January 26, 2004
Stranded woman raped in Bayview
Full story: SFGate.com
A 21-year-old passenger on a charter bus excursion to San Francisco was sexually assaulted early Sunday after the bus left without her following a rest room break near Candlestick Park. San Francisco police said the woman was forced into a car, threatened and raped after she had walked at least 2 miles through the Bayview district seeking help. "What a nightmare," said Lt. Mary Stasko, who supervises the Police Department's Bayview substation, where the shaken victim was brought by a passerby after the alleged assault. "It's just really horrible."Posted @ 08:39 PM
Man decapitated in apparent suicide
Full story: The Herald News
Police say the man tied a nylon rope to his neck and also to a pole on Prospect Street. Once inside his car, he may have either stepped on the accelerator or let the car roll down the hill. The car traveled about 30 feet, colliding with a parked vehicle and pushing it onto the curb, before finally coming to a stop. Fall River Police Department spokeswoman Detective Lisa Ahaesy did confirm that the man's head was separated from his body and lay on the ground outside of the car. Police and medical personnel responded to the incident.Posted @ 08:38 PM
Kittanning: New charges filed in killing of family
Full story: post-gazette.com
Goedicke, 23, was initially charged with three counts of conspiracy to commit murder in the Jan. 12 deaths of her sister, Rhonda Walters, her sister's husband, David Walters, and their 19-month-old daughter, Destini. Police based those charges on Goedicke's confession that she drove David Barnhart to the mobile home, where he shot Rhonda and David Walters to death and shot and stabbed the child. Barnhart shot himself to death and his car exploded as police were pursuing him Jan. 16. On Friday, police added charges of solicitation and complicity to commit murder against Goedicke for allegedly agreeing with Barnhart to plan and commit the murders. According to court documents, she also urged Barnhart to carry out the murders.Posted @ 07:58 PM
January 25, 2004
Man gets death penalty for killing Sarasota neighbor
Full story: Bradeton.com
Circuit Judge Lee Haworth followed the recommendation of a jury, which voted 11-1 in August that John Troy, 34, should be put to death rather than spend life in prison for the murder of Bonnie Carroll, 20, in Sarasota. Troy was accused of stabbing Carroll 44 times in September 2001, slitting her throat, choking her, trying to rape her, and then stealing her car. Hours later, he beat his mother's friend, Tracie Burchette, took her car and left her with a skull fracture.Posted @ 10:51 PM
Father pleads guilty to felony child abuse
Full story: Times-Standard Online
A man who was originally convicted in 2001 of abusing his own month-old son in 1999 was back in Superior Court through appeals and entered guilty pleas to two felony counts of child abuse Friday. Brian Christopher Schooling, 26, was initially arrested on attempted murder charges by the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department in March of 1999 after his son was treated for burns, a skull fracture, broken legs, a broken collarbone and broken ribs.Posted @ 10:46 PM
Couple guilty of sex abuse
Full story: sacbee.com
Soon, however, Harrod drifted from the church and wrote his own scripture, borrowing liberally from Mormon and Jewish doctrine. "He was not in any way Mormon; he was just bastardizing these religions to justify the molestations," said prosecutor Chris Ore. He said the guilty verdicts will "open the eyes of people that there are dark parts of society where people do these things to kids." Harrod described himself as a prophet and adopted the biblical name "Isaac," requiring his children and wives to call him either Isaac or "Lord." Hunt bore him two sons and Ila Harrod bore him another boy. At the same time, two daughters testified, they were being required to perform oral sex upon their father at least weekly. The eldest girl described being sodomized at age 8, while her father pressed a pillow over her head to muffle her screams.Posted @ 10:24 PM
Internet predator convicted on sex assault charges
Full story: The Daily Times
McLain was arrested last April when he solicited what he thought was a young mother with two daughters, aged 7 and 10, over the Internet and set up a meeting with them at a Tinicum hotel. In reality, the woman was Detective Michele Deery, whom McLain contacted over the Internet on March 26, 2003, asking her if she had similar sexual interests. "I am an older guy that has a fantasy with younger women," McLain wrote in an instant computer message to Deery. "Do your daughters like older guys?"Posted @ 10:11 PM
January 22, 2004
Murders still bedevil Chianti's rolling hills
Full story: Guardian Unlimited
The suspects are outwardly respectable professionals. A lawyer, a retired village chemist, a former university medical professor specialising in dermatology and sexually transmitted diseases. The setting is the rolling hills of Chianti. And their alleged crime is one that could lie at the heart of one of Umberto Eco's esoteric thrillers.
The men are accused of belonging to a satanist coven that masterminded Italy's most notorious serial killings - 16 murders carried out between 1968 and 1985, and blamed on a "Monster of Florence". Four people have been cautioned as suspects and, on Monday, the home of one of those formally placed under investigation was raided by police at dawn.Posted @ 11:38 PM
Father, Son Accused Of Having Sex With 13-Year-Old Girl
Full story: TheOmahaChannel.com
Orville Leon Grant, 57, and his son, Dale Lee Grant, 28, are accused of having sex with a 13-year old girl. Terri Borron is also charged with felony child abuse. She's accused of knowing about the assaults and not reporting them to law enforcement. It's a case even investigators had a hard time handling. "It bothers me. I'm a father. I don't like to see anything like this. It appalls me to no end," said Earl Schenck of the Cass County Sheriff's Department. Dale Grant is a registered third-degree sex offender -- considered at high risk to reoffend.Posted @ 11:32 PM
Police: Underage Girls Used In Sex Parties
Full story: News Channel 10
Police said the ring started in business in July and ended with the arrest of three Honduran men. Police arrested Roger Moreno and charged him with rape of a child under 16, statutory rape and intimidating a witness. They arrested Jose Lopez and charged him with statutory rape. Wilfrado Lopez was arrested on a warrant. Police said the ring worked like this: A cab would pick up the girls at the New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School and drive them to a house on Clark Street, where they had sex parties with an unknown number of men. Later, a cab would take the girls back to school or home. Investigators said one girl, 15 years old, told her mother about the ring, which got police involved.Posted @ 11:31 PM
Police say man used tape to try to get older child to kill younger one
Full story: wtvo.com
A Pittsburgh-area man has been arrested for allegedly trying to get his ten-year-old stepson to kill a four-year-old half-brother. Police say Donald Winniewicz (WIN'-oh-wich) has confessed to playing an audiotape to the sleeping ten-year-old. His wife found the tape in a file drawer and played it. Court documents state Nancy Winniewicz heard her husband's voice telling the older child to strangle the preschooler -- or smother him with a pillow. She made a copy and contacted police. Authorities say the mother told officers the older boy had previously told her he'd heard voices in his sleep.Posted @ 11:28 PM
Infant Bodies Found Encased in Concrete
Full story: WOKR-TV 13 ROCHESTER
A husband and wife from Farmington, Ontario County are charged following the discovery of the bodies of two infants. The babies were entombed in concrete in plastic containers at two different locations. Ontario County Sheriff Phil Povero said deputies went to a home on Doe Haven Drive in Farmington at about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. They were responding to a call from a family member. Officers found the body of an infant encased in concrete inside a 30 gallon plastic tote. Povero said it's believed the baby was born in May 2003. Following that discovery, investigators went to a home in Canadice, Ontario County and found a five gallon plastic bucket containing the remains of another infant. That baby was believed to have been born in 1998.Posted @ 11:21 PM
Plea Agreement Reached In Leopard-print Thong Case
Full story: The Caledonian-Record
Bernard Curtis, 33, of Newport, entered an Alford plea to the felony charge of sexual assault. By entering the Alford plea, Curtis maintains he is innocent but accepts the consequences of the agreement as in his best interest. The charge carried a maximum possible sentence of 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. According to the affidavit, police said Curtis attacked and assaulted a 25-year-old woman on Sept. 14, 2001, on the trails around South Beach on Lake Willoughby in Westmore. Curtis was allegedly wearing a leopard-print thong at the time of the incidentPosted @ 11:16 PM
