Free Republic

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:

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?

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...

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.

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,...

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.

In the hour before he was killed, on Sunday, Sept. 3, Dr. Wayne S. Fenton, a prominent schizophrenia specialist, was helping his wife clear the gutters of their suburban Washington house. He was steadying the ladder, asking her to please stop showering debris on his clean shirt; he had just made an appointment to see a patient and wanted to look presentable. She said she would be happy to go along, to help control the patient. It was a running joke between them. For in this part of the country, Dr. Fenton was the therapist of last resort, the one...

A video posted on YouTube, excerpts a video of an assault on a pro-life demonstrator in British Columbia on April 10, 2006 (full video at sick pro-abortion attack on pro-life protestor. The producer of the video, then states that "pro-life people make it seem as if pro-choice (or in their terms, 'pro-abortion') people are violent and ruthless." In response to this, the producer posts a series of "facts" compiled by the National Abortion Federation, including "482 cases of stalking, 380 death threats, 152 assaults, 173 cases of arson, 17 attempted murders, and 7 murders." The video producer then concludes, "So,...

FREDONIA, N.Y., Sept. 3 — Three days after he was ambushed during a hunt for a notorious fugitive, a New York State trooper died on Sunday from a bullet wound despite efforts to save his life by amputating his leg. The trooper, Joseph Longobardo, 32, of Middle Grove in upstate New York, became the first fatality connected to the search for Ralph Phillips in the five months that he has been on the run. Mr. Phillips — who is widely known by his nickname, Bucky — also is accused of shooting two other troopers, including one who remained in a...

March 4, 2002 Side by Side in Life, and Now, in Death By JOYCE WADLER The coffins of three Albanian- American brothers who went together to Kosovo to fight, and who insisted, in battle and out, that they remain together, lay side by side yesterday in a funeral home in the Bronx. There could be no viewing, for the brothers had been killed three years ago and their bodies found only last year, in a mass grave. So instead, on each coffin there was a photo: Ylli, 24, Agron, 23, and Mehmet Bytyqi, 21, of Hampton Bays, on Long Island. ...

MIMS, Fla. (AP) -- Closing the file on a decades-old case, investigators on Wednesday said four long-dead Ku Klux Klan members were behind a house bombing that killed two black civil rights activists in 1951. Harry T. and Harriette Moore died after the explosion under their bed on Christmas Day, their 25th wedding anniversary. Attorney General Charlie Crist said Wednesday investigators had enough circumstantial evidence to secure a grand jury indictment had the men still been alive. Several previous investigations failed to produce criminal charges, including one nearly 30 years ago that an investigator said stopped just short of an...

Iraqi chillren wave hello to U.S. troops during a recent patrol. BAGHDAD -- Multi-National Force–Iraq on Sunday condemned recent attacks by terrorists and death squads against innocent Iraqi children and civilians at soccer fields in Hadhra and in the Amil district of Baghdad. In the statement, MNF-I officials said: “The Multi National Force – Iraq condemns the recent attacks by terrorists and death squads against the innocent Iraqi children and civilians at soccer fields in Hadhra and in the Amil district of Baghdad. We express our heartfelt condolences to the families and tribes who lost loved ones in these...

A random, violent crime wave is sweeping the most urban parts of the Bay Area, producing 150 killings in Oakland, San Francisco and Richmond and inspiring controversial initiatives to help stem the murderous tide. In Oakland, where recent victims have included innocent grandmothers and teenagers, murders are nearly on pace to shatter a 13-year record. This summer, killings are happening on average, every three days. In San Francisco, a man's Wednesday evening roll in his wheelchair ended in his death when a stray bullet pierced his heart. His fiancee could not push him fast enough to elude the wild shot...

IS IT FINALLY TIME to declare a state of emergency in the city of Philadelphia - including calling in the National Guard? The bloody evidence is mounting that yes, it finally might be time. Yesterday, within 21 minutes - less time than it would take to watch your average sitcom - three people were shot dead in the streets of Philadelphia, including a cabbie who wanted nothing more than to fill his tank with gas. This, after a weekend of carnage that included at least six homicides. We are well past matching last year's killing numbers at this point. How...

