OK, I didn’t know about the cab driver.
I knew the family that was killed was related to the Lynne Stewart trial translator, and I was pretty convinced at the time that the killing was an act of Muslim revenge. However, according to the police, who found one of the killers using an ATM card belonging to the father, it was simply a vicious robbery. I never saw anything about the trial and I don’t know how it turned out, though, so possibly other information came out in court.
And I also remember something about some Egyptian Muslims who were intially suspects in the one of the cases suddenly fleeing to Egypt.
The problem with a lot of these events is that the trial comes so much later and is usually conducted so quietly that unless you happen to live in that city, you never find out how it finally ends!
Lynne Stewart got a slap on the wrist and is now a paid speaker on ethics:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=lynnestewart
I know the killers were found to be ‘robbers’. I’m not convinced that it wasn’t a threat to the translator. If someone wanted to make it look like a robbery, they would strong arm or pay someone they had influence over. The message was sent to the translator by the tattoo that was carved in the girl.