05/20/2001 20:34:18
DILLON KNIGHT (11 weeks-old) - shaken to death
Chris M. Knight - charged
Soldier accused of shaking baby to death --(WSMV TV)-- A Fort Campbell soldier is accused of shaking his eleven-week-old baby boy to death. Chris M. Knight is charged with first degree murder for the death of his son Dillon. |
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05/20/2001 18:57:31
WESLEY DALE MORGAN (2) - missing
CLINTON, La.
Police say couple lied about missing boy --(A/P)--Police used helicopters to search for a missing 2-year-old Bluff Creek boy while investigators tried to unravel the stories his mother and her boyfriend told about the toddler's disappearance. |
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05/20/2001 18:43:46
The case of Russell Keys
U.K.
Darling, I'm going to have to kill you--(Independent)--They met through a lonely hearts ad, and three weeks later they were married - soon afterwards, he confessed to killing several women. But no bodies were ever found except his. |
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05/20/2001 16:15:16
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05/20/2001 15:47:40
MICHAEL EATON, OCCIE REDDIN, WILLIAM RANSOM, GAIL MCFARLAND, murdered
Frank Murphy (41), fugitive caught
BUFFALO, N.Y.
Fugitive Charged With Murder Found--(A/P)--A fugitive accused of killing four people over a three-day period, including his girlfriend and his stepbrother, was captured early Sunday. Murphy was charged with four counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of stepbrother Michael Eaton, girlfriend Gail McFarland, William Ransom and Occie Reddin. |
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05/20/2001 15:47:35
HOPKINSVILLE, Kentucky
Man charged in slayings of two at church revival --(Leaf-Chronicle and Courier-Journal)--While a woman pleaded for her life during a church revival Friday night, her estranged husband fatally shot her and a second woman as he held his 2-year-old son, police said. |
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05/20/2001 15:44:12
Eric Robert Rudolph - one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina
Magazine: Rudolph lived with racist group --(Asheville Citizen-Times)-- New information emerged this month about longtime fugitive Eric Robert Rudolph, including that his mother was once a nun and that he may have been influenced by the leader of what a hate watchdog group calls a racist, anti-Semitic church community in Missouri where he once lived. |
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05/20/2001 15:41:14
APPLE VALLEY, Minnesota
Questions persist decade after boy's death--(New Jersey Star-Ledger)--To an outsider, there's no reason to think this neatly dressed woman with her neatly dressed toddler isn't like all the other mothers on the cul-de-sac. Except she isn't. She is Michelle Lodzinski, the No. 1 suspect in the death of her 5-year-old son, Timmy Wiltsey. |
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05/20/2001 15:07:44
CALIFORNIA
Was This Soccer Mom a Terrorist?--(NYTimes Magazine)--Bill and Emily Harris are about to be dragged out of peaceful obscurity and into court for another round in the S.L.A. saga. The Harrises, along with Patricia Hearst, are among nearly 200 potential witnesses in the attempted-murder and conspiracy trial of Sara Jane Olson, identified in news reports as "the soccer mom from St. Paul," formerly known as Kathleen Soliah. |
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05/20/2001 14:51:23
CRIME FILES JUSTICE STORY
NEW YORK, NY - Oct. 24, 1943
Society Girl Slaying --(New York Daily News)-- Lithe, lovely Patricia Burton, heiress to a beer baron's fortune, was used to getting what she wanted — fancy gowns, brilliant baubles, handsome beaus and soirees among the swells and hangers-on who made up New York's cafe society. |
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05/20/2001 13:39:02
CLUTE, Texas
Police in Clute kill man trying to scalp daughter --(A/P)--Police in Brazoria County fatally shot a man they said was trying to scalp his 3-year-old daughter, who remained hospitalized today. Angleton police Chief David Ashburn said Officer Curtis Adams answered a call to the girl's home Saturday afternoon and found a man inside cutting her head. Ashburn said Adams fired one shot at him after ordering the man several times to drop the knife. The man ignored the orders. |
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05/20/2001 13:30:29
ELAINE DAVIS (17) - bodied identified, missing since Dec. 1, 1969
SAN JOSE, California
New evidence in 1969 death--(Mercury News)--After spending decades working on the 1969 disappearance of a top-notch high school student and choir girl, Walnut Creek police have made two breakthroughs toward finding out what happened: They now have a body and a possible cause of death. |
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05/20/2001 12:56:11
JESSICA KOOPMANS (5) - abducted and murdered
Harold Anthony Gallup (31) - suspect
LETHBRIDGE, Alta.
Man charged in girl's killing--(C/P)--Police have charged a man in the death of little Jessica Koopmans. Harold Anthony Gallup, 31, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of the five-year-old girl, Lethbridge police announced Sunday.
