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Mon Jan 7 2002 18:02:05  Oakland, California Lawyers want jail videos rejected - (Contra Costa Times) In a motion scheduled to be considered today, Pleasanton attorney Harry Traback contends Miguel Galindo Sifuentes' apology to his parents just days after Deputy John Paul Monego was killed Dec. 12, 1998, should be suppressed. Mon Jan 7 2002 17:59:13  Miami, Florida 12-year-old witnesses murder-suicide of parents -- (MSNBC) Miami-Dade police say the boy and his father had just returned from a trip to Georgia; they were visiting his mother at her home. Mon Jan 7 2002 17:48:29  San Francisco, California Ex-con accused of claiming he was Temptations' musical director, at other times the lead singer - (Star Tribune) Alan Young sings, dances and puts on quite a show when he poses as the onetime musical director of the Temptations. Trouble is, police say, his unknowing victims get stuck with the tab. Mon Jan 7 2002 16:10:47  New York Convictions thrown out in Crown Heights slaying; new trial ordered - (Boston.com) The convictions of two men in the 1991 fatal stabbing of a Jewish rabbinical student were tossed out Monday by a federal appeals court that found efforts to create a racially balanced jury were flawed. Mon Jan 7 2002 14:34:01  KIRSTY JONES, 23 - Welsh backpacker murdered in Thailand UK and Thailand DNA clue to backpacker murder -- (BBC) UK detectives investigating the rape and murder of backpacker Kirsty Jones are preparing to return to Thailand to hand over the results of forensic tests. Mon Jan 7 2002 14:15:58  Texas Inmate says Texas death row is a living hell -- (abc NEWS) Letters from an inmate have revealed a harrowing picture of life on Texas' death row where anti-death penalty advocates say 447 men are held in unending solitary confinement, given rotten food to eat, deprived of sleep and often subjected to salvos of pepper spray by guards. Mon Jan 7 2002 14:06:31  Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin - accused in the murder of Deputy Ricky Kinchen Atlanta, Georgia Judge Rules Against H. Rap Brown - (Las Vegas Sun) Fulton County Judge Stephanie Manis said Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin deliberately tried to taint the jury pool by writing public letters from jail and by giving an interview to The New York Times, which was published Sunday. Mon Jan 7 2002 13:58:22  Anchorage, Alaska Slain woman's neighbors knew she didn't trust son - (Anchorage Daily) Police say Kenneth Padgett asphyxiated his mother Charlotte Miles, in her home, bound her corpse with duct tape, wrapped it in a blanket, then hid it in the breakfast bar, apparently so he could rent her trailer and pawn her CDs and videos, worth a couple thousand dollars. Mon Jan 7 2002 13:54:43  King County, Washington Beyond Green River case: 52 similar, unsolved deaths - (Seattle Times) The official list of Green River victims assembled by the King County Sheriff's Office stands at 49, but investigators say the number is a rough estimate at best. The victims fit a general pattern: They were believed to be strangled, and their bodies were left outside. Many were last seen in areas frequented by prostitutes. Mon Jan 7 2002 12:13:14  Youngstown, Ohio Inmates suing over Ohio prison conditions watch trial opening from their isolation cells -- (abc NEW) The courtroom was arranged in the center of a cell block in an unused part of the prison with about a dozen inmates watching through food slots in cell doors and attorneys sitting at folding tables covered in green plastic tablecloths. Mon Jan 7 2002 12:05:54  Victor Ernest Hoffman - shot dead nine people of one family August 1967 Penetanguishene, Ontario Survivor blasts day passes for killer - (Cnews) The lone survivor of a 1967 massacre by a crazed man now allowed day passes in Penetanguishene has lashed out at the federal government, urging victims of violence "to speak up and make things change." Girl lone survivor of mass shooting at Shell Lake Nine in farm family slain - (U of Saskatchewan Library) newspaper archive Leask man charged in mass murder - (U of Saskatchewan Library) newspaper archive Notorious mass murderer allowed out on day passes - (Canada.com) Mon Jan 7 2002 10:43:11  TIMOTHY BOSS, 10 - believed murdered, body not located Donald Boss - charged with first-degree murder Lisa Boss - wanted as material witness Iowa, Michigan and Montana Murdered boy’s mother is still missing -- (Daily Sentinel) Law enforcement authorities continue to search for Lisa Boss of Remsen and Jackson, Mich., who is believed to be a material witness in