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Fri Jan 4 2002 15:40:12  Gary Ridgway - alleged Green River Killer King County, Washington Judge delays penalty issue for Ridgway - (Seattle P-I) A judge on Thursday granted a request from the defense attorneys for Green River homicide suspect Gary Ridgway to delay the deadline for prosecutors to decide whether they will seek the death penalty. Death-penalty decision delayed; Ridgway's hearing now set for April - (Seattle Times) Fri Jan 4 2002 14:49:49  JANICE HARTMAN - murdered by Smith in 1974 BETTY FRAN GLADDEN SMITH - vanished from her condo in 1991 John David Smith - convicted in Hartman's death Trenton, New Jersey New Jersey judge holds man responsible for second wife's death -- (NJO News) A man imprisoned in Ohio for killing his first wife is also responsible for the apparent death of his second wife, a judge has ruled. Fri Jan 4 2002 14:36:24  Miami, Florida Miami man and son dead in apparent murder-suicide -- (Miami Herald) Following a domestic dispute, a father shot and killed his 9-year-old son and himself as police tried to enter his home, authorities said. Fri Jan 4 2002 14:26:30  San Francisco, California Couple accused in dog-mauling deaths want separate trials - (Nando) Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel are charged with involuntary manslaughter in last year's death of Diane Whipple, 33. Knoller, who was with the dogs during the attack, also faces a second-degree murder charge. Fri Jan 4 2002 14:26:00  San Francisco, California Couple accused in dog-mauling deaths want separate trials -- (Nando Times) Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel are charged with involuntary manslaughter in last year's death of Diane Whipple, 33. Fri Jan 4 2002 13:23:24  Ventura County, California Authorities Seek Man Suspected in 3 Robberies - (LA Times) Authorities are looking for a man they believe responsible for three robberies in Thousand Oaks on Thursday afternoon, as well as robberies elsewhere in Southern California. Fri Jan 4 2002 13:04:14  West Lafayette, Indiana Police traced call to suspect - (Indy Star) Lloyd D. Lichti, 57, of West Lafayette was arrested Wednesday on preliminary charges of kidnapping and murder in the death of Fowler attorney John W. Barce, 73. Fri Jan 4 2002 12:18:51  RACHEL-HELENE BOIVIN, 22 - missing for five days Penticton, British Columbia, Canada Woman gone, foul play suspected -- (Canada.com) Police now say they believe a missing Penticton woman may have been murdered. Fri Jan 4 2002 12:03:56  Jefferson County, Colorado Attacker with cleaver was his son, man says - (Rocky Mountain News) Robert Maxwell Jenkins was charged as an adult Thursday with 10 counts of attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault, felony menacing and violent crime in the early morning Dec. 27 attack. Fri Jan 4 2002 11:23:09  Rockville, Maryland Md. Woman Accused in Slayings - (Newsday) Josephine Gray enlisted the help of each successive husband and boyfriend to commit murder on her behalf, first in 1974, then in 1990, then in 1996, authorities said in court documents. The second and third victims were suspected of killing the husbands who came before them. Fri Jan 4 2002 11:07:38  Nashua, New Hampshire A Deadly Collection of Information - (Washington Post) On the last day of her life, Amy Boyer could not have known a killer was waiting for her on her way home from work. But her stalker knew exactly where she would be. Fri Jan 4 2002 10:47:54  Christian Longo, 27 - fugitive wanted for family murders Waldport and Newport, Oregon Waterloo sightings of Longo mount -- (Des Moines Register) The FBI received a call Wednesday that Christian Michael Longo, who was born in Iowa, was spotted in Waterloo last week. FBI says ex-Michigan murder suspect man may have fast-food job -- (Detroit Free Press) Charles Mathews, FBI Special Agent in Charge in Portland, said Thursday that Christian Longo, who moved from the Ypsilanti, Mich., area to Oregon, has a history of working in fast-food restaurants. Memorial planned in Oregon for slain Longo family members -- (AP) A memorial service is planned Friday for 35-year-old Mary Ann Longo and her three young children, killed last month along the Oregon coast. Fri Jan 4 2002 10:34:00  JOSHUA HAFFNER, 22 - died early Friday Nashville, Tennessee Rookie Nashville police officer killed by son who picked up his service gun -- (abc NEWS) A rookie police officer was shot to death by his 3-year-old son, who had grabbed the man's service weapon from a kitchen table. Fri Jan 4 2002 10:02:25  Syracuse, New York Two teens plead guilty brutal beating