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 High-Profile 
 Murders 
 Haunt Yale 

Race and class issues feature heavily in killings from past

Sep 15, 09 5:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Graduate student Annie Le's murder is just the latest in a series of high-profile killings to rock Yale University in recent history, reports Gawker, which dubs the university "Murdertown of the Ivies." The Yale killings too often feature a troubling mix of race, class, and bungling by authorities,... More »

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Yale University • Ivy League • crime • murder • New Haven • manslaughter • Annie Le

(Newser) - Hundreds of students and faculty members turned out tonight on the campus of Yale University, NECN reports, for a candlelight vigil in memory of Annie Le, the 24-year-old grad student found dead yesterday on the New Haven, Conn., campus. Le’s body was discovered inside a wall in a lab... More »

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Yale University • crime • murder • vigil • candlelight • graduate student • Annie Le

UPDATED

Student Named as Suspect in Yale Homicide

Has defensive wounds, failed polygraph test; may not be fellow Yalie

Sep 14, 09 3:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police have a suspect in the slaying of a Yale graduate student: another student—not necessarily enrolled at Yale—who bears defensive wounds and failed a polygraph test, MSNBC reports. An autopsy performed today confirmed that the body found yesterday is Annie Le's. Police have turned their focus to finding... More »

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murder • New Haven • body • student • suspect • Yale • manhunt • police search • Annie Le

Man Shot Anti-Abortion Protester Over 'Grudge'

Gunman also killed a gravel company owner, had a third target

Sep 12, 09 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - James Harlan Drake, the 33-year-old trucker who shot noted anti-abortion activist James Pouillon in front of a high school yesterday, also shot a local gravel company owner, and intended to kill a third man before police arrested him. He had “a list in his head,” a police chief... More »

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abortion • murder • Michigan • shooting • anti-abortion activists • James Pouillon • Harlan James Drake

 Mich. Anti-Abortion 
 Activist Killed in Drive-By 

Perp also admits to shooting local business owner; motive unclear

Sep 11, 09 2:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - A prominent anti-abortion protester was gunned down this morning outside a Michigan high school, the Detroit Free Press reports. Owosso High School students were among the witnesses to the drive-by shooting, which police say was committed by a 33-year-old man who was arrested at his home and promptly confessed... More »

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murder • Michigan • protests • shooting • anti-abortion activists • Owosso • drive-by • abortion debate • James Pouillon

'Homophobic Attack' Kills Diplomat in Jamaica

'This is what will happen to all Gays,' warns note with body

Sep 11, 09 1:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British diplomat was found severely beaten and strangled in his Jamaica home in what police believe was a homophobic attack, reports the Telegraph. A note was found with John Terry's body referring to the 65-year-old married father as gay, using a Jamaican slur. “This is what will happen... More »

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crime • murder • Jamaica • diplomat • Montego Bay • gay • anti-gay slur • naked • John Terry

ANALYSIS

 Iraq Militias 
 Kill Gays 
  With Impunity 

Government's unwillingness to protect gays points to a bleak future for all Iraqis

Sep 10, 09 7:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iraq's militias have switched from slaughtering rivals to killing men they suspect of being homosexuals, and the Iraqi government is turning a blind eye, Rasha Moumneh writes in Foreign Policy. Gay men have been kidnapped, tortured, and murdered in rising numbers since the start of this year, but not a... More »

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Iraq • gay rights • murder • homosexuality • Iraqi government • Sadrists • Iraqi militias • Muqtada al-Sadr

Salvador Cop, Gangsters Busted in Filmmaker's Murder

Alleged killers come from same gang Christian Poveda chronicled in film

Sep 10, 09 5:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - El Salvador has arrested four gang members and a police officer for last week's murder of French photojournalist and filmmaker Christian Poveda, CNN reports. Another man who allegedly ordered the killing is already in prison, authorities say. The gangsters belong to the same Mara 18 gang that was the subject... More »

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Latin America • murder • documentary • film director • journalist • El Salvador • gangsters • Christian Poveda

US Porn Star Helps Convict
Brit Playboy of Murder

Developer tortured tenant to death to sell property

Sep 8, 09 3:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British playboy and one-time Hllary Clinton fundraiser is facing a life sentence for the torture-murder of a caretaker who refused to move out of a warehouse he wanted to sell, the Times of London reports. Thanos Papalexis, son of a Greek shipping tycoon, was convicted with the help of... More »

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torture • murder • Britain • porn star • Thanos Papalexis

Milwaukee Cops Arrest Suspected Serial Killer

Man linked to murders of 9 women from 1986-2007

Sep 7, 09 7:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities in Milwaukee said tonight they have arrested a man they suspect in the murders of at least nine women during the past 21 years, the Journal Sentinel reports. Walter E. Ellis, 49, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, and his DNA was found on nine women killed... More »

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African Americans • Milwaukee • murder • violence • prostitute • serial killers • Walter Ellis

