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Crime

"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime." -G. Gordon Liddy

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January 2008
- Woman Seeks $5K Hit Man on Craigslist
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jan 27, 08 5:32 PM CST
  
  A Michigan woman posted a job on Craigslist last year to murder her lover's wife, the FBI announced yesterday. Ann Marie Linscott, 49, put up a generic "freelance" ad but asked responders to "eradicate a female living in Oroville, California" for $5,000. "I've seen some screwy things, but I've personally never heard of anything like this," an FBI agent said. More »
- Corpse Found in Chicago Isn't Peterson
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Jan 27, 08 2:43 PM CST
  
  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 »
- Goth Bonnie & Clyde Busted in $7.5M Heist
  
  newser | New York Times | Jan 24, 08 3:34 PM CST
  
  Lover of vampire novels Roger Dillon and girlfriend Nicole Boyd—dubbed the "goth Bonnie and Clyde" on a popular Internet site—thought they'd planned the perfect crime. Dillon worked at an Ohio armored car firm, where he gleaned valuable inside info. On Thanksgiving weekend, he and Boyd looted $7.4 million from the company's safes and fled to West Virginia, according to law enforcement authorities. The FBI busted them five days later. More »
- 'Rogue Trader' Identified, But Still on Loose
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jan 24, 08 2:46 PM CST
  
  Jérôme Kerviel, a trader at Société Générale, is the man who lost the French bank $7.2 billion in fraudulent trades, using an "intimate and malicious" knowledge of bank procedure to cover his tracks, the Wall Street Journal reports. The 31-year-old Kerviel got no benefit from the trades, though the huge loss may have helped to spark Monday's worldwide selloff. More »
- NC Indicts Fugitive Marine
  
  newser | CNN | Jan 24, 08 2:30 PM CST
  
  The fugitive wanted for the death of pregnant Marine Maria Lauterbach was indicted today by a North Carolina grand jury, CNN reports. In addition to first-degree murder, fellow Marine Cesar Laurean was indicted on charges of ATM card theft, fraud, and robbery. A second autopsy’s preliminary findings suggest that Lauterbach’s child was unborn at the time of death. More »
- Cousin Spots Wanted Marine in Mexico
  
  newser | CNN | Jan 22, 08 4:53 PM CST
  
  A Marine wanted for murder was spotted by his cousin near Guadalajara, Mexico, a week ago, CNN reports. Cpl. Cesar Laurean visited his cousin's liquor store and said he was "just passing by." The cousin says he didn't know about Laurean's legal troubles. Meanwhile, a North Carolina district attorney pressing for extradition had to agree to forgo the death penalty in accordance with Mexican law. More »
- Vandal Scandal Mars Another Pageant
  
  newser | Palm Beach Post | Jan 22, 08 8:50 AM CST
  
  The crime wave besetting American beauty pageants continued this weekend as Miss South Florida Fair had to overcome some skullduggery before claiming her crown, the Palm Beach Post reports. Cops were called after contestant Jessica Wittenbrink found her ruined dress backstage, vandalized with four red lipstick streaks. Police quizzed her 13 rivals but couldn't come up with a suspect. More »
- 'Model Prisoner' Sutherland Leaves Jail
  
  newser | People | Jan 21, 08 2:55 PM CST
  
  Actor Kiefer Sutherland walked out of a California jail today after serving all 48 days of his sentence for DUI and violating probation, People reports. The 24 star looked "glad to be out," said a prison spokesman. Sutherland did his time in an 8-by-10 cell, spending his birthday, Christmas, and New Year's in the can. More »
- Witness Says 'Creepy Man' Kidnapped Maddy
  
  newser | Daily Mail (UK) | Jan 20, 08 9:19 PM CST
  
  A second sketch of Madeline McCann's alleged kidnapper sparked a worldwide manhunt yesterday, the Daily Mail reports. Maddy's parents revealed the drawing, based on a UK witness' account of a "creepy man" she saw after Maddy vanished in Portugal last May. She reported him to Portuguese police, but the sketch was only made months later by the McCann's private eyes. More »
- Long-Held Secret Takes Man Off Death Row
  
  newser | New York Times | Jan 19, 08 4:11 PM CST
  
  A Virginia lawyer revealed a 10-year-old secret last year that had put a man on death row: Prosecutors coached another suspect to make his testimony match the evidence. When the state's legal ethics board reversed its gag order on Leslie Smith, the lawyer spoke up last week, and the sentence of Daryl R. Atkins was commuted to life, the New York Times reports. More »
- Capitol Police Arrest Man Carrying Gun
  