the death of her adopted son, Timothy Boss. Seek Lisa Boss and kids in Montana -- (Daily Sentinel) Law enforcement authorities are concentrating on Billings, Great Falls, Havre and Phillips County, all in Montana and on roads between those areas. Children's names and ages -- (Daily Sentinel) Mon Jan 7 2002 10:10:27  RACHEL-HELENE BOIVIN, 22 - disappeared Dec. 30 and feared dead Penticton, British Columbia, Canada Search intensifies for missing woman -- (Penticton Herald) Penticton police are stepping up a search for a Penticton woman reported missing Monday. "It is still a missing person case, but we suspect foul play," said Penticton Staff Sgt. Pete McLaren. Foul play feared -- (CHBC) She was last seen early Sunday morning in the apartment she shares with her boyfriend, Niel Valliere. 'Find Helene' website Mon Jan 7 2002 09:23:42  Kathleen Peterson - severe blows to the back of her head Michael Peterson - indicted on murder charges Durham, North Carolina Lawyers vie over whether to free Peterson - (Herald Sun) If District Attorney Jim Hardin Jr. has his way, novelist Michael Peterson will remain in jail without bond until at least Jan. 22 on a charge that he murdered his wife. Mon Jan 7 2002 09:19:58  Arlet Cheston - murder charge Brooklyn, New York DA: This Time, We Really Have '87 Killer - (NY Post) Nearly 15 years after the senseless slaying of a hard-working cabby, two mistaken convictions and countless shattered dreams, there may be justice yet for Jean Ulysses. Mon Jan 7 2002 08:32:24  Donald Piper, 40 - accused Polk County, Iowa Convict Piper goes on trial again today - (Des Moines Register) Zurijeta Sakanovic was 21 years old when her body, hands bound with white electrical tape and naked below the waist, was found on the floor of a Clive hotel room she was paid to clean. She had been stabbed at least seven times. Mon Jan 7 2002 08:29:14  Warsaw, Indiana Suspect implicates his father in slaying - (Indianapolis Star) The father of a man accused of killing a woman who might have known too much about a car theft ring now faces a murder charge in the slaying as well, authorities said. Unspecified evidence provided recently by Jason Fisher, 23, prompted prosecutors to charge his father, Ralph "Fred" Fisher, 47, in the killing of Kathy Vroman. Mon Jan 7 2002 08:24:44  Los Angeles, California Instant Polygraph Test Developed - (LA Times) Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an instant "lie detector" technique that picks up mini hot flushes around the eyes and could lead to such tests becoming standard at airport check-ins. Sun Jan 6 2002 23:09:22  Brockton, Massachusetts Police seek leads to child porno suspect - (Boston Herald) ``We have a girl, aged 5 to 7, who is being victimized and we have a perpetrator we don't know the identity of. We're hoping the public will be able to help,'' said Brockton Police Detective Ken Williams. Sun Jan 6 2002 20:59:56  Porirua, New Zealand Girl abducted while babysitting brothers - (New Zealand Herald) A 16-year-old girl was blindfolded and sexually violated by three men who abducted her from a busy children's playground in Porirua. Police said the girl had taken her two younger brothers to a playground at Ascot Park about 2 pm on Saturday. Sun Jan 6 2002 20:55:29 Canadian National Ontario to monitor sex offenders by satellite - (The Star) Several Canadian provinces are contemplating the introduction of satellite tracking systems to monitor the every move of violent offenders on probation or parole. Sun Jan 6 2002 19:02:47  Kenneth Padgett - charged with the murder of Charlotte Miles, 56 Anchorage, Alaska Alaska police say Texas man killed his mother, hid her body - (Austin 360) A 37-year-old Texan visiting his mother strangled her in her Anchorage trailer, hid her body in the kitchen island breakfast bar, then rented the trailer to a woman with two children, police said. Sun Jan 6 2002 18:55:51  CHRISTOS SARISTAVROS, 44 - shot as he left charity function Melbourne, Australia Hypnosis hope in murder hunt -- (Herald Sun) Hypnosis is being used by homicide detectives in a desperate bid to catch the killer of a Melbourne tycoon. Sun Jan 6 2002 17:40:12  Andrea Yates, - pleaded innocent by reason of insanity in deaths of her 5 children Houston, Texas Jury selection to begin in Houston mother's murder trial - (Nando) Saying she was "ill," Andrea Yates breathed heavily as she called an emergency dispatcher, requesting that a police officer and an ambulance come to her southeast Houston home. "Are you having a disturbance? Are you ill?" 911 operator Sylvia Morris asked the mother of five. "Yes, I am