UC Davis students' tutor gets 11 years for rapes
Full story: sacbee.com
A graduate of UC Davis law school who worked on campus tutoring students was sentenced this week to 11 years in state prison for raping two undergraduate students while the women were unconscious. Michael Anthony Jones, 32, was sentenced in Yolo Superior Court on Tuesday after being convicted by a jury last fall of felony counts of rape of an unconscious person, one count of false imprisonment and other charges.Posted @ 11:09 PM
Teen girls charged with killing mother
Full story: The Globe and Mail
Two teenaged sisters have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of their alcoholic mother a year after she was found drowned in her bathtub in Mississauga. Peel Regional Police arrested the two girls, aged 15 and 16 at the time of the killing, at the home of a relative yesterday.Posted @ 11:06 PM
Graterford guard accused of sex with prisoner
Full story: mcall.com
A female corrections officer has been charged with performing a sex act on a male inmate last month at Graterford State Prison. Kelly Iona Rozier, who turns 35 today, was arrested by state police at Skippack on Tuesday and charged with institutional sexual assault. Rozier, of Philadelphia, is accused of performing the sex act on the inmate Dec. 5 at the prison in Skippack Township.Posted @ 10:54 PM
Mum killed son over cookies
Full story: The Courier-Mail
An American woman was sentenced to life in prison for killing her nine-year-old adopted son by wrapping him in duct tape as punishment for stealing cookies. The boy was left overnight with only his nose uncovered and suffocated on his own vomit at the family's home west of Kansas City. Christy Edgar, her husband, Neil, and six other people were charged with abusing the couple's three adopted children and another boy who knew the family.Posted @ 10:44 PM
Suspected 'witch' beheaded by nephew
Full story: Sify.com
In a gruesome case, a nephew beheaded his aunt suspecting her to be a witch and brought the severed head to the police station at Dumaria in East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand on Tuesday. Police said the killer, one Gurudeo Mardi (18), believed his aunt was a witch and was responsible for the death of his two brothers and father.Posted @ 10:27 PM
Mother Sentenced For Letting Kids Smoke Pot
Full story: TheKansasCityChannel.com
Kimberly Lewman, 35, of Holden, was sentenced Friday by Judge Donald Barnes in Pettis County Circuit Court. The former Sedalia woman pleaded guilty Sept. 26 to two counts of child endangerment. She admitted allowing her children, then 10 and 12, to smoke marijuana. She was sentenced to two concurrent four-year prison terms.Posted @ 10:01 PM
January 20, 2004
Man Gets 12 to 25; Made Son Sell Drugs
Full story: theledger.com
A man was sentenced Tuesday to between 12 and 25 years in prison for forcing his 11-year-old son to sell crack cocaine. Edward Sheed Sr., 38, was convicted in September of child endangerment, drug and weapons charges, and related counts. His son, Edward Sheed Jr., was 11 when he walked from school to a police station in September 2002 and told officers that his father forced him to carry a gun and sell drugs. The boy took police to a vacant lot, where he pointed out his father sitting on a crate behind a car. Police set up a sting and Sheed was arrested for selling crack to a police informant.Posted @ 09:49 PM
U.S. Murder Suspect Captured in France - Police
Full story: Reuters
Paul Goldman, 38, is in custody in the southeastern French city of Grenoble after being arrested by police there, said Diane Gibbons, district attorney of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Goldman, an immigrant from Uzbekistan, fled to Europe on Jan. 7, after he told his wife and his father that he had killed mortgage broker Fay Zonis, officials said. The relationship between Zonis and Goldman was unclear. Goldman's father, Edward, 66, and his mother, Inessa Lemashova, 63, committed suicide on Jan. 13. In a note left behind, the pair said they could not live with the knowledge of what their son had done, officials said. Goldman's wife, Irinia Sapiro, is in jail on charges she tried to cover up for her husband.Posted @ 09:47 PM
Sitter accused of sexual abuse
Full story: York Daily Record
A Newberry Township woman, trusted by friends to care for their children in her home, has been accused of sexually abusing those children and recording her crimes with a video camera. Newberry Township Police arrested Tracene Jo Usko, 45, of the 300 block of Pleasant View Drive, on Sunday after Usko's daughter found video footage showing Usko abusing a 1-year-old boy and a 2-year-old boy who had been in her care, police said. The children are not related to each other.Posted @ 09:33 PM
Brazil cops baffled by `hideous crime'
Full story: Chicago Tribune
Barra de Tijuca is an affluent suburb of gated $700,000 condos, beachfront high-rises, palm trees and so many American expatriates that the locals call the neighborhood Miami Beach. But the full weight of how extraordinarily different this homicide was from the estimated 4,000 murders that occur each year in Rio became jarringly clear on Nov. 30 when detectives entered the second-floor bedroom of a luxurious condo. A Utah executive, Todd Staheli, lay dead in his bed alongside his wife, Michelle, who was fatally wounded. Their bodies were mutilated by repeated blows from what appeared to be an ax or meat cleaver. Detectives noticed Todd Staheli's gold Rolex watch on a bureau, a few feet from the bodies. From the window they could see the couple's Land Rover in the driveway. This, the detectives quickly concluded, was no robbery, according to Brazilian authorities who provided extensive details on the case. This was rage. Seven weeks after the grotesque slayings, the investigation of the killings remains inconclusive. No arrests have been made, no charges filed, and Brazilian and American officials have traded criticism over differences in the way they deal with criminal investigations.Posted @ 09:27 PM
Girl may have been killed in exorcism
Full story: Dayton Daily News
A 6-year-old girl was found dead in a motel room with a broken back Monday after what police said may have been an exorcism. Two adults were arrested after they and two children were spotted on the street naked in the freezing cold. The adults, who had been staying in the motel room, were charged with cruelty to children, public indecency and obstruction of police and were taken to a psychiatric ward. Police said the girl had been brutalized and suffered a broken back and other broken bones. An autopsy was planned.Posted @ 09:16 PM
January 19, 2004
Incest trial of 13 family members starts
Full story: www.theage.com.au
Thirteen members of one family went on trial in France today on charges of raping or sexually assaulting their children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews. The case came to light in September 2001 when a 16-year-old son of the family, who had already been sentenced for raping his sister, told police family members had sexually assaulted him since the age of five.Posted @ 10:40 PM
Teenager burnt alive in Rohini
Full story: The Times of India
An 18-year-old boy was allegedly burnt alive outside his Rohini residence on Saturday night. According to the victim's father, four persons used petrol to burn Vinay Gulati, who died late on Sunday night at Lok Nayak Hospital (LNH). The police, however, said that they were awaiting the autopsy report to decide whether it was a case of murder or suicide.Posted @ 10:38 PM
Woman sent to jail after spitting on judge
Full story: Capital News 9
Lisa Shaffer, 32, appeared in Deerpark Town Court Sunday on child endangerment charges. Police said Shaffer shot a pellet gun at her husband in front of the couple's son during a domestic dispute. Authorities said Shaffer became angry at Judge John Ehre after he sent her to jail on $500 bail on the endangerment charge. Shaffer then spit on the judge twice, prompting her five-day sentence.Posted @ 10:35 PM
Six-year-old girl gang-raped, killed and mutilated
Full story: Daily Times
The girl, Anaam, was the daughter of a local farmer Umer Hayat, a resident of Village No 212 Nine-R. On January 13, she went to a nearby market and did not return home. Her family and neighbours searched for her but failed. On January 15, her body was found in front of the house of a local villager named Muhammad Ashiq. The body was hacked into pieces and her head and one arm were chopped off while her stomach was open. The body was removed to the civil hospital for an autopsy, where Dr Rashida Shaheen wrote that she was gang raped before death.Posted @ 09:18 AM
Violent sex tapes lead to charges