  newser | WUSA 9News Now | Jan 18, 08 7:56 PM CST
  
  Police in Washington arrested a man today who was carrying a loaded shotgun and had a samurai sword strapped to his back just blocks from the US Capitol building, WUSA-TV reports. Michael Gorbey also wore a combat-style bulletproof vest and had a tactical bow and arrow in his backpack when authorities spotted him after being alerted by a suspicious witness. More »
- Ex-NFL Player Pleads Guilty to Lying About Steroids
  
  newser | New York Times | Jan 18, 08 6:21 PM CST
  
  The steroids probe that brought down Marion Jones has claimed it first NFL player: Three-time Pro Bowler Dana Stubblefield pleaded guilty today in federal court to making false statements to a federal agent about performance-enhancing drugs. Prosecutors alleged the former defensive lineman lied in 2003 about taking a previously undetectable steroid called “the clear” and the blood-boosting drug EPO. More »
- Pregnant Marine 'Slit Her Own Throat,' Suspect Told Wife
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jan 18, 08 6:19 AM CST
  
  The suspect in the murder of a pregnant Marine told his wife she slit her own throat during an argument and he buried her body in the woods, reports the Los Angeles Times . Cesar Armando Laurean's wife waited almost 24 hours before reporting the account to police. He vanished the day after he told her of the death, and is believed to be hiding out in Mexico. More »
- Wanted Marine May Be in Mexico: FBI
  
  newser | CNN | Jan 16, 08 6:19 PM CST
  
  The Marine charged in North Carolina with the murder of a pregnant colleague might have fled to his native Mexico, the FBI said today. US officials have teamed with Mexican authorities to catch Cpl. Cesar Laurean, who wrote a letter to wife claiming he buried Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach’s body after she committed suicide in their home, the AP reports. More »
- Ex-Brocade CEO Gets 21 Months for Backdating
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jan 16, 08 3:23 PM CST
  
  The first executive ever convicted of backdating stock options was sentenced today to 21 month in prison and ordered to pay a $15 million fine, the Wall Street Journal reports. Former Brocade CEO Gregory Reyes was found guilty in August of 10 fraud and conspiracy charges. He said today he was “humbled” by the case. More »
- Missing NY Woman's Blood Found in Suspect's Car
  
  newser | Miami Herald | Jan 16, 08 1:38 PM CST
  
  With Stepha Henry missing for months after a trip to south Florida, New York police yesterday arrested a suspect whose abandoned car held so much of Henry's blood that police, declaring "no one could survive with that loss of blood," charged the man with second-degree murder, the Miami Herald reports. Henry, 22, went missing from a Florida nightclub last spring. More »
- Pregnant Marine Didn't Think She Was in Danger
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jan 16, 08 9:17 AM CST
  
  A pregnant Marine whose body was discovered in the back yard of Cesar Armando Laurean told prosecutors in November that she no longer thought Laurean was the father, Marine officials say. Maria Lauterbach alleged that Laurean raped her in March and April, but doctors estimated the 20-year-old’s conception date was May 14, the AP reports. More »
- Court Limits Investors' Suits Over Fraud
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jan 15, 08 5:14 PM CST
  
  The Supreme Court today made it harder for defrauded investors to sue to get their money back. The court limited the ability of investors to sue third parties—accountants, bankers, and lawyers, for example—who help a company commit securities fraud. The 5-3 ruling, considered one of the most important business decisions in years, will make it harder for Enron victims to recover their money, the Washington Post reports. More »
- Charred Body ID'd as Pregnant Marine's
  
  newser | CNN | Jan 15, 08 2:30 PM CST
  
  The burnt body found in the yard of wanted Marine Cesar Laurean's house is that of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, and an autopsy revealed she died from blunt trauma to the head, CNN reports. The DA told the Daily News of Jacksonville, NC, he didn't know whether Lauterbach’s child was born then killed; if that was the case, Laurean could face a second murder charge. More »
- FBI Develops Global Police Net
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jan 15, 08 10:50 AM CST
  
  FBI officials are holding key talks with international law enforcement authorities to develop a high-tech database of suspected criminals and terrorists. The "Server in the Sky" system, which uses sophisticated biometric data such as iris prints, could transform international policing. But it may be a hard sell in some countries, where privacy issues will likely be a major concern, reports the Guardian . More »

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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

prison place of confinement for the punishment and rehabilitation of criminals. By the end of the 18th cent. imprisonment was the chief mode of punishment for all but capital crimes. At that time, largely as a result of the writings of Cesare Beccaria in Italy and John Howard and others in ...

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A Dictionary of Sociology

crime A crime is held to be an offence which goes beyond the personal and into the public sphere, breaking prohibitory rules or laws, to which legitimate punishments or sanctions are attached, and which requires the intervention of a public authority (the state or a local body). Ideally, the ...

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