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  • July 2008

    • Ex-Con Suspected in 8 Murders Captured in Ill.

      Associated Press  |  Jul 2, 08 9:04 AM CDT

      Ex-Con Suspected in 8 Murders Captured in Ill.

      (Newser) - An exhaustive, two-state manhunt for an ex-convict suspected in eight grisly slayings ended with the man quietly arrested last night outside a bar known as a police hangout. Police knew from a number of witness reports that Nicholas T. Sheley, 28, was in the area, said the police chief in the St. Louis suburb of Festus, Mo. "He was desperate and he gave up without a fight. He's had a rough two days."   More »

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      murder  • FBI  • Illinois  • St. Louis  • serial killers  • manhunt

    • Suspected Md. Cop Killer Was Strangled in Jail

      Washington Post  |  Jul 1, 08 12:47 PM CDT

      Suspected Md. Cop Killer Was Strangled in Jail

      (Newser) - A man accused of killing a police officer was strangled to death Sunday in a Maryland county jail, coroners have ruled. State police have taken over the case, and the FBI is investigating on civil-rights grounds, the Washington Post reports. “We live in a constitutional democracy, and no one has the right to be judge and jury,” fumed one county executive. More »

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      murder  • race relations  • Maryland  • police brutality  • cop killer

  • June 2008

    • Pregnant Soldier's Death Homicide: Cops

      Fayetteville Observer (NC)  |  Jun 30, 08 4:20 PM CDT

      Pregnant Soldier's Death Homicide: Cops

      (Newser) - Police say the pregnant soldier whose body was found in a North Carolina motel last week was murdered, the Fayetteville Observer reports. The Observer , meanwhile, received a letter from someone claiming to be the killer, which contains a symbol sources say was also drawn in lipstick in the room where Megan Touma, 23, was found. More »

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      murder  • US military  • investigation  • North Carolina  • soldier  • Army  • pregnant  • Fort Bragg

    • Fed Agents Gunned Down at Mexico City Restaurant

      CNN  |  Jun 27, 08 4:15 AM CDT

      Fed Agents Gunned Down at Mexico City Restaurant

      (Newser) - 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  • drug cartel  • Mexico City  • drug war

    • Tsvangirai: Save Yourselves, Vote Mugabe

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 27, 08 3:45 AM CDT

      Tsvangirai: Save Yourselves, Vote Mugabe

      (Newser) - 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 »

    • Mass. Court Gives Brit Life for Killing Wife and Baby

      Associated Press  |  Jun 26, 08 10:55 AM CDT

      Mass. Court Gives Brit Life for Killing Wife and Baby

      (AP) - 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  • guilty verdict  • Neil Entwistle

    • Man May Have Planned Factory Rampage

      Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.)  |  Jun 25, 08 2:59 PM CDT

      Man May Have Planned Factory Rampage

      (Newser) - 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

      Associated Press  |  Jun 25, 08 2:30 PM CDT

      Brit Found Guilty in Mass. of Killing Wife, Baby

      (AP) - 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  • guilty verdict  • Neil Entwistle

    • Congo's Gorillas Victims in War Over Charcoal

      National Geographic  |  Jun 23, 08 2:09 PM CDT

      Congo's Gorillas Victims in War Over Charcoal

      (Newser) - 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  • Rwanda  • Democratic Republic of Congo  • Hutu  • Tutsi  • mountain gorillas  • charcoal trade  • Virunga Park

    • Writer Charged in Murders He Reported

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

      Writer Charged in Murders He Reported

      (Newser) - 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

      Associated Press  |  Jun 20, 08 11:25 AM CDT

      Man Charged in Wife's Honeymoon Dive Death

      (Newser) - 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

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 19, 08 9:50 AM CDT

      4 Men Charged in Murder of Politkovskaya

      (Newser) - 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