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Wed July 3 2002 12:20:49  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Man who had sex with juror sentenced -- (CBC) Peter Gill, who had sex with a juror during his murder trial, was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison Tuesday for obstruction of justice. The affair between Gill, an alleged gangster, and Gillian Guess, the juror 10 years his senior, received widespread media attention. Wed July 3 2002 12:16:43  Glenwood Springs, Colorado Glenwood police offer $20,000 for info about killer -- (GJ Sentinel) Police are offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man who shot a Wal-Mart employee to death inside the store last month. Thomas Lubchenco, 56, of Glenwood Springs died after he was shot about 11:30 p.m. June 16 in an upstairs storage area of the store. Wed July 3 2002 12:14:17  Trina Persad, 10 - victim Boston, Massachusetts 2 Charged in Boston Girl's Death -- (LAs Vegas Sun) Two men were charged in the death of a 10-year-old girl who was caught in a gang shootout Saturday at a neighborhood park, a case that has increased worries about Boston's increasing murder rate. Tues July 2 2002 20:43:30  The DANIELLE VAN DAM case San Diego, California Animal DNA expert testifies, prosecution rests case -- (NBC) Prosecutors concluded their case against David Westerfield Tuesday with an animal genetics expert, who testified that hairs found in the defendant's house could have come from the van Dam family's pet. Tues July 2 2002 20:21:36  The ELIZABETH SMART case Salt Lake City, Utah Police search handyman's home in Utah kidnapping -- (abc NEWS) Police investigating the kidnapping of a Utah girl spent nearly five hours on Tuesday conducting a second search of the mobile home of a handyman who officials say tops their list of possible suspects. Tues July 2 2002 18:23:51  Fresno, California Carolyn Condit libel case may hinge on definition of newspaper -- (The Bee) Lawyers representing Rep. Gary Condit's wife and the National Enquirer clashed Monday over whether the weekly tabloid can legally be called a "newspaper." Tues July 2 2002 18:08:01 The MARTHA MOXLEY case Norwalk, Connecticut Skakel's family seeks support -- (abc NEWS) Michael Skakel's family is urging supporters to send money for his appeal and write letters on his behalf to the judge who will sentence him for the 1975 slaying of Martha Moxley. Tues July 2 2002 16:28:40  Garden City, New York From 'Long Island Lolita' to columnist -- (abc NEWS) Amy Fisher, who served seven years in prison for shooting her lover's wife, has made her debut as a newspaper columnist. Her first subject: cyber-dating. Tues July 2 2002 14:46:41  The JAHI TURNER case San Diego, California San Diego police consider second dump search for missing boy -- (NC Times) The San Diego Police Department is weighing the costs and benefits of combing through trash and sewage sludge at the Otay landfill in Chula Vista for evidence that could help resolve the disappearance of Jahi Turner, Capt. Mike McCulloch said Monday. Tues July 2 2002 13:25:51  Galveston, Texas Sale of body parts investigated in Texas -- (UPI) An investigation was under way Tuesday at the University of Texas Medical Branch where an employee allegedly sold body parts and the cremated remains of some people who willed their bodies to science were mixed up. Tues July 2 2002 12:00:35  Concord, New Hampshire Police investigating two Hells Angels incidents -- (Boston.com) Police have a lot more questions than answers in two Hells Angels incidents in New Hampshire during the weekend. Tues July 2 2002 11:53:56  The ELIZABETH SMART Case Salt Lake City, Utah Smarts' Visitors Fingerprinted -- (Salt LAke Tribune) Nearly a month after the June 5 disappearance of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart, Salt Lake City police on Monday continued efforts to definitively identify which friends and neighbors may have been in her home that morning. Mon July 1 2002 20:49:09  New York Ex-NYPD Cop Testifies in Louima Case -- (Las Vegas Sun) The disgraced ex-patrolman who tortured Abner Louima in a police station bathroom testified Monday that a second officer accused of joining in the 1997 assault was never there. Mon July 1 2002 17:51:16  Alexandria, Virginia Government denies Lindh's torture claims, says he talked to "anyone and everyone" -- (Boston.com) During the time American-born Taliban John Walker Lindh says he was being held in "torturous conditions" and denied access to a lawyer, he was telling his story" to anyone and everyone who would listen," prosecutors said Monday. Mon July 1 2002 17:47:44  DeKalb County Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown - murder victim Albany, Georgia Closing arguments set in trial of former Ga. sheriff accused of killing successor -- (Boston.com) Both sides in the murder trial of former Sheriff Sidney Dorsey rested their cases Monday after tearful testimony from the widow of the successor he is accused of killing. Mon July 1 2002 12:57:30  Maple Valley, Washington Three sheriff's detectives shot as raid on meth lab ends in gunfire -- (Seattle Times) Three King County sheriff's detectives were shot last night as