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Fri June 1 2001 09:28:05  Broward County, Florida Lawyers ask Gov. Bush for clemency for Tate -- (Sun Sentinel) Attorneys for Lionel Tate filed a request for clemency on Thursday on behalf of the 14-year-old who is one of the youngest people in the nation to have been sentenced as an adult to life in prison. Tate was sentenced to life in prison on March 9 for the beating death of 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick at his Pembroke Park home. Thur May 31 2001 20:54:19  Boston.com Federal judge moves Boston Strangler lawsuit to state court -- (Boston.com) A lawsuit seeking the release of evidence in the Boston Strangler case will be heard in state court instead of federal court, a judge ruled Thursday. Thur May 31 2001 17:11:32  St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Foreskin key to escape attempt -- (Ottawa Sun) Correctional officers found a handcuff key hidden under the foreskin of an inmate who was taken to hospital Sunday complaining of chest pains. Thur May 31 2001 17:02:27  Toms River, New Jersey Arrest made in slayings of two dismembered men found in New Jersey -- (Town Online) A nurse was charged with killing two men whose remains were found stuffed in plastic trash bags along New Jersey highways. Richard W. Rogers Jr., 50, was arrested at a New York City hospital Tuesday and charged with two counts of murder in the 1992 and 1993 killings. Thur May 31 2001 15:40:24  Mabel Greineder, - murdered Dedham, Massachusetts Officer says Greineder murder weapon bore no prints -- (Boston Globe) A State Police investigator testified yesterday that neither the knife nor the hammer used to kill Mabel Greineder bore any identifiable fingerprints. The testimony supports the prosecution's case against allergist Dirk K. Greineder, whom they say stashed surgical gloves while plotting the murder of his wife at Morse's Pond in Wellesley. The Case of Dr. Dirk Greineder -- (Town Online) case over-view Thur May 31 2001 15:33:03  Sandpoint, Idaho Kids, cops in standoff -- (Atlanta A-J) For years, Michael and JoAnn McGuckin kept their children close to their dilapidated rural home, fearing illness and imagined government plots to take the home and split up the family. Now the six youngest, ages 8 to 16, are holed up inside with a stash of rifles and a pack of vicious dogs. With their father dead and their mother arrested, they are refusing to answer negotiators who have been trying since Tuesday to coax them out. Police hope older sister will defuse kids' Idaho standoff -- (CNN) CNN Correspondent Lilian Kim reported that the children have been surviving on lake water and lilypad soup. Thur May 31 2001 14:20:52  Queensbury, New York Man who videotaped girls in locker room sentenced to prison -- (Boston.com) A man who wore a woman's wig as he sneaked into a locker room to videotape girls undressing was sentenced to up to 25 years in prison. Thur May 31 2001 14:18:34  Morristown, New Jersey Slain boy was seen at bridge -- (Daily Record) Murder victim Walter Contreras Valenzuela was last seen hours before he was reported missing walking along Cory Road, officials revealed Wednesday. This is the first new detail released by authorities since the discovery of the boy’s body. New York Canadian Mounties help crack possible serial-killings case -- (Boston.com) ) Sophisticated equipment provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police helped identify fingerprints on trash bags that contained body parts of two men killed in the early 1990s. Thur May 31 2001 10:39:13  Austin, Texas Jury finds Springsteen guilty in yogurt shop murder -- (kvue) A West Virginia man was convicted Wednesday of killing a 13-year-old girl during a 1991 yogurt shop robbery that turned into a quadruple murder. Thur May 31 2001 10:37:18  Palm Beach, Florida Murder suspect stabs self, gets shot by deputy near Boynton -- (Sun Sentinel) A man awaiting trial on a murder charge remained in serious condition on Wednesday, a day after he stabbed himself in the chest and was shot by a deputy sent to his home to arrest him for failing to appear at a court hearing. Thur May 31 2001 10:34:35  Clarksburg, Maryland Suspect in priest's murder testifies -- (Journal Online) The Clarksburg man accused of killing a Germantown priest in the church rectory said he didn't tell police about the priest's alleged sexual advances because he was embarrassed and scared. Thur May 31 2001 10:32:52  New York A Suspect in murders has tie to Maine -- (Press Herald) former University of Maine student who was acquitted in the brutal slaying of another student in 1973 has been charged with killing two men whose remains were found stuffed in plastic trash bags along New Jersey highways in 1992 and 1993. Links sought to other grisly murders -- (Boston Globe) Wed May 30 2001 19:15:48  