http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/murders/ en-us Sun, 8 Jun 2008 07:50:29 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027823/posts Like a plague, murder by knife has taken London by storm. Gang members have said that killing someone is like a status symbol. It's in fashion. Taking little to no provocation this so called fashion of knife murders gives no warning. Associated Content http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027823/posts#comment Sun, 8 Jun 2008 07:50:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007449/posts DETECTIVES: Chris Jenkins murder connects dozens around country Could there be a calculated, cross-country plot to kill young college men, including some in Minnesota? It seems a little hard to believe, but two New York detectives say they can prove it. Now, they are revealing years of their evidence for the first time to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS... GO DEEPER INTO THE INVESTIGATION: KTSP ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007449/posts#comment Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:11:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997429/posts Los Angeles -- Two people were murdered in Los Angeles during the first 18 hours of a 40-hour symbolic "murder moratorium" to mark the 40th anniversary of the assassination the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., police said. myfoxla.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997429/posts#comment Sun, 6 Apr 2008 02:28:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971634/posts A convicted Nazi war criminal arrived in Italy yesterday to start a life sentence imposed in his absence for the murder and torture of prisoners in the final year of the Second World War. Michael Seifert, 83, a Ukraine-born Canadian citizen dubbed the "Beast of Bolzano", has lived in Canada since 1951. He had been fighting extradition for eight years. The former SS corporal was a guard at a prison camp in Bolzano, northern Italy - used as a transit point for Jews, Italian resistance fighters and others - in 1944 and 1945. An Italian military tribunal convicted him in... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971634/posts#comment Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:59:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962703/posts BRUTAL, unprovoked and pointless murders have always generated public response. Revulsion at the crime draws on the well of primitive responses that include fear, anger and fascination. The person accused can expect little respite from outrage from the moment he or she is identified as a suspect. The worse the crime the less reality there is in the public mind to the legalistic concept of presumption of innocence. For most of the 20th century, newspapers understood sales could be built on extensive reporting of court cases. So most of the 20th century also saw a steady extension of the restrictions... The Scotsman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962703/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:29:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938212/posts Two car bombs struck central Algiers yesterday, killing up to 67 people, destroying United Nations offices and targeting a bus full of law students outside the Supreme Court in a coordinated strike blamed on al-Qaeda. The destruction raised the spectre of a return to the civil war that ravaged the North African country in the 1990s. At least two of the dead were foreigners — a Senegalese and a Dane working for the UN. As rescuers pulled out six people alive from the rubble, the UN said that at least 11 of its employees had died. More than 170 people... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938212/posts#comment Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:33:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1935886/posts WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2007 – Reported murders in a region adjacent to Baghdad on the city’s eastern boundary have dropped to levels not seen in two years, a senior commander in the region said today. Barring any extreme spike in murders this month, Army Col. Wayne W. Grigsby Jr., commander of 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, said he expects the year to finish out with as many as 400 fewer reported murders in the area than reported in 2005. Grigsby said on a conference call that he has been working with two Iraqi police brigades that man six stations across... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1935886/posts#comment Fri, 7 Dec 2007 01:09:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884006/posts Three young people died in Newark, the latest casualties in illegal aliens' war on America. But don't expect even this bloody outrage to end the complacency of the political elite -- or the mainstream media -- as the alien invasion turns our streets into a slaughter house. On August 13, The New York Times, America's newspaper of wretched, covered the Newark murders in its usual, agenda-driven, fashion. In "After Killings, Sense of Unity Surprises Newark," the Times reported, "Political rivals have promised to work together, young men in gangs have signed pledges to put down their weapons, and a mayor... GrasstopsUSA.