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Fri Oct 19 2001 17:09:14  Lagos, Nigeria Woman to face death by stoning -- (Reuters) A Nigerian Muslim sharia court has sentenced a nursing mother to death by stoning after she was convicted of adultery, a Nigerian newspaper reported on Friday. Fri Oct 19 2001 16:54:20  Washington Handwriting analysts detect a passionate man on the edge -- (Washington Times) Two handwriting analysts independently concluded yesterday that the person who addressed the envelopes containing anthrax to NBC anchor Tom Brokaw and to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is dangerously depressed and determined. Fri Oct 19 2001 16:50:49  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Explosives found at Greyhound bus terminal -- (NBC) Philadelphia Bomb Squad says the lack of a detonator cap prevented the military explosive found Friday from destroying a Greyhound bus terminal. Fri Oct 19 2001 15:19:24  Chandra Levy - 24-year-old intern missing since April 30 New York Condit's Daughter Upset by Stories -- (Las Vegas Sun) Rep. Gary Condit's daughter is upset that the story of missing intern Chandra Levy has become a story about her father. Fri Oct 19 2001 15:14:29  Portland, Maine High court upholds 40-year sentence for Burdick -- (Boston.com) A homeless fugitive from Massachusetts who was sentenced to 40 years in prison for shooting a sheriff's deputy at point-blank range lost his appeal to the state supreme court on Friday. Fri Oct 19 2001 15:10:08  Seattle, Washington Investigators in Seattle looking for a motive in federal prosecutor's assassination -- (Boston.com) Tom Wales smart, principled, well-bred came West to fight crime and violence. He made headway, but the bad guys won. The 49-year-old federal prosecutor was gunned down by an assailant who crept to the back of his home Oct. 11 and fired repeatedly through the window of Wales' home office. Fri Oct 19 2001 13:07:04  Martinez, California Hit-run by driver, 13, cited in woman's death -- (Conta Costa Times) The obviously unlicensed driver, not in class at Martinez Junior High because classes were dismissed early, ran the stop sign at Court and Ward streets, several eyewitnesses said. Judith Rooney, a retired real estate broker using the crosswalk on her way to the post office, was killed. Fri Oct 19 2001 11:09:28  LAURA GILLY - died September 11 Sandra Miranda - allegedly stole card while feeding cat New York Dead pal's credit is used for spree -- (New York Daily News) Cops charged a Brooklyn woman with ringing up $4,600 in purchases on the credit card of a friend who perished in the World Trade Center attack. Fri Oct 19 2001 10:51:53  Witt, Illinois Hillsboro woman charged with murder: She allegedly stabbed aquaintance last Christmas -- (State Journal-Register) Tina Cole, a 25-year-old Hillsboro woman, has been charged with the murder of Gene M. Raymond, 68, who was found stabbed to death in his home in Witt on Christmas Day. Fri Oct 19 2001 09:45:40  KATHLEEN DURST - vanished January 31, 1982 SUSAN BERMAN - shot to death last December MORRIS BLACK - beheaded and dismembered Robert Durst - fugitive Florida, California and New York Police check Durst gun for murder clues -- (New York Post) Los Angeles detectives yesterday examined a gun owned by fugitive real-estate scion Robert Durst to see if it was used to kill a woman friend who was going to be quizzed about his wife's disappearance, police said. Fri Oct 19 2001 09:20:08  Boston, Massachusetts Convicted Wellesley doctor controls family assets -- (Boston.com) A Wellesley allergist convicted of killing his wife still controls her money, and last week transferred ownership of the family home to his youngest daughter's boyfriend for $1. Dr. Dirk Greineder, 60, who is serving life behind bars, is the executor of his dead wife's estate, and there's no law to remove that power. Fri Oct 19 2001 09:17:24  Atlantic City, New Jersey Police: Man fakes his own kidnapping to get gambling money -- (Boston.com) Andre Alexander, 28, of Garfield, was charged with extortion after being arrested Thursday in his room at the Sands Casino Hotel in Atlantic City. He was released on $50,000 bail, with the condition that he refrain from any form of gambling. Fri Oct 19 2001 08:21:24  Springfield, Illinois Court upholds death penalty for man who ripped baby from mother's womb -- (Chicago Tribune) The Illinois Supreme Court today rejected two dozen claims of legal impropriety as it upheld the death sentence of a man for killing a DuPage County woman and cutting her baby from her womb. The court set an execution date for Fedell Caffey, convicted along with his live-in girlfriend and another man of the 1995 murder of Debra Evans and two of her children. Fri Oct 19 2001 08:15:59  Jarratt, Virginia Virginia, Oklahoma Execute Killers -- (AP) A man who shot dead his cousin and two of her housemates was executed by injection Thursday. In Oklahoma, a man was executed for kidnapping and killing a 