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BRIAN Laundrie shared a series of dark and disturbing posts about ghosts and witchcraft to Pinterest shortly before his fiancee Gabby Petito was found dead at a campsite in Wyoming. Laundrie, 23, is not currently considered a suspect in the death of Gabby, 22, but has been identified as a person of interest. Brian Laundrie's digital footprint has been raising questions in recent weeks Prior to his vanishing, Laundrie failed to report Gabby missing and refused to cooperate with a police investigation into her disappearance. In a statement issued by his attorney, Steve Bertolino, at the time, it was claimed...

Put it this way: President Obama’s Egypt policy is about as effective as his Syria policy. And for the first time Wednesday, with the number of dead and injured mounting, one could almost envision Egypt’s descent into out-and-out civil war. Obama was briefed, said nothing and went back to golf. Secretary of State John Kerry took a break from his fruitless obsession with the nonexistent “peace process” to condemn the violence, but took no questions and had no policy announcement. This, in a nutshell, is the White House’s approach to the Middle East — the absence of any policy and...

They kidnapped a fortune, but this crime didn't pay Wealthy captive's cool, captors' bungling leads to freedom, arrests 01/31/2003 Associated Press GREENWICH, Conn. - Three weeks ago, one of the richest men in America was abducted from a parking garage in this wealthy New York suburb after leaving work at his $5 billion hedge fund. The kidnappers were clearly out of their league. Authorities said Edward Lampert's abductors were from crime-ridden New Haven neighborhoods, a world away from Greenwich. Two had drug convictions; one was an eighth-grade dropout who, his lawyer says, can't read or write. The man they...

Defenders: Admitted Terrorist Walks Free 7:55 p.m. EST November 11, 2002 - The International Terrorism Squad is searching for the whereabouts of a Dearborn man who's suspected of providing material support to terrorists, Local 4's Defenders reported. Fawzi Mustapha Assi is suspected of leading a double life as a hard-working family man, and an admitted terrorist sympathizer, Local 4 reported. Assi lived with his three children at a home on Middlepoint Street in Dearborn. He worked as an engineer at Ford's River Rouge plant in Dearborn. But according to federal investigators, he was also busy assisting terrorists. FBI agents tapped...

By Sari Horwitz and Carol Morello Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, October 23, 2002; Page A01 An angry letter found tacked to a tree behind a restaurant where the sniper wounded a man last weekend complained of six failed attempts to reach police, and threatened more killings -- of children in particular -- if millions of dollars were not deposited in a bank account within two days, according to law enforcement sources. The letter listed half a dozen calls that had been "ignored" by operators answering phones at the command center in Rockville, the Montgomery County police station and the...

Norfolk INS often granted crews improper shore leaveBy TIM MCGLONE, The Virginian-Pilot© April 10, 2002 Crews from 40 foreign cargo vessels were allowed shore leave in Hampton Roads since Dec. 1 without proper authorization, according to the commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Even after four Pakistanis from the cargo ship Progreso disappeared in mid-March, crews from two more cargo vessels were allowed improper shore leave, Commissioner James W. Ziglar said. An INS inspector who allowed the Pakistanis ashore had no knowledge of a policy enacted in November that forbade the practice without the approval of an Arlington district...

INS moves Norfolk official as 4 crewmen stay missingBy STEVE STONE, The Virginian-Pilot© March 25, 2002 William W. Bittner NORFOLK -- The head of the area's Immigration and Naturalization Service office has been reassigned after four Pakistani crewmen were improperly allowed to come ashore from a cargo ship docked in Chesapeake. The four have since vanished. ``We have launched a very substantial investigation,'' Attorney General John Ashcroft said Sunday. ``I'm not going to report on various aspects of the progress of that investigation.'' He said, however, that he found the situation ``maddening.'' A Justice Department spokesman said the INS is...