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  • July 2008

    • Cops Fear Mom Killed Missing Florida Toddler

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 23, 08 6:51 AM CDT

      Cops Fear Mom Killed Missing Florida Toddler

      A Florida woman has been charged with child neglect and lying to investigators over the disappearance of her 2-year-old daughter, reports AP. Prosecutors say the child has been missing for more than a month, but her mom only reported her missing last week. Investigators have found evidence of decomposition in the mother's car and back yard. More »

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      Florida  • missing person  • homicide  • missing child

  • April 2008

    • Chicago Hit With Early Crime Wave

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Apr 25, 08 12:26 PM CDT

      Chicago Hit With Early Crime Wave

      An explosion of violence in Chicago last weekend—three dozen shootings that resulted in seven deaths—and a quintuple homicide on Wednesday have local police struggling for an explanation, as well as a response. Crime usually jumps later in the year, the Chicago Tribune notes, when both the weather and gang activity heat up.  More »

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      crime  • Chicago  • police  • shooting  • homicide

    • Kinky Sex Kills Hubby

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Apr 24, 08 4:03 PM CDT

      Kinky Sex Kills Hubby

      A sex game gone wrong apparently killed a Tennessee man last weekend, and his wife has been charged with reckless homicide. The woman tied her husband up, put a ball gag in his mouth, wrapped his head in duct tape, leaving only nostril slits to breath through—and left to spend the night with another man, authorities said. She returned 20 hours later to find him dead. More »

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      sex  • homicide  • Tennessee  • sex crime  • sado-masochism

  • March 2008

    • Dad Kills 3 Kids in Hotel Room, Calls Front Desk

      newser  |  Baltimore Sun  |  Mar 31, 08 9:00 AM CDT

      Dad Kills 3 Kids in Hotel Room, Calls Front Desk

      A man involved in a bitter custody battle murdered his three children in a Baltimore hotel yesterday afternoon, then called the front desk to report it, the Baltimore Sun reports. Police still aren’t sure how Mark Castillo killed the children, aged 6, 4, and 2; there was no evidence of stabbing or gunshot wounds. More »

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      murder  • crime  • homicide  • custody battle  • Baltimore

    • 2 Toddlers, 4 Adults Shot Dead in Memphis Home

      newser  |  Commercial Appeal (Memphis)  |  Mar 4, 08 7:39 AM CST

      2 Toddlers, 4 Adults Shot Dead in Memphis Home

      Memphis police found two toddler girls and four adults shot dead in a home in the city's Binghamton neighborhood yesterday. Three other young children have been taken to a local hospital with gunshot wounds and are said to be critically injured, reports the Commercial Appeal. Police say the shootings happened Sunday night but the bodies weren't discovered until a relative of one of the children went to the house yesterday. More »

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      children  • shooting  • homicide  • Tennessee  • Memphis  • Memphis killings  • gunshots

    • Fireman Dead in Fla. Wendy's Shooting

      newser  |  Palm Beach Post  |  Mar 3, 08 8:00 PM CST

      Fireman Dead in Fla. Wendy's Shooting

      A gunman killed a local firefighter and wounded five others in a West Palm Beach Wendy's today before taking his own life, the Palm Beach Post reports. Shooter Alburn Edward Blake left no suicide note but was said by one witness to be an ex-worker at the restaurant. "Looks like this was just another random shooting like we've seen around the United States," a Palm Beach County Sheriff's spokesman told the AP. More »

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      crime  • Florida  • suicide  • shooting  • homicide  • gun violence  • murder suicide  • Palm Beach  • Wendy's

  • February 2008

    • Peterson: I'm Ready for Jail

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Feb 28, 08 12:44 PM CST

      Peterson: I'm Ready for Jail

      Drew Peterson, the ex-cop suspected in the disappearance of his fourth wife, said today he is psychologically ready for arrest and even time behind bars, the Chicago Tribune reports. On NBC’s Today show, Peterson maintained his innocence in the October disappearance of Stacy Peterson and in the 2004 murder of his third wife, whose bathtub drowning was recently reclassified as homicide. More »

