidnapping, raping and sexually torturing a 26-year-old Colorado woman near Truth or Consequences in 1996. Mon Apr 2 2001 17:10:12  JONBENET RAMSEY, 6 - unsolved 1996 homicide Boulder, Colorado Steve Thomas responds to Ramsey libel suit -- (Business Wire) Steve Thomas, former detective in the JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation, has retained Daniel Petrocelli and Chuck Diamond of O'Melveny & Myers to defend him in the March 29, 2001 libel suit filed against him by John and Patsy Ramsey, parents of JonBenet. Mon Apr 2 2001 16:41:52  ELLEN J. ANDROS, 31 - found dead in bed Pleasantville, New Jersey Police officer's wife found dead next to sleeping daughters -- (NJO News) A police officer's wife was found slain in her home, near the couple's two sleeping daughters, authorities said. She had been suffocated. Mon Apr 2 2001 16:40:34  Oneida, New York Police charge man with youth's 1992 slaying -- (Boston.com) A man imprisoned on a molestation charge was charged Monday with the 1992 murder of a 15-year-old boy who was strangled while walking to a Fourth of July celebration. Authorities linked Jeffrey S. Clark to the slaying of Sean Googin of Cazenovia through a match on the state's sexual offender DNA databank, said New York State Police Maj. James Parmley. Mon Apr 2 2001 16:35:57  Miami, Florida Miami mother shot to death trying to break-up fight over stripper's dance -- (Sun Sentinel) A man fatally shot his wife during their son's 21st birthday party after the son argued with him for trying to kick out his girlfriend, who was upset at her boyfriend for dropping his pants while dancing with a stripper, police said. Mon Apr 2 2001 14:20:31  Los Angeles, California U.S. students have easy access to guns, survey finds -- (CNN) Nearly half of the nation's high school students have easy access to guns, and more than one in five high school boys have taken a weapon to school in the last year, according to a survey released Sunday. Mon Apr 2 2001 10:58:12  RIA WOLMERANS - victim Mariette Bosch - hanged Botswana, South Africa Love-triangle murderer hanged -- (BBC) A South African woman found guilty of a love-triangle murder in Botswana has been executed. Kathmandu, Nepal Women dig tunnel to escape jail -- (Reuters) Six women inmates, all suspected Maoist rebels, escaped from a jail in west Nepal through a small tunnel they had dug, newspapers reported on Sunday. Mon Apr 2 2001 10:41:19  Washington PBS film examines Scottsboro Boys trials -- (Nando Times) An Academy Award-nominated PBS documentary exploring the Scottsboro Boys trials in Alabama, in which nine black teenagers were accused of raping two white women, will air Monday night. Mon Apr 2 2001 10:37:30  LOIS LIVINGSTONE McMILLEN - murdered January 14, 2000 William Labrador, 37, Michael Spicer, 37, Evan George, 23 and Alexander Benedetto, 35 - on trial Tortola, British Virgin Islands Murder most foul: American’s ‘Murder in Paradise’ mystery heading for solution -- (ABC News) Numerous delays have kept the defendants in jail awaiting a trial for more than a year, but the "murder in paradise" mystery is finally heading toward an end when the trial begins today at the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. Mon Apr 2 2001 10:27:09  Bensenville, Illinois Van rams into police station -- (Chicago Sun Times) A crash rocked the Bensenville Police Department early Sunday when a van carrying five men plowed into a corner of the building. Three passengers died in the accident that police blame on a driver whose blood-alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit, authorities said. Mon Apr 2 2001 10:18:41  Washington Supreme Court sidesteps Florida death penalty case -- (Fox) Four months after intervening in the Florida presidential election case, the Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped another voting dispute from that state. Mon Apr 2 2001 10:17:02 Gary, Indiana Schoolyard Assassin to Be Charged With Murder -- (Fox) A teen-ager accused of fatally shooting a student outside a high school was scheduled to be formally charged with murder on Monday. Investigators said Donald Ray Burt Jr., 17, a former student at Lew Wallace High School, admitted shooting sophomore Neal Boyd, 16, on Friday. Mon Apr 2 2001 10:14:14  Newark, New Jersey Grandmother: Daughter-in-law is to blame for death of adopted child -- (Boston.com) The grandmother of a 7-year-old Russian boy whose adoptive parents were charged with aggravated manslaughter said Sunday she blames her daughter-in-law for the boy's death. |
