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June 2008
- Fed Agents Gunned Down at Mexico City Restaurant
  
  newser | CNN | Jun 27, 08 4:15 AM CDT
  
  In a brazen display of Mexican drug cartel violence, two federal agents were shot dead in broad daylight as they dined in a Mexico City restaurant yesterday, CNN reports. The shooter then sped off in a black car. One victim was the nation's second-highest-ranking federal police officer and was in charge of programs to combat drug trafficking and smuggling. More »
  
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  murder • Mexico • Mexico City • drug cartel • drug war
- Tsvangirai: Save Yourselves, Vote Mugabe
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jun 27, 08 3:45 AM CDT
  
  As Zimbabwe's sham run-off election for president began to get underway, even opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai urged supporters to vote for Robert Mugabe to save themselves from the violent intimidation orchestrated by the government, the Guardian reports. Mugabe's militia has conducted a terror campaign of murder, abduction, imprisonment and rape to cow opposition supporters. More »
  
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  murder • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • Zanu-PF • election fraud • intimidation • abduction • Zimbabwe Election Support Network
- Mass. Court Gives Brit Life for Killing Wife and Baby
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 26, 08 10:55 AM CDT
  
  Neil Entwistle showed no reaction today as he was sentenced to two life prison terms without the opportunity for parole for shooting his wife and infant daughter as they cuddled together in bed. The British-born Massachusetts resident was convicted yesterday of the 2006 killings. Entwistle claims his wife killed the baby and then committed suicide. More »
  
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  murder • Massachusetts • sentencing • Neil Entwistle • guilty verdict
- Man May Have Planned Factory Rampage
  
  newser | Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.) | Jun 25, 08 2:59 PM CDT
  
  The man who shot and killed six people at a Kentucky plastics plant today might have planned his rampage in advance, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. A supervisor had to escort the worker from the premises following an argument with a fellow employee early this morning. The man took a gun from his car, shot the supervisor, and returned to shoot four more, then himself. More »
  
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  murder • shooting • factory • shooting rampage
- Brit Found Guilty in Mass. of Killing Wife, Baby
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 25, 08 2:30 PM CDT
  
  A British man who fled the US after his wife and baby daughter were shot to death in their home was convicted of murder today by a Massachusetts jury. Neil Entwistle’s lawyer had argued that the wife killed her 9-month old baby and herself. Prosecutors said Entwistle was in debt and dissatisfied with his sex life when he killed his family in their bed and then left for England. More »
  
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  murder • suicide • Massachusetts • Neil Entwistle • guilty verdict
- Congo's Gorillas Victims in War Over Charcoal
  
  newser | National Geographic | Jun 23, 08 2:09 PM CDT
  
  Who murdered seven mountain gorillas in the Congo last year? Perhaps, National Geographic finds, the question should be how any of the magnificent apes stay alive at all. A three-way military standoff—a holdover from neighboring Rwanda’s haunted past—enveloping Virunga National Park has left gorillas, people, and the park itself in grave danger. More »
  
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  murder • Democratic Republic of Congo • Rwanda • Hutu • Tutsi • mountain gorillas • charcoal trade • Virunga Park
- Writer Charged in Murders He Reported
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 23, 08 4:35 AM CDT
  
  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
- Man Charged in Wife's Honeymoon Dive Death
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 20, 08 11:25 AM CDT
  
  An Alabama man has been charged with murdering his wife on a diving trip to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the AP reports. The bride, a novice diver, drowned minutes after diving to a shipwreck with her husband. He was a qualified dive rescuer but rose to the surface rather than save her, officials said. Australian police became suspicious when he changed his account of her death and are seeking his extradition. More »
  
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  murder • Australia • drowning • Queensland • coral reef • diving
- 4 Men Charged in Murder of Politkovskaya
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jun 19, 08 9:50 AM CDT
  
  Four men have been charged in Moscow in connection with the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, the investigative journalist shot dead outside her apartment in 2006. Authorities believe that her murder was linked to her exposés on human rights abuses in Chechnya. Two of the accused are Chechens, the Guardian reports—both brothers of the suspected hit man, who is still at large. More »
  
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  Russia • murder • investigation • journalism • Chechnya • Anna Politkovskaya
- Dad Fatally Beat Baby Son to Oust 'Demons'
  
  newser | San Francisco Chronicle | Jun 17, 08 4:21 AM CDT
  
  A California grocery clerk shot dead by cops as he fatally beat his baby son did so to oust "demons" in the boy, he told witnesses. He removed his son from his car on a rural road and viciously beat him in front of horrified onlookers who tried in vain to stop him. "Good shot," said one witness after a cop downed him. "That guy needed to die." More »
  
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  murder • crime • death • beatings
- Soldier Faces Death Penalty for Killing Comrades
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 16, 08 8:24 AM CDT
  
