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    Tues July 17 2001 22:09:38



    CHANDRA ANN LEVY - missing person or homicide victim?
    Washington, D.C.
    Search for Levy continues in parks -- (MCNBC) Meanwhile, police have maintained pressure on Condit, dismissing the private polygraph test his lawyer says he passed last week as meaningless.
    Park searches yield no clues about Levy's whereabouts -- (CNN) The searches lasted roughly eight hours and are expected to resume Wednesday.
    Slow going -- (aqbc NEWS) Police searching for any sign of missing intern Chandra Levy came up empty-handed again in their search of Washington parks, as Rep. Gary Condit's office pledged the congressman would eventually speak out on his involvement with the young woman.




    Tues July 17 2001 21:46:01



    Kevin Jerome Pullum - on the loose since July 6
    Los Angeles, California
    Escapee's girlfriend: Give up, don't get hurt -- (CBS/CH2000) The girlfriend of a jail escapee who's the focus of an intense countywide search says that she's no longer in contact with the fugitive, but said that if she was, she'd tell him to surrender before he's cornered and "gets hurt."




    Tues July 17 2001 18:17:03



    Columbia Heights, Minnesota
    3 officers shot in Columbia Heights; one arrested -- (Star Tribune) Three police officers were shot in a gun battle with a man Tuesday in a residential neighborhood in Columbia Heights. The suspect, who also was hit, was under arrest. All four were in stable or good condition at two Twin Cities hospitals.




    Tues July 17 2001 18:15:26



    Washington
    Weapons, computers with classified information missing from FBI -- (Star Tribune) More than 180 computers, at least one containing classified material, are missing from the FBI along with some 450 weapons, officials said Tuesday. A total of 184 laptops are missing, including 13 that are believed to have been stolen, officials said.




    Tues July 17 2001 16:55:54



    Darryl Pearson, 52 and James Richards, 49 - arrested
    San Antonio, Texas
    Paintball-packing bounty hunters charged -- (abc NEWS) A pair of bounty hunters who allegedly fired paintball guns at their quarry and a 7-year-old girl found themselves locked in jail while their prey escaped, police said on Tuesday.




    Tues July 17 2001 15:44:47



    Hutchins, Texas
    Police investigate allegations 15-year-old was padlocked in room for eating disorder -- (Boston.com) A 15-year-old girl was kept padlocked in her bedroom in what her mother said was an effort to combat an eating disorder. No charges had been filed as of Tuesday, but authorities were investigating.




    Tues July 17 2001 15:41:55




    Albany, New York
    Attorney general says state worker nabbed for identity thefts -- (Boston.com) A former state employee pilfered identifying information about thousands of people and used it to steal at least $100,000 through fraudulent credit cards and computer purchases, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Tuesday. Valerie Shoffner photocopied a ''raft of documents that crossed her desk'' from 1996 and April 2001.




    Tues July 17 2001 15:37:29



    St. Louis, Missouri
    Father kills family, self, police say -- (CNN) A 34-year-old man entered a park Monday night and shot and killed both his estranged wife and their 10-year-old son, who had just finished playing a game of softball, police said. The man later killed himself.




    Tues July 17 2001 15:28:46




    Adelaide, Australia
    Tourist feared dead in outback night of terror -- (National Post) Police blocked roads out of Australia's arid red centre yesterday as Aboriginal trackers combed desert scrub for a gunman feared to have killed a British tourist before terrorizing his girlfriend.




    Tues July 17 2001 15:25:47



    Toronto, Ontario
    Mother charged with two counts of first-degree murder in car-trunk deaths -- (National Post) A young widow found semi-conscious in the trunk of her car, her two small children lying lifeless beside her, was charged Tuesday with two counts of first-degree murder. Jacotha Mahendran, 32, was charged as she recovered in hospital from non-life-threatening injuries, Toronto police Sgt. Robb Knapper said.




    Tues July 17 2001 14:41:40



    BONNY LEE BAKLEY - shot to death in car
    Studio City, California
    Daughter frustrated with Blake case -- (MSNBC) Video Report: Over two months after the death of Bonny Lee Bakley, wife of actor Robert Blake, the case remains unsolved. Holly Gawron, Bakley’s daughter, alleges that Blake has taken away her half-sister Rosie, whom he fathered, and won’t let Gawron see her.




    Tues July 17 2001 13:58:35



    CHANDRA LEVY case
    Washington, D.C.
    Computer detective talks about Levy evidence -- (CNN) Computer forensics expert Kevin Mandia is the forensic director of Foundstone, a computer security firm. He has trained some 400 FBI agents and other police in conducting computer intrusion investigations.




    Tues July 17 2001 13:02:17



    New York
    Man pleads guilty in rapper slay -- (NY Daily News) Kelvin Jones, 31, entered the plea before Queens Supreme Court Justice Jaime Rios at the Kew Gardens courthouse, admitting that he shot and killed 30-year-old Raymond (Freaky Tah) Rogers.




