FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn.—A man charged with fatally stabbing and beating six people in Tennessee and Alabama asked a responding deputy to let him hug his 4-year-old daughter -- the only person spared in the attack, the deputy testified Thursday.
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Nov 18, 2009
Mark Wilson for The Boston Globe
A section of Trow Road was closed as police scrutinized the crime scene last month.
New Hampshire authorities have announced a fifth arrest in the Oct. 4 machete slaying of a 42-year-old woman in a house ...Read More
nChuck Crow, The Plain DealerThe crime scene around Anthony Sowell's home is still blocked off at the intersection of East 123rd Street and Imperial Avenue. People in the neighborhood believe the strong odor in the area came from a sausage ...Read More
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Oct 20, 2009
BEIJING, October 20 (Xinhuanet)-- A man has been convicted in Australia with the help of a blood sucking leech. Peter Alec Cannon was arrested by Australian Police in Tasmania after they identified his DNA in blood found in a leech ...Read More
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Oct 12, 2009
A body found in a New Zealand drain is believed to be that of missing two-year-old girl, Aisling Symes.
The child's body was removed from the drain by police last night and a post-mortem will be performed today.
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Sep 24, 2009
LINCOLN, Ill.—All five family members slain in their central Illinois home were killed by "blunt force trauma," a sheriff said Thursday, though he declined to provide other details, including whether authorities have recovered any weapons.
Logan County Sheriff Steven Nichols reported ...Read More
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Sep 23, 2009
BEASON, Ill. – Residents of a tiny central Illinois farming town where three children and their parents were slain in their home anxiously awaited any word to settle their nerves after authorities warned them to lock their doors and be ...Read More
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Sep 18, 2009
PERUGIA, Italy A bloody footprint found at the house where a British student was killed in Italy was wrongly attributed to one of the defendants in the case, a forensic expert testified at the murder trial Friday.
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VENICE (Fortune) -- If anyone has profited from the free-enterprise system in the past 20 years, it's Michael Moore. Since 1989, when his "Roger & Me" pioneered the docu-comedy form of nonfiction film, Moore's movies, TV shows and best-selling books ...Read More
ANTIOCH, Calif. -- Armed with rakes, shovels and chain saws Sunday, about 20 officers combed the backyard of a couple charged with kidnapping and raping Jaycee Lee Dugard and used cadaver dogs to search an adjoining property where neighbors said ...Read More