  A soldier may soon face court-martial in the deaths of two US officers in Iraq, whom army prosecutors say he killed in a rare instance of “fragging”—the murder of a fellow soldier. The New York Times examines the case of Sgt. Alberto Martinez, who prosecutors say detonated a mine in Captain Phillip Esposito’s quarters in 2005, killing him and another officer. “I’m convinced this was 100% preventable,” said Esposito’s widow. More »
  
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  Iraq • murder • crime • US military • National Guard
- Sketch Released in Schoolgirl Sleepover Murders
  
  newser | CNN | Jun 15, 08 8:51 AM CDT
  
  Police have released a sketch of a “person of interest” being sought for questioning in the mysterious shooting deaths of two young schoolgirls that have stunned a small rural community in Oklahoma. The man was seen on the same isolated dirt road where the bullet-riddled bodies of two friends who had spent the night together at a sleepover were found in a ditch last week. More »
  
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  murder • crime • shooting • Oklahoma • suspect • Weleetka
- Manson Family Member Pleads for Release
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jun 14, 08 8:24 AM CDT
  
  A member of Charles Manson's "family" of killers is asking for compassionate release after 37 years in jail, the Los Angeles Times reports. Susan Atkins, who stabbed Sharon Tate to death while the 8-months-pregnant actress begged for mercy—and then used her blood to write "PIG" on the front door—is dying of brain cancer and wishes to spend the few months she has left as a free woman. More »
  
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  murder • Charles Manson • Sharon Tate • Manson Family
- Mugabe's Militia Burns Enemies' Wives Alive
  
  newser | Times (UK) | Jun 12, 08 10:46 AM CDT
  
  Zimbabwean opposition leader Patson Chipiro came home Friday to a burning house. “I was trying to put the fire out,” he says. “I thought my wife was hiding in the bushes.” But Mrs. Chipiro was in the blazing house, where militia men loyal to Robert Mugabe had tossed her after chopping off one of her hands and both her feet, the Times of London reports. More »
  
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  murder • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Zimbabwe elections • violence • Zanu-PF • MDC
- Cold Case 101: College Sleuths Try Their Hands
  
  newser | CNN | Jun 11, 08 6:22 PM CDT
  
  A college club is using cold cases to instruct criminal-justice students in techniques of investigation—and perhaps uncover that crucial piece of evidence missed by police, CNN reports. The Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, counting students at three Southern schools, uses high-profile cases like Natalee Holloway and Chandra Levy, to bring “textbooks to life,” in the words of founder Sheryl McCollum. More »
  
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  murder • college • investigation • Natalee Holloway • criminal justice • cold cases • criminal investigation • Chandra Levy
- Girls' Sleepover Killings Stump Okla. Cops
  
  newser | ABC News | Jun 11, 08 12:19 PM CDT
  
  Police in rural Oklahoma have no suspects in Sunday's slaying of two girls aged 11 and 13, ABC News reports. The best friends were found with multiple gunshot wounds in a ditch by a country road. They had gone for a stroll after a sleepover at one girl's house. Police think a local person was behind the killings but are stuck for a motive. More »
  
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  murder • shooting • Oklahoma • unsolved crimes
- Bury Bodies How I Left Them: Alleged Killer
  
  newser | AFP | Jun 10, 08 11:53 AM CDT
  
  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
- NFL Steroid Dealer's Death Called Suicide
  
  newser | Dallas Morning News | Jun 7, 08 6:15 AM CDT
  
  Convicted steroid dealer David Jacobs’ death has been ruled a suicide, the Dallas Morning News reports. Authorities say Jacobs, 35, shot himself in the stomach and head. Officials also found some 150 containers of steroids in his Texas home. The medical examiner has not yet explained the death of Jacobs’ girlfriend, whose body was found with his, apparently shot several times. More »
  
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  NFL • murder • Texas • steroids • suicide • drug dealer • bodybuilder • David Jacobs
- NFL Steroids Dealer, Girlfriend Shot to Death
  
  newser | Dallas Morning News | Jun 6, 08 11:25 AM CDT
  
  Convicted steroids dealer and bodybuilder David Jacobs and his girlfriend have been found shot to death to death in his Texas home. Jacobs, 35, who got probation after cooperating with investigators, recently met with NFL officials to discuss his client list. The couple had a volatile relationship, but police would not say whether the case was a murder-suicide, the Dallas Morning News reports. More »
  
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  murder • Texas • steroids • Dallas Cowboys • drug dealer • bodybuilder • David Jacobs
- Dad to Start Trial in Wife, Baby Murder
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jun 2, 08 4:51 AM CDT
  
  A young British father is set to begin trial today in the Massachusetts murder of his American wife and baby. Prosecutors say Neil Entwistle fired two .22-caliber bullets into wife Rachel and 9-month-old Lillian Rose as they snuggled under a quilt in bed. He was said to be depressed about debt, and unhappy with his sex life; according to court papers, he conducted online searches for escorts and information about murder before the bodies were found in early 2006. More »
  
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  murder • crime • Neil Entwistle

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