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884006/posts#comment Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:02:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883491/posts At the Keen Mountain Correctional Center, a gray complex of poured concrete in rural southwest Virginia, Joseph Jesse Dick Jr. sits behind the thick glass pane of a prison interview booth like a specimen in an oversize shadow box. A man of delicate bearing with receding reddish brown hair, a sparse mustache and rectangular prison-issue glasses a bit wide on his long, gaunt face, Dick is here because he pleaded guilty to the 1997 rape and murder of his neighbor Michelle Moore-Bosko — a crime he now says he didn’t commit. And maybe he didn’t. Such proclamations of innocence are... NY Times Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883491/posts#comment Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:44:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880396/posts We have now developed an urban badlands which is national and troubling because of the incredible numbers of people who are murdered or suffer the physical and psychological effects of violent crime. Our presidential candidates are quick on the draw when asked about the war on terror or homeland security, but the American people have not heard a peep from them about the concrete killing fields of our cities. NYDailyNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880396/posts#comment Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:19:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877649/posts The beautiful daughter of two NYU professors was killed inside her mother's university apartment - and left to decompose behind the locked door of her bedroom for several days, police sources said. Cops were searching for Boitumelo McCallum's "jealous" boyfriend, according to police sources who described him as the prime suspect in the grisly murder of the intelligent 20-year-old student. -snip- "Everyone is calling, asking for information about this young woman - except her boyfriend. The sense is that he's not calling because he knows what happened," a source said. NYDailyNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877649/posts#comment Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:37:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851758/posts WASHINGTON, June 17, 2007 – Sectarian murders and executions in Baghdad are declining, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said today on the “Fox News Sunday” television program. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus told host Chris Wallace via satellite link from Baghdad that the U.S. troop surge has helped reduce sectarian murders and executions in Baghdad by one-third between January and April. And despite an uptick in violence in May, the levels of violence are again going down. “The fact is, as we go on the offensive, the enemy is going to respond,” Petraeus said. Last week Petraeus received... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851758/posts#comment Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:36:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849352/posts An alarming statistic splashed across the Internet the other day—violent crime is on the rise in the U.S. for the second straight year. The stats show that homicides increased in eight of the country's largest cities: Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, and San Diego. As a result, the murder rate in cities with populations of more than one million jumped 6.7 percent. Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849352/posts#comment Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:20:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832349/posts The major media has ignored this. Why did the Duke case get major coverage and this not? Channon Christian and her boyfriend Christopher Newsom were out for a date in January 2007 when the couple were carjacked, brutally tortured, and raped before being murdered and dumped. Christopher was bound, stripped, and raped. While he was still alive his penis was cut off, then he was shot, and finally set on fire all while his girlfriend was made to watch. His body was dumped by a set of railroad tracks. Channon was kept alive and gang-raped repeatedly over the next four... WVLT News, Knoxville http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832349/posts#comment Sat, 12 May 2007 03:16:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823112/posts BLACKSBURG, Va., April 18 — Cho Seung-Hui rarely spoke to his own dormitory roommate. His teachers were so disturbed by some of his writing that they referred him to counseling. And when Mr. Cho finally and horrifyingly came to the world’s attention on Monday, he did so after writing a note that bitterly lashed out at his fellow students for what he deemed their moral decay. Mr. Cho’s eruption of violence, in which 32 victims and himself were killed on the Virginia Tech campus here in a rampage of gunfire, was never directly signaled by his actions or words, several... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823112/posts#comment Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:48:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803597/posts Are there a lot of homicides in Los Angeles? Not particularly, although it depends on the point of comparison. To be sure, the raw number of homicides is large, making for a lengthy list on The Homicide Report. But that's mostly because of the size of the population. Big populations make for big statistics; thus L.A. County accounted for 43% of the total number of homicides in California in 2005, and about 6% of all the homicides in the nation. Measured as a rate per capita, though, the number of homicides here is pretty middling. Among major cities, L.A. city... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803597/posts#comment Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:50:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1772641/posts States with the greatest number of guns in the home also have the highest rates of homicide, a new study finds. The study, in the February issue of Social Science and Medicine, looked at gun ownership in all 50 states and then compared the results with the number of people killed over a three-year period. The research, the authors said, “suggests that household firearms are a direct and an indirect source of firearms used to kill Americans both in their homes and on the streets.” The researchers, led by Matthew Miller of the Harvard School of Public Health, drew on... