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Sun Jan 6 2002 10:06:07  Cook County, Illinois Murder charge for man, 76, in wife's death - (Chicago Sun Times) To their Oak Lawn neighbors, Tom Harrison and his 74-year-old wife, Shirley, were so in love they were like two inseparable little birds. Sun Jan 6 2002 10:04:21  Toronto, Ontario T.O. cops troubled by rising use of firearms - (Toronto Sun) Jailing bad boys whose violent pasts make them most likely to succeed as future killers is the best way to slow Toronto's skyrocketing gun murder rate, the city's top homicide cop says. Sun Jan 6 2002 10:01:30  Chicago, Illinois Cops urged to tape their interrogations - (Chicago Tribune) Nearly 2 1/2 years after Chicago police and Cook County prosecutors began videotaping murder confessions, the unraveling of a murder case with a taped confession underscores why some lawmakers and advocates have called for further reform, including recording entire interrogations. Sat Jan 5 2002 23:17:53  Christian Longo, 27 - fugitive wanted for murdering his wife and children Brisbane-Daly City border, California Bay area police following leads in Oregon murder suspect -- (KTVU) Officers from three police agencies are actively searching the Brisbane-Daly City border this afternoon after receiving a report that a murder suspect may have been spotted there. Sat Jan 5 2002 23:05:55  Newport Beach, California Former NBA star Rodnam arrested -- (CNN) Dennis Rodman was arrested by Newport Beach police officers early Saturday for obstructing and delaying a police investigation of a possible business code violation. Sat Jan 5 2002 21:34:09  Houston, Texas Yates trial faces long jury selection -- (The Dallas Morning News) Four to six weeks have been set aside to pick a jury for the trial of Andrea Yates, 37, the NASA engineer's wife who called police June 20 and told them she had killed her children, ages 6 months to 7 years. Testimony isn't expected to start before mid-February. Sat Jan 5 2002 21:08:14  Boston, Massachusetts Seven years and counting for fugitive Whitey Bulger - (Boston.com) James ''Whitey'' Bulger beat the odds as head of an organized crime ring, avoiding arrest for decades as mobsters around him either landed in jail or turned up dead. Bulger, 72, had help he was an FBI informant who allegedly was protected by his handlers. Sat Jan 5 2002 21:03:39  Gloucester County, New Jersey Police resume digging for body in N.J. - (Philly Inquirer) Local and federal officials are investigating allegations that the woman's body was secretly buried, that her Social Security checks continued to be cashed after her apparent death, and that her identity was used in fraudulent purchases. Sat Jan 5 2002 20:09:02  RACHEL-HELENE BOIVIN, 22 - disappeared December 30 Penticton, British Columbia, Canada Missing woman likely murdered, B.C. police say -- (National Post) A British Columbia woman who disappeared after an argument with her boyfriend was probably murdered, police investigators have concluded. 'Find Helene' website -- Mr. Valliere has continued a campaign to publicize the plight of his missing girlfriend, publishing a Web site and doing interviews with journalists. Sat Jan 5 2002 19:40:09  Detroit, Michigan Detroit solves more murders - (Det News) The Detroit Police Department says it was able to solve 64 percent of murder cases last year, a dramatic improvement that would put the department on par with most large cities. Sat Jan 5 2002 19:38:01  Ashtabula County, Ohio Man gets four life terms for murder - (News Herald) One by one, Ashtabula County Prosecutor Thomas Sartini held up four photos for a judge and a convicted murderer to see. "We sometimes lose sight of what this case is about," Sartini said Friday, slowly placing one picture on a table and reaching for another in Ashtabula County Common Pleas Court. Sat Jan 5 2002 19:33:20  Cook County, Illinois DNA voids murder confession - (Chicago Tribune) In the first case of a videotaped murder confession unraveling in Cook County, a man who was recorded saying he stabbed his mother was freed on Friday after DNA tests linked another man to the crime. Sat Jan 5 2002 15:53:29  Eric Larry Hayes II, 19 - died from a single gunshot wound Prince George's County, Virginia Officer's Son 1 of 2 Slain in Pr. George's - (Washington Post) The teenage son of a D.C. police officer was fatally shot Thursday night in Prince George's County, just minutes after witnesses called authorities to report that he had been abducted at gunpoint in Southeast Washington and forced into a car, police said. Sat Jan 5 2002 15:36:56  Brentwood, New Hampshire Derry man pleads guilty