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      murder  • NBC  • Drew Peterson  • disappearance  • Stacy Peterson  • homicide  • Kathleen Savio  • Today Show  • Matt Lauer

    • Cops Arrest Suspect in Shrink Slaying

      newser  |  New York Post  |  Feb 16, 08 4:20 PM CST

      Cops Arrest Suspect in Shrink Slaying

      Police arrested an "emotionally disturbed" patient today for brutally slaying a New York psychologist earlier this week, the New York Post reports. Suspect David Tarloff "made statements implicating himself in the homicide," police said, and was identified by four witnesses as the killer of psychologist Kathryn Faughey. Tarloff's palm prints were also found on a suitcase left at the scene. More »

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      murder  • New York City  • crime  • police  • psychology  • homicide  • NYPD  • suspect

  • January 2008

    • Drew Peterson Wants to Lie Test on TV

      newser  |  Fox News  |  Jan 30, 08 3:02 PM CST

      Drew Peterson Wants to Lie Test on TV

      After repeatedly refusing requests from the family of his missing wife that he submit to a polygraph test, suspect Drew Peterson is now requesting to do so on national television. Representatives for the former Chicago-area policeman—whose wife, Stacy, has been missing since October and is presumed dead—have been in contact with producers from Moment of Truth. More »

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      Fox  • Drew Peterson  • Stacy Peterson  • homicide  • Kathleen Savio  • polygraph

    • Corpse Found in Chicago Isn't Peterson

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Jan 27, 08 2:43 PM CST

      Corpse Found in Chicago Isn't Peterson

      The badly decomposed body of a woman found yesterday in a Chicago industrial lot is not Stacy Peterson, reports the Chicago Tribune , the suburban mom whose husband, Drew, is suspected in her October disappearance. Officials also determined that the body was not another area housewife, Lisa Stebic, missing since April. The corpse had stab wounds, and police are treating the case as a homicide. More »

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      Chicago  • missing person  • Drew Peterson  • Stacy Peterson  • homicide  • missing woman  • corpse  • Lisa Stebic

    • German Woman Flushed Hubby Down the Toilet

      newser  |  Der Spiegel  |  Jan 9, 08 6:30 PM CST

      German Woman Flushed Hubby Down the Toilet

      German police are searching for a woman they believe hacked up her husband and flushed the pieces down the toilet, Der Spiegel reports. Neither wife nor husband have been seen since just before Christmas, when neighbors report hearing hammering, strange noises, and repeated flushing. The woman reportedly told her grown children, “You won’t see him again, I flushed him down the toilet.” More »

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      murder  • crime  • Germany  • homicide  • toilet

    • Supreme Court to Hear Child Rapist's Death Penalty Appeal

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jan 4, 08 5:18 PM CST

      Supreme Court to Hear Child Rapist's Death Penalty Appeal

      The Supreme Court today agreed to hear the case of a Louisiana man sentenced to death in the brutal rape of his 8-year-old stepdaughter. His attorneys say Patrick Kennedy is "the only person in the United States who is on death row for a non-homicide offense." A 1977 Court decision put a stop the death penalty for acts short of murder. More »

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      US Supreme Court  • rape  • death penalty  • racism  • capital punishment  • homicide

  • December 2007

    • LA Murder Rate Plummets

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Dec 24, 07 6:44 AM CST

      LA Murder Rate Plummets

      The murder rate in Los Angeles has sunk to its lowest in nearly 40 years, the Los Angeles Times reports. There have been 368 killings in the City of Angels this year, down from over 1,000 in 1992. The last time the murder rate was so low was 1970, when LA had 1 million fewer people, guns were less prevalent on the streets, and gangs were a smaller presence. More »

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      California  • murder  • Los Angeles  • homicide  • gangs  • crime statistics

