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Mon Oct 22 2001 13:19:14  Chesapeake, Virginia Chesapeake man sought in killing -- (Pilotonline) Police were looking today for a 19-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a bystander during an argument outside a South Norfolk home, authorities said. Elmer Bowser, 21, of Norfolk, was shot once about 7:30 p.m. Sunday while seated in a vehicle outside the 900 block of Hill St., Chesapeake Police spokesman Tommy Kullman said. Mon Oct 22 2001 11:50:02  O.J. Simpson - road rage trial Miami, Florida Judge rejects move for mistrial -- (Nando Times) A judge rejected a request for a mistrial in O.J. Simpson's road-rage trial Monday, ruling that conversations among jurors in the jury box did not amount to deliberations. Mon Oct 22 2001 11:22:05  Merritt, British Columbia Body of B.C. teen missing since Oct. 13 found in abandoned building: police -- (Canada.com) The body of a missing 16-year-old has been found in an abandoned building near her hometown of Merritt, RCMP told local radio station CJNL. Cherish Oppenheim had been the object of a provincewide search since her disappearance Oct. 13th. Mon Oct 22 2001 11:19:57  Arlington, Virginia Missing Client Money Costs Lawyer License -- (Washington Post) A busy Arlington defense attorney has surrendered his license to practice law after the state bar filed disciplinary charges alleging he embezzled more than $250,000 from a jailed client, the Virginia State Bar announced. Mon Oct 22 2001 09:49:42  Boston, Massachusetts Man arrested after bringing swords to Logan -- (Boston.com) A man who walked through Logan International Airport with three samurai swords was arrested on disorderly conduct charges after nervous passengers scrambled to get out of his way. Mon Oct 22 2001 09:32:06  WILLIAM H. OULETTE, 53 - no arrest made Danver, Massachusettes Slain mailman was hit with bat -- (Boston Herald) A mailman's brutally battered body was found Friday night slumped over the kitchen table of his Danvers apartment, where sources said he went undiscovered for days. Mon Oct 22 2001 07:42:09  Delray Beach, Florida Delray Beach man dies after playing Russian Roulette -- (Tampa Bay Online) Reid S. Torgerson died Saturday at Delray Medical Center, after shooting himself in the head. Mon Oct 22 2001 07:12:22  Norwich, New York Employee theft expensive, unreported at many stores -- (Press and Sun-Bulletin) Merchandise, profit lost when workers steal are more costly than shoplifting, experts say. Mon Oct 22 2001 07:01:56  Stamford, Connecticut Search for justice continues in 1996 murder -- (Stamford Advocate) It has been five years since Rhonda Johnson, 18, and her 6-month-old son, Cor'an, were shot to death as they sat in a vehicle parked on the West Side. Sun Oct 21 2001 19:41:10  Iselin, New Jersey Justice Story: The Girl in the Red Coat -- (New York Daily News) First there were five shots, then a young woman in a bright red coat dashed from the Iselin, N.J., home of Paul Reeves, a 25-year-old father of two who worked in a nearby copper mill. Sun Oct 21 2001 17:41:03  London, England Boy may have been sacrificed 'for luck' -- (The Times) Detectives suspect that a boy whose torso was found in the Thames last month may have been killed by his own family in a ritual murder. Sun Oct 21 2001 17:04:18  Robert Durst, 58 - son of a New York real estate mogul, is charged with murder Galveston, Texas Suspect in Slaying Is Man of Mystery -- (LA Times) If the thunderstorms hadn't cleared, it all might have ended differently. The dismembered body dumped in the bay might never have been seen again. And Robert Durst's strange sojourn here might have escaped anyone's notice. Manhattan lawyer picked for fugitive -- (Statesman) Search continues for fugitive real estate heir -- (CNN) Sun Oct 21 2001 16:12:01  Compton, California Disallowed Testimony May Free 2 Feared Gang Members -- (LA Times) Compton officials cringe when they think of Tracy Batts and Terrance McCrea getting out of prison. The longtime gang members have criminal records for such felonies as robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Last year, they were convicted of murder and were sentenced to life behind bars. Sun Oct 21 2001 15:43:04  Gary Stone, 53 - free on $43,000 bail Fort Bend County, Texas Ex-law officer is indicted on 46 child porn charges -- (Houston Chronicle) A Fort Bend County grand jury has indicted a former Rosenberg police officer on 46 charges of possessing child pornography and distributing harmful material to a minor. Sun Oct 21 2001 13:34:27  Hennepin County, Minnesota Minneapolis police investigate stabbing, beating deaths -- (Star Tribune) Minneapolis police are