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  • December 2007

    • Death Airs Hedge-Fund Excesses

      New York Times  |  Dec 5, 07 3:00 PM CST

      Death Airs Hedge-Fund Excesses

      (Newser) - The legal wrangling that has followed the September death of hedge fund manager Seth Tobias in his Florida swimming pool is sensational enough, the New York Times reports—his wife says he drowned; Tobias' brothers accuse his wife of murder—but details of the high living bankrolled by high finance put the matter in an entirely different light. More »

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      murder  • Wall Street  • Florida  • hedge fund  • cocaine  • drowning

    • Popular Mexican Singer Tortured, Killed

      Los Angeles Times  |  Dec 4, 07 11:55 AM CST

      Popular Mexican Singer Tortured, Killed

      (Newser) - Sergio Gomez, lead singer of popular Mexican band K-Paz, was found dead beside a highway yesterday. The killing is the latest in a string of south-of-the-border music slayings, the LA Times reports. Gomez was abducted late Saturday after a concert, and his body appeared to have been tortured. He is the ninth Mexican musician slain in 18 months. More »

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      murder  • Mexico  • Mexican music  • Zayda Pena  • Sergio Gomez  • K Paz  • Michoacan

    • Tape Puts Amanda at Murder Scene

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Dec 1, 07 2:04 PM CST

      Tape Puts Amanda at Murder Scene

      (Newser) - An American student suggested in a bugged jailhouse meeting with her parents that she was home when her flatmate in Italy was murdered, the Telegraph reports. The disclosure contradicts earlier claims by Amanda Knox. "From the bugged recording it is possible to understand that she was in the house," a police source says. "She denies everything, but we did submit this evidence." More »

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      murder  • Italy  • Meredith Kercher  • Amanda Knox  • sex crime  • extreme sex

    • Cops Accused of Protecting Peterson

      Associated Press  |  Dec 1, 07 9:09 AM CST

      Cops Accused of Protecting Peterson

      (Newser) - In the two years before Kathleen Savio was found dead in a bathtub, local police responded to 18 domestic disturbance calls at the suburban Chicago house she shared with policeman husband Drew Peterson, AP reports. Charges were filed twice—against her. Her death is now suspected to be murder and the town's residents wonder if  their cops protected one of their own. More »

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      murder  • police  • Illinois  • Drew Peterson  • Kathleen Savio

  • November 2007

    • Cops Arrest 4 in Taylor Murder

      Miami Herald  |  Nov 30, 07 8:46 PM CST

      Cops Arrest 4 in Taylor Murder

      (Newser) - Miami-Dade cops arrested four today in the killing of NFL star Sean Taylor, the Miami Herald reports. Eric Rivera, 17, Charles Wardlow, 18, Jason Mitchell, 19, and Venjah Hunte, 20, will all be charged with murder. They aimed to rob Taylor's house and thought no one was home on the night of the shooting, Miami-Dade Director Robert Parker said. More »

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      NFL  • murder  • football  • arrest  • Miami  • John Taylor

    • Stacy Told 3 Drew Had Killed Ex

      Chicago Sun-Times  |  Nov 29, 07 10:04 AM CST

      Stacy Told 3 Drew Had Killed Ex

      (Newser) - Before her disappearance, Stacy Peterson revealed to three people, including a clergyman, that her husband had bragged of killing his ex-wife and making it look like an accident, a source tells the Chicago Sun-Times . Drew Peterson, now a suspect in his fourth wife’s disappearance, was already living with a pregnant Stacy in 2004 when Kathleen Savio’s body was discovered in an empty bathtub. More »

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      murder  • accident  • Drew Peterson  • Stacy Peterson  • Kathleen Savio  • clergy

    • Troops Kill 5 on Bus Taking Workers to Baghdad Bank

      Associated Press  |  Nov 27, 07 4:50 AM CST

      Troops Kill 5 on Bus Taking Workers to Baghdad Bank

      (Newser) - Five people were killed today when US soldiers in Baghdad opened fire on a minibus carrying employees to their bank jobs, Iraqi officials reported. The shootings occurred after the bus driver drove into an area restricted to cars and known to be a Shiite militia stronghold. He drove through a US roadblock and failed to heed a warning shot, said American officials. More »

