Man Who Called Cops Charged in Ga. Killings

Family member busted, but cops believe shooter still at large

(NEWSER) - An eighth victim has died in a massacre in a Georgia trailer park, reports ABC News. Police have arrested a 22-year-old relative of one of the victims who authorities say called in the deaths on Saturday and was found with drugs. But police believe the killer is still on the loose. "There is somebody out there we're looking for," said the Glynn County police chief. "We just don't know who that person is." The lone survivor of the shooting is in critical condition. More»

Cites drug dispute; 'my bro has a conscience'

(AP) - The brother of a Georgia man charged with slaying his father and seven others in a mobile home insists that 22-year-old Guy Heinze Jr would never harm his family, and instead speculates that a drug dispute could have prompted the killings. "I know my brother didn't do this. My brother has a conscience," 16-year-old Tyler Heinze said yesterday outside the rural cemetery where seven caskets topped with roses were resting atop freshly dug graves. More»

Alleged wife-killer hid in woods before killing himself: cops

(NEWSER) - Two weeks after George Zinkhan allegedly murdered his wife and two men at a Georgia playhouse, police say they located the body of the fugitive marketing professor, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Dogs found Zinkhan today about a mile from where his Jeep had been recovered in a wooded area near his home in Bogart, Ga. He apparently made an effort to hide before killing himself, police said. More»

'Unmitigated evil' ended grad students' lives in London, says prosecutor

(NEWSER) - Prosecutors yesterday detailed an "unimaginably" horrific attack on two French students in their London apartment by home invaders seeking the men's ATM pin numbers, reports the Times of London. The gifted biochemistry grad students, who had been in London just two months to attend school there, were bound in their underwear and stabbed a total of 244 times over at least two hours in the attack last summer, according to opening statements in the trial of their two suspected killers. More»

(NEWSER) - The accused killer of an 8-year-old California girl has been linked to an earlier abduction of a child in the same community, reports the Tracy Press. A 7-year-old girl was led from her neighborhood in January by a woman driving the same kind of car belonging to Sunday school teacher Melissa Huckaby. The teacher was charged last week with murdering Sandra Cantu, a friend of Huckaby's young daughter. Huckaby, Cantu and the abducted girl all lived in the same trailer park. More»