investigating two unrelated killings that were discovered Saturday morning. Sun Oct 21 2001 13:30:03  Denver, Colorado Columbine families sue maker of anti-depressant drug Luvox -- (Nando) Families of five Columbine High School shooting victims are suing the maker of an anti-depressant that one of the teen gunmen was taking at the time of the rampage. A therapeutic amount of the drug Luvox was found in Eric Harris' system after he died, the Jefferson County coroner's office has said. Sun Oct 21 2001 10:34:37  New York Mother Charged with Tot's Murder -- (NY Post) A 20-year-old Bronx mother was charged with the murder of her 2-year-old son yesterday after he died from a head injury. Police said Angel Perez was found unconscious by his mother, Erra Lugo, about noon Monday in her University Avenue apartment. Sun Oct 21 2001 10:34:24  Stewart Sella, 40 - jailed for sexual asssault Trenton, New Jersey Former guard jailed in inmate assault -- (NJO News) A former Lebanon borough councilman and corrections officer has been sentenced to three years in prison for sexually assaulting an inmate at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. Sun Oct 21 2001 10:19:04  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Quebec man gets life for murder -- (Toronto Sun) Jean-Guy Pontbriand was convicted of killing George O'Hara, a cleaner in a bar who witnessed Pontbriand robbing the establishment's safe last year. Sun Oct 21 2001 09:25:23  Kansas City, Missouri Wife douses husband with gasoline and sets him afire -- (Lawrence J-W) Jackson County prosecutors have charged Dorothy Robinson, 41, with first-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action for the incident early Friday. Sun Oct 21 2001 09:21:54  King County, Washington Children see father kill mother; Beacon Hill man then fatally shoots himself -- (Seattle Times) King County medical examiners identified the victims of Friday night's murder-suicide as Franny and Yao Chen. Both died of gunshot wounds to the head. Sun Oct 21 2001 09:18:30  Indianapolis, Indiana 2 men are killed near same time in different areas -- (Indy Star) Indianapolis police are investigating two killings at different ends of the city, reported late Friday night within four minutes of each other. Sun Oct 21 2001 09:12:58  Wainwright, Alberta Female soldier shot by cops faces charges -- (Calgary Sun) A female instructor at the Canadian Forces base in Wainwright who was shot by RCMP faces a raft of charges including attempted murder, police said yesterday. Sgt. Lynda Berthe Barrette, 44, was released from the University of Alberta hospital into RCMP custody. Sun Oct 21 2001 09:06:47  Carroll County, Maryland Woman charged in death scheme -- (Sun Spot) A fifth person has been arrested and charged in a murder-for-hire plot allegedly desiged to eliminate critics of a space-alien cult, Maryland State Police said yesterday. Sat Oct 20 2001 21:55:05  Mt. Morris Township, Michigan Man sent for testing before slaying trial -- (mLive) Wilbert O. Byes will be examined at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry near Ann Arbor to determine if he is competent for trial and criminally responsible for his actions. Byes, 49, faces murder and weapons charges in the Sept. 16 slaying of Theresa A. Byes, 38. Sat Oct 20 2001 19:05:44 Dustin Rakestraw, 16 - gunshot wound to the head unidentified 13 year old faces manslaughter charges Shoreline, Washington Middle schoolers took 2 days to report dead body -- (SacBee) Several middle school students who saw a teenager's dead body in the bushes this week didn't immediately report it because they were scared or thought it was a joke, authorities say. Boy, 13, held in shooting of 16-year-old youth -- (Seattle P-I) Sat Oct 20 2001 18:59:52  HEATHER NICOLE PERIERA, 25 - murdered in August, 2000 KELLY ANN REBER, 21 - murdered in March, 2001 Dennis Richeson, 40 - alleged to have buried bodies near high school Capitola, California Teacher's aide pleads not guilty in murders -- (The Mercury News) What the case lacks in suspense, it makes up for in grisly details and in the sordid web of methamphetamine use that binds Richesin to at least one of his alleged victims -- and even to the family of the other. Sat Oct 20 2001 18:57:41 Inverness, Florida Minister found dead off a Citrus County beach killed by arrow -- (Jacksonville.com) Citrus County Sheriff's spokeswoman Hemminger Evan would not say Friday what the type and size of the arrow was that killed Kenneth Richardson, 59, of Paragon, Ind., or where it entered his torso. Richardson was discovered face down with his arms crossed on his chest in late August. Sat Oct 20 2001 18:54:41  Duncan, Oklahoma Duncan teen to be sentenced