    Tues July 17 2001 12:53:49



    KRISTINE FITZHUGH - body found at bottom of stairs
    Kenneth Fitzhugh - on trial for murder
    Palo Alto, California
    Wife's backless shoes caused death, Fitzhugh told police in interview -- (San Jose Mercury News) Three hours after Kenneth Fitzhugh said he discovered his wife's body, he told police it was her black shoes that killed her.




    Tues July 17 2001 12:30:39



    Christy Ann Howard, Cinnamon Brown, Michael Laroy Brown - accused of beating and biting
    Nashville, Tennessee
    Dentist helps in horrible child abuse case -- (WKRN) Last week, two small children were found with bruises, cigarette burns and bite marks all over their bodies.




    Tues July 17 2001 11:54:06



    Birmingham, England
    Man rejects blood stain evidence -- (BBC) Philip John Smith, of Braithwaite Road, in the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham, denies murdering Jodie Hyde, 21, Rosemary Corcoran, 25, and Carol Jordan, 39, between 8 and 12 November last year.




    Tues July 17 2001 11:52:28



    Eddrick Cleveland, 23 - fatally wounded
    GREGORY L. JENKINS, 27 - shot armed intruder
    Antioch, Tennessee
    Antioch man kills suspect in botched home invasion -- (The Tennessean) Metro police have determined that an Antioch homeowner was justified when he shot and killed a man who allegedly tried to break into his house early yesterday morning.




    Tues July 17 2001 11:00:13



    Brenda Williams, 53 - third-degree grand larceny
    Onondaga, New York
    Woman admits pet cemetary thefts -- (Syracuse.com) The bookkeeper at a local pet cemetery admitted in court Monday that she stole more than $40,000 from the cemetery and the widow of its founder over two years.




    Tues July 17 2001 10:47:44



    CHANDRA LEVY - mysterious and unexplained disappearance
    Washington, D.C.
    Forensic specialist taken off Levy case -- (Washington Times) the lead evidence technician in the missing-persons case has been detailed off the investigation because of scheduling and management problems at the department's shooting range.
    Lott asks Condit to resign over tryst -- (Washington Times) Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott yesterday called on Rep. Gary A. Condit to resign if the married California Democrat had a romantic relationship with missing Washington intern Chandra Levy.
    Levy searchers turn up little in parks -- (Washington Post) a search yesterday turned up little more than several bones thought to be from animals.
    Condit's team: Chandra was no angel -- (Salon) By suggesting the intern may have her own sordid past, the congressman's spinners shoot themselves in the foot -- again.
    News reporter puts polygraph to the test -- (NY Daily News) Lie detector catches his fibs every time.
    Newsweek's Evan Thomas: Condit leading double life -- (CNN) "Newsweek" Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas discusses his magazine's investigation into the Levy case with CNN's Coleen McEdwards.
    Gry Condit: Success to scandal -- (NY Post) Night after night, as the late dinner crowd gathered inside Paragary's Bar and Oven, Gary Condit took a seat at a corner table reserved for him and his political rat pack and watched the college girls and secretaries sidle up one by one.
    Condit has little money to pay lawyers, advisers -- (AJC) Condit has few financial resources with which to deal with the personal and political crisis building around him, his congressional financial disclosure records show.
    "11 weeks of torturous craziness" -- (Fox News) On several of the 78 sleepless nights since Chandra Levy vanished, her mother Susan has quietly slept in her daughter's bedroom in their Modesto, Calif., home.
    Police follow trail left on laptop -- (Modesto Bee) "We were misled," Ramsey said Monday on the CBS "Early Show." "During discussions we were actually told that the congressman was busy, didn't have time to take it, and none of that was true, because obviously he did have time to take it and he did with his own private examiner."




    Tues July 17 2001 09:54:54



    Sgt. Timothy Woodland, 24 - jailed since July 6
    Okinawa, Japan
    Accused U.S. rapist to ask for Japanese house arrest -- (CNN) The attorney for a U.S. serviceman accused in the alleged rape of a Japanese woman said Tuesday he would ask for his client to be released on bail from Japanese detention and placed under house arrest at the U.S. military base where he has been stationed.




    Tues July 17 2001 09:50:50



    JASON JOHNSON - body found in Lake Whakamaru
    Taupo, New Zealand
    Police follow new lake murder leads -- (ONE News) The leads follow a late night blockade of State Highway One at Taupo when travellers were questioned about possible sightings of drifter Johnson before he was savagely beaten to death.




    Tues July 17 2001 00:03:18



    Tavares, Florida
    Murdered father's life insurance awaits daughter, once a suspect -- (Orlando Sentinel) The name of Heather Wendorf, who was never tried in the brutal murders of her Eustis parents while her four vampire-cult friends each were convicted and sentenced in their deaths, turned up in court again this week.




    Mon July 16 2001 23:02:56



    CHANDRA ANN LEVY - Where is she?
    Washington, D.C.
    D.C. police retrace steps in their search for Levy -- (USA Today) What began in early May as an effort to locate Levy and return her to an anguished family now appears to be largely focused on the recovery of a body.
    Levy laptop reveals leads -- (Modesto Bee) Chandra Levy spent more than three hours at her laptop computer surfing travel sites the day she apparently disappeared, investigators said Sunday.
    Condit reveals: The last morning I saw Chandra -- (NY Post) Rep. Gary Condit told cops he can't remember if he had sex with Chandra Levy the last time he saw her - but he did recall repeatedly offering to help her find a new job.




