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    Thur July 19 2001 10:05:12



    Sydney, Australia
    Detectives travel to United States to interview rock band over concert death -- (abc NEWS) Jessica Michalik, 15, suffered a heart attack when she was caught in a crush during Limp Bizkit's Jan. 26 performance in Sydney. She died five days later.




    Thur July 19 2001 09:55:52



    CHANDRA ANN LEVY, 24 - What happened to Chandra?
    Washington, D.C.
    Last person to see Levy talks -- (CBS/CH2000) "She was not disoriented. She was very much the same person I knew," said the man, who works in the membership department of the health club where Levy worked out.
    Lawyers for congressman, Chandra Levy specialize in scandals -- (Nando Times) "Scandal specialists and quintessential Washington criminal defense lawyers..."
    Police: Condit's lie test a "joke" -- (Fox News) "Not worth anything".
    "She was going back home" -- (abc NEWS) New description of Chandra's mindset seems to make suicide theory less likely.
    Chandra angry over Condit's refusal to leave wife -- (NewsMax) According to DePaulo, Levy told more than one person that Condit complained that "his wife is 3,000 miles away" and that his marriage was "unrewarding."
    New Condit shockers hidden in closet -- (NewsMax) Lawyer suggests police found something shocking inside when they searched his apartment.
    More light shed on Levy net use -- (Modesto Bee) Police said they might not release information today on all of the Internet sites Levy visited.
    Condit must wait to claim pension -- (Modesto Bee) The earliest he could begin collecting anything would be two years from now when he turns 55.
    Condit backers hold own Modesto rally -- (Modesto Bee) About 50 Condit faithful gathered.
    He's Rather late and goofs. -- (NY Daily News) Maybe he should have stayed silent.
    Cops: Pol's lie test is useless -- (NY Daily News) "All they have is a graph, and they can't associate the graph with a specific question," he told reporters.
    FBI quizzed Smith in May -- (WorldNet) FBI more proactive than previously thought.
    D.C. police reject Condit's polygraph -- (Washington Post) Fourth interview required.
    Levy kin: Investigate Condit bro -- (NY Post) "We think it would be fertile ground" for investigation.
    Darryl Condit -- (The Smoking Gun) Five booking photos.
    Condit denies obstruction -- (Roll Call) He says he won't step down.
    Ramsey rejects Condit's truth test -- (Washington Times) "It is worthless".




    Thur July 19 2001 09:20:56



    Tokyo, Japan
    U.S. Airman Indicted for Okinawa Rape -- (Fox) Staff Sgt. Timothy Woodland, 24, faces a minimum of two years in prison if convicted in the June 29 assault on a 20-year-old Japanese woman in a bar parking lot.




    Thur July 19 2001 09:17:16



    Washington, D.C.
    FBI lacked system for tracking guns, computers, officials say at hearing -- (Star Tribune) The FBI had no systematic way to keep track of its 13,000 laptop computers until last year, and its antiquated security and technology systems have been largely neglected for a decade, bureau officials told a Senate committee Wednesday. FBI and Justice Department officials announced Tuesday that 449 weapons and 184 laptops have been reported stolen or lost over the last 11 years.




    Thur July 19 2001 09:13:59



    David J. Byrne - being held in the shootings of Columbia Heights police officer Michael McGee, 49, Columbia Heights Sgt. Val Dietz, 46, and Minneapolis officer Judith Rollins, 36.
    Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Suspect in police shooting killed 2 in '66 -- (Star Tribune) The Columbia Heights man who is suspected of wounding three police officers during a gun battle Tuesday was convicted of using a shotgun to kill his estranged wife and her friend 35 years ago in Fridley.




    Wed July 18 2001 22:19:22



    People magazine Cover Story, July 23:
    Desperate for answers: Like Chandra Levy, hundreds of women disappear each year, leaving frantic families grasping for clues and trying to cope with their own endless grief.
    Chandra Levy, 24 -- No closer to finding her after 10 frustrating weeks, her family tries to turn up the pressure on Rep. Gary Condit.
    Amy Bradley, 23 -- Five months after she disappeared from the balcony of a cruise ship, a reported sighting gives her family hope.
    Molly Bish, 16 -- A lifeguard disappears from a secluded pond where her mother had spotted a suspicious-looking man a day earlier.