Family friend accused of Alberta girl's murder--(CBC)--A suspect has been charged with kidnapping and killing five-year-old Jessica Koopmans, whose disappearance prompted an intense search in southern Alberta earlier this month. Harold Anthony Gallup, 31, is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday. |
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05/20/2001 12:11:38
JOSHUA BRYANT(10) and LILLIAN MARTIN (77) - both are missing
DELTONA, Florida
Investigators question relative of missing pair--(News-Journal)--Joanne Miller defended herself Saturday morning against any speculation that she might be another Susan Smith. "It's an insult," Miller said, just hours after Volusia County Sheriff's investigators spent nearly half a day interviewing the elementary schoolteacher and her husband, John, about the disappearance of 77-year-old Lillian Martin and 10-year-old Joshua Bryant. They have been missing eight days now and investigators remain stumped.
Deltona mystery frazzles family--(Orlando Sentinel)Illuminated by TV lights and escorted by patrol cars, Joanne and John Miller drove home from the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office about 1:45 a.m. Saturday after 10 hours of questioning.
Joshua Bryant Missing Poster--(National Center for Missing & Exploited Children)
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05/20/2001 11:39:37
Chance traffic stop led to break in case
Don Richard Davis - goes on trial Monday
HOUSTON, Texas
Trial nears for rape defendant --(Houston Chronicle)--A suspected serial rapist from Texas managed to escape capture for four years despite two brushes with unsuspecting police officers in the Midwest. |
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05/20/2001 08:26:02
LEEBONNY BAKLEY - Shot to death
Robert Blake - Former Baretta star is suspect in his wife's murder
LOS ANGELES, California
Media Swarm a Distraction in Probe of Bakley Slaying --(Los Angeles Times)-- Inquiry: As relatives and lawyers take to the airwaves, police get dozens of reporters' requests daily, plus phone calls and letters offering tips. More than two weeks after actor Robert Blake's wife was slain while sitting in their car on a quiet street in Studio City, police caught in a media whirlwind appear no closer to finding her killer.
Murder of Robert Blake's Wife, Bonny: Case Resources and Discussion --(CN2000) |
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05/20/2001 07:37:47
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05/20/2001 07:23:25
NARBERTH, Pennsylvania
Millionaire to stand trial in alleged murder plot --(Philadelphia Inquirer)--Securities broker Joel Sandler is accused of seeking a hit man to kill his wife. His lawyer says Sandler committed no crime. Though his defense attorney said detectives pursuing the case set him up, Main Line millionaire Joel Sandler will stand trial this summer for allegedly trying to hire a hit man to kill his wife. |
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05/20/2001 07:20:14
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05/20/2001 07:19:03
NEW YORK, New York
Man Collared in a Tale Of Biting and Beating--(New York Daily News )--It began as a dog-bites-man tale, but several bizarre plot twists — involving drugs, kiddie porn and a beating-for-hire — have turned this into a New York crime story straight out of pulp fiction. |
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05/20/2001 07:17:12
SILVER SPRING, Maryland
Md. Man Charged in His Mother's Death --(Washington Post)-- Montgomery County police yesterday charged a 21-year-old man with murdering his mother, who was reported missing May 10 and whose body has not been found. |
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05/20/2001 07:10:15
GREENWOOD, South Carolina
Susan Smith, 6 Years After--(Washington Post Magazine)--Last summer, when Susan Smith admitted that she'd had sex with a prison guard on four occasions, the 50-year-old guard was fired, and Smith was transferred to Leath Correctional Institution, where she is now serving her sentence. |
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05/20/2001 06:48:51
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05/20/2001 01:31:00
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05/20/2001 01:28:45
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas
Texas sex offenders to place 'Danger' signs in yards (AP ) -- Some 21 convicted sex offenders have been ordered to place signs in their front yards reading "Danger! Registered Sex Offender Lives Here."
Sex offenders must post signs
- (Corpus Christie Caller-Times) -
Gerald Rogen, president of the Corpus Christi
Criminal Defense Lawyers' Organization, said
Judge Banales' actions are unconstitutional.
"It's a return to the days of the scarlet
letter," Rogen said. "I think this is just
madness. We will have vigilantes out destroying
property."
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05/20/2001 01:19:02
CHICAGO, Illinois
Woman Allegedly Castrates Attacker (ABC News ) -- A woman brought in the testicles of a man who allegedly attacked her on Chicago's south side early Friday, according to police.
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05/20/2001 01:14:39
Clayton Lee Waagner - Prison excapee considered armed and dangerous
PENNSYLVANIA
'Most-Wanted' Suspect Spotted (ABC News ) -- A prison escapee who is on the U.S. Marshals "most wanted" list and claims to be on a mission from God to kill abortion doctors was caught on tape robbing a Pennsylvania bank, officials said today
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