24-year-old banker. Fri Oct 19 2001 08:13:32  Broward County, Florida Missing Lauderdale jeweler found dead in Miami-Dade field -- (Sun Sentinel) A body found in a field in northeast Miami-Dade County on Saturday has been identified by police as Jack Davidoff, 55, who was reported missing from his Fort Lauderdale home almost two weeks ago. Fri Oct 19 2001 08:12:14  Miami, Florida O.J. Simpson's lawyers call for mistrial in battery case -- (Nando) O.J. Simpson's defense team called for a mistrial in a road-rage case against him, saying the jury had violated the judge's instructions by talking with one another about the testimony. However, one attorney said the football great "wants to finish with this jury." Jurors' violation may bring mistrial in Simpson's road-rage trial -- (Sun Sentinel) Thur Oct 18 2001 20:52:11  Jesus Lopez-Ramos, 20 - faces 25 counts worth ten years each Phoenix, Arizona Guilty Plea in Ariz. Smuggling Deaths -- (Las Vegas Sun) A man pleaded guilty Thursday to charges he smuggled a group of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border and left 14 of them to die in the scorching Arizona desert. Thur Oct 18 2001 20:07:35  Frederick, Maryland Suspect Told Of Killing Girl, 14, Say Prosecutors -- (Washington Post) Scott J. Brill, 19, told police Ashley Nicole Mason was killed after she threatened to reveal that she had engaged in sex with Brill and a second suspect, Frederick J. Moore, 22, prosecutors say. Thur Oct 18 2001 18:38:15  Dennis Jay Tison, 36 - charged with murder in his daughter's Jan. 12 death Sacramento, California Experts: Girl was thrown to death -- (SacBee) Fourteen-month-old Isabel Tison died after being thrown out her father's second-story window like a "football," witnesses testified this week in Sacramento Superior Court. Thur Oct 18 2001 18:34:52  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jury out on morgue workers -- (Philly.com) A federal jury today begins a second day of deliberations about the fate of four former employees of the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office accused of stealing from the dead. Thur Oct 18 2001 17:27:49  Covington, Kentucky Single hair may solve old murder -- (Kentucky Post) In May 1996, 73-year-old Richard Gunn was found beaten to death in the laundry room of the Golden Tower Hi-Rise in Covington where he lived with his wife. Though the murder was never solved, Covington police retained the crime scene evidence, including hair found near Gunn's body. Thur Oct 18 2001 16:58:31  Frederick, Maryland Man kills himself at overlook after murder of roommate -- (The Frederick News-Post) Police are handling the case as a murder-suicide and have not yet released the names of those involved. Thur Oct 18 2001 16:47:14  Rabbi Fred Neulander - accused of arranging the murder of his wife Carol in November 1994 Camden, New Jersey Prosecution's star witness takes stand in rabbi's murder trial -- (Boston.com) A man who told authorities he set up the 1994 murder of a rabbi's wife at the clergyman's request told jurors Thursday he did it in part to cover a string of lies he'd told the rabbi and others about his ''tough-guy past.'' Witnesses describe unsavory details of rabbi's life -- (philly.com) Rabbi Fred J. Neulander, on trial for murder, said he and his wife had an open marriage and that he had had two affairs, the cantor of his synagogue testified. More articles -- (Philly.com) Thur Oct 18 2001 15:52:57  Washington FBI, Postal Service offer up to $1 million for information on anthrax terrorists -- (Boston.com) The FBI and U.S. Postal Service on Thursday offered a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to the arrest of those who sent anthrax through the mail. Investigators continued to link the various incidents through evidence. Thur Oct 18 2001 15:02:44  Kalamazoo, Michigan Body in vehicle ruled as homicide -- (mLive) The body of Maria Theresa Willson was found in the front passenger's seat of her red Plymouth Neon about 10 a.m. Tuesday. The car, which was running and parked atop a dirt pile in a cul-de-sac in a Texas Township business park, was initially discovered by Consumers Energy employees working in the area. Thur Oct 18 2001 15:00:03  Clermont, Florida Fired cop won't take job back -- (Orlando Sentinel) A Clermont police officer fired in August has been offered a job back, provided he does not file a discrimination suit against the city. Clermont Police Sgt. Elijah Wells was fired along with a dispatcher in August after an investigation found the pair had ignored an emergency fire call at a nearby day-care center. Thur Oct 18 2001 14:58:16  Flagler County, Florida Teenager charged in anthrax hoax -- (Orlando Sentinel) James Smith, a class cutup and "social butterfly," was just trying to get out of school for the day when he poured a white substance on a chair in his classroom Tuesday at Flagler Palm Coast High School, said his mother, Peggy Smith. Thur Oct 18 2001 12:36:05  Peter Bergna - on trial for murder