Full story: Winnipeg Sun
Police arrested the man and viewed the tape, which showed pain being inflicted on local prostitutes, said Bloor. "We're talking extreme violence," she said. Donald Michel Bakker is a 40-year-old Vancouver resident with no previous criminal record. "He is married and he does have a child," said Bloor. Search warrants were issued after the arrest and police checked a home and car, seizing more tapes. Investigators also found tapes showing sexual acts involving children in southeast Asia, said Bloor.Posted @ 09:01 AM
Man held on child porn charges
Full story: The Sentinel Online
Mechanicsburg police Friday arrested a Mechanicsburg man accused of taking nude photographs of a 9-year-old girl, soliciting her for sex at age 14 and 16 and collecting thousands of pornographic images of others, including babies and very young children.Posted @ 08:45 AM
Four high schoolers charged in sex attack
Full story: washingtontimes.com
San Francisco police are holding four high school seniors in a sexual assault against a 14-year-old girl, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday. The assault came to light when a school guard heard student rumors about it, in which the boys grabbed the freshman girl, dragged her into a bathroom and forced her to perform oral sex on three of them as a fourth kept watch.Posted @ 08:42 AM
Cleaner finds teen's headless body in toilet
Full story: IOL
A Municipal cleaner on Friday morning found the beheaded corpse of a teenager in a toilet in the Warwick Avenue area. This is the second mutilated female corpse to be found in the city this month. On New Year's Day, police discovered a mutilated body of a woman near the Durban Metro Electricity building in NMR Avenue. The woman's legs had been torn apart and her genitals mutilated. Her intestines had been removed and left near her body. A stab wound was also found on the left side of her neck.Posted @ 08:40 AM
Man accused of sex attack on cousin
Full story: News-Miner
Solomon--who has three cases pending and has previous convictions for misconduct involving weapons and assault--allegedly choked the woman until she lost consciousness, then assaulted her Jan. 6 while the two were in a truck Solomon had recently bought from the woman's husband, Schlumbohm said. The two were driving around in the Chevrolet for a short time until the woman asked to be taken home, the officer said. Solomon refused and instead drove the woman out of town, Schlumbohm said, where he assaulted her. "He definitely beat her up," Schlumbohm said. "She has bruising on her arms, her legs, her stomach."Posted @ 08:35 AM
Purported puppy mill raided
Full story: The Kentucky Post
Just a few hours earlier a small army of sheriff's deputies, state troopers, animal control officers and volunteers had completed the arduous process of safely moving the 108 live dogs seized from Tonya Moukaddem's Berry, Ky. farm overnight. The animals were confiscated after Grant and Harrison County sheriff's deputies executed a search warrant at the Renaker-Berry Road property and turned up evidence of what they say was rampant animal abuse and neglect. The bust was the culmination of years of complaints and months of intense investigation into kennels operated by Moukaddem and her former husband, Ken Sunbom, in rural areas of Grant, Pendleton and Harrison counties. Thursday night, Moukaddem was arrested for parole violations related to a conviction two years ago for felony theft. She and Sunbom, who is currently charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty, are in the Grant County Detention Center in Williamstown, just footsteps away from the shelter housing the confiscated dogs. Grant County Deputy Sheriff Chuck Dills, who spearheaded the wide-ranging investigation, says more charges will be filed against the two early next week.Posted @ 08:10 AM
Man sought in 3 killings blows self up
Full story: azcentral.com
A man wanted in the slaying of three members of his girlfriend's family shot himself in the chest and blew himself up in a stolen car in a fiery blast Friday as police tried to pull him over, authorities said.Donald Robinson Barnhart, 31, set off an explosive after state police turned on their lights and sirens, prosecutor Scott Andreassi said. "Because this man had no place to run, at some point he was going to do something stupid like this. Thankfully, he didn't hurt anyone else," Andreassi said.Posted @ 08:01 AM
Wife sentenced to 7 years
Full story: The Beaufort Gazette
Black first met her future husband when she was 11 and they started having sex when she was 14, according to testimony at the sentencing hearing. They married when she was 16 and separated when she was 21, but the custody of their son became a sticking point. With a knife in her waistband, Black went to Willie Black's house on Lady's Island on Oct. 17, 2001, to discuss custody of their son, reportedly telling her best friend she was going to kill him, Knight said at the hearing. She stabbed him 17 times, delivering the fatal blow to his neck, Knight said.Posted @ 07:57 AM
January 16, 2004
Mother arrested after fleeing with officer's ticket book
Full story: SignOnSanDiego.com
"When Officer Shockley attempted to obtain Taylor's signature on the citation, Taylor grabbed the ticket book and related to (him) that she was not going to stick around and (that) she had to get her child to school," CHP public affairs Officer Tom Kerns said. At that point, Taylor – whose 5-year-old son was riding in a safety-seat behind her – allegedly took off again, continuing on to the west as Shockley gave chase with his emergency lights and siren activated. At Rancho Diegueno Road, the fleeing woman stopped for a red light and threw the ticket book out the window before driving off again, Kerns said.Posted @ 10:53 PM
Man Uses Toddler As Human Shield
Full story: News4Jax.com
Investigators said they thought they had the situation under control. According to police reports, Moses' wife was leaving in her truck, when Moses allegedly yelled, "Sike," and ran off the porch, pinning his wife against the truck. Deputies then pulled out their tasers and threatened to use them. Investigators said Moses responded by grabbing his son and holding him up as a shield against the tasers.Posted @ 10:44 PM
Jail Guards Allegedly Traded Drugs For Sex With Prisoners
Full story: WPXI.com
Four jail guards are either free on bail or expect to be by Friday night after being accused of trading drugs for sex with prisoners. Allegheny County officials said they're also suspended without pay.Posted @ 10:42 PM
Prostitute pleads guilty to murdering three
Full story: ajc.com
Blakely was 18 at the time of the crimes. She admitted she shot and killed Raymond Goodwin, 34, and Claudell Christmas, 35, in an apartment off Buford Highway on the night of Aug. 15, 2002. Less than 12 hours later, she said, she robbed and killed Lemetrius Twitty, 29, in his apartment near Clarkston.Posted @ 10:39 PM
Pinellas Park mother charged with chaining children to beds
Full story: Sun-Sentinel
A mother is facing charges of chaining her children to the bed as punishment after her 6-year-old daughter told a teacher about the alleged abuse. Layla J. Wendt of Pinellas Park was arrested Wednesday on three counts of aggravated child abuse. She is free on $5,000 bail. Pinellas Park Police officers said they found two of the girl's brothers, ages 7 and 9, had also been chained to their beds as punishment.Posted @ 10:33 PM
'Rapist phoned victim's mother'
Full story: BBC NEWS
A man who raped a woman after dragging her into undergrowth stole the victim's mobile phone and called her mother, a court has heard. The man told the woman's mother he had had sex with her daughter, Maidstone Crown Court was told. And when the victim's sister rang the mobile phone a man told her "she's a bit tied up" - after leaving the victim bound on heathland.Posted @ 10:31 PM
Girl's body was purposefully taken apart, expert testifies
Full story: The Salt Lake Tribune
The manner and location of knife cuts, ax chops and hacksaw marks on Trisha Ann Autry's unearthed bones indicate the 15-year-old girl's body was purposefully stripped of flesh and dismembered by her killer, an expert testified Thursday at Cody Lynn Nielsen's capital murder trial. Forensic anthropologist Shannon Novak -- who has studied prehistoric cannibalized remains in the West, mass graves in Croatia and remains from Utah's Mountain Meadows Massacre -- said the marks on Autry's bones are consistent with the disarticulation of her head, arms, legs, hands and feet, followed by "breaking them into smaller, more manageable pieces."Posted @ 10:17 PM
Rape victims testify of being bound, gagged
Full story: Philadelphia Inquirer