in vicious beating - (Boston.com) A Derry man will spent 15 years in prison for what a prosecutor called the worst case of domestic violence he has ever seen. Sat Jan 5 2002 15:34:22  New York Police: Woman dies after stolen cab drives into guardrail -- (NJO News) A woman was killed after she and another man stole a yellow cab and drove into a guardrail while being chased by the cab's driver, who had hailed another taxi to pursue them, police said. Sat Jan 5 2002 15:25:31  Walkerton, Ontario, Canada Wife dead in shed as farmer worked -- (The Toronto Star) While the bloodied body of his 33-year-old wife Karen lay in a nearby tractor bucket, Randy Grubb, 37, who has been charged with first-degree murder in her death, spent his time barn-raising with his neighbours. Sat Jan 5 2002 15:13:29  SABRINA AISENBERG, 5 months - vanished November 1997 Tampa, Florida Aisenberg tapes might air -- (The Tampa Tribune) After years of secrecy, the public likely will get its first chance to hear the bugged conversations that led to the indictments of Steve and Marlene Aisenberg. Aisenberg audiotapes to be released -- (St. Petersburg Times) The tapes would be ready in about two weeks. The couple's attorneys are skeptical. Sat Jan 5 2002 14:11:17  Ventura County, California Ventura Man Receives 55 Years to Life for Strangling Woman - (LA Times) Speaking in a soft voice, Tommy Welch, 47, apologized for his crime. Then he blamed his actions on mental illness, an abusive father and an adolescence spent as a ward of the state. Sat Jan 5 2002 14:08:40  Los Angeles, California Families of Murder Victims Make Appeal for Information - (LA Times) They stack up at the LAPD's 77th Street station: unsolved homicides with few leads and, all too often, witnesses who won't come forward. So, along with bereaved families, detectives Friday made a public appeal for information on six unsolved murder cases from the last 14 months. Sat Jan 5 2002 14:06:50  Los Angeles, California Arrest of Alleged 'Hair Bandit' Startles Friends - (LA Times) Michael Howard's arrest New Year's Day has confounded his relatives and business partner, especially because of the charge: that a hair fetish allegedly drove him to chop off women's hair on the streets. Sat Jan 5 2002 11:45:09  Josephine Gray, 55 - suspect in 3 murders; federal fraud charges Montgomery County, Maryland Md. Woman Facing Murder Charges Again - (Washington Post) Montgomery County has again filed murder charges against a woman who is suspected of killing her two husbands but evaded prosecution more than a decade ago when witnesses, frightened by rumors that she practiced voodoo, refused to testify against her. Sat Jan 5 2002 11:39:37  Toronto, Ontario Cops question suspect in murder - (Cnews) Joe Pesa, 32, of Maple, was gunned down about 4 p.m. while showing a potential member around Bally's Total Fitness on The West Mall, south of Bloor St. Toronto Police homicide unit Det. Graham Hanlon confirmed a man wanted for questioning in the city's first murder of 2002 surrendered at the 22 Division station on Bloor St. W. about 11 p.m. He was accompanied by a lawyer. Sat Jan 5 2002 11:36:13  Groom, Texas 2 jailed in pot bust - (Amarillo Globe) Derrick Eugene Seiber, 32, of Oliver Spring, Tenn., and John Curtis Robinson, 28, of Oakdale, Tenn., were taken to the Carson County Jail in Panhandle, where they remained Friday evening in lieu of $25,000 bonds, according to a jail spokeswoman. Sat Jan 5 2002 10:54:48  GARY MORENO, 23 - body found in suitcase in trash bin Fresno, California Three Fresno men face murder charges -- (Fresno Bee) Three men have been arrested in the murder of a Fresno man whose body was found last weekend crammed inside a suitcase near Caruthers, the Fresno County Sheriff's Department said Thursday. Sat Jan 5 2002 10:40:38  THEODORE "Ted" AMMON - bludgeoned to death October 2001 East Hampton, New York Cops quiz slain mogul's widow -- (New York Post) The widow of slain financier Ted Ammon has been interviewed by Suffolk County homicide detectives, The Post has learned. Sat Jan 5 2002 10:28:55  Christian Longo, 27 - wanted for the murders of his wife and children Newport, Oregon Memorial for slain family in Oregon -- (Newsday) The Fishermen's Memorial was built to honor those lost at sea. It seemed only fitting, then, that mourners gathered here to remember Mary Jane Longo and her three children. Sat Jan 5 2002 10:12:54  BABY - born to Rebecca Corneau, 33 Boston, Mass. Judge gives custody of sect member's baby to state child protection officials -- (Fox News) The state was granted temporary custody Friday of a baby believed born to a member of a religious sect