ill," Yates replied. Long, hard road - (Houston Chronicle) Lawyers expect to interview hundreds in search for jurors to decide Yates' fate. Opposing sides seek unalike jurors - (Houston Chronicle) Prominent expert to testify in Yates trial - (Houston Chronicle) Texas jurors say capital murder cases are never easy - (Houston Chronicle) The Yates drownings: In-depth coverage - (Houston Chronicle) Sun Jan 6 2002 16:36:02  Vancouver, Washington Vancouver chiropractor disembowels self - (Seattle P-I) A local chiropractor who apparently disemboweled himself was discovered by police, who had come to his house to question him about alleged harassment of his former girlfriend. Sun Jan 6 2002 16:32:31  Mitchell A. Patterson, 44 - 15 years to life in prison Nevada City, California Dad gets 15 to life in second trial for daughter's death - (Sac Bee) Patterson was arrested in May 1993 and charged with homicide after carrying his daughter, Adrianna, into streaming Interstate 80 traffic east of Truckee. Both were struck. She died. He survived serious injury. Sun Jan 6 2002 15:12:42  Trenton, New Jersey Sex offenders names, but not addresses, go online Friday - (Boston.com) A constitutional amendment overwhelmingly passed by New Jersey voters would have allowed the state to post offenders' addresses, physical descriptions and criminal histories, but a federal judge prohibited the state from posting sex offender addresses last year. New Jersey State Police Web site - (njsp.org) Sun Jan 6 2002 14:50:48  Benin, West Africa Benin vigilante leader held in 'witches' murder -- (CNN) A vigilante militia leader has been charged with murder in the West African state of Benin after two women accused of being witches were murdered, a prosecutor said. Sun Jan 6 2002 14:34:39  Long Beach, California Shooting interrupts wedding reception in California; 3 dead -- (Nando Times) A man shot and killed two wedding-reception guests as they danced at a Cambodian restaurant, then was shot dead during a struggle with other guests, police said. Sun Jan 6 2002 14:27:43  Christian Longo, 27 - fugitive San Francisco, California Stolen vehicle believed driven by man accused of killing family is found at San Francisco airport -- (abc NEWS) Officials were unsure how long the vehicle had been at the airport, or whether Longo took a flight or simply left it there. Sun Jan 6 2002 12:17:36 Tempe, Arizona After running afoul of law, killer seeks to practice it - (Chicago Tribune) If there is such a thing as final redemption for James J. Hamm, it is fast approaching: He soon may be practicing law in the same state where the laws once did not much matter to him. Sun Jan 6 2002 11:33:45  Raleigh, North Carolina Man still fights to show innocence - (Herald Sun) Convicted killer Charlie Mason Alston has less than a week left to live, despite clamorous protestations of innocence and the unexplained loss of DNA evidence that lawyers say could have cleared his name. Sun Jan 6 2002 11:25:06  Ted Richard Banister, 37 - shot multiple times St. George, Utah Police Arrest Six in St. George Murder - (Salt Lake Tribune) St. George police arrested six people early Saturday in connection with the murder of a golf course employee who was found dead, shot multiple times, in a maintenance shed Thursday. Sun Jan 6 2002 10:49:44 RACHEL-HELENE BOIVIN, 22 - reported missing last Monday Penticton, British Columbia, Canada Creek focus of search for missing woman -- (Penticton Herald) Boivin had planned to take a Greyhound bus to Vancouver on Sunday morning to visit her father. She didn’t buy a ticket in advance and never arrived. Where is Helene? - (Penticton Western) Sun Jan 6 2002 10:23:36  JUDY KIRBY, 32 - sentenced in May to 215 years Indiana Woman who killed seven cited for drugs in prison -- (AP) The Indianapolis woman convicted of killing seven people in a traffic collision has been placed in isolation at the Indiana Women's Prison for a drug violation. Sun Jan 6 2002 10:13:43  ZACHARY, SADIE, MADISON and mother MARY JANE LONGO - victims of homicide Christian Longo - fugitive Ypsilanti, Michigan Mourners recall lives of mother, children -- (Michigan Live) More than 400 people packed a flower-filled Ypsilanti High School auditorium Saturday to remember a mother and three children whose bodies were found off the Oregon coast last month. Sun Jan 6 2002 10:07:54  DENISE HELEN HOLMES, 27 - found dead in her bedsit Friday Auckland, New Zealand Police struggle to solve murder -- (One News) Fifteen detectives are working on the case and 12 more will join the team on Monday as police struggle to find out what happened. |