Sandpoint, Idaho Deputies wait out armed children in Idaho -- (CNN) County authorities backed away from a standoff with armed children outside a northern Idaho home Wednesday after the children released a pack of dogs on officers who arrested their mother. Wed May 30 2001 18:38:19  Melbourne, Australia Murder accused was afraid husband would leave estate to lover -- (Canberra Times) A 73-year-old grandmother accused of killing her estranged husband feared he had left everything in his will to a younger woman, a Melbourne court was told yesterday. Wed May 30 2001 15:45:35  Peter M. Gagnon, 48 - wanted on 38 counts of rape and assault and battery. Boston, Massachusetts Police seek ex-Marine accused of raping six girls -- (Boston.com) Police are searching for an ex-Marine accused of drugging at least six girls and raping them while videotaping the assaults at his daughter's slumber parties. Wed May 30 2001 15:05:33  Fort Drum, New York Wife holds to story that husband killed young boy -- (Boston.com) Edca Flores, who testified Wednesday that her husband beat a 7-year-old to death, said she initially lied to authorities because she feared the soldier and former Puerto Rican Olympic boxer. Wed May 30 2001 14:47:46  Geremino T. Ranallo, 64, and Warren G. Jacoby, 49 - arrested Washington Township, New Jersey Men’s 'farts' clear food store -- (NJO News) Some alleged crimes really stink. Wed May 30 2001 14:38:33  LYNN REISTER, 30 - stabbed to death Sgt. Roger Reister, 27 and Rodney Reister, 25 - charged with murder El Paso, Texas Army seargant held in murder of captain-wife -- (Nando Times) The husband and brother-in-law of a slain Fort Bliss Army captain have been charged with murder after a bloody handprint was found on her arm. Wed May 30 2001 14:17:49  Jenna Bush, 19 - President's daughter Austin, Texas Police say Bush daughter tried to buy alcohol -- (ABC News) President Bush's 19-year-old daughter Jenna attempted to buy alcohol with an identification card that belonged to someone else, police said on Wednesday. Wed May 30 2001 13:39:47  Toms River, New Jersey Suspect in slayings of dismembered men fighting extradition to N.J. -- (Boston.com) A New York nurse who was tried and acquitted of killing a fellow University of Maine student in 1973 has been charged with killing two men whose remains were found stuffed in plastic trash bags along New Jersey highways in 1992 and 1993. Richard W. Rogers Jr. is also under investigation for other dismemberment deaths in the early 1990s. Several of the victims were men last seen in New York gay bars. Wed May 30 2001 12:39:43  Albany, New York State to end mandatory sequestering of juries -- (Boston.com) The mandatory sequestering of jurors as they deliberate over serious criminal cases will end in New York under a measure to be approved by the state Legislature Wednesday. Wed May 30 2001 12:38:06  Shaun Alexander, 23 - second-degree murder charges in the death of sophomore Max Kolb Hempstead, New York Hofstra homicide suspect worked with kids at summer camp -- (Boston.com) The Hofstra University student accused of killing and then mutilating a classmate with a kitchen knife worked as a youth counselor at the college's summer day camp. Wed May 30 2001 10:47:08  Derby, England Police try to identify murder victim -- (BBC) A murder inquiry is under way after the body of an unidentified woman was found near a petrol station. Wed May 30 2001 10:30:51  LISA CAROL KINLEY - body found in wooded area May 1997 Michael Duane Kelly, 42 - life in prison High Point, North Carolina Jury convicts Kelly of murder -- (News-Record) Kelly was arrested more than a year after his common-law wife's body was found. Wed May 30 2001 10:05:18  BONNIE LEE BAKLEY, 45 - shot to death May 4, 2001 Los Angeles, California LA cops leaned on Blake, lawyer says -- (UPI) "The police were speaking with a forked tongue," Braun said. "Their detectives that morning were accusing him of taking her somewhere else, killing her and driving back." Wed May 30 2001 09:42:12  JONBENET RAMSEY, 6 - murdered in her home December 26, 1996 Boulder, Colorado Larry King Live with guest Lou Smit -- (CNN) Transcript from May 29, 2001 Opinions slow jury selection -- (Daily Camera) After asking only a few questions Tuesday, the judge soon learned that every member of the jury pool had some knowledge of the Ramsey case and that some of them had opinions that ran deep. Ramsey attorney asks for action -- (Daily Camera) John and Patsy Ramsey's attorney is asking the District Attorney's Office to either close the "umbrella of suspicion" held over the couple or appoint a special prosecutor to investigate their daughter's unsolved murder. Wed May 30 2001 08:49:34  ANGEL HART, 5 - murdered in 1993 Kansas City, Missouri Partial remains of 5-year-old murder victim lost in mail, officials say -- (KC Star) Some remains of a 5-year-old girl murdered