    Wed July 18 2001 21:43:36



    NIKOLETT SZATMARI, 8 - body found in bag in ditch
    Gyula, Hungary
    Murdered girl found after three-year hunt -- (The Budapest Online) DNA tests have proved conclusively that human remains found in a ditch by a road earlier this year were those of an eight-year-old girl who sparked a massive search in Hungary when she went missing three years ago.




    Wed July 18 2001 21:10:22



    MOLLY ANN BISH - abducted June 27, 2000
    Warren, Mass.
    Molly Bish picture on cover of People -- (Mass Live) The photo of Molly Anne Bish on the cover of the July 23 People magazine shows the smiling blond teen-ager next to photos of three other young women who are missing.




    Wed July 18 2001 20:44:46



    CHANDRA ANN LEVY - "Cold Case"
    Washington, D.C.
    Feds downplay Condit connection -- (CBS) The FBI earlier this week officially transferred the Chandra Levy investigation to its "Cold Case" unit, which historically has handled only the toughest of cases which have few clues.
    The battle over Chandra -- (Newsweek, July 23) With no suspects and few clues, the parents of a missing intern try to keep the heat on the congressman and the cops. Inside the probe - and the spin wars.




    Wed July 18 2001 19:35:56



    Francis McGrane - jailed for 12 years
    Dublin, Ireland
    Drug addict returns to jail after syringe attack spree -- (Unison) An addict who committed a series of syringe robberies within two months of his early release from a seven-and-half-year sentence now has to serve a total of 12 years imprisonment.





    Wed July 18 2001 19:30:47



    Paul Wayment, 38 - suicide victim
    Salt Lake City, Utah
    Missing boy's father found dead -- (AP) Hours after being sentenced for negligence in his son's death, a man killed himself with his hunting rifle in the same mountains where the 2-year-old wandered off last October while the father scouted for deer.




    Wed July 18 2001 17:37:01



    Chicago, Illinois
    Frustration, hope in search for missing girls -- (UPI) Diamond, 3, and Tionda Bradley, 10, disappeared July 6, sometime after their mother, Tracey, left their apartment for work around 6 a.m.




    Wed July 18 2001 17:30:15



    King County Sheriff's Office
    Oregon
    Police dogs to get bulletproof vests -- (Seattle Times) After a year of work — knocking on hundreds of doors, pleading for money outside a grocery store, hosting a garage sale three 14-year-old girls have finally raised $500 toward a canine vest for the King County Sheriff's Office.




    Wed July 18 2001 16:14:17



    ANNETTE BRIGHT, 8 - had been missing since Sunday
    Charles Edward Koschalk, 34 - admitted shooting child
    Speers, Pennsylvania
    Arrest made in girl's death -- (WTAE-TV) A man who allegedly told FBI agents where to find the body of a missing 8-year-old girl was charged with her murder early Wednesday morning.




    Wed July 18 2001 16:00:03



    JOYCE CHIANG, 28 - suicide or homicide?
    Washington, D.C.
    Solving the mystery of Joyce Chiang's death -- (CNN) Transcript: July 18, 2001.




    Wed July 18 2001 15:52:58



    CHANDRA ANN LEVY - mysterious and unexplained disappearance
    Washington, D.C.
    San Diego bail bondsman adds $50,000 to Levy reward -- (Sac Bee) A longtime San Diego bail bondsman is putting up a $50,000 reward for information leading to the finding of Chandra Levy - but the offer comes with a deadline.
    Anne Marie Smith: More Condit shockers to come -- (NewsMax) The attorney for flight attendant Anne Marie Smith, who blew the Chandra Levy case wide open two weeks ago with her charge that California Congressman Gary Condit pressured her to cover-up their affair, says his client is sitting on information that will shock the nation when it becomes public.
    Are Condit's brothers off limits? -- (Fox News) Some distressing information has surfaced about both of them.
    New Levy details -- (abc NEWS) Police ask more people to take polygraphs.




    Wed July 18 2001 15:33:40



    Dmitry Sklyarov, 26 - charged with trafficking in a product designed to circumvent copyright protection measures
    Las Vegas, Nevada
    Russian programmer arrested in Vegas after hacking convention -- (Las Vegas Sun) A Russian computer programmer arrested by FBI agents after speaking at a hacker's convention is accused of distributing a program that allows users to copy electronic books.