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      Iraq  • murder

    • NYC Murder Rate in Free Fall

      New York Times  |  Nov 23, 07 11:02 AM CST

      NYC Murder Rate in Free Fall

      (Newser) - The murder rate in New York City hit a new low this year—the lowest it's been in the 44 years reliable statistics have been kept, reports the New York Times . And if early analysis holds up, of the fewer than 500 murders this year, fewer than 100 will have been committed by strangers. Most assailants in the city of 8.5 million were friends, spouses, parents, boyfriends, rival drug crew members, and other acquaintances. More »

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      murder  • New York City  • crime  • rape  • robbery  • NYPD  • crime statistics

    • Amanda: 'I Didn't Kill Meredith'

      CNN  |  Nov 23, 07 10:11 AM CST

      Amanda: 'I Didn't Kill Meredith'

      (Newser) - A US student under suspicion in the murder of her British roommate  in Italy is claiming drugs have blurred her memory of the night Meredith Kercher was killed. In a statement obtained by CNN, Amanda Knox of Seattle insists she does know one thing: "I didn't kill Meredith." Knox told police she has only "flashes of blurred images" of what occurred. More »

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      murder  • Italy  • rape  • Meredith Kercher  • Amanda Knox  • Perugia  • Raffaele Sollecito  • Rudy Hermann Guede

    • Stepfather, Pal Charged in Rape & Murder of Missouri Girl

      CNN  |  Nov 11, 07 5:00 AM CST

      Stepfather, Pal Charged in Rape &amp; Murder of Missouri Girl

      (Newser) - The stepfather of a slain 9-year-old Missouri girl and a friend were charged yesterday with her rape and murder, reports CNN. The friend confessed to the crime after the girl's body was found in a hillside cave, according to a local sheriff More »

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      murder  • rape  • Missouri

    • Yank Roomie & Lover Held in Murder of British Student

      Guardian (UK)  |  Nov 7, 07 4:23 AM CST

      Yank Roomie &amp; Lover Held in Murder of British Student

      (Newser) - The American roommate of a murdered British student, the flatmate's boyfriend and a bar manager have been detained by Italian police after their alibis collapsed, reports the Guardian . The roomie has already confessed to the macabre crime that police believe was committed during a sexual assault, according to the Telegraph . Meredith Kercher, 21, was found half-naked with her throat cut in a Perugia flat. More »

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      murder  • Italy  • rape  • assault  • Meredith Kercher  • Perugia

    • Leaky Case Against Ex-FBI Agent Collapses

      New York Times  |  Nov 1, 07 5:23 PM CDT

      Leaky Case Against Ex-FBI Agent Collapses

      (Newser) - Retired FBI supervisor Roy Lindley DeVecchio left a Brooklyn court today exonerated of helping with Mafia murders after prosecutors dropped all charges in light of new evidence discrediting their main witness. Linda Schiro, a mobster's mistress, could face perjury charges, the New York Times reports, after her testimony in court contradicted statements she made to a Village Voice writer. More »

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      murder  • FBI  • Mafia  • Linda Schiro  • Roy Lindley DeVecchio

    • Reporter Tapes Kill Mob Hit Trial

      New York Times  |  Nov 1, 07 3:55 AM CDT

      Reporter Tapes Kill Mob Hit Trial

      (Newser) - The mob murder trial of a former FBI agent collapsed yesterday after lawyers listened to a journalist's taped interviews revealing that the key prosecution witness had lied, reports the New York Times . Prosecutors decided to drop the case against Roy DeVecchio after a conference room drama that could could have come straight from an episode of TV's "Law & Order." More »

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      murder  • FBI  • Mafia  • Linda Schiro  • Gregory Scarpa  • Roy Lindley DeVecchio

  • October 2007