Drain was arrested in November 2002, after detectives were able to match his DNA - on file from a 1993 attempted-rape conviction - with a blood drop from the first attack. Wiping away tears, the third victim - the woman who pointed to her daughters' photograph and begged her attacker - testified that after she was bound with duct tape and raped, she discovered she was pregnant. "I was scared, I was panicking... . I didn't know if it was the rapist's baby or my boyfriend's baby," she told the jury. "I didn't want to have my rapist's baby." The woman sought genetic testing through amniocentesis to try to determine if the baby was Drain's. But after three weeks with no results from the testing, she said she decided to have an abortion, even though she was against it. A test of the fetus later revealed that Drain was not the father.Posted @ 10:14 PM
Boy, 13, indicted in attack on driver
Full story: Tallahassee Democrat
A Leon County grand jury Thursday indicted the youngest teen charged in the Jan. 4 robbery, abduction and sexual battery of a pizza-delivery driver. Earnest Dobbins, 13, was indicted on charges of armed robbery, carjacking, kidnapping and sexual battery by multiple perpetrators. Dobbins was a sexual offender at age 11, state Department of Juvenile Justice records show. Circuit Judge Nikki Clark ordered Dobbins moved from juvenile detention to the Leon County Jail, where he will be held without bail.Posted @ 10:10 PM
Streakers left hanging when thief steals their car
Full story: North County Times
Three men who went streaking through a Denny's restaurant were chilled and chagrined when they spotted a thief drive off in their getaway car, their clothes inside.Naked in the 20-degree weather, the three young men huddled behind cars in a parking lot until police arrived.Posted @ 10:07 PM
Man dead of 'horseplay' with a gun at restaurant
Full story: The New Bern Sun Journal
Lt. Denise Harris-Powell said the day-long investigation of the death of Joshua T. Roberts, 20, of Quarterdeck Apartment 83, River Bend, concluded that the self-inflicted wound to Roberts' head was the result of horseplay. "The victim was in possession of a weapon that was kept in the business for protection," said W. David McFadyen Jr., Craven County district attorney. "It fired, striking him one time, resulting in his death."Posted @ 10:02 PM
Calif. Man Indicted in Cross Burning
Full story: Timesleader.com
Christopher D. Easley, 22, was accused of conspiracy to violate civil rights, interference with housing rights and use of fire to commit a felony. Easley and a 16-year-old boy allegedly left several pieces of wood at the home in Anderson last month scrawled with a racial slur, the letters SS and several swastikas. On Jan. 2 they allegedly set fire to an eight-foot wooden cross on the front lawn.Posted @ 09:58 PM
January 15, 2004
Memorial for 'rape victim' turns ugly
Full story: Star
Powerless, terrified and confused, the 16-year-old girl could see only one way out: death. So, in front of her alleged rapist - her stepfather - her mother and the Kempton Park Magistrate's Court last Wednesday, she swallowed the poison Aldicarb and collapsed. She died later that day, vomiting and in agony, in hospital. In November she had accused her stepfather of raping her. It was the latest incident in a long history of physical abuse, including sjambokkings, the girl's friends told The Star. The Ivory Park, Thembisa, girl had twice before attempted suicide, and had written letters to them decrying her mother's lack of protection - and expressing her intention to kill herself, they said.Posted @ 09:59 PM
Restroom photographer canned
Full story: Merced Sun-Star
Arturo Sanchez Abarca, 22, allegedly used a cell phone with camera capabilities to photograph at least two children in the girls bathroom stalls at Luther Burbank Elementary School on East Alexander Avenue, according to police. The man, who'd been hired Jan. 7, faces misdemeanor charges of annoying or molesting a child under 18, said Detective Curt Gorman. However, as of Wednesday, no charges were filed.Posted @ 09:54 PM
Man admits he fondled 5-year-old
Full story: Portsmouth Herald
In an interview on Dec. 12, 2002, with Lt. Scott Carline of the Newmarket Police Department, the lead investigator in the case, Labrie admitted to fondling the boy. In that interview, which was shown to the jury, Labrie said he touched and rubbed the boy’s genitalia on more than one occasion. "Yes, I have touched the penis," Labrie said in the interview with police. "Yes, I rubbed the penis very quickly - just fooling around."
Posted @ 09:52 PM
MedStar worker arrested in sex assault
Full story: Star-Telegram.com
A 28-year-old former MedStar emergency medical technician was arrested Wednesday, accused along with a paramedic of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in the back of an ambulance last month. Officials said the girl was a participant in MedStar's Explorer program and had been riding with the EMT and paramedic.Posted @ 09:27 PM
January 14, 2004
She kills her daughter for better fortune
Full story: Newindpress.com
On Tuesday, the body of an infant was found discarded in a well at Perumanoor on the outskirts of Salem. Police found that the child was discarded in the well by the mother herself. Vellaimal, aged 19, stated that she resorted to this extreme step, acting on the advice of a soothsayer. The soothsayer had told her that the child's birth was ill timed and it was the cause of her worries. He said the birth was a bad omen to her family.Posted @ 06:03 PM
Axe killings: Woman in court
Full story: news24.com
A 28-year-old woman who allegedly killed her mother and wheelchair-bound grandmother with an axe appeared in Pretoria North magistrate's court on Wednesday. Madelein Bredenhann has been charged with the April 2003 axe murders of her mother Elna, 59, and 89-year-old wheelchair-bound grandmother, Albertina Wambach, in their Dorandia home.Posted @ 06:02 PM
Worker faked child welfare reports
Full story: Indystar.com
A child welfare investigator who repeatedly falsified reports in abuse and neglect cases was demoted and reassigned, but her actions were never reported to prosecutors, records obtained by The Indianapolis Star show. Sherry Susnick, 37, Bloomington, was accused by superiors of fabricating interviews with witnesses and others in child protection cases in late 2001, putting up to a dozen children at risk, a state disciplinary report shows. Susnick, who had a good work history, told superiors she was burned out and overworked. Cases she failed to properly investigate included a mother suspected of biting her child, a baby who tested positive for marijuana after birth, and a girl bruised by her stepfather, Indiana Family and Social Services Administration records show.Posted @ 05:45 PM
Woman convicted of killing spouse
Full story: mcall.com
Sandt, who had an auto body shop near his home off Brushy Mountain Road, was shot seven times in his head, back and shoulder area with a .22-caliber gun on Nov. 27, 2002. Levanduski drove Fransen from the scene, police said.Posted @ 05:41 PM
Middle School Students Attempt To Rape 13-Year-Old
Full story: nbc5i.com
Dallas Independent School District investigators said a teacher's aide took the special education students to the gym and left them alone while making a phone call. Male students, ages 12 to 14, then took the female student into the locker room, held her down and attempted to gang rape her. The victim of the attack called for help, and another girl heard her, knocked the boys away from the victim and went for help.Posted @ 05:25 PM
January 13, 2004
Before suicide, a confession
Full story: mlive.com
Investigators now believe that there were at least nine young girls who were molested by Herbert Neil Johnson II during the past 14 years, according to Washtenaw County Sheriff's Cmdr. Dave Egeler. There could be more victims, he said. Johnson was found dead of a self-inflicted knife wound in his home last Friday, the words "I'm sorry" scrawled on the wall in his blood, Egeler said.Posted @ 08:38 PM
Former Illinois Baptist president nabbed in prostitution crackdown
Full story: ABPNews
Charles West, former president of the Illinois Baptist State Association and former secretary of the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors' Conference, was arrested Nov. 18 by police in Alton, an Illinois suburb north of St. Louis. West, pastor of First Baptist in nearby Bethalto, Ill., for 26 years, allegedly offered to pay $20 to an undercover officer to perform oral sex.Posted @ 08:22 PM
Police sick of false sex complaints
Full story: STUFF
Detective Sergeant Dave Clifford said the problem of false complaints - particularly of sexual assault - have become so frequent that police will start prosecuting people who try to use a fictitious assault as a reason for coming home late. A 17-year-old woman is facing charges of making a false statement following an alleged rape at the weekend. She will appear in Palmerston North District Court on Friday. "It would be close to one a week now and that's too much. It's got to the stage now where we have to start locking them up," Mr Clifford said.Posted @ 08:19 PM
Major swoop on witchcraft
Full story: Daily Nation
