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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigators on Monday will announce that they have solved the 1976 slaying of Karen Klaas, a Hermosa Beach mother of two and the ex-wife of singer Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers. The case was solved through the use of “familial DNA,” which identified the killer, the department said in a statement Friday. Detectives, forensic and law enforcement officers will hold a news conference on Monday, the 41st anniversary of the crime. Klaas, 32, was found in her Hermosa Beach home on Jan. 30, 1976. She had been sexually assaulted, choked and left unconscious. In...

Myleene Klass was told off by police for waving a knife through her window to scare off two teenagers trying to break into her garden shed. The musician was alone in her kitchen, with her two-year-old daughter asleep upstairs, when she grabbed the knife and shouted 'I'm calling the police'. Officers who arrived at her house in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, on Friday warned her that it was illegal to carry an 'offensive weapon' even at home. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: 'This incident just shows why things are still very confused on this issue and why we need a...

Myleene Klass Warned By Police After Scaring Off Intruders With Knife Myleene Klass, the broadcaster and model, brandished a knife at youths who broke into her garden – but has been warned by police that she may have acted illegally. By Roya Nikkhah 09 Jan 2010 Miss Klass, a model for Marks & Spencer and a former singer with the pop group Hear'Say, was in her kitchen in the early hours of Friday when she saw two teenagers behaving suspiciously in her garden. The youths approached the kitchen window, before attempting to break into her garden shed, prompting Miss Klass...

Was just watching Fox concerning the controversy over lethal injection in California, NY and elsewhere. A judge thinks they need to revamp the injection formula to insure that they perp doesn't suffer. Mark Klaas was then brought on the air and said that we need to come up with some way of executing that insures no pain or suffering. The only way, he said, to do that is to bring back the Guillotine. For Bible prophecy watchers, this is just one more piece of the puzzle: Revelation 20:4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given...

Alien abduction claims explained: Sleep paralysis, false memories involved Many of the people who believe they have been abducted by aliens are bombarding Susan Clancy with hate e-mails and phone calls. The Harvard researcher, who has spent five years listening to the stories of some 50 abductees, has described her (and their) experiences in a new book to be published in October. Clancy, 36, likes most of these people. "They are definitely not crazy," she says. But they do have "a tendency to fantasize and to hold unusual beliefs and ideas. They believe not only in alien abductions, but also...

<p>Philip J. Klass, 85, an aviation journalist who investigated UFO sightings and wrote books debunking reports of visits from outer space, died Aug. 9 at a nursing facility in Cocoa, Fla. He had cancer.</p> <p>Klass lived in Washington for more than 50 years before moving to Merritt Island, Fla. , in 2003.</p>