    Wed July 18 2001 15:24:10



    Salt Lake City, Utah
    Dad vanishes in same hunting spot where son froze to death -- (Fox News) Paul Wayment, 38, was supposed to turn himself in to the Summit County Jail at 10 a.m. Wednesday to begin a 30-day sentence for the death of his 28-month-old son, Gage.




    Wed July 18 2001 14:43:04



    New York
    Wrongly Imprisoned Men File $60M Suit -- (Las Vegas Sun) The suit, filed in the New York Court of Claims in Albany, seeks $30 million apiece for Anthony Faison and Charles Shepherd. The two left prison in May after the arrest of another man for the murder.




    Wed July 18 2001 14:34:02



    East Sussex, England
    Couple jailed over heroin baby death -- (BBC) Amanda Turner, 23, and 24-year-old Joby Shorter, both from Hastings, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of their four-week-old son Justice.



    Wed July 18 2001 13:48:22



    John Binkowski and Anthony Falbo - arrested
    Owensboro, Kentucky
    Owensboro student injured in run-in with football team -- (Messenger-Inquirer) Nathaniel Cooper, 16, of Owensboro was spending the summer as a member of the Capital Regiment drum corps, when he learned the football field can be a pretty dangerous place for a marching band.




    Wed July 18 2001 13:13:20




    Tyler, Texas
    East Texas man wounded in murder-for-hire attack, police say -- (Dallas News) John Mark Brown was wounded in the leg by a 20-gauge shotgun after seeing his friend, 19-year-old Scott Allen McClelland, shot at least three times and killed by three men, said Van Zandt County Sheriff Pat Burnett.




    Wed July 18 2001 13:10:44



    New York
    Rapper ODB sentenced to 2 to 4 years on drug plea -- (Boston.com) ODB, whose real name is Russell Jones, was sentenced by Justice Joseph A. Grasso in state Supreme Court in Kew Gardens, Queens.




    Wed July 18 2001 13:09:29




    New York
    Former CEO charged in $115 million stock fraud scheme -- (Boston.com) A securities fraud indictment unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan accuses Morris Weissman of deceiving investors by falsely inflating earnings for American Banknote Corp. and American Bank Note Holographics, Inc. between 1996 and 1998.




    Wed July 18 2001 13:06:56




    Winnipeg, Manitoba
    'This home invasion was brutal' -- (Cnews) A bottle of sherry and four rings -- that was the take for two teenage thugs who left 76-year-old Pauline West lying on the floor of her West End home in a pool of blood with two broken hands and a cracked skull. The boys -- now 16 and 17 -- face a maximum sentence of three years in jail if convicted.




    Wed July 18 2001 13:03:35



    Evansville, Indiana
    The Monte Doss Murder -- (WFIE) Imagine the frustration of a father waiting nearly 30 years to find out who murdered his son... A Vanderburgh County father is living that reality and hopes he's now closer to finding the truth. Someone shot and killed his son, Monte Doss, on November 17th, 1973.




    Wed July 18 2001 12:56:01



    St. Paul, Minnesota
    Minnesota mother suspected in deaths of 2 children -- (Nando Times) Just three years after six children were killed by their mother in the same housing complex, two young girls were killed in their home and their mother was charged with homicide, police said.




    Wed July 18 2001 10:47:37



    Carlos J. Ramos, 30 - was charged with attacking six women
    New York
    Fingerprint helps cops nail sex-attack suspect -- (NY Post) A fingerprint lifted from the scene of the brutal rape and robbery last month led to the arrest of a suspect in a string of Brooklyn sex attacks, police sources said.




    Wed July 18 2001 10:10:55



    HOLLY MADDUX - bludgeoned and stuffed in a trunk
    Ira Einhorn - convicted in absentia of murder
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Paris, France
    Fugitive ordered extradited from France to face murder charges calls for international trial -- (abc NEWS) Einhorn claims he was framed by the CIA.