A black man who confessed to fatally knifing a White Plains woman because she was white was convicted yesterday of murder as a hate crime. A Westchester jury took just 4 1/2 - including 45 minutes spent re-watching his videotaped confession - to find Phillip Grant guilty of murder and possession of a weapon. "As long as she had blond hair and blue eyes, she had to die," Grant said on the video. Grant, 44, had admitted killing Concetta Russo-Carriero, 56, in the parking garage of the Galleria shopping mall, a block from the courthouse in downtown White Plains. He...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An al-Qaida-linked group claims it killed three U.S. soldiers last month and mutilated two of their bodies to avenge the rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman by troops of the same unit, an institute which monitors extremists Web sites said Tuesday. The Mujahedeen Shura Council made the claim in a 4:39 minute video posted on the Internet which included the mutilated bodies of two of the soldiers attacked June 19 near Youssifiyah southwest of Baghdad, according to a statement by the SITE Institute. The institute released still pictures from the video showing two of the American dead,...

The oldest killer was 88; he murdered his wife. The youngest was 9; she stabbed her friend. The women were more than twice as likely as men to murder a current spouse or lover. But once the romance was over, only the men killed their exes. The deadliest day was on July 10, 2004, when eight people died in separate homicides. Five people eliminated a boss; 10 others murdered co-workers. Males who killed favored firearms, while women and girls chose knives as often as guns. More homicides occurred in Brooklyn than in any other borough. More happened on Saturday. And...

An Austrian woman who stuffed two of her babies in a freezer and entombed two others in concrete has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Shia fury as Americans are blamed for murders at mosque By Oliver Poole, in Baghdad (Filed: 28/03/2006) The governor of Baghdad have severed all local government relations with the American military as outrage spread over claims that American troops attacked a Shia mosque, killing 20 worshippers and the 80-year-old imam. The bodies were laid out in a community hall in east Baghdad and throughout the day mourners shouted abuse at the United States, despite American insistence that its troops were not responsible. Bodies lie on stretchers in a morgue in Baghdad Further condemnation was expressed by a spokesman for the...

DUBLIN, Ireland --Sinn Fein accused the Bush administration Monday of needlessly harassing officials of the IRA-linked party at airports in the United States, where party leader Gerry Adams was detained last week because he is on the U.S. "watch list." Adams and his longtime aide, Richard McAuley, were delayed Friday from traveling to Buffalo, N.Y., for a meeting just hours after both Sinn Fein officials were guests of President Bush in the White House for St. Patrick's Day. They missed the flight -- and still were missing two suitcases when they returned Monday to Ireland. "This is a nonsensical position...

An Alaska high school violated a student's free speech rights by suspending him after he unfurled a banner reading "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" across the street from the school, a federal court ruled on Friday. Joseph Frederick, a student at Juneau-Douglas High School in Alaska, displayed the banner -- which refers to smoking marijuana -- in January 2002 to try to get on television as the Olympic torch relay was passing the school. Principal Deborah Morse seized the banner and suspended the 18-year-old for 10 days, saying he had undermined the school's educational mission and anti-drug stance. Friday's ruling by...

Jatin M. Patel, long the Windsor Police Department's leading suspect in the 1996 murders of his mother and sister in his parents' Massow Lane home, has lost a civil-rights lawsuit against the police chief and the lead detective in the case. Patel, 45, has failed to appeal the decision, made by Judge Stefan R. Underhill in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport on Sept. 16, and the deadline for an appeal has passed. As a result, Underhill's decision in favor of Windsor Police Chief Kevin Searles and Detective Debra Swanson is final. Patel alleged in the lawsuit, filed in 1999, that...

When Nikita Khrushchev died in 1971, I was still a girl, but I remember him well. We used to visit him on the weekends on his farm at Petrovo Dalnee, about 30 miles outside of Moscow. I would work with him among the tomatoes or beehives. Although to me he was my kindly old great-grandfather, my family assured me that he was a great man, a world leader, a liberator -- someone I should be proud of.