Ugandan Child Murders Linked to Witch Doctors

US-backed task force struggles to quell brutal surge

Sep 6, 09 6:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ritual murders and kidnappings continue to haunt Uganda despite police efforts to battle the horrors, the Guardian reports. Often linked to organ trafficking and witch doctors, some 300 cases were reported last year, and only 18 taken to court. A US-backed task force started this year has failed to stem... More »

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Africa • murder • organ trafficking • ritual • Uganda • human sacrifices • witch doctors • child murder

Georgia Man Innocent in Trailer Slayings: Kid Brother

Cites drug dispute; 'my bro has a conscience'

Sep 6, 09 2:09 PM CDT
(AP) - The brother of a Georgia man charged with slaying his father and seven others in a mobile home insists that 22-year-old Guy Heinze Jr would never harm his family, and instead speculates that a drug dispute could have prompted the killings. "I know my brother didn't do this. My... More »

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drugs • police • murder • Georgia • debt • killings • Guy Heinze

Teenage Brit Jockeys
Killed in Arson

Police have arrested suspected arsonist in his 30s

Sep 6, 09 7:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two promising apprentice jockeys were killed yesterday in a suspected arson fire set at their apartment building in northern England. "Apprentice of the season" Jamie Kyne, 18, was found dead along with female jockey Jan Wilson, 19, in Kyne's apartment where several riders had gathered for a party. Two... More »

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Man Who Called Cops Charged
in Ga. Killings

7 of 8 dead at trailer park were related to Guy Heinze, 22

Sep 4, 09 8:18 PM CDT
(AP) - A 22-year-old man was charged today with killing eight people whose deaths he had reported to police in a frantic phone call from his family's Georgia mobile home. Guy Heinze Jr. was arrested on eight counts of first-degree murder in the slayings last weekend near the coastal community of Brunswick.... More »

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crime • murder • Georgia • family • mobile home • killings • trailer park • Guy Heinze

Director of Gang Documentary Shot Dead

French filmmaker falls victim to violence he recorded in El Salvador

Sep 4, 09 7:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The director of a documentary about the brutal gang life in El Salvador was himself the victim of gang violence, shot dead in a car 10 miles outside San Salvador, the Independent reports. Christian Poveda, a 52-year-old French filmmaker, directed La Vida Loca, which aired locally and hits France this... More »

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murder • gangs • documentary • gang violence • film director • El Salvador

Garrido May Have Fathered, Slain Sons

Jaycee kidnapper would have seen boys as threat, experts say

Sep 3, 09 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cops investigating Jaycee Lee Dugard's case think alleged kidnapper Phillip Garrido may have killed any male children he had with her, they tell the Sun. Though Dugard bore Garrido two daughters, "It doesn't make sense that a healthy young girl not on birth control only conceived twice in that... More »

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 Museum Shooter: 
 'I Swore to 
 Defend My 
 Country' 

Von Brunn was on suicide mission, prosecutor says

Sep 2, 09 5:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - James von Brunn planned to die himself when he opened fire at the Holocaust Museum in June, an assault he planned well in advance to spread the word that the Holocaust was a hoax, prosecutors say. Von Brunn, 89, appeared in court for the first time today to answer charges... More »

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Washington DC • murder • Holocaust Museum • white supremacism • shooting • anti-Semitism • James Von Brunn

Cops: No Evidence Linking Garrido to Dead Hookers

Search of alleged Dugard kidnapper's home finds no connection to unsolved '90s killings

Sep 1, 09 7:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police say they’ve found no evidence linking Phillip Garrido—alleged to have abducted a California girl and imprisoned her for 18 years—to a series of unsolved murders of prostitutes in the late 1990s, the Contra Costa Times reports. After Garrido, a registered sex offender, was apprehended with missing... More »

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murder • prostitute • unsolved crimes • Pittsburg, CA • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Nancy Garrido

 Twins: Creepy 
 Jenkins Kept 
 Hitting On Us 

Reality TV contestant wanted to do it 'twin style' while married to Jasmine Fiore

Sep 1, 09 10:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ryan Jenkins tried to pick up twin sisters months after marrying Jasmine Fiore and was still obsessively text messaging them just weeks before Fiore’s murder and his suicide, Radar reports. The two-time reality show contestant told the Canadian bikini models he was in an open relationship and invited them... More »

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entertainment • reality TV • suicide • murder • murder-suicide • reality shows • Jasmine Fiore • Ryan Jenkins

GLOSSIES

 'Craigslist Murder' 
 a New Internet 
 Phenomenon 

Real-world cops with computers tracked real-world cybercrime

Aug 31, 09 4:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff’s alleged crimes and capture were so tied to the Internet that a “new kind of murder” has been born, writes Maureen Orth in Vanity Fair. Not only did Markoff allegedly find victim Julissa Brisman on Craigslist, but before the meeting that Boston... More »

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social networking • Internet • Microsoft • Boston • murder • criminal charges • Julissa Brisman • Philip Markoff • Craigslist killer

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