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1772641/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:08:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1755114/posts A 37-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering five young women working as prostitutes whose naked bodies have been found within ten miles of Ipswich, Suffolk, over the last three weeks. The man was arrested at his home in Trimley, near Felixstowe at 7:20 this morning, police said. Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull said the man is to be questioned this afternoon on suspicion of the murder of all five women - Gemma Adams, 25, Anneli Alderton, 24, Paula Clennell, 24, Annette Nicholls, 29, and Tania Nicol, 19. The arrested man is being held at a Suffolk police... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1755114/posts#comment Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:33:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1755063/posts ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A meeting in a chat room has led to a woman bound and strangled and two deaths in Albuquerque. Several hours after they started, police still continue to work this strange case. A case where two people are dead and likely no one will end up behind bars. Medical examiners haul two bodies away from Blake's Cr. in southwest Albuquerque Sunday evening. One man was shot to death and the other was a female was bound, and suffered from suffocation. This is a bizarre case even for law enforcement veteran John Walsh. "This is one I have... KOAT.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1755063/posts#comment Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:52:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1754430/posts After a botched execution that took 34 minutes to end a convicted murderer’s life, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has suspended all death sentences until a commission can review lethal-injection procedures “to ensure they don’t inflict cruel and unusual punishment on their helpless victims.” In a gesture of goodwill, Florida’s leading association of murderers also announced a temporary hold on premeditated and/or serial killings as well as brutal rapes, according to a spokesman, “until we can determine if some of our victims experience discomfort or pain.” The Sunshine State Coalition of Capital Criminals released the statement through its ACLU attorney, pledging... ScrappleFace http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1754430/posts#comment Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:27:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1744661/posts More Americans have been murdered in the United states in the past 44 months than were killed in the entire Vietnam War. The United States has averaged 16,500 murders per year in the last 4 years. This averages to 1,375 murders per month in the U.S.. 1,375 over 44 months since March 2003 is over 60,000. Data: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_01.htmlIs it time to pull out of the U.S.? Are we at Civil War? FBI.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1744661/posts#comment Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:22:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1723316/posts OJ CONFESSES IN TELL-ALL BOOK O.J. Simpson confesses to the bloody slaughter of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson and her pal Ron Goldman – and reveals he had an accomplice at the scene--in a bombshell new book! Eleven years after Simpson was acquitted of the Murder of the Century, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively that O.J. is being paid $3.5 million to describe the brutal knife attack blow-by-blow. “Only that kind of money could have tempted O.J. to finally tell the truth,” a West Coast source familiar with the top-secret book project told The ENQUIRER. In the book, “he describes how... National Enquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1723316/posts#comment Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:27:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1714357/posts Amish ShootingRest in Peace Girls! It sounds like an Effexor Case... But could have been Zoloft: From Ann Blake Tracy: There were MANY clues in this case! This is the list I sent to the reporters covering this case: You have a normal, average guy who is even a good husband and father, who, out of the blue, goes on a shooting rampage. The Natural Family BLOG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1714357/posts#comment Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:52:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1713026/posts By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES- Authorities investigating a double murderer who implied to a jury that he'd killed others have released 30 additional photos he took of men and women. The release of the images comes more than two months after authorities called on the public to help find nearly 50 other women displayed in pictures William Richard Bradford, now on death row, snapped decades ago. County sheriff's detectives said the newly discovered photos were given to them by Los Angeles police officials last month. The images _ some subjects pictured in groups, others alone in form-fitting,... Policeone.com, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1713026/posts#comment Tue, 3 Oct 2006 20:47:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706946/posts DAYTONA BEACH, FL (AP) -- A judge delivered death sentences Thursday to the ringleader and a participant in the bloody beating deaths of six people over an Xbox video game system. Troy Victorino, 29, and Jerone Hunter, 20, were sentenced by Chief Circuit Judge Bill Parsons after their convictions on first-degree murder for the 2004 slaughter of six people in a Deltona house. Neither man showed emotion when the verdicts were read. A jury recommended death for both Hunter and the 6-foot-7, 270-pound Victorino, but the final decision of life in prison without parole or death rested with Parsons. Associated Press. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706946/posts#comment Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:35:46 GMT