    Mon July 16 2001 22:27:04



    HOLLY MADDUX - bludgeoned and stuffed in a trunk
    Ira Einhorn - convicted in absentia of murder
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Paris, France
    Hope for an end to a twisted pursuit -- (Post-Intelligencer) Seattle woman awaits extradition of man sought in sister's killing.




    Mon July 16 2001 22:16:06



    New York
    '48 Hours' offers prime-time crime -- (MSNBC) CBS show, in new time slot, presents true stories inspired by books on crime.




    Mon July 16 2001 22:10:01



    JANICE KAPELLER - killed in her home
    Christopher Kapeller - estranged husband
    St. Peters, Illinois
    Kapeller pleads not guilty in murder of wife -- (KSDK) More is learned about man accused of murdering wife.




    Mon July 16 2001 22:01:29



    CAROLE and JULI SUND, SILVINA PELOSSO - slain tourists
    Cary Stayner - serving life for Joie Armstrong murder
    Mariposa, California
    Prosecutors to seek death penalty against Stayner -- (Sac Bee) Prosecutors said Monday they will seek the death penalty against Cary Stayner if he is convicted of killing three Yosemite Park tourists.




    Mon July 16 2001 21:47:55



    KATHALEENA DRAPER and unborn chid - murdered June, 2000
    Erin Rae Kuhn, 31 - cut unborn baby from mother's womb
    Yerington, Nevada
    An issue of lives and deaths -- (abc NEWS) A Nevada judge ruled today that a woman accused of carving her niece's unborn baby boy out of her womb with a kitchen knife — killing mother and child - can be tried on two murder counts.




    Sun July 15 2001 13:08:09



    Washington D.C.
    Police seek Levy in city woods -- (Wash Times) The search for missing Washington intern Chandra Ann Levy will expand this week to include wooded areas all over the city.






    Sun July 15 2001 12:54:17



    Lisa Mantarro Moore, Jackie Mullen, Pat Austin and Maggie Mejia - want the Stanislaus County district attorney's office to file criminal charges
    Modesto, California
    Congressman's staff members say they'll sue DJs over incident -- (Modbee) Four people who work in Rep. Gary Condit's Modesto office say they will sue a pair of shock jocks, alleging that the radio duo humiliated the office staff Thursday.




    Fri July 13 2001 18:24:07



    SAMUEL ROBIDOUX - starved to death
    Jacques and Karen Robidoux - peaded innocent to murder
    Attleboro, Maine
    Sect death ruled murder in Maine -- (Sun-Chronicle) A toddler whose parents are members of a local Christian sect was the victim of a homicide and died of severe malnutrition due to starvation, a Maine medical examiner has ruled.




    Fri July 13 2001 16:21:49



    Beijing, China
    Butcher runs amok, kills four -- (Reuters) Chinese police have arrested a butcher accused of hacking to death four food inspectors and seriously wounding three after they confiscated his meat, newspapers and officials said on Friday.




    Fri July 13 2001 16:00:20



    San Jose, California
    Maximum sentence for California man who tossed dog into traffic -- (Nando Times) The courtroom erupted in applause as Andrew Burnett, 27, was sentenced for throwing the bichon frise named Leo into oncoming traffic after a fender-bender with the dog's owner. He was convicted of animal cruelty last month.





    Fri July 13 2001 14:24:03



    Berlin, Germany
    Satanist murder probe in Germany -- (CNN) A man found dead with 66 stab wounds is the victim of a suspected Satanist.




    Fri July 13 2001 13:04:16



    CHANDRA LEVY, 24 - missing for 12 weeks
    Washington, D.C.
    '20% chance' that Levy is still alive -- (Modesto Bee) Clint Van Zant said the 24-year-old intern could have become too embarrassed to surface once her disappearance and her reported romantic link to Rep. Gary Condit ballooned into a national story.
    Condit passes polygraph -- (abc NEWS) Rep. Gary Condit has taken and passed a lie detector test commissioned by his legal team, sources tell ABC NEWS.




    Fri July 13 2001 12:51:45



    TIONDA and DIAMOND BRADLEY - missing since July 6
    Chicago, Illinois
    Hoping for a clue -- (abc NEWS) Store surveillance tape could show missing sisters.




    Fri July 13 2001 12:38:48



    ALEXIS MARIAH LOPEZ, 20 months - strangled
    Sharon Yvonne Weston, 32 - appeared confused and ambivalent in court
    Gresham, Oregon
    Mother faces murder charges after saying she strangled infant daughter with a shoestring -- (Post-Intelligencer) A Gresham woman who brought her dead 20-month-old daughter to a funeral home was arraigned on murder charges yesterday, accused of strangling the child with a shoestring.




    Fri July 13 2001 12:29:08


    Colorado Springs, Colorado
    Thieves switched jewels in stores -- (Newsday) Police believe a band of jewel thieves has made off with more than $100,000 in gems from stores along Colorado's Front Range in recent weeks.


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