The exorcists have been storming homes of those they suspect to be under the spell of "evil eyes" and unearthing what they claimed to be witchcraft equipment. During the ritual, they bite off chickens' heads and let blood stream from their mouths and down their chests. They then smear the blood on their faces. The exorcists also strip their clients naked and smear their bodies with chicken blood. Yesterday, Mr Maina told journalists in his office that those practising witchcraft and exorcism were purporting to have supernatural powers. He said the claim was illegal.Posted @ 08:11 PM
Prisoner grabs warder's gun
Full story: news24.com
Pandemonium broke out at a sexual offences court when a suspected rapist grabbed a prison warder's gun and tried to kill her. Fortunately, the gun wasn't loaded, but prosecutor Jerry Mahlo wasn't going to take chances and leapt from the floor right over the magistrates rostrum. "All I saw was his cloak flying," said spokesperson for the Thabamoopo sexual offences court, Kholofelo Mabila, on Tuesday.Posted @ 08:02 PM
Man gets 100 years for kid porn
Full story: Chicago Tribune
"I could give 224,376 reasons why the defendant should be given the maximum of 120 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections," said Rosenblum, alluding to the number of child porn images found in Donath's home. "The defendant is not only a predator but a thief. He stole from the victim her childhood.Posted @ 07:52 PM
Michigan fights serial killer's release
Full story: detnews.com
Michigan may have found a way to keep Coral Eugene Watts from becoming the only known serial killer in U.S. history to walk from prison. To the disgust of victims groups nationwide, the Inkster native known as the "Sunday Morning Slasher" is set to be released from a Huntsville, Texas, prison in May 2006 after serving time for burglary - despite leading police to the bodies of three victims, confessing to 13 murders and being a suspect in dozens more. Watts, who's been called a poster boy for the perils of plea bargaining, will be 52 when he's released and has vowed to kill again - sparking furious efforts in Michigan and Texas to keep him locked up.Posted @ 07:30 PM
Repeat sex offender gets 220 years in prison
Full story: The Casper Star-Tribune
Judge Sheila Rappaport classified Costillo as a habitual offender in a proceeding immediately before the sentencing hearing where she sentenced him to between 220 years and life in prison. Costillo was convicted of raping a 30-year-old woman and attempting to rape a 28-year-old female doctor in December 2002. In both cases he attacked the women while they were in their cars. Costillo claimed the women had agreed to have sex with him.Posted @ 07:11 PM
January 12, 2004
Italy to try ex-SS men for 1944 village massacre
Full story: Ha'aretz
Italy said on Monday it will bring three former Nazi SS officers to trial over the massacre of hundreds of civilians in a Tuscan village 60 years ago. An investigator told Reuters that Gerhard Sommer, Alfred Schonenberg and Ludwig Sonntag, who are all in their 80s and living in Germany, are accused of taking part in the killings in the village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema. Some 560 people, including women, children and the elderly, were executed at dawn on August 12, 1944 in a wartime atrocity that has been characterized as an act of revenge for Italian partisans resisting German occupation during World War Two.Posted @ 07:12 PM
Saudi pleads guilty to killing Jewish friend here
Full story: HoustonChronicle.com
A Saudi Arabian national who slashed a Jewish friend's throat after apparently undergoing a religious reawakening has pleaded guilty to murder rather than face trial. Mohammed Ali Alayed, 23, faces up to 60 years in prison for the Aug. 6 attack in which Ariel Sellouk was almost decapitated with a knife.Posted @ 07:09 PM
Jesus Told Me to Murder Minister Says Killer
Full story: Scotsman.com
The man who has confessed to murdering Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh said voices in his head, including Jesus, told him to do it. "I don't know, I think it's Jesus. That he has chosen me," Mijailo Mijailovic, 25, said according to a transcripts of his confessions. Mijailovic, who has a history of mental problems, was charged with Lindh's murder today and his trial will open in Stockholm on Wednesday. He said the his frenzied stabbing attack on Sweden's popular foreign minister as she shopped in a Stockholm department store last September was a "cry for help." Prosecutors said he stabbed Lindh, touted as a future prime minister, 10 times on her chest, stomach and arms. The 46-year-old politician died from her injuries a day later, plunging the country into shock and mourning.Posted @ 06:48 PM
Busted with student at hotel, LAK teacher is found dead
Full story: The Morning Journal
A high school teacher who had been suspended after allegations of sexual misconduct is believed to have killed himself yesterday after being caught Saturday night with a student at an Elyria hotel, according to authorities.Posted @ 06:44 PM
Dad faces abuse charges
Full story: CJOnline
Witnesses told police that Myrick carried the child, who is about 1 year old, at about 8 p.m. Saturday as he entered, staggered to the bar and tried to order a beer. A bartender said that after she refused Myrick service, he exchanged words with customers, then threw the baby stomach-first on the floor, apparently to free his hands in case he needed to fight. A police officer said the boy was turned over late Saturday to Shawnee County juvenile intake as a child in need of care.Posted @ 06:34 PM
Pedophile confessed 1500 times
Full story: The Australian
Child protection advocates called for mandatory reporting of child abuse for clergy in all states yesterday after a pedophile priest revealed he went to confession more than 1500 times to admit sexually abusing children.Posted @ 06:25 PM
12-yr-old's mutilated body found
Full story: Sun.Star Dumaguete
Cipriana Malapanas told police she was collecting firewood when she smelled foul odor coming from the area. On inspection, she discovered the decomposing body of the victim. The neck was nearly severed, the skull almost split, the body covered with hacks, and his genitals slashed off.Posted @ 06:23 PM
January 11, 2004
Son confesses to double murder
Full story: Bradenton.com
Blaine Ross has confessed that he beat his parents to death with a baseball bat in their Lionshead home, the sheriff's office said Saturday.Ross, 21, was arrested on two charges of murder in connection with the death of Richard and Kathleen Ross and was being held in the Manatee County jail without bail Saturday.Posted @ 09:53 AM
Teen to be tried as adult in rape, murder of girl
Full story: Pocono Record Online
Detective Wayne Simock said Bahr initially claimed that Danni fell and hit her head on a rock, and that he threw her body into a creek because he got scared when she died. But in a later interview, Simock said, Bahr said he became angry with Danni and choked her. He said Bahr broke in tears and said, "I'm so stupid. I should never have done this." Officials have said that Bahr, who is being held in Lehigh County Prison, wrote a 23-point memo called "Things to do when you get a girl in the woods." Police, searching for additional evidence before the hearing Friday, said they found a note containing a reference to a girl named Danni. District Attorney James Martin is seeking the death penalty in the case.Posted @ 09:43 AM
Musical based on the life of killer stuns gay community
Full story: SunHerald.com
Seven years after Gianni Versace was gunned down on the steps of his South Beach home, his killer may be the central character of a musical theater piece. The news has stunned some members of South Florida's gay community who don't believe Andrew Cunanan's life should be memorialized. The San Diego native's cross-country killing spree ended in the deaths of two former lovers, a Chicago real estate agent and Versace. The internationally known fashion designer died on July 17, 1997. Ten days after killing Versace on Ocean Drive, Cunanan - a reputed gay escort who used drugs - committed suicide.Posted @ 09:37 AM
2 Teens Won't Face Death Penalty
Full story: WPVI.com
Authorities said Justina Morley, a 15-year-old eighth-grader at the time of the murder, lured Sweeney with the promise of sex to a vacant field where the three boys were waiting. Pennsylvania law barred prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against Morley, because she was younger than 16 when Sweeney was slain. The youths had listened to the Beatles' song "Helter Skelter" several dozen times before the attack and had a "group hug" immediately after the killing, Domenic Coia said in a police statement he signed. The teens then stole $500 from Sweeney, bought drugs and "partied beyond redemption," Coia said, according to police. Sweeney, who had dropped out of school and dreamed of a career in the Navy, worked for his father's construction company and had gotten paid that day.Posted @ 09:31 AM