they raided a suspected meth lab at a house in a heavily wooded area near Highway 18 and 208th Avenue Southeast. Mon July 1 2002 12:53:31  Palmdale, California City updates ordinance about dangerous dogs -- (AV Press) Palmdale officials have updated the city's animal-control ordinance, adding new provisions concerning dangerous and vicious dogs that were adopted by Los Angeles County in April 2001. Tighter controls on canines were adopted by L.A. County two months after news stories began running about the dog-mauling death of 33-year-old Dianne Whipple in San Francisco. Mon July 1 2002 12:50:59  London, England Dando murder appeal to focus on identification -- (Ananova) Barry George's forthcoming appeal against his conviction for the murder of Jill Dando will centre on the issue of identification, say his lawyers. George was sentenced to life imprisonment last July after being found guilty of the April 1999 shooting of the television presenter. Mon July 1 2002 11:09:38  Boston, Massachusetts Police seeking help finding gunman who shot ten-year-old girl -- (Boston.com) Trina Persad, a 10-year-old girl shot while walking out of a park, remained hospitalized in critical condition, while the police commissioner worried about a surge in youth crime. Mon July 1 2002 11:05:52  New York Judge Declares Federal Death Penalty Unconstitutional, Saying Innocent People Sentenced -- (ABCNews) U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff issued a 28-page ruling reaffirming his earlier opinion that the death penalty act violated the due process rights of defendants. Mon July 1 2002 09:34:26  The KRISTIN and KATI LISK Case Richard Marc Evonitz - suspect shot himself to death Thursday Richland County, Virginia and Sarasota, Florida Suspect stalked others -- ( Free Lance-Star) Local detectives trying to link Richard Marc Evonitz to the slayings of three Spotsylvania County girls found handwritten notes in his apartment indicating he stalked at least four other girls in the area. Neighbors: Man kept to himself -- (Free Lance-Star) Keith Raba and his wife used to have cookouts with next-door neighbor Richard Marc Evonitz, never realizing they might be dining with a serial killer. Detectives seek links to rapist -- (The State) Investigators might be able to connect Evonitz to similar abductions and murders reported in Georgia, Texas and Florida. The slayings of the Lisk sisters and Sofia Silva -- (Free Lance-Star) Case overview links Police find more links to Lisk-Silva -- (Free Lance-Star) Mon July 1 2002 09:11:44 The ELIZABETH SMART Case Salt Lake City Utah Kidnap Case Mounting vs. Utah Handyman -- (NYPost) Police have "pretty substantial" circumstantial evidence against the ex-con handyman who's at "the top of the list" of potential suspects in the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, 14, according to a published report. Parents of Missing Children Need the News Media -- (Salt Lake Tribune) There's no question that publicity has helped stimulate the search for Elizabeth, as well as the investigation into her June 5 disappearance. Police are sifting through more than 10,000 tips in the case. Blood Tests in Smart Case -- (Fox) Six to eight male neighbors and friends who were in the home of Elizabeth Smart within hours of her kidnapping have been asked by the Salt Lake City Police Department to provide blood samples and fingerprints by Monday. Sun June 30 2002 20:44:50  Monroe, North Carolina Pregnant woman shoots grandfather, self; twins in critical condition -- (Nando) A pregnant woman shot her grandfather, then shot herself in the head, police said. Her twins were born by Caesarean and were in critical condition. Police are still trying to determine if Patricia Blackwell, 27, shot herself accidentally or intentionally. Sun June 30 2002 20:40:12  Lewiston, Maine Bag of cocaine lands at feet of officer -- (Boston.com) A bag containing crack cocaine sailed out of a window and landed at the feet of an officer who was waiting outside while his partner checked on a noise complaint in an apartment. Sun June 30 2002 16:22:43  Columbia, South Carolina Man who kidnapped girl, killed himself as police closed in may have abducted others, police say -- (Boston.com) Richard Evonitz, 38, pretended to be a magazine salesman when he approached a girl June 24 in Lexington and forced her into the trunk of his car at gunpoint, police said. She escaped from his apartment Tuesday while Evonitz slept, investigators said. A search of his apartment uncovered newspaper clippings and handwritten notes about the deaths of sisters Kristin Lisk, 15, and Kati Lisk, 12, of Spotsylvania County, Va. They were killed in May 1997. Sun June 30 2002 12:34:55  Las Vegas, Nevada Grisly murder story a puzzle -- (azcentral) It has been two months since Jeremiah Miller's torso was found near downtown Las Vegas wrapped in a plastic bag, stuffed in a black suitcase and dumped into a trash container. Police are running DNA tests on the 148-pound torso and on a bloody rag found in a neighboring trash bin. Sun June 30 2002 12:29:59  Brunswick, Maine Maine man charged in slaying of girl, 16 -- (Boston Globe) A Bowdoin teenager has been charged with the murder of 16-year-old