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  • June 2008

    • Writer Charged in Murders He Reported

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jun 23, 08 4:35 AM CDT

      Writer Charged in Murders He Reported

      Getting the scoop proved costly for a Macedonian journalist who has been charged with the murder of two elderly women after reporting on their deaths in his newspaper. Police began to suspect Vlado Tanevski after realizing his articles about the murders contained details that hadn't been revealed to the public. His DNA was later found on the bodies, AP reports. More »

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      murder  • crime  • journalist  • murder trial  • Macedonia

    • Bury Bodies How I Left Them: Alleged Killer

      newser  |  AFP  |  Jun 10, 08 11:53 AM CDT

      Bury Bodies How I Left Them: Alleged Killer

      Neil Entwistle, the Briton accused of murdering his wife and baby in a Boston suburb in 2006, requested that the bodies be buried “the way I left them,” according to his stepfather-in-law. Joseph Matterazzo, 61, testified yesterday a “wimpering” Entwistle called and asked him to “bury them side by side because that’s the way I left them … I mean, found them.” More »

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      murder  • crime  • murder trial  • Neil Entwistle

  • May 2008

    • OJ 'Confessed To Me,' Says Souvenir Dealer

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 10, 08 3:18 PM CDT

      OJ 'Confessed To Me,' Says Souvenir Dealer

      A memorabilia merchant who has sold items for O.J. Simpson says the former football phenom got high on drugs and confessed to killing Nicole Brown Simpson, the AP reports. In his new book, How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder, Mike Gilbert also claims that he helped Simpson bloat his hands so his gloves wouldn't fit on trial. More »

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      murder  • OJ Simpson  • publishing  • murder trial  • If I Did It  • Nicole Brown Simpson

  • April 2008

    • Supreme Court Rejects Boy Killer's Appeal

      newser  |  CNN  |  Apr 14, 08 7:55 PM CDT

      Supreme Court Rejects Boy Killer's Appeal

      The Supreme Court refused today to let a teenage boy appeal his 30-year sentence for double-murder, CNN reports. Christopher Pittman, who was tried as an adult in South Carolina 3 years ago, is serving the longest sentence ever for someone his age—and blames antidepressants for inspiring him to kill his grandparents and set their house ablaze at the age of 12. More »

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      murder  • US Supreme Court  • trial  • sentencing  • antidepressant  • appeal  • murder trial  • Paxil  • juvenile

  • February 2008

    • UK's 'Suffolk Strangler' Guilty in 5 Murders

      newser  |  Independent (UK)  |  Feb 22, 08 10:06 AM CST

      UK's 'Suffolk Strangler' Guilty in 5 Murders

      A British court yesterday found a former forklift driver guilty of the murders of five young women. The string of prostitute murders in Ipswich made the man dubbed the "Suffolk Strangler" one of Britain's most notorious serial killers. "I feel the pain will never go away," said the mother of a victim. Police now suspect Steve Wright, 49, in other unsolved murders. More »

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      England  • prostitute  • murder trial  • serial killers

    • Ex-Cop Guilty of Murdering Girlfriend, His Unborn Child

      newser  |  CNN  |  Feb 15, 08 11:59 AM CST

      Ex-Cop Guilty of Murdering Girlfriend, His Unborn Child

      A former police officer faces the death penalty after a jury convicted him today of murdering his girlfriend and their unborn child, CNN reports. The jury in Canton, Ohio, didn't buy Bobby Cutts Jr.'s argument that he accidentally killed Jessie Davis, who was 9 months pregnant, then panicked. Cutts, who tearfully made his case on the witness stand, showed little reaction at the verdict. More »

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      murder  • murder trial  • violent crime  • jury  • verdict  • Jessie Davis  • Bobby Cutts, Jr.

  • January 2008

    • Long-Held Secret Takes Man Off Death Row

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jan 19, 08 4:11 PM CST

      Long-Held Secret Takes Man Off Death Row

      A Virginia lawyer revealed a 10-year-old secret last year that had put a man on death row: Prosecutors coached another suspect to make his testimony match the evidence. When the state's legal ethics board reversed its gag order on Leslie Smith, the lawyer spoke up last week, and the sentence of Daryl R. Atkins was commuted to life, the New York Times reports. More »

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      death penalty  • Virginia  • death sentence  • murder trial

    • Suspects in Carnation Murders Plead Not Guilty

      newser  |  Seattle Times  |  Jan 10, 08 4:11 PM CST

      Suspects in Carnation Murders Plead Not Guilty

      Michele Anderson and Joseph McEnroe pleaded not guilty today to charges of murdering six members of Anderson’s family Dec. 24 in Carnation, Wash., the Seattle Times reports. Friends and Anderson family members wore pictures of the two child victims—3 and 5 years old—and were seen frequently wiping away tears during the hearing in a Seattle courtroom. More »

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      murder trial  • Carnation, Wash.

  • December 2007

    • Angry Fujimori Denies Charges as Trial Starts

      newser  |  BBC  |  Dec 11, 07 6:23 AM CST

      Angry Fujimori Denies Charges as Trial Starts

      Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori angrily denied charges of murder and kidnapping in court yesterday. "I reject the charges entirely. I'm innocent," he shouted. He is on trial for ordering death squads to kill leftist sympathizers and others in the early 1990s. The trial is considered a watershed for Peru’s hobbled judicial system, reports the BBC. More »

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      kidnapping  • Peru  • murder trial  • Alberto Fujimori

  • October 2007

    • After 30 Years, Riviera Murder Case Ends in Conviction

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Oct 12, 07 2:36 PM CDT

      After 30 Years, Riviera Murder Case Ends in Conviction

      Thirty years after his girlfriend disappeared, a onetime playboy lawyer was convicted of her murder yesterday, ending a tangled tale of seduction and bribery that has long fascinated the French Riviera. Although the body of casino heiress Agnes Le Roux was never found, Jean-Maurice Agnelet, 69, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after his third trial, the Telegraph reports. More »

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      murder trial  • French Riviera  • Nice

  • September 2007

    • Spector Walks After Mistrial

      newser  |  BBC  |  Sep 26, 07 7:00 PM CDT

      Spector Walks After Mistrial

      Jurors announced a 10 to 2 deadlock in the Phil Spector trial today after more than 2 weeks of deliberations, sparking the judge to declare a mistrial. The jury was split more evenly a week ago, and did not reveal the position of its 2 holdouts. As Spector went home, prosecutors vowed to seek a new trial in the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson, the BBC reports. More »

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      Hollywood  • Los Angeles  • murder trial  • Phil Spector  • Lana Clarkson

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