in Kansas City eight years ago and discarded in the desert are lost in the mail, Jackson County prosecutors said Tuesday. Wed May 30 2001 08:39:21  GINGER HARRISON, 28 - six-year veteran Los Angeles, California LAPD officer peels off clothes for Playboy -- (CH2000) Cop hopes her nude photos will help with recruitment. Tues May 29 2001 22:27:46  San Francisco, California Couple Says Not Guilty in Calif. Dog Mauling Death -- (BayArea.com) After months of delays, Marjorie Knoller and husband Robert Noel entered the pleas in connection with the death of Diane Whipple, the 33-year-old lacrosse coach who was killed in the hallway outside her own apartment on Jan. 26. Tues May 29 2001 20:20:48  New York New York man accused of killing 2, for their apartments -- (CNN) A man was charged with killing two people -- one of whom was dismembered -- so he could move into their apartments, police said. Bernard Perez, 20, was arrested early Monday after police found him and another man inside one of the victim's apartment in upper Manhattan. Tues May 29 2001 18:21:52  St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis police still seek whoever killed girl in 1983 -- (KCstar) After 18 years the old police detective still thinks about the girl in the basement. Nearly every day. She would have been 26 or 28 now, maybe have had children of her own, he figures. In his memory, though, she's frozen: about 10 years old, lying on her stomach in the furnace room of an abandoned west St. Louis apartment building. Raped. Strangled. Decapitated. Tues May 29 2001 18:16:02  Phoenix, Arizona Alleged smuggler in fatal border crossing arrested -- (Alabama Live) One of 12 survivors of a border crossing that ended in 14 deaths in the scorching hot Arizona desert was arrested Tuesday on allegations of smuggling illegal immigrants, a spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service said. Tues May 29 2001 15:57:35 New York Four convicted in bombings at U.S. embassies in Africa; two could face death penalty -- (Star Tribune) Four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted today of all charges in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people and injured thousands of others in a shower of rubble and twisted metal. Rashed Daoud Al-'Owhali, 24, of Saudi Arabia; Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, 27, of Tanzania; Wadih El-Hage, 40, of Arlington, Texas; and Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, 36, of Jordan, were convicted of conspiring to kill Americans in the nearly simultaneous bombings. Tues May 29 2001 15:10:06  McAlester, Oklahoma Oklahoma killer to be executed -- (UPI) Vincent Allen Johnson was scheduled for execution Tuesday night in Oklahoma for the 1991 murder of a 44-year-old woman in her home. Tues May 29 2001 15:07:19  Boulder, Colorado Ramsey case officer gets trial -- (Philly.com) A trial is set to begin for a former Boulder police detective who contends her bosses unfairly scapegoated her for mistakes in the JonBenet Ramsey investigation. Settlement talks collapsed last week in the lawsuit filed by Linda Arndt. U.S. District Judge William F. Downes scheduled jury selection to begin today. Tues May 29 2001 13:20:55  Albany, New York Fetus found in trash outside Albany house -- (Boston.com) People rummaging through the trash left outside a house recently vacated by college students found what appeared to be a fetus in a garbage bag early Tuesday. Tues May 29 2001 12:00:05 Los Angeles, California Man freed after being imprisoned in Mexico on trumped up charges -- (Sacbee) A 59-year-old Orange County church volunteer imprisoned in Mexico nearly seven years on trumped up molestation and heroin possession charges was freed by a federal judge in Mexico, his attorney said. Tues May 29 2001 10:32:42  New York Gang 'godmother' says life in prison is a set up -- (Boston.com) A woman described as the ruthless ''godmother'' of a Brooklyn-based street gang who was sentenced to life in prison last month insists she was set up. Tues May 29 2001 10:31:02 New York Man charged with robbery in vandalized cemetery -- (Boston.com) A man who allegedly robbed a woman visiting a Queens cemetery has been arrested on robbery charges and is being held in connection with the overturning of 60 tombstones, police said. Tues May 29 2001 10:29:12  Rutland, Virginia Cop cards: They're the latest in local collectibles -- (Boston.com) Hundreds of Rutland schoolchildren are asking city police for help. They're not in danger; they just need police trading cards. Tues May 29 2001 10:27:32  Dalton, Georgia Woman shoots kidnapper who killed her mother -- (Tennessean) A Nashville woman kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend shot him to death outside a Dalton, Ga., truck stop yesterday morning, less than four hours after the man killed her mother, Metro police said. |