Cody Green, a Brunswick girl who disappeared a month ago, police said. Olland Reese, 19, was staying at a Brunswick motel when police arrested him without incident. Sun June 30 2002 12:25:49  Mesa County, Colorado Man gets 33 years in fatal crash; Judge adds 9 years for ‘cold-heartedness’ -- (GJSentinel) A felon's "certain cold-heartedness" in leaving behind the body of a co-worker underneath a pickup in the desert cost him nine years on a prison sentence. Sun June 30 2002 12:22:37  The JENNIFER and ABBY BLAGG CAse Grand Junction, Colorado Hundreds mourn slain mother -- (NewsOK) Hundreds of friends, family, law enforcement and other community members met at a church in Grand Junction on Saturday to remember the life of an Ardmore native found shot to death in a landfill more than six months after she and her daughter disappeared. ‘She was my ... hero’: Friends, relatives gather to remember Jennifer Blagg's life -- (GJ Sentinel) Michael Blagg, 39, was not there. He is in the Mesa County Jail on $1 million bond, charged with Jennifer's murder. Sun June 30 2002 12:16:51  The JAHI TURNER Case San Diego, California Child's remains may be in Otay landfill, officials say -- (SignOnSanDiego) San Diego police suspect the body of missing 2-year-old Jahi Turner may be somewhere in the Otay landfill and officials are contemplating a massive search through thousands of tons of trash and sludge to find it. The Search for Jahi -- (SignOnSanDiego) Sun June 30 2002 12:10:25 The ELIZABETH SMART Case Salt Lake City, Utah No new developments in Smart abduction -- (Deseret News) Smart family spokesman Chris Thomas also said there was no new news from the family concerning the whereabouts of the 14-year-old girl who was taken at gunpoint from her parents' million-dollar Federal Heights home June 5. Over the weekend several thousand searchers were expected to scour the state looking for Elizabeth. Wife Says Ricci 'Was In Bed With Me' at Time of The Kidnapping -- (PRNewswire) As police in Salt Lake City place ex-con and handyman Richard Albert Ricci at "the top of the list" of potential suspects in the kidnapping of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart, a law-enforcement source says the case against him is "pretty substantial," Newsweek reports in the July 8 issue. Marc Klaas draws criticism in new role as Fox analyst: Family of missing Utah girl keeps him at a distance -- (SFGate) Handyman: 'I could not hurt a child' -- (Chicago Sun Times) Sun June 30 2002 11:56:42  Grafton, Vermont Grafton killings: Murder suspects charged, in court Monday -- (Sentinel Source) Charles "Poncho" Sherman, 42, and Michael Perez, 20, are being held without bail this weekend and are scheduled to be arraigned on murder charges Monday morning in Brattleboro. The bodies of Colleen K. Davis, 33, of Athens, and Gregg Enos, 33, of Brattleboro, were discovered Tuesday in Enos' pickup truck. Sat June 29 2002 18:59:26  Detroit, Michigan Cops: 2 Mich. Kids Left in Car Die -- (Newsday) Two young children died while they were left alone in a hot car for more than three hours by their mother, who was having her hair done, police said Saturday. The mother was being held on an open charge of murder pending a review by prosecutors. Sat June 29 2002 17:18:51  Greene County, Illinois Exhumation OK’d in murder case -- (Springfield Leader) Authorities hope DNA technology — not available in 1982 — will provide clues to the murder of Tammy Smith and possibly secure a conviction. Sat June 29 2002 16:17:01  Wood, South Dakota 'Scrappy' woman corners escapees -- (Rapid City Journal) Two escapees from a Chamberlain school for troubled teenagers managed to evade capture during a 12-hour vehicle theft binge in eastern and southcentral South Dakota Wednesday night. But then they encountered a determined woman wielding a shotgun. Sat June 29 2002 15:14:38  Jennifer Graves, 30 - charged with attempted first-degree murder, armed kidnapping and gun possession Miami, Florida Baby Crazed, She Shoots Mom for Tot -- (NY Daily News) A former New Yorker obsessed with having a baby was behind bars in Florida last night after shooting a young mom in the head, kidnapping the woman's 6-month-old son and trying to pass him off as her own child, authorities said. Sat June 29 2002 15:07:47  Athens, Alabama Athens man indicted in sex scheme -- (al.com) A Limestone County grand jury has indicted an Athens man on sodomy and other charges in a sex scheme targeting young girls. The indictment alleges that 44-year-old David Ligon posed as an Indian medicine woman to lure his victim. He was arrested in November. Sat June 29 2002 15:04:48  The ELIZABETH SMART case Salt Lake City, Utah Ex-Con Denies Role in Utah Abduction -- (Philly.com) A man who police say tops their list of potential suspects in the disappearance of Elizabeth Smart said he is being targeted because of his criminal past. Richard Albert Ricci said Friday night that he knows nothing about the 14-year-old girl's whereabouts. Sat June 29 2002 12:38:49  The ALEXIS PATTERSON case Milwaukee, Wisconsin Teens from around mid-west join search -- (WISC-TV) Friday, dozens of teenagers from around the Midwest joined the effort to locate the Milwaukee girl. |