but whose whereabouts are unknown. Sat Jan 5 2002 09:58:54  Everett, Washington Prosecutors: Inmate tried to hire killer, target witness - (Seattle Times) A 26-year-old Kirkland man who once shared a jail cell with Indle King Jr. says the murder suspect used him as a test juror, trying out different testimony strategies to decide on an alibi for his whereabouts on the night his mail-order bride was killed. Sat Jan 5 2002 09:57:01  Lima, Peru Corruption suspects had keys to jail cells - (Chicago Tirune) Two Peruvian prisoners linked to former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos were discovered to have keys to their cells in a Lima prison and have been transferred to tougher jails, officials said Friday. Sat Jan 5 2002 09:54:33  Kristin Rossum, 25 - charged with murder by poisoning San Diego, California Suspect in San Diego poison case posts $1.25 million bail - (AL.com) A former coroner's lab toxicologist was released on $1.25 million bail, six months after she was arrested and charged with poisoning her husband with drugs allegedly stolen from her office. Sat Jan 5 2002 02:52:27  New York Two men arrested in fake merchandise scam - (Boston.com) Police seized more than $6 million worth of fake merchandise in what officials are calling one of the largest brand-name counterfeiting scams in city history, Queens County District Attorney Richard Brown announced Friday. Sat Jan 5 2002 02:48:08  Houston, Texas Man charged in road killing after allegedly bragging of it - (Houston Chronicle) Dinh Tan Ho, 21, is accused of the Dec. 7 gunfire that killed David W. Bundy, 27, and wounded three male companions. Fri Jan 4 2002 20:38:34  Dallas, Texas Third body found in Dallas home identified as missing woman - (Boston.com) A body found in the home of a slain couple was identified Friday as a woman who disappeared soon after she accused her son of stealing money from the family business. Inger Buckner, 62; her son, Michael; and her friends, Ralph H. Throneberry and Joan L. Wildenhaus; all had been missing since Dec. 15. Fri Jan 4 2002 20:36:10  Alicia Kozakiewicz, 13 - victim has no life-threatening injuries Scott Tyree, 38 - charges for illegal transportation of a minor for the purpose of engaging in illegal sexual conduct Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Missing 13-year-old Pennsylvania girl found restrained in Virginia home - (Boston.com) A man accused of abducting a 13-year-old girl he met over the Internet was arrested Friday after FBI agents found the girl restrained inside his northern Virginia home, federal officials said. Fri Jan 4 2002 20:00:21  CHARLOTTE ORTEGA, 55 - body found in bay Lazarus Ortega, 21 - arrested after questioning Berkeley, California Adopted son held in murder of Berkeley teacher -- (The Bay Insider) The adopted son of a special education teacher whose body was found floating off the Berkeley pier by a boater Sunday is in Santa Rita jail, charged with her murder. Fri Jan 4 2002 17:09:36  Kathaleena Draper and unborn child - victims Yerington, Nevada Woman pleads guilty in Nevada killing of pregnant niece, unborn baby - (Nola) An emergency room technician pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of murder for killing her 17-year-old pregnant niece and cutting the fetus from her womb. In exchange for Erin Kuhn's plea, prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty. Woman pleads in Nevada killing of pregnant niece, unborn baby - (Las Vegas Sun) variant of ap article Fri Jan 4 2002 17:01:37  Columbine, Colorado Autopsy of Klebold stays sealed - (Rocky Mountain News) A judge has denied a petition by the Rocky Mountain News to make public the entire autopsy report for Columbine High killer Dylan Klebold. Fri Jan 4 2002 16:59:02  Elgin, Illinois Elgin spree killer gets death - (Chicago Tribune) Moments before a judge sentenced him to die Thursday, the Elgin man convicted of carrying out a murderous shooting rampage in a local bar lashed out at the tavern's employees, accusing them of instigating the violence. "I've been in that bar at least 50 times and I've always been a gentleman," said Luther Casteel, 43, claiming the attack was not premeditated. "If I had planned to do this, I assure you there would have been no survivors." Fri Jan 4 2002 16:56:11  Oklahoma County, Oklahoma DA wants killer to pay for jail stay - (News OK) Dr. John B. Hamilton has been convicted of first-degree murder, and now Oklahoma County District Attorney Wes Lane wants him to pay for his jail stay. Hamilton, 53, was convicted last month by an Oklahoma County jury in the Valentine’s Day slaying of his wife, Susan Shibley Hamilton, 55. |
