10/30/2000 04:44:23 Charles Kaczmarczyk - Firefighter charged with receiving stolen property is also a suspect in a series of suspicious fires. MANCHESTER, New Hampshire Firefighter Called Suspect In Series Of Fires (Nashua (NH) Telegraph ) Authorities suspect a Manchester firefighter set a series of suspicious fires at the military satellite station in New Boston. _______________________ 10/30/2000 04:30:06 MARY ANN PRESLEY, GARLAND CHARLES STAMEY and RONALD SCOTT GUILLIAMES - Shot to death Cleo Calvin - Kills three people and himself in murder suicide TELLICO PLAINS, Tennessee Man Kills Three Before Killing Himself, Witnesses Say (ABC News-National-Wire ) Cleo Colvin had a gun in each hand when he opened fire after coming home Saturday afternoon to find his girlfriend moving out of their home with the help of three men. _______________________ 10/29/2000 20:01:03 MOSCOW, Russia Grandson in organ sale plot--(AP)--The boy thought his grandmother was taking him to Disneyland, but Russian police say she had other plans: To sell her grandson so his organs could be used for transplants. _______________________ 10/29/2000 19:36:59 MUSKEGON, Michigan Day-care provider ordered out of house--(Muskegon Chronicle)--A Muskegon County Family Court referee Friday ordered a Norton Shores day-care provider to leave her home and to have no unsupervised visits with her own children after a 6 1/2-month-old infant in her care suffered grave brain injuries last week. _______________________ 10/29/2000 19:34:24 MUSKEGON, Michigan Teen's biological father: Stepdad ' a lowlife animal' --(Muskegon Chronicle)--The girl delivered her second child by her stepfather Tuesday in a Muskegon High School bathroom. Police said she placed the male infant in a trash can with the umbilical cord and placenta attached returned to class 40 minutes later and then walked home from school. _______________________ 10/29/2000 19:29:40 SEATTLE, Washington Microsoft Says It Knew of Hacker All Along --(A/P)--Microsoft Corp. said Sunday that a hacker had high-level access to its computer system for 12 days - not up to five weeks, as the company had first reported - and that the company monitored the illegal activity the entire time. _______________________ 10/29/2000 19:24:45 LONDON, England MAN CHARGED WITH DOUBLE MURDER BID ON WOMEN--(Line One News)--A man has been charged with attempted murder and indecent assault after two women were allegedly attacked. Police said a 48-year-old woman suffered serious injuries while a 20-year-old woman was also badly injured. _______________________ 10/29/2000 19:07:10 REPORT LONDON, England Report: Russian agents likely have Microsoft codes--(UPI) Valuable source codes assumed stolen from Microsoft's computer network last week by hackers believed to be based in Russia likely are already in the hands of eavesdropping agents from Moscow's primary intelligence agency, a British newspaper reported Sunday. _______________________ 10/29/2000 18:59:37 LOS ANGELES, California Friends outraged over police killing of Halloween partygoer --(postnet)-- The police shooting of a Halloween party guest who had a fake gun has left the troubled Los Angeles Police Department in an unwanted spotlight and the victim's friends blaming racial profiling. _______________________ 10/29/2000 18:52:14 FLORENCE, Colo. Teen Faces Charges Over Alleged Hit List --(A/P)--A 15-year-old boy faces charges of menacing and harassment for allegedly compiling a "hit list" of 20 names and threatening at least one schoolmate at Florence Christian School who was on the list. _______________________ 10/29/2000 17:57:07 Venango County, PA Authorities have suspect in '92 murder case--(New Castle News)--A convicted sex offender is a suspect in the murder of a Venango County girl, a Pittsburgh television station reported yesterday, the eight-year anniversary of the girl's death. _______________________ 10/29/2000 17:41:07 NEW ORLEANS, LA Court: A Sleeping Attorney OK--(Los Angeles Times)--A defendant in a capital murder trial does not have an absolute constitutional right to have an attorney who stays awake for the entire trial, a sharply divided federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled Friday. _______________________ 10/29/2000 17:22:16 MISSING - Gage Wayment (2) ELK HORN RESERVOIR, (Summit County), Utah No Sign of Toddler Missing in Woods --(Salt Lake Tribune)--Police with search dogs scoured a cold and remote forest for a third straight day on Saturday but again found nothing to explain the mysterious disappearance of 2-year-old Gage Wayment. Photo: Gage Wayment--(Wayment family photo) _______________________ 10/29/2000 17:04:19 MEDFORD, Oregon Hunter's disappearance baffles police, girlfriend --(Associated Press)--Christopher Lapping disappeared nearly two months ago after he failed to return from a solitary one-day hunting trip. His pickup truck was found smashed at the bottom of a 350-foot cliff with the seatbelt wrapped tightly around the steering wheel -- but there was no sign of Lapping. His girlfriend thinks he's dead. Police think he faked his own death. _______________________ 10/29/2000 16:44:58 CHERICA ADAMS - shot to death Rae Carruth - ex-football player on trial CHARLOTTE, N.C. Ex-Girlfriend Claims Carruth Admitted Role in Shooting --(Associated Press)--Published reports today say a woman who once dated Rae Carruth says he told her he witnessed the fatal shooting of his pregnant girlfriend and was angry she didn't get an abortion. _______________________ 10/29/2000 16:26:55 CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Florida What they did about David Cohen--(St. Petersburg Times)--One night last year, 85-year-old David Cohen poured gasoline on his bed and threw in a match. Neighbors found him wandering outside, naked, as flames poured from the house. He told the rescue people that his plan had been to jump into the fire, but it got too hot. To protect his 75-year-old wife, Marjorie, he said, he had closed the door to her bedroom. They found her there. _______________________ 10/29/2000 16:20:38 TORONTO, ON, CANADA Israeli suspect returns to Canada--(Canadian Press)--After a year of international legal wrangling, 19-year-old Israeli soldier Daniel Weiz -- one of four teens charged in the slaying of 15-year-old Dmitri Baranovski -- is returning to Canada in anticipation of what's sure to be a compelling and emotional trial. _______________________ 10/29/2000 15:27:41 ATTLEBORO, MA Future of Attleboro sect unclear after recovery of babies' bodies--(Providence Journal)--Much remains unresolved in this true-life drama that has raised questions about religious freedom, the rights of pregnant women and the role of the state in protecting children, before and after birth. Who, if anybody, will face criminal charges, and what will those charges be? Will the sect fall apart? Will David Corneau want to remain in the sect -- and, if so, will he be allowed to do so? Will David Corneau get his daughters back? _______________________ 10/29/2000 15:26:42 OMAHA, NE Witness Describes Suffocation Scene--(Omaha World-Herald)--While holding his father's face in the pillow, James R. Walsh, 16, punched him about nine times in the head, saying, "This is what you get for abusing me. This is what you get for hitting me." _______________________ 10/29/2000 15:24:35 OMAHA, NE Harris Had 3 Decades of Troubles--(Omaha World-Herald)--However the murder cases come out - he's charged with murder in the deaths of 33-year-old Tina M. Turner, found dead Sept. 15, and 36-year-old Donna M. Reed, whose body was discovered Aug. 26, 1991 - Andrew Lee Harris' story to date is a sometimes appalling, sometimes sad, sometimes pathetic and sometimes horrific tale of a man who could not, or would not, stop destroying other people's lives and his own. 'They Need to Throw Away the Key' _______________________ 10/29/2000 15:23:20 FAIRFAX County, VA [& elsewhere] Readers Defend Both Sides' Actions In Police Shooting--(Washington Post)--Put yourself in the shoes of a 25-year-old black man named Prince Jones Jr., I asked readers last week. Imagine being tailed for about 15 miles through three jurisdictions and eventually shot to death by a black, undercover Prince George's County police officer who mistakes you for someone else. _______________________ 10/29/2000 15:22:14 PRINCE GEORGE'S County, MD Pr. George's Police Chief Still Beset By Criticism--(Washington Post)--Now, five years after John S. Farrell's arrival as police chief, there is no consensus on why such a highly