in father's killing -- (Oklahoman) Tough days await Stephens County District Attorney Gene Christian and the Hoyt Long family. Together, they must decide what punishment they will ask a judge to give Justin Ray Long, a 16- year-old who stabbed his adopted father to death last year. Sat Oct 20 2001 18:50:52  Mexico City Renowned human rights defender murdered in capital -- (thenewsmexico) Digna Ochoa y Plácido, a well-known human rights activist and attorney, was murdered Friday in her Mexico City office. Next to Ochoa's body was a note threatening additional killings of human rights activists belonging to her former organization, the Miguel Augustín Pro Human Rights Center (PRODH), Mexico City District Attorney Bernardo Batiz said. Sat Oct 20 2001 13:45:29  St. Bernard Parish, Louisianna Coroner charged in drug conspiracy -- (Nola) St. Bernard Parish Coroner Paul Verrette has been charged in federal court with felony conspiracy to distribute a prescription drug "outside the scope of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose," according to a bill of information. Sat Oct 20 2001 13:41:43  Middleton, Connecticut Middletown man convicted in 1999 shooting of police detectives -- (Boston.com) Akov Ortiz, who claimed self defense, was acquitted of the more serious attempted murder charges on Friday. Hel faces up to 75 years in prison on the assault convictions. Sat Oct 20 2001 13:39:18  Hartford, Connecticut Man sentenced to 108 years in murders of West Hartford couple -- (Boston.com) Under the sentence imposed Friday by Judge Edward Mullarkey, Roger Jones will not be eligible for parole for 50 years. Jones and Vaughn Walker, 23, were accused of killing Dr. John Haugh and his wife Patricia during a robbery on the morning of Nov. 1, 1996. Sat Oct 20 2001 13:37:38  Danbury, Connecticut Woman who allowed 17-year-old to drive drunk sentenced to prison -- (Boston.com) Carol Ucker, 45, pleaded no contest Friday in Bantam Superior Court to a charge of risk of injury to a minor. She has been sentenced to 18-months in prison. Sat Oct 20 2001 08:22:00  DuPage County, Illinois Prosecutor urged to file charges in '83 murder -- (Chicago Sun Times) The Coalition for Justice, a Chicago-based group, contends Birkett's office has enough evidence to charge Brian Dugan with the unsolved murder of the 10-year-old Naperville girl, Jeanine Nicarico. Sat Oct 20 2001 08:17:49  Sydney, Australia Spurned woman skins and cooks lover -- (Ananova) Katherine Knight, an abattoir butcher from Sydney, left the skin hanging in the hall and the plates in the kitchen, with the names of John Price's three children next to them. Sat Oct 20 2001 08:15:26  James Robert "Bob" Duke, 33 - two counts of first-degree murder Green River, Wyoming Indictment: Man killed wife, son -- (Denver Post) A grand jury has indicted a man on charges of killing his wife and 5-year-old son by causing them to fall off a cliff five years ago. Fri Oct 19 2001 19:27:24  Rabbi Fred Neulander - accused of having his wife murdered Camden, New Jersey Hitman says rabbi paid him to kill the rabbi's wife -- (Charlotte Observer) A confessed killer testified Friday that he helped club to death a rabbi's wife, then collected payment from the rabbi when he went to the couple's home to sit shiva, the Jewish mourning period. Neulanders' EMT son sped to the scene -- (Philly.com) Jenoff describes murder of rabbi's wife -- (Philly.com) Tale of murder took years to unfold -- (Philly.com) archived article Fri Oct 19 2001 18:06:07  Springfield, Massachusetts Grand jury indicts former Wal-Mart worker -- (Boston.com) A former Wal-Mart assistant manager has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly stealing $500,000 from the company's Pittsfield store and using the cash to buy new cars and other luxury items. Fri Oct 19 2001 18:03:50  Columbus, Ohio Social Worker Testifies in Ohio Case -- (Las Vegas Sun) A social worker testified Friday that a man imprisoned for writing fantasies in his journal about torturing and molesting children could act on those thoughts. The case has alarmed experts in First Amendment and obscenity law, who believe Dalton is the first person in the United States successfully prosecuted for child pornography writings, rather than images. Fri Oct 19 2001 17:37:28  JOLENE E. DEROSIER, 17 - strangled with a telephone cord Robert Dale Woods, 21 - convicted felon with history of assault Snohomish County, Washington Charge upgraded to first-degree murder in teen strangling -- (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) A man who initially was charged with second-degree murder in the strangling of his ex-girlfriend's teenage sister is now charged with first-degree murder. |