over cigarettes - (Boston.com) Derrick Jones, 19, and Johnnie Taylor, 17, both of Syracuse, pleaded guilty Thursday before Onondaga County Judge William Walsh to reduced charges of attempted first-degree robbery in the Sept. 19 attack on Steven Bailey. Fri Jan 4 2002 10:00:54  Binghampton, New York Man faces child porn charges - (Boston.com) Roland J. Kyzer Jr., of Tioga, received and possessed child pornography on his computer from 1997 until his arrest in November, Assistant U.S Attorney Miroslav Lovric said Thursday. Fri Jan 4 2002 09:59:12  Chicago, Illinois Teen mom charged with killing baby - (Chicago Tribune) LaTonya Starnes, of the 6800 block of South Calumet Avenue, originally told authorities she found her 11-month-old son, Bryant, unconscious about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, said Sgt. Robert Cargie. The boy died a short time later at Holy Cross Hospital. Fri Jan 4 2002 00:02:50  Pensacola, Florida Paralyzed man sentenced to 26 1/2 years in prison for murder - (AL.com) A paralyzed man was convicted Thursday and sentenced to 26 1/2 years in prison for killing his friend, whose buried body wasn't found for more than a year. Thur Jan 3 2002 23:52:31  Auburn, Washington Trouble followed family's 'rock' to a bitter end - (Seattle P-I) Dead at the wheel of a car he didn't own next to a man his family never met, Robert Glenn Harrison had crammed a lifetime worth of trouble into his 17 years: car theft, drug use, petty crimes and a court order to stay away from the young woman he lived with. Thur Jan 3 2002 23:46:41  Phoenix, Arizona Woman arrested in deaths of children on Navajo reservation - (Sac Bee) Elvira Charley, 31, was arrested after calling tribal police about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday to tell them she had hurt her children, FBI spokesman Ed Hall said in Phoenix. Thur Jan 3 2002 21:31:13  Houston, Texas Attorney says crime writer jailed 5 months in Houston to be freed Friday - (Boston.com) A fledgling crime writer will be released from jail Friday after being held more than five months for refusing to surrender her notes to a federal grand jury. The panel that demanded Vanessa Leggett turn over her research on a society murder is ending its term that day, her attorney, Mike DeGeurin, said Thursday. Thur Jan 3 2002 21:29:00  Bernalillo, New Mexico Police arrest cook in December slaying of priest at north-central New Mexico monastery - (Boston.com) Steven A. Degraff, 33, already jailed for an unrelated crime, confessed to killing the Rev. Michael Mack, 59, during a break-in at the cottage where the priest lived alone, according to court records. Thur Jan 3 2002 21:27:03  Addison, Texas Woman slain in Dallas office shooting; alleged gunman later shot by police - (Boston.com) Witnesses said they heard several shots in the first-floor office in Addison, some 10 miles north of Dallas. Police said they found the suspect, Todd Caro, 35, still inside and shot him during a confrontation. Thur Jan 3 2002 21:25:24  Louisville, Kentucky Authorities search several states for escaped convict wanted in slaying - (Boston.com) Police searching for an escaped convict discovered instead the battered body of a 71-year-old man dangling from a tree, his hands and feet bound by a telephone cord. Authorities believe the convict committed the slaying, and on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for J.B. Cole, 37, on a first-degree murder charge. Thur Jan 3 2002 17:59:38  Minneapolis, Minnesota Police investigate Minneapolis' second homicide in '02 - (Star Tribune) The death of a man found in a doorway in a triplex in Minneapolis' Hawthorne neighborhood this morning is being investigated as a homicide. Thur Jan 3 2002 17:06:46  Kristen Nicole Cornett, 6 - sexually assaulted and murdered Reno, Nevada Woman accused of neglect in child's death pleads guilty - (Las Vegas Sun) A Reno woman accused of letting her husband sexually abuse and kill her 6-year-old daughter pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of child neglect causing substantial bodily harm. Thur Jan 3 2002 17:00:50  Pea Ridge, Florida Bodies identified in Panhandle double murder-suicide - (naplesnews) Santa Rosa County sheriff's deputies said the bodies were a Pea Ridge couple and their 28-year-old daughter. Deputies concluded Angela Serena Wilson-Glitch fatally shot her parents and then killed herself with a .38 caliber handgun found at her side. Thur Jan 3 2002 16:02:35  Brookline, Massachusetts Woman Accused Of Robbing Bank - (TheBostonChannel) NewsCenter 5's Pam Cross reports that Andrea Robinson was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail after police said that she used a note and a fake gun to steal $8,000 from Brookline Municipal Credit Union Wednesday. Thur Jan 3 2002 15:59:43  Birmingham, Alabama Judge Rules Ex-Klansman Competent - (AP) A judge ruled Thursday that former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry is mentally competent to stand trial on murder charges in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four black girls. Thur Jan 3 2002 15:57:37  Houston, Texas Texas appeals case of sleeping lawyer - (Chicago Tribune) In a case that could help define what constitutes competent lawyering, the state of Texas has renewed efforts to execute a Houston man whose murder conviction was reversed last year by a federal appeals court because his court-appointed attorney slept through significant portions of the case. Calvin J. Burdine's 1984 trial was fundamentally unfair because of the "consistent unconsciousness" of his attorney, Joe Frank Cannon, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled in August. Thur Jan 3 2002 15:53:29  Steven A. Smith, 31 - awaiting trial on charges of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, and aggravated arson Colerain Township, Ohio DNA tests approved in slaying case - (Cincinnati Enquirer) Prosecutors are hoping DNA tests will help determine who killed Stella Ann Abbott. On Wednesday, Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Steve Martin approved a prosecution request to conduct the genetic tests on blood found under Mrs. Abbott's fingernails. Thur Jan 3 2002 15:07:20  Los Angeles, California Teen Charged in Firecracker Attack on Dog - (LA Times) Gil Raul Delara, 19, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 12 felony counts, according to Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. Thur Jan 3 2002 15:05:03  Dover, New Hampshire Tierney sentenced to 15 to 30 years for molesting two boys - (Boston.com) A former Wolfeboro police lieutenant convicted of sexually assaulting two boys was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison on Thursday. Robert Tierney, 47, was convicted of sexually assaulting two brothers repeatedly between 1983 and 1987. Thur Jan 3 2002 13:21:48  Penticton, British Columbia $20,000 offered for word on woman - (Penticton Herald) Helene Boivin, 22, was last seen early Sunday morning. She had planned to take a Greyhound bus that morning to Vancouver to visit her father, Guy Boivin. She never showed up. Thur Jan 3 2002 13:19:13  Denver, Colorado Driver in hit-run death gets 12 years in prison - (Rocky Mountain News) Francisco Javier Galindos-Barreras, 27, had been drinking all day and had a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit when he ran a stop sign at West 20th Avenue and Lowell Boulevard last Feb. 15, causing a chain reaction crash that claimed the life of Denise Lucero. Thur Jan 3 2002 13:17:00  Montgomery County, Maryland Couple Found Fatally Shot in Their Home - (Washington Post) Police said the bodies of William Darby Payne, 74, and Mary J. Payne, 73, were discovered by their son Robert, who also lived in the house in the 5000 block of Wyandot Court. They said a handgun believed to have been used in the shootings was found in the bedroom. Thur Jan 3 2002 12:20:35  Mount Holly, Pennsylvania Third sentencing trial begins in '85 murder case - (Philly Inquirer) The long-awaited trial to determine whether convicted murderer Jacinto "Joey" Hightower should get the death penalty or life imprisonment began yesterday, but not without fireworks. Thur Jan 3 2002 12:18:08  New Orleans, Louisianna Woman raped in church; police plead for public's help - (Nola) Police pleaded for the public's help in their search for a man who attacked a woman in a Catholic church, forced her into a nearby bathroom and raped her. Thur Jan 3 2002 12:14:50  Hamilton, Ohio Ohio teen-ager given probation for anthrax phone threat - (Nola) The youth randomly called a woman and told her to go to the hospital immediately or contact the poison control center because postal officials had traced a package that could contain anthrax to her home, said Assistant Butler County Prosecutor Jason Phillabaum. The boy's identity was withheld because he was 17 at the time. Thur Jan 3 2002 12:12:50 Newark, New Jersey Suspected ATM thief found dead in Florida - (Nando) An automated teller machine restocker suspected of stealing $5 million has been found dead in Florida. Michael Schwartz, 36, had used an alias to rent an apartment that he shared with another man in West Palm Beach, Fla., authorities said Wednesday. The roommate, Chris Lacroix, found the body on Christmas Day. |