    • Peterson Wife, Storage Bins Vanished at Same Time

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Dec 13, 07 10:07 PM CST

      Peterson Wife, Storage Bins Vanished at Same Time

      Two large blue storage containers bought by Drew Peterson disappeared from his garage after his wife went missing, says one of Peterson's close friends. Rick Mims told a grand jury last week that he and Peterson bought the containers from AmeriCable, where they worked in 2003, ABC News reports. Mims also turned over photos of the containers, obtained by ABC. More »

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      Drew Peterson  • Stacy Peterson  • homicide

    • Drew Peterson Feels Betrayed

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Dec 7, 07 11:20 AM CST

      Drew Peterson Feels Betrayed

      It really got to Drew Peterson: his picture on a pinata at a vigil last weekend for his missing wife, Stacy. The former Illinois police sergeant, a suspect in Stacy's presumed murder, complains to the Chicago Tribune that he's been shunned by friends and former buddies on the force. He laments that police officers "who I would have jumped in front of a bullet for" now give him the cold shoulder. More »

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      police  • Illinois  • Drew Peterson  • Stacy Peterson  • homicide  • missing woman

  • November 2007

    • Missing Hoop Star's Body Found in Brazil

      newser  |  Seattle Times  |  Nov 19, 07 1:35 PM CST

      Missing Hoop Star's Body Found in Brazil

      The body of a former Washington State University basketball star who had been missing in Brazil was found yesterday, reports the Seattle Times. Tony Harris' death is being investigated as a suicide, but police "are not ruling out homicide," a spokesman told the AP. Harris, 36, was in the country to play on a pro team in Brasilia but hadn't been heard from in 2 weeks. More »

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      basketball  • crime  • Brazil  • homicide  • Washington State Cougars

  • October 2007

    • Memphis U. Mourns Murdered Athlete

      newser  |  Commercial Appeal (Memphis)  |  Oct 3, 07 5:06 AM CDT

      Memphis U. Mourns Murdered Athlete

      Hundreds of University of Memphis students gathered  to mourn a student football player fatally shot near campus housing. Taylor Bradford, 21, was carrying as much as $7,000 he had won earlier at a casino when he was killed Sunday night, according to police. Two men were seen running from the wounded player. Detectives have made no arrests. More »

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      homicide  • University of Memphis  • Taylor Bradford

    • Memphis DL Killed in Shooting

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Oct 1, 07 11:55 PM CDT

      Memphis DL Killed in Shooting

      University of Memphis defensive lineman Taylor Bradford was shot dead outside campus housing last night, in an act university officials say was targeted specifically against the junior. Police did not concur, asserting the incident might have been random; classes were cancelled today for the 20,000-student school, and campus housing was closed overnight. More »

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      NCAA  • NCAA football  • homicide  • University of Memphis  • Taylor Bradford

  • September 2007

    • Ex-Gang Members Help LA Cut Homicides

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 28, 07 9:29 AM CDT

      Ex-Gang Members Help LA Cut Homicides

      The Los Angeles homicide rate has dropped this year to the lowest level since 1970, a turnaround police credit in part to a new program using ex-gang members to prevent gang killings. Nine months after the mayor vowed to crack down on gang violence, homicides are down by 50% in some neighborhoods, the Los Angeles Times reports. A civil right attorney calls it a "paradigm-changing breakthrough." More »

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      Los Angeles  • homicide  • gang violence

    • Maddy Cops: We Goofed

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Sep 16, 07 8:32 AM CDT

      Maddy Cops: We Goofed

      Portuguese police believe that early mistakes in the Madeleine McCann case have crippled their investigation, a source has told the Observer. Police are now unified in suspecting Maddy's parents in her disappearance, but it will be nearly impossible to bring charges against them due to lack of evidence . Part of the problem stems from cops initially focusing on a suspect who turned out to be a red herring. More »

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      Madeleine McCann  • Kate McCann  • Gerry McCann  • Portugal  • disappearance  • homicide  • child neglect

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