Ax murderer admits butchery
Full story: MySA.com
Miguel Angel Venegas was sentenced to 41 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to slaughtering three people in their sleep - an act he said he doesn't remember because he was high from sniffing glue and snorting cocaine. In a jailhouse interview after his sentencing, Venegas said there was no reason for the killings. He only remembers swinging the ax but not hitting anybody with it because of the drugs.Posted @ 09:02 AM
Whitley County Animal Abuse Case
Full story: WKYT 27
The investigation began more than a year ago after people in and out of Kentucky complained that when they bought their pets they died on the way home. Officials say the smell is overpowering... with five straight pipes carrying animal waste into a creek and then downstream, which resulted in felony charges being filed. The Corbin Times Tribune reports other charges include little to no food or shelter from the freezing temperatures. The Knox-Whitley Animal Shelter says 40 to 50 dogs had to be euthanized.... and several others had broken bones and diseases.Posted @ 08:59 AM
January 09, 2004
Pregnant KY Teen Found Dead in Park
Full story: 14 WFIE
Eighteen-year-old Ashley Renee Lyons was killed instantly by multiple gunshot wounds and pronounced dead at 11:25 p.m. by the Scott County Coroner's Office. Deputy sheriff John Fariss says the death was not a suicide. Farris says Lyons' father found her body in a park across the road from Scott County High School.Posted @ 03:24 PM
Burglars beheaded man's cat
Full story: ThisisLondon
Two burglars who beheaded a cat and cooked a live mouse in a microwave in Greater Manchester have been jailed for three years each. Steven Browitt and Andrew Maloney used a blunt axe to behead Greta, a blind 19-year-old tortoiseshell cat, during a break-in in Wigan last August. They left her severed head on a living room coffee table for owner David Byrne to find when he returned home.Posted @ 03:15 PM
Stalking rapist jailed for life
Full story: BBC NEWS
A restaurant worker has been jailed for life at Cardiff Crown Court after being found guilty of stalking and raping a woman just yards from her front door. Ali Nanu - described as a "sexual predator and a danger to all woman" - had previously been convicted for a sex attack on a 12-year-old girl and had changed his identity on his release from jail.Posted @ 03:11 PM
Five killed, mutilated - may be human sacrifice
Full story: Keralanext.com
The gruesome murders, where the bodies were chopped into pieces, took place Thursday evening. The killings were confirmed Friday morning when police found different parts of the children's bodies on the main road of the village. Not one of the 5,000-odd villagers came forward to testify as a witness to crime. Police officials said Bawla village is dominated by nomadic tribes, known for black magic and occult practices.Posted @ 03:04 PM
Teacher sentenced to death for raping 4 school girls
Full story: Xinhuanet
Lin Guan, 26, a teacher at an elementary school in Beiliu, a county-level city under Yulin city, was accused of raping four school girls 14 times between the autumn semester of 2001 and the spring semester of 2003.Posted @ 02:51 PM
January 08, 2004
Girl raped, forced to abort
Full story: The Times of India
In a shocking case, a 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped in Aundh and then forced to undergo abortion by the father of the rapist. Two people, who have been booked in this connection but not arrested, are Hemant Prabhakar, who allegedly raped the minor, and his father Madhukar, - a thief with as many as 15 cases of housebreak against him, including the last one registered at Gaondevi in Mumbai.Posted @ 05:57 PM
Boy says he drank half a bottle of vodka
Full story: wqad.com
A Davenport teenager who was so drunk that he slipped into a coma says he drank a half of bottle of vodka before he passed out. Thirteen-year-old Travis Talbot says he and 12-year-old friend went to an older teenager's house on December 29th, where he drank a little more than half a large bottle. Talbot's blood alcohol content more than four times the legal limit.Posted @ 05:54 PM
Police 'forget' to hang convict
Full story: HindustanTimes.com
In what must be the mother of all memory lapses, a man sentenced to death seven years ago continues to live because the authorities 'forgot' to send him to the gallows. In 1996, the Allahabad High Court awarded death penalty to Gurmeet Singh for butchering 13 members of his family.Posted @ 05:52 PM
Man Charged In Alleged Sexual Assault On Dog
Full story: TheWPBFChannel.com
Kovacs said McPhillips (pictured, far right) was allegedly sodomizing the dog with a spoon, and the dog was yelping in pain. Kovacs added that the incident was not the first time McPhillips has been seen involved in disturbing acts with the dog and other animals. "According to the neighbors, he is always walking around with animals, kissing and licking them and everything -- cats, animals he picks up in the neighborhood," Kovacs said. Neighbors told Kovacs that at least one cat emerged from McPhillips' home to lie lifeless in the grass. Kovacs (pictured, below) said she was not able to arrest McPhillips for bestiality, only for animal cruelty and exposing himself. In Florida, it is not illegal to have sex with animals, Kovacs said.Posted @ 05:49 PM
Girls feared taken by quadruple killing suspect
Full story: CNN.com
Authorities in northwest Georgia were searching across the Southeast on Thursday for a man suspected of killing four people, including his 10-month-old daughter, and abducting three girls who investigators said are in "extreme danger." Law enforcement officials are searching for 31-year-old Jerry William Jones to arrest him on murder charges. An Amber Alert has been issued for the girls, said Clint Harris, a Gordon County Sheriff's Department spokesman.
Posted @ 05:37 PM
Voronezh serial killer sentenced to life in prison
Full story: Gateway To Russia
During the very first questioning he confessed to murdering two girls. He showed the place where he had left the body of one of his victims. At the beginning of the pre-trial investigation he denied his implication in the murder of one more schoolgirl. In December Roldugin confess that apart from murdering three girls, he had also raped six other minor girls, the youngest of which was 11. The accused was charged on 23 counts under 4 articles of the Criminal Code.Posted @ 05:32 PM
Animal abuse not tolerated
Full story: mansfieldnewsjournal.com
Those who mistreat animals deserve to be punished to the full extent of the law. William Joe Jenkins got that this week when the 18-year-old Mansfield man received the maximum sentence for setting fire to a girl's 3-year-old terrier in July. The dog died the next day. Richland County Common Pleas Judge James DeWeese gave Jenkins the maximum 18-month sentence on the felony arson charge and the maximum 90 days on the misdemeanor cruelty charge.Posted @ 05:28 PM
Child beater to face mom-beating charge
Full story: mcall.com
A Nesquehoning man in prison for beating a 3-year-old in March will face Carbon County Court on charges he roughed up the child's mother in October because he believed she should have kept the boy hidden until his bruises healed.Posted @ 05:23 PM
Driver of car gobbles meth while fleeing from police, dies of overdose on capture
Full story: Basehor Sentinel
"And during the chase, some items were being thrown from the vehicle," Zoellner said. "There's indication that the drugs that were being thrown out in bags had been bitten open and some of the powdery substance was gone. It appears the driver of the vehicle was swallowing the substance in the little Ziplock baggies and occupants of the vehicle were throwing items out of the vehicle."Posted @ 05:20 PM
Sex abuse suspect kills himself as police try to arrest him
Full story: The Advocate
Richard Cudgma, a youth counselor, shot himself in the head while New Haven officers waited outside his apartment at about 6:40 p.m., the New Haven Register reported. Officers announced their presence and intentions and heard some movement in the apartment, but did not hear a gunshot, police said.Posted @ 05:17 PM
January 07, 2004
Man Arrested For Allegedly 'Caging' 3 Children
Full story: local6.com
Deputies heard children crying and entered the residence where they found three toddlers, ages 2,3, and 4, locked in a bedroom, according to police. Deputies said the door had been tied closed using a rope and the children could not get out. Approximately one hour later, the father returned home.Posted @ 07:38 PM
Killer wants sex swap
Full story: NEWS.com.au
Denyer, serving a 30-year minimum sentence for the vicious murder of three young women, has lodged a Freedom of Information application with the Justice Department seeking details on government policy for sex changes for prisoners.Posted @ 07:32 PM