Reno, Nevada Two women say Tahoe man accused of killing wife asked for dates -- (Las Vegas Sun) Two women say a former Incline Village man accused of killing his wife by staging a wreck near Lake Tahoe asked them out on dates before the fatal crash. Thur Oct 18 2001 11:33:53  Washington, D.C. Post Office, "Most Wanted" TV show join forces -- (NJO News/AP) The Postal Service and the television show "America's Most Wanted" are joining forces to track down the source of the anthrax threat. Thur Oct 18 2001 10:54:06  Bryan, Texas Bryan woman charged with attempted murder of sister -- (The Eagle) A woman was arrested Tuesday and charged with dousing her cigarette-smoking sister with gasoline during a fight that took place in the middle of a Bryan street. Thur Oct 18 2001 10:43:12  Neulander Trial Camden, New Jersey Rabbi's son testifies about parents' argument -- (Boston.com) One of the children of Fred and Carol Neulander said the couple had the worst argument he'd ever witnessed two nights before Mrs. Neulander was killed. Matthew Neulander, 28, a medical resident in Charlotte, N.C., testified Thursday during the fourth day of the capital murder trial of his father, who is charged with arranging the beating death of his wife on Nov. 1, 1994. Rabbi's friend tells of request for wife's murder -- (Bergen Record) Levin said the rabbi said, "I wish I could get rid of my goddamn wife and have her killed on the ground when I go home someday." Thur Oct 18 2001 09:21:34 Miami, Florida Opening statements, testimony set to begin in O.J. Simpson road-rage trial -- (Sun Sentinel) Simpson faces up to 16 years in prison if convicted of felony auto burglary and misdemeanor battery charges over an angry road encounter with another motorist on Dec. 4, 2000. Thur Oct 18 2001 09:18:37  Salt Lake City, Utah Greyhound bus passengers thwart attempted hijacking -- (Nando) Passengers on a Greyhound bus overpowered a hijacker who grabbed the steering wheel and threatened to flip the vehicle, authorities said. The driver safely stopped the vehicle and no one was injured. The man and a woman accomplice fled after the driver safely stopped the bus. Two people were later taken into custody early Thursday. Thur Oct 18 2001 09:11:03  Southington, Connecticut Second incident of being too late to rob bank -- (Boston.com) Police are reporting a second would-be bank robber who couldn't beat the clock. Police were searching for a a man who tried to rob the Sovereign Bank of New England Tuesday, but he showed up too late. Thur Oct 18 2001 09:09:17  Providence, Rhode Island Coventry man charged with attempted rape -- (Boston.com) Edward Sadowski, 59, is charged by Rhode Island police with dissemination of harmful material to minor, attempted rape of a child and attempting to pose a child in the nude. Wed Oct 17 2001 22:46:47  New York Rapper Jay-Z pleads guilty to stabbing producer -- (abc NEWS) Jay-Z, 31, whose real name is Shawn Carter, had been charged with two counts of first-degree assault and one of second-degree assault for stabbing rival record producer Lance Rivera, of Untertainment Records, in the stomach and back at the Kit Kat Club near Times Square in December 1999. Wed Oct 17 2001 22:12:26  JAMES L. FELBAUM, 40 - died February 25 Tammy Lynn Felbaum, 42 - charged with homicide Butler County, Pennsylvania Transsexual held in castration death -- (Post-Gazette) A Butler County transsexual has been accused of killing her husband, a drug addict who died less than two days after she castrated him in a makeshift operating room in their rural trailer. McKean County jurors to hear castration death trial -- (Post-Gazette) Police recovered more than 100 items during the searches of the couple's home, including bloodstained linens and surgery equipment, medication, dozens of medical books and premature animal bodies in jars. Wed Oct 17 2001 21:43:33  Fort Wayne, Indiana 13 year old accused of robbing bank -- (IndyStar) A 13-year-old girl is accused of using a silver handgun to rob a bank. The girl's name was not released because of her age. She was being held at Wood Youth Center. Wed Oct 17 2001 20:57:03  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Death sentence reversed; Judge upholds murder conviction -- (NewsOK) U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange upheld Lloyd Edward Mollett Jr.'s 1995 murder and rape conviction. But she ruled he is entitled to a new sentencing hearing because of mistakes made by the trial judge and Mollett's defense attorney. Mollett was convicted of raping and murdering Sri Sedjati Sugeng in her apartment. Wed Oct 17 2001 20:52:49  Minneapolis, Minnesota Eden Prairie man convicted of murdering and dismembering wife -- (Star Tribune) Pyotr Shmelev was found guilty of second-degree intentional murder in the death of Svetlana Pedash. The Hennepin County jury deliberated for one day. The 30-year-old engineer stabbed his wife multiple times Feb. 24. He turned himself in to police three weeks later and confessed. |