A body was found Monday in an abandoned house in Montgomery County. Police said it was there quite some time. The woman was likely murdered. Police believe she was a homeless woman who was sought by an acquaintance. “Right now we’re waiting, first of all, to find out from the medical examiner what (was the) cause of death,” said Clarksville Police Officer Andy Bechtold. This marks the fourth body found since last month, though police believe there is no connection. Clarksville police are still investigating the deaths of two women whose bodies were found two weeks apart near or in...

MILWAUKEE — One woman here killed a friend after they argued over a brown silk dress. A man killed a neighbor whose 10-year-old son had mistakenly used his dish soap. Two men argued over a cellphone, and pulling out their guns, the police say, killed a 13-year-old girl in the crossfire. While violent crime has been at historic lows nationwide and in cities like New York, Miami and Los Angeles, it is rising sharply here and in many other places across the country. And while such crime in the 1990's was characterized by battles over gangs and drug turf, the...

Death to America - More Than Just a Slogan ! It has become quite fashionable-in leftist, copperhead,and pro-Islamic circles-to claim the United States has attacked Islamic countries without justification or reason. History,however, tells a very different story ! Before 9/11/01, there were at least 12 attacks by Islamists : all carried out on US soil. Daniel Pipes lists the following: July 1980: an Iranian dissident killed in the Washington, D.C. area. August 1983: a leader of the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam killed in Canton, Mich. August 1984: three Indians killed in a suburb of Tacoma, Wash. September 1986: a doctor...

Twins' mom: 'He loved them, they loved him'TOMMY TOMLINSONttomlinson@charlotteobserver.comKim Crespi called Thursday morning. She wanted to talk. She spoke from California, where she was making arrangements to bury her twins today. Tessara and Samantha, 5 years old, were stabbed to death last Friday at their home in southeast Mecklenburg. David Crespi -- Kim's husband, the girls' father -- is charged with murder. Kim Crespi said she doesn't know why her husband would have killed the girls, or what could have triggered the attack. But she said she believes, based on what police told her after interviewing her husband, that he...

The city of Houston is appealing for emergency funding to help to fight a huge crime wave following the arrival of refugees from hurricane-hit New Orleans. The issue is highly sensitive as the majority of the hurricane's victims were drawn from New Orleans's black underclass.

The U.S. Border Patrol could add up to 10,000 agents in the next five years. The training this sometimes-controversial agency requires can seem brutal, and the job can be deadly. So who would sign up for work like this? ARTESIA, N.M. - On Independence Day 2004, Pedro Infante was driving through Mosul, Iraq, manning a 50-caliber gun atop a cargo truck, when an explosion hurled shrapnel into his helmet. A year later, Infante is here in another desert, training for another dangerous and highly politicized job: working as a Border Patrol agent in Southern Arizona, the nation's hot spot for...

This year has been one of the worst for the murder of women in Mexico's Ciudad Juarez since a wave of killings started there in 1993, an official says. Mexico's human rights ombudsman, Jose Luis Soberanes, said that 28 women had been murdered so far in 2005. He called for a co-ordinated and tough effort by all levels of government to prevent more deaths in the city. More than 300 women have been murdered in Ciudad Juarez. There is no generally accepted motive for the killings...

Akim Jabbie still seems shaken when he talks about the phone call he received a few days after his 33-year-old son, Mohamed Jabbie, was shot to death at his Clackamas County apartment on Sept. 24, 2004. According to Akim Jabbie, a friend in Portland's black community called to say that everyone knew who killed his son. "He said it was Michael Washington," Jabbie said. Jabbie was not surprised to hear the name. His son had been assaulted by Washington on July 4, 2004. The day before Mohamed Jabbie was killed, he had testified against Washington before a Multnomah County grand...

"First out of the gate were the Holy Men of the Cult of Global Warming, who couldn’t wait for the first dead to wash up before they declared the Hurricane irrefutable proof of Global Warming and a direct responsibility of George W. Bush. Next up were the racial ambulance chasers, always looking for another grievous injury to add to their political caseload. Looking at the Sea of Black faces abandoned without transportation, food, water or protection, they somehow managed to look past the City’s Black Mayor, Black Police Chief, Black City Council members and all the other Black office holders...