Teen whipping 'barbaric': DA
Full story: Business Day
Government was urged to condemn a Nigerian Sharia Court's decision to sentence a 15-year-old girl to a whipping after she was found to be pregnant with her step-father's baby.Posted @ 07:29 PM
NJ Teacher Charged with Sex with Student
Full story: WPVI.com
Jodi Thorp, 36, pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges of sexual assault, child endangerment and witness tampering. Thorp, a teacher in the Paterson school district, allegedly had sex with the boy at her Mendham home on at least 20 occasions between June 2001 and October 2002.Posted @ 07:27 PM
Two Women Charged in Animal Abuse
Full story: theledger.com
A Lakeland woman and her 18-year-old daughter were arrested Tuesday on charges of animal cruelty after Polk County deputies found dozens of malnourished animals at their North Lakeland home, including several horses, snakes and numerous chickens and cats, the Polk Sheriff's Office reported.Posted @ 07:25 PM
14-year-old girl driving SUV in crash
Two Opelika High School students, Marlena MacDougall, 14, and Sara Schwarzauer, 15, were pronounced dead at the scene from multiple injuries, Lee County Coroner Bill Harris said. Three other teens, all age 15 and under, who were in the car escaped with non-life-threatening injuries. The teens were riding in a 2002 Ford Escape when the car left the road, flipped and struck a tree, authorities said. Police said the car was owned by the parents of one of the teens.Posted @ 07:19 PM
Mom brings girl's beaten corpse to hospital
Full Story: Mainichi Interactive
Broken ribs and old scars were found on the body of a 6-year-old whose corpse was delivered to a hospital Tuesday, sparking a police investigation into her death, law enforcers said.Posted @ 07:15 PM
January 06, 2004
Two other people may have been eaten
Full Story: The Straits Times Interactive
Detectives investigating the sensational trial of the self-confessed German cannibal Armin Meiwes have revealed that two other people in Europe may have been eaten, a report here said. Meiwes has confessed to eating a man he met on the Internet. The Guardian newspaper said police told the court trying Meiwes, 42, that new evidence shed light on a global network linking maneaters from Austria to the United States.Posted @ 09:12 PM
Man indicted in killings of girlfriend and her son
Full story: Newsday.com
A Long Island man who allegedly stabbed his live-in girlfriend as her 11-year-old son looked on, then strangled the child to cover up the crime, was indicted Tuesday on charges of first and second-degree murder, prosecutors said.Posted @ 06:47 PM
Woman guilty of 101 counts of child-pornography
Full story:The Kentucky Post
A federal judge on Monday convicted a woman of 101 child-pornography charges based on photographs and videos found in the Nicholasville home she shared with her husband -- who himself awaits trial on charges that include the sexual assault of a 6-year-old girl in Boone County.Posted @ 06:45 PM
Du Quoin woman faces 2 murder charges
Full story: The Southern Illinoisan
Bagley, 21, and Brandon Overton, 20, of Division Street in Du Quoin, already have been charged with the same two counts of first-degree murder. They are accused of hanging Irvin, 20, in the garage and hitting him in the head with a sledgehammer and stabbing him in the head with a single blade from a pair of scissors. The accountability charges indicate that although Creekpaum may not have actually struck a fatal blow to Irvin, she allegedly was present when the murder occurred and is thus accountable for his death.Posted @ 06:40 PM
Bystander 'shot in the mouth'
Full story: news24.com
An innocent bystander died instantly she was shot in the mouth during a shootout between the police and three armed men in Atteridgeville, Pretoria police said on Tuesday.Posted @ 06:33 PM
Woman taped making threats to granddaughter is sentenced for child abuse
Full story: AccessNorthGa.com
Taylor was arrested Nov. 24, three days after a disc jockey at WALR-FM picked up a station phone line and heard a voice yelling and a child wailing in the background. The station taped the call and turned it over to Atlanta police, who traced it to Taylors home in DeKalb County. On the tape, the woman was heard calling the child names and threatening to beat her. She said she hated her and told her she should have been left in a foster home.Posted @ 06:31 PM
Charges Upgraded for Father Accused of Breaking Baby's Leg
Full story: The Morning News
Bentonville police arrested Andazola on Aug. 31 after a doctor at Northwest Medical Center of Benton County called the Child Abuse Hotline saying he treated a baby for an unusual and suspicious" fracture to the right femur, and for a hernia. The leg bone was "broken nearly in two" and required surgery. Andazola and his wife, Casey, claimed the baby's older brother, who is 2, caused the injury. The mother said the baby had "brittle bones."Posted @ 06:28 PM
Spartanburg mother pleads guilty after testing positive cocaine while pregnant
Full story: TheState.com
Kennedy had been charged with homicide by child abuse but prosecutors agreed to three counts of unlawful conduct toward a child by a parent. Kennedy's third pregnancy ended after eight months with a stillborn Dec. 11,1998, but prosecutor Trey Gowdy said there was not enough evidence to prove the stillborn was due entirely to her cocaine use.Posted @ 06:22 PM
Suicide pact leaves two dead
Full story: The Times of India
Driven to desperation by financial problems, a couple administered poison to their two children before consuming it themselves in a wooded area on the outskirts of Narapally village in Rangareddy district on Thursday.Posted @ 06:17 PM
January 05, 2004
West Allis Man Sentenced For Killing Escort
Full story: TheMilwaukeeChannel.com
A West Allis man will spend the rest of his life in a mental institution for killing and dismembering a Cudahy woman. Keith Addy, 27, lured Anna Lewandowski to his apartment last March by calling an escort service. After he killed her, he threw her mutilated remains in a Dumpster behind his apartment.Posted @ 08:38 PM
Malaysian state wants to ban mini-skirts
Full story: MSNBC
"The general policy is that non-Muslim women should dress decently," said Hadi Awang, chief minister of the northeastern state and leader of the hardline Islamic party, Parti Islam se-Malaysia (PAS). General elections are due in Malaysia later this year, PAS is the main opposition party. "The PAS government will not tolerate females, including those from different religions, wearing such clothes during working hours," one state official said.Posted @ 08:34 PM
Priest's murder suspect held
Full story: news24.com
Police in Cameroon said Monday that had arrested one of the suspected murderers of a German missionary who was found dead on Christmas Day in his parish in Akono, near the capital Yaounde.Posted @ 08:29 PM
Cult Leader on Trial for Child Abuse
Full story: News 11
Malachi York faces 13 state and federal counts of child molestation and racketeering for allegedly trafficking children across Georgia's state-line for sexual purposes. Law enforcement officials arrested York and his female companion during a raid of the 476-acre Putnam compound in May of 2002. York had moved his United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors group from New York to the central Georgia site in 1993.Posted @ 08:27 PM
Mom Allegedly Leaves Newborn Daughter In Toilet
Full story: wnbc.com
Prosecutors said Winner went into labor then sent her boyfriend to the store, intending to clean up and dispose of the baby's body before he returned. He came back sooner than expected, though, heard the baby's muffled cries, and forced his way into the bathroom. The unidentified 59-year-old man then pulled the baby out of the toilet, where it had been for about 30 minutes, wrapped her in a shirt and towel and called 911, Sarubbi said.Posted @ 08:23 PM
Second trial begins for man charged with killing three-year-old
Full story: ABC13.com
Tomas Gallo was convicted of killing Destiny Flores last year, but the judge declared a mistrial when a juror got sick during the punishment phase. Gallo allegedly sexually assaulted the girl with the handle of a saucepan, bit her, and left her with 183 bruises, broken ribs and a crushed skull.Posted @ 08:19 PM
Father allegedly stabs daughter to death, tries to kill wife, then self
Full story:ABC13.com
Police say Vasquez admitted to hiding in the back seat of the truck while trying to catch his wife with who he thought was her lover. "He thought he was stabbing the guy when they first got in the truck, that he was hiding in the back seat of the truck," said Robledo. "When he found out he stabbed his daughter and not somebody else, he tried to commit suicide. That's pretty much all I know."Posted @ 08:16 PM
Teen Who Killed Playmate Signs Plea Deal
Full story:ajc.com