regarded administrator has been plagued with a series of controversies that threatens his tenure in Prince George's. _______________________ 10/29/2000 15:21:09 CALIFORNIA [& elsewhere] Targeting the Drug War--(Washington Post)--Their political operatives call them "the funders," a trio of enormously wealthy businessmen who are united behind one idea: that the war on drugs is a failure. And they want to end it. _______________________ 10/29/2000 15:20:10 WASHINGTON, DC, AREA [& elsewhere] Next Door to Trouble--(Washington Post)--Overall numbers are hard to come by, but many law enforcement officials, judges and community mediators believe petty neighbor-vs.-neighbor squabbles are on the rise, a kind of yard rage to go with road rage. _______________________ 10/29/2000 15:19:14 WORLD New Global Role Puts FBI in Unsavory Company--(Washington Post)--Last year Louis Freeh made a secret deal with Saudi Prince Naif, brother of King Fahd, to return a Saudi Arabian bombing suspect being held in a federal prison in Atlanta to a jail in Riyadh where human rights groups say torture is routinely used. Freeh's pact permitted FBI agents to watch Hani Al-Sayegh's interrogation through a one-way mirror and submit questions to his Saudi inquisitors, officials familiar with the arrangement said. _______________________ 10/29/2000 15:18:17 BROOKLYN, NY Teaching Young Victims How to Survive in Court--(NYTimes)--Court School is not all child's play. In New York, children under 10 cannot testify under oath unless they can convince a judge that they know the difference between fact and opinion. So the youngsters in Court School are drilled on the meaning of an oath and on the importance of distinguishing between facts and opinions. But the primary goal is to make the children comfortable. _______________________ 10/29/2000 15:09:22 OCALA, FL Police: Man shot wife, calls 911, says he should be executed--(Daytona Beach News Journal)--A man shot his wife three times then used the gun to keep witnesses at bay as she lay dying before apparently telling a 911 operator he should be executed, authorities said. _______________________ 10/29/2000 15:00:27 WASHINGTON DC Appeals Expected From Jury Ruling--(AP)--The Supreme Court is seeing the effects of last summer's groundbreaking ruling which expands jury-trial rights in certain criminal cases: A pile of appeals by defendants who say their sentences are unfair. _______________________ 10/29/2000 13:55:26 TORONTO, Canada Charges in '85 Jet Bombing--(AP)--After 15 years and an investigation involving thousands of interviews, Canada's police have arrested the men they say masterminded the deadliest-ever bombing of an airplane _______________________ 10/29/2000 13:45:14 LOS ANGELES, CA Case Against LAPD Fizzling Out With Loss of Star Witness--(AP)--It was supposed to have been a showcase trial exposing Los Angeles police corruption, the worst scandal in department history. _______________________ 10/29/2000 13:28:12 KITTERY, NH Restraining orders don't stop murder --(Portsmouth Herald )--At about midnight on Friday, Oct. 13, Eduino Sampaio parked his car in the woods near his former home, where his wife and 3-year-old child were sleeping. As Sampaio approached the house in Derry, he snipped the telephone wires, crawled through the basement window, walked up the stairs and surprised his wife. _______________________ 10/29/2000 13:16:56 MECOSTA COUNTY, MI Brutality of Willie Jones' murder inspires changes in juvenile system --(Grand Rapids Press )--When the battered body of 66-year-old Willie Jones was found in a remote area of Mecosta County in March, the details of his vicious slaying were almost too horrible to comprehend. _______________________ 10/29/2000 12:57:34 MADISON, Neb. Nebraska Police Chief Shot--(Las Vegas Sun)--A police chief was attacked with a crowbar and shot Sunday but escaped with minor injuries. Chief James Louden was investigating a possible break-in at a car wash in this east-central Nebraska town when he was attacked by a man who struck him in the arm and then shot him in the chest. He was wearing a bulletproof vest. _______________________ Search our Crime News Archives | Archive Index List Return to Top | Return to News Home Suggest a News Story URL | Contact Webmaster