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  • May 2008

    • Berkeley Student Stabbed to Death

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  May 5, 08 7:09 AM CDT

      Berkeley Student Stabbed to Death

      (Newser) - A University of California-Berkeley senior was fatally stabbed after an ugly screaming match outside a sorority house, reports the San Francisco Chronicle . It wasn't immediately clear what the fight was about. A student who attends Berkeley City College and was seen tossing away a bloodied knife has confessed to the crime, according to police. Victim Christopher Wootton, a 21-year-old engineering honors student, had boasted of an earlier fraternity house fight on his MySpace page. More »

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      murder  • crime  • stabbing  • University of California

  • April 2008

    • Austrian Dad May Be Linked to Old Murder

      Times (UK)  |  Apr 30, 08 8:00 PM CDT

      Austrian Dad May Be Linked to Old Murder

      (Newser) - The 73-year-old Austrian man who has confessed to fathering seven children by his imprisoned daughter is being investigated in connection with a 20-year-old murder case. Police say that a teenager assaulted and killed in 1986—near property owned by Fritzl's wife—bore an "incredible" resemblance to his daughter, reports the UK Times . More »

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      murder  • rape  • Josef Fritzl  • Austria  • incest  • Amstetten, Austria

    • SNL Alum's Dad Murdered in Nashville

      TMZ  |  Apr 29, 08 11:39 AM CDT

      SNL Alum's Dad Murdered in Nashville

      (Newser) - A hit-making Nashville songwriter was charged yesterday in the pocketknife murder of his producing partner, who—in a headline-grabbing twist out of an old country ballad—is the father of former Saturday Night Live comedienne Cheri Oteri, TMZ reports. Nashville police said Oteri’s father had a "significant laceration” to his wrist, the AP reports. More »

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      celebrity  • murder  • Saturday Night Live  • Nashville

    • Computer Brainiac Guilty of Wife's Murder

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Apr 29, 08 4:03 AM CDT

      Computer Brainiac Guilty of Wife's Murder

      (Newser) - A brilliant California computer programmer was found guilty of murdering his estranged wife yesterday—despite the fact that her body was never found. "I've been the best father that I know how," shouted Hans Reiser, 44, after the verdict, reports the San Francisco Chronicle . His wife's blood was found in Reiser's car and home. "We have a body. We just don't know where it is," the prosecutor told the jury. More »

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      murder  • Linux  • body  • guilty verdict

    • Iraqi Dad Freed in Daughter's 'Honor Killing'

      Guardian (UK)  |  Apr 27, 08 7:29 AM CDT

      Iraqi Dad Freed in Daughter's 'Honor Killing'

      (Newser) - Iraqi authorities will not press charges against a father who murdered his 17-year-old daughter for falling in love with a British soldier because it was an "honor killing," reports the Guardian . The father stood on the girl's neck and stabbed her last month after he learned she was attracted to a soldier distributing relief supplies in Basra. The father was arrested, but later released. "Not much can be done when we have an honor killing," explained a police sergeant. More »

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      Iraq  • murder  • honor killings

    • DNA Used to Nab Criminal Kin

      Washington Post  |  Apr 21, 08 12:51 PM CDT

      DNA Used to Nab Criminal Kin

      (Newser) - Law-enforcement agencies are using DNA of family members—often without their consent—to identify and convict criminals, the Washington Post reports. Privacy advocates object that it turns family members into unwitting informants, and subjects innocent relatives to “lifelong genetic surveillance” because someone in their family committed a crime. But investigators say it could increase DNA-solved cases by as much as 40%. More »

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      murder  • crime  • FBI  • DNA  • genetics  • Massachusetts  • Colorado  • DNA evidence  • law enforcement  • DNA database  • criminal justice

    • Peterson Faces Lawsuit in Third Wife's Death

      Chicago Tribune  |  Apr 18, 08 3:20 AM CDT

      Peterson Faces Lawsuit in Third Wife's Death

      (Newser) - A judge yesterday replaced the executors for the estate of murder suspect Drew Peterson's third wife, paving the way for a wrongful death suit against the ex-cop. The judge cited recent autopsy findings saying Kathleen Savio was murdered. Her family now plans to file a wrongful death suit within weeks, their attorney told the Chicago Tribune . More »

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      murder  • Illinois  • disappearance  • Drew Peterson  • Stacy Peterson  • Kathleen Savio

    • 'Black Widows' Guilty of Murder

      Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 17, 08 3:27 AM CDT

      'Black Widows' Guilty of Murder

      (Newser) - Two elderly women known as the "Black Widows" have been convicted in a murder plot to obtain life insurance benefits from two homeless men they put up in apartments before killing them. Helen Golay, 77, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 75, took out a total of $2.8 million in life insurance policies on the two men, who were mowed down by cars six years apart.  More »

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      murder  • hit and run  • Helen Golay  • Olga Rutterschmidt  • Kenneth McDavid  • Paul Vados

    • Jilted Lover Charged in Contract Hit on Teen Mom

      New York Times  |  Apr 16, 08 10:38 AM CDT

      Jilted Lover Charged in Contract Hit on Teen Mom

      (Newser) - The shooting death of an 18-year-old mom and wounding of her boyfriend as they sat with their baby son in a car was set up by the beau, cops now say. The boyfriend initially insisted the two had been shot by a robber in the Bronx, but now he and his cousin have been charged with murder, reports the New York Times reports. More »

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      murder  • crime  • New York  • shooting  • Bronx

    • Supreme Court Rejects Boy Killer's Appeal

      CNN  |  Apr 14, 08 7:55 PM CDT

      Supreme Court Rejects Boy Killer's Appeal

      (Newser) - 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  • murder trial  • appeal  • Paxil  • juvenile

    • Amanda Knox: 'Railroad Job From Hell'?

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer  |  Apr 13, 08 2:00 PM CDT

      Amanda Knox: 'Railroad Job From Hell'?

      (Newser) - Amanda Knox , the 20-year-old University of Washington student who's been held by Italian police since November as a suspect in her British roommate's murder, is the victim of a “railroad job from hell,”  an investigator hired by the “48 Hours Mystery” to review the case concluded. "They've put so much into Amanda Knox, they have to convict her now or they look like fools," he says on the show, broadcast last night. More »

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      murder  • Italy  • DNA evidence  • Meredith Kercher  • Amanda Knox  • University of Washington  • Perugia  • Raffaele Sollecito

    • Drew Peterson Will Take Your Questions

      Chicago Tribune  |  Apr 11, 08 12:54 PM CDT

      Drew Peterson Will Take Your Questions

      (Newser) - Drew Peterson, suspected in the disappearance of his fourth wife while police investigate the death of his third, will field viewers’ questions on "Larry King Live" tonight, the Chicago Tribune reports. The show offers the first chance for the public to question the ex-cop, who says he's been convicted by the media. “There's no rules. Larry King's people tell me that they screen out the nuts,” his lawyer said. More »

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