The mother of a Florida teen who beat a 6-year-old playmate to death said neither she nor her son is happy with the terms of a plea deal yet chose to accept it simply so he could have freedom. Lionel Tate, 16, signed papers Sunday agreeing to plead guilty to second-degree murder in the 1999 beating death of Tiffany Eunick.Posted @ 08:13 PM
Flight attendant charged with sex assault
Full story: HoustonChronicle.com
A Continental Airlines flight attendant will not be returning to his wife and three young daughters in Florida anytime soon after being arrested Saturday night in connection with the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl he met online, investigators said. Harris County Precinct 4 Constable's deputies arrested James Alan Louden, 44, of Oldsmar, Fla., after they were tipped off by the girl's father.Posted @ 08:08 PM
January 04, 2004
DNA link to five babies found in French forest
Full story: www.theage.com.au
More than two months after a farmer stumbled across the remains, police have begun DNA testing local women to identify the infants - three girls, a boy, and a fifth child whose sex cannot be determined. Genetic tests on the bodies established that all were from the same family, but identified at least two different fathers.Posted @ 07:51 PM
Dismemberment case ruled homicide
Full story: Journal-News.com
Burkhardt said the victim was male, and was in his 30s or younger. His head, hands, and legs from the knee down were cut off using a sharp object, and have not been recovered, Burkhardt said. An accelerant was used to set the body on fire after death, he said.Posted @ 07:49 PM
Cat mutilations prompt warnings
Full story: MySA.com
Eddie Wright, a city animal cruelty investigator, said the mutilations appear to be linked. He said before the latest three cases, two other mutilations had been reported in the same area in October 2001 and October 2002. "It might be some sort of initiation that occurs in October," he said.Posted @ 07:46 PM
Fort Lauderdale mom charged with murder in baby’s death
Full story: Sun-Sentinel
A North Lauderdale mother accused of shaking and biting her 10-month-old daughter was charged with murder after the baby died on Saturday.Posted @ 07:41 PM
Body of toddler found in lake
Full story: KnoxNews
The body of a toddler believed to be William Brown was recovered by search teams from Fort Loudoun Lake on Saturday afternoon nine days after his father allegedly jumped from the South Knoxville Bridge with him on Christmas Day.Posted @ 07:39 PM
January 03, 2004
Woman gangster, husband detained
Full story: The Times of India
The duo, along with some other associates, had killed Kurshid Ali at Moula Ali in September last year. The couple had been running extortion rackets, settling land and money disputes and were also reportedly involved in contract killings, police said.Posted @ 07:36 PM
Suspected serial killer terrorises North West village
Full story: SABCnews.com
Police in the North West are offering a R100 000 reward for information that could lead to arrest and prosecution of a suspected serial killer in Lehurutshe, near Zeerust. The assailant's victims are usually helpless old women in their 60s.Posted @ 07:35 PM
Girl, 2 1/2, found dead in car; homicide is suspected
Full story: The Salt Lake Tribune
The child's body was found about 9:50 a.m. in a white Ford sedan, according to the Grand County Sheriff's Office. The car was being driven by her mother, a 28-year-old Salt Lake City woman, said Doug Squire, chief deputy.Posted @ 07:32 PM
Killers for hire
Full story: East African Standard
Operating undercover and posing as would-be clients, our reporters came face-to-face with these vicious, hardened criminals. In their world, taking a life, breaking or chopping off a leg or simply busting a jaw - for as little Sh500, according to Kisumu rates, and up to Sh150,000 if one is looking for the elite of the murder industry in Nairobi - is just another day in the office. There were chilling claims that also available for hire are serving and ex-police marksmen.Posted @ 07:29 PM
January 02, 2004
Manslaughter charges filed in Keach case
Full story: Mansfield News on TOWNONLINE.com
Keach, 21, of 170 Chestnut Street was the driver of the Ford Explorer that struck the tires, went off the road and hit a tree. The Explorer immediately burst into flames and Keach was pronounced dead at the scene. A neighbor called police at 3:09 a.m. reporting the accident. The teens have been putting the tires in the road since October, police said. "In the past they put the tires standing up on end so you could seen them," Fox said. "They thought it was funny to make someone stop."Posted @ 07:26 PM
Ex-student gets probation in UMass dorm fire
Full story: Lowell Sun Online
Brendan Pollard was upset. One college friend had recently died, and another was accused of sexual assault. Pollard told police he felt on the verge of hurting himself. He wanted to feel better. He wanted to be a hero. The way he chose to do that was by staging an early-morning fire at a UMass Lowell dorm that jeopardized the lives of about 500 people.Posted @ 07:23 PM
Man charged in alleged rape of 11-year-old girl
Full story: 9NEWS.com
A man from Colorado Springs -- accused of raping an 11-year-old girl while three other women videotaped it -- has been charged in the attack.Posted @ 07:21 PM
Accused of rape, murder
Full story: Herald Sun
Jeffrey John Hillsley allegedly went to the family's Sydney home on New Year's Eve, where he is alleged to have killed the man, 54, and raped his step-daughter, before kidnapping her.Posted @ 07:09 PM
Police say man abused girlfriend's daughter for 3 years
Full story: wqad.com
Dalton was arrested earlier this week after police were told that he had been showing off nude pictures of the girl. Police say he began abusing the victim in October 2000 when she was 15 years old. The abuse continued until March 2003 when the girl told her mother about it. Police say the victim recorded the dates she was raped in a journal.Posted @ 07:07 PM
Man extradited to Idaho accused of child abuse
Full story: The Idaho Statesman
The charges accuse Towner of forcing the children to perform sexual acts on him and rewarding them with gifts including a large-screen television and DVD player. He was accused of threatening the children with a knife, burning and threatening to burn them with a lighter or matches, hitting them with a yard-long plastic pipe and other objects and stabbing them with syringe needles he used for his diabetes.Posted @ 07:03 PM
Man in jail after rampage
Full story: Iowa City Press-Citizen
According to police reports, Hill, allegedly high on mushrooms and alcohol, entered his children's bedroom at his residence and violently asked who they were. He then threw the family's Christmas tree onto the front lawn and threw clothes from the closet on to the floor before leaving the residence, Sgt. Mike Lord of the Iowa City Police Department said. Hill allegedly moved on to his neighbor's apartment at 914 Rundell St., and destroyed a number of items, including a big-screen television, furniture and two large glass windows, with the total damage estimated at about $6,000.Posted @ 07:00 PM
Teen faces hearing in hammer killing
Full story: CourierPress.com
A Wayne County, Ill., teen accused of killing a woman by striking her on the head with a hammer is expected to make an initial court appearance on Monday. Kevin L. McManamay, 17, is being held without bond in the Wayne County jail charged with first-degree murder.Posted @ 06:58 PM
Man's charges reduced in dog's death
Full story: Portage Daily Register
A town of Lewiston man pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of mistreating an animal in exchange for dismissal of a felony animal abuse charge. Columbia County Circuit Court Judge Richard Rehm dismissed the charge against Ronald E. Grotzke earlier this week. Grotzke, 53, paid a fine of $707 on Monday. Grotzke was accused of hanging his dog from a clothesline and beating it to death on the afternoon of Aug. 28.Posted @ 06:55 PM
Dead intruder was ex-husband
Full story: Albuquerque Tribune Online
The elderly man tried to slide into the home while 71-year-old Wanda Iley and her husband, John, were away on vacation, she said. Smith fell awkwardly while trying to slip into the home through an air conditioning duct and died while dangling out of the vent inside the home, Ahrensfield said.Posted @ 06:49 PM
January 01, 2004
3 murders, suicide stun neighbors
Full story: Oakland Tribune Online
Police found the bodies after a neighbor called 9-1-1 saying a third child had turned up at his home, bleeding and asking for help. The child, Richard Ines, was bleeding from stab wounds and told the neighbor his father had killed his family.Posted @ 06:45 PM
Deputy charged with assault
Full story: heraldtribune.com
According to the arrest report: He placed her hand on his crotch, and she removed it. He grabbed her head, and forced her to perform oral sex on him. He grabbed a dress from the back seat, used it to clean himself up and got out of the car.Posted @ 06:41 PM