    Wed July 18 2001 09:59:59



    CHANDRA ANN LEVY, 24 - Where is she?
    Washington, D.C.
    Police OK gun test for Levy technician -- (Washington Times) Since Officer Allie and other forensic specialists were reassigned to the property division last week, evidence work on the Levy case and others has been on hold, police sources said. Requests from prosecutors have gone unanswered, crime-scene items have not been fully examined, and detectives cannot get briefings on any forensic analysis.
    Chandra case becomes war of words -- (Fox News) Ein on Wednesday sent a letter to Salon claiming the quotes attributed to her were "false and destructive" and demanding a retraction.
    Save Mart: 'Explicit' coverage goes too far -- (Modesto Bee) The Modesto-based supermarket chain last week ordered store managers either to wrap the tabloids in white paper or turn them so the back page faces shoppers waiting in check-out lines.
    Search expands to small D.C. parks -- (CNN) Fort Davis, Fort Chaplin, Fort Mahan Parks would be the subject of a Wednesday search by police and police recruits.
    Condit won't say who is footing PR, legal bills -- (SF Chronicle) Condit's camp appears to be stonewalling the question.
    Home district questions Condit conduct -- (abc NEWS) some are beginning to question his personal commitment to family values.
    Condit's marriage license has wrong date -- (The Oklahoman) Embattled California Rep. Gary A. Condit has tried to keep his extramarital dalliances secret, but it appears he was eager to get married in 1967.
    Levy's agony mounting with no sign of Chandra -- (NY Post) The nightmare only gets worse.
    Condit: Chandra slept around -- (NY Post) The smearing of Chandra Levy has begun.
    Rather's silence is deafening -- (NY Post) Insiders at CBS News say Rather loyalists are standing behind their man - while others continue to grumble about Rather's continued "No Condit" zone.
    Levy case tactics change -- (Washington Post) Plan to search dumps called too costly, lengthy.
    Loose talk is spokeswoman's stock in trade -- (NY Daily News) Rep. Gary Condit's new spin mistress, Marina Ein, is no stranger to success with controversial clients.
    Condit kin sought on Florida charge -- (NY Daily News) man believed to be U.S. Rep. Gary Condit's younger brother is wanted in Florida on charges that he violated his probation.
    Ugly rumors tar Chandra -- (NY Daily News) Levy allies furious at lurid sex slurs, blame congressman's team.




    Wed July 18 2001 09:33:59



    Albert DeSalvo - The Boston Strangler
    Boston, Massachusetts
    DeSalvo families refuse to turn over DNA to AG's office -- (Boston.com) The family of Albert DeSalvo, the man who claimed to be the Boston Strangler, has refused to provide a DNA sample from DeSalvo's brother to aid authorities investigating whether DeSalvo was the real killer.



    Tues July 17 2001 22:58:49



    Broward County, Florida
    Officials have problems finding experts to examine suspected serial killer -- (Sun Sentinel) It has been more than 3 1/2 months since a judge ordered that suspected serial killer Eddie Lee Mosley be evaluated to see whether he is competent to stand trial. But court officials have had problems finding independent psychologists to assess Mosley's condition, which has caused a delay in moving forward with the cases.




    Tues July 17 2001 22:53:13




    Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
    Authorities struggle to identify dismembered body -- (Star Tribune) Authorities are struggling to identify a body they found hacked into pieces in the town of Colburn. Chippewa County Sheriff' s deputies said the body of a man was found partially buried in a field near Otter Lake July 8. It likely was buried between July 3 and July 8, they said.




    Tues July 17 2001 22:48:07



    San Fernando, California
    Jurors convict man of torture deaths of two of his children -- (Sacbee) The Superior Court jury found Marco Barrera of Pacoima guilty of first-degree murder and the special circumstance allegations of torture and multiple murder. That makes the 38-year-old Barrera eligible for the death penalty.




    Tues July 17 2001 22:45:20



    New York
    Bouncer accuses celebrity publicist of drinking, drug use in lawsuit -- (Nando) A bouncer injured when a sport utility vehicle plowed into a crowd outside a Long Island nightclub has sued a celebrity publicist accused in the accident, alleging she drank and used illegal drugs before backing the vehicle into him and 15 others.





    Tues July 17 2001 22:42:07



    New City, New York
    Bill allows victims of 'gender-motivated' crimes to sue attackers -- (Boston.com) Victims of domestic violence or other ''gender-motivated'' crimes would be able to sue their attackers for damages and legal costs under a measure passed by the Rockland County Legislature Tuesday night.




    Tues July 17 2001 22:40:19


    Takira Gaston - hit in the face by a stray bullet
    Hartford, Connecticut
    Governor offers $10,000 reward for information in girl's shooting -- (Boston.com) Governor John G. Rowland offered a $10,000 state reward Tuesday for information about the shooting of a 8-year-old Hartford girl on July 4.


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