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	Man pleads innocent in '64 civil rights slayings - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
		Jerry G. Killen, who identified himself as the suspect’s brother, said he wasn’t aware of the arrest but said he thought it was “pitiful.” He said his brother never mentioned the 1964 slayings: “He won’t talk about it.
		Attorney General Jim Hood reopened an investigation of the slayings and just last month, an anonymous donor posted a $100,000 reward for information leading to murder charges.
		But Stan Dearman, the former editor and publisher of the weekly newspaper the Neshoba Democrat, cheered the decision as he stood in the halls of the courthouse when the grand jury met.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6796865 (1156 words)

	CNN.com - Prosecutors seek death for New Year slayings - Aug 18, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Along with those killings, Gray also confessed to the slayings of his wife and a second Richmond family, prosecutors said.
		Gray had pleaded not guilty to the slayings, but his attorneys acknowledged he had confessed.
		Dandridge, 29, is scheduled to go on trial September 18 on capital murder charges in the January 6 killings of a couple and their daughter.
	www.cnn.com /2006/LAW/08/18/richmond.slayings.ap/index.html (666 words)

	Newsvine - Army Recommends Death in Iraq Slayings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		PHOENIX — An Army investigator has recommended that four soldiers accused of murder in a raid in Iraq should face the death penalty if convicted, according to a report obtained Saturday by The Associated Press.
		concluded that the slayings were premeditated and warranted the death sentence based on evidence he heard at an August hearing.
		Clagett, Girouard and Hunsaker also are accused of threatening to kill another soldier who witnessed the slayings.
	www.newsvine.com /_news/2006/09/02/348592-army-recommends-death-in-iraq-slayings (429 words)

	GIs may have planned Iraq rape, slayings - Boston.com
		Investigators believe American soldiers spent nearly a week plotting an attack in which they raped an Iraqi woman, then killed her and her family in an insurgent-ridden area south of Baghdad, a U.S. military official said Saturday.
		James D. Thurman, commander of U.S. forces in the Baghdad area, had ordered a criminal investigation into the alleged slaying of a family of four.
		Those troops under investigation are from the same platoon as two soldiers kidnapped and killed south of Baghdad this month, another official said Friday.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/07/01/gis_may_have_planned_iraq_rape_slayings (960 words)

	USATODAY.com - Kansas City cops: Lone killer responsible for six slayings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police said Monday they believe a single killer was responsible for the slayings of six people whose bodies were found within a blighted 18-block area frequented by drug addicts and prostitutes.
		Authorities previously had said they thought the killings were related, though they had not theorized the slayings were the work of one person.
		Police were working with the FBI to develop a profile of the killer.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-09-07-missouri-slayings_x.htm (321 words)

	USATODAY.com - Klansman pleads innocent to 1964 slayings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Killen's arrest followed a grand jury session Thursday that apparently included testimony from individuals believed to have knowledge of the slayings.
		Jerry Killen, who identified himself as the suspect's brother, said he wasn't aware of the arrest but said he thought it was "pitiful." He said his brother never mentioned the 1964 slayings: "He won't talk about it.
		But until recently there has been little progress in building murder cases against anyone involved in the slayings — though the case has remained very much in the public eye.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-01-06-civil-rights-killings_x.htm (1059 words)

	'Matrix' influence examined in slayings
		Beckman, a licensed social worker who has worked in University Hospital's psychiatric emergency room, was discussing a phenomenon that has gained international media attention: slaying suspects reportedly caught up in the movie's alternate reality.
		The science-fiction thriller, whose sequel is playing in theaters, depicts a future where computers rule and most people are unaware that they exist in a computer-generated virtual world.
		Ansley, 37, was recently found not guilty by reason of insanity in the July 27 slaying of Sherry Lee Corbett.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/06/03/loc_matrix03.html (886 words)

	CNN.com - Man indicted in '96 slayings of hikers in Virginia - April 10, 2002
		Rice is serving an 11-year sentence in federal prison in Petersburg, Virginia, for attempting to abduct and kill a female bicyclist in the same park in 1997.
		Both fathers said they support the death penalty for Rice if he is found guilty in the slayings.
		A prosecutor involved in the case said Rice, who is in his middle 30s, last worked as a computer programmer for a now-defunct company in Maryland.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/04/10/shenandoah.killings/index.html (639 words)

	State: Slayings refocus debate on probation
		DELAND - Eight months before Troy Victorino was charged in the brutal slayings of six people in Deltona, a state probation officer warned a judge he was dangerous.
		Although DOC documents say judges can revoke probation for criminals who commit new offenses, even when they are not convicted of those new crimes, it is rare for them to do so.
		The Deltona slayings are reviving Florida lawmakers' interest in reforming the state's probation system and causing some to regret failing to take action this year.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/08/11/State/Slayings_refocus_deba.shtml (1013 words)

	Newsvine - Man in Video Game Slayings Gets Life
		Troy Victorino holds his forehead as the final closing statements are read in the sentencing phase of his trial in St. Augustine, Fla., Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006.
		Two of the three men convicted in the 2004 baseball bat slayings of six people in Deltona over an Xbox video game system should receive death, while a third man should be sentenced to life in prison, a jury recommended Tuesday.
		Prosecutors said Victorino was angry with victim Erin Belanger, 22, who had him evicted when she found him living in her grandmother's home in Deltona.
	www.newsvine.com /_news/2006/08/01/308964-man-in-video-game-slayings-gets-life (671 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Colorado inmate reportedly claims 47 killings, including in Calif
		Robert Charles Browne, 53, told authorities the slayings occurred from 1970 until his arrest in 1995 in the death of 13-year-old girl in Colorado, the Sheriff's Department said in a news release.
		Browne said he dismembered one victim in a motel room bathtub so he would not be seen carrying the body from the room, then put the parts in a suitcase and dumped it beside a road, Hess said.
		Hess said Browne discussed the slayings in sporadic meetings and an exchange of letters he had with Browne over four years.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20060727-1325-multipleslayings.html (464 words)

	Authorities seek clues in Henry County slayings
		(Kamloops, British Columbia-AP) -- American authorities investigating the slaying of a Virginia couple and their young daughter are in Canada this week, searching for clues about a mystery woman who might be able to shed light on the case.
		Two Henry County sheriff's officers visited an airstrip in British Columbia in their investigation of the slayings of Michael and Mary Short and the kidnapping and slaying of their nine-year-old daughter Jennifer.
		Police are asking the public's help in locating the woman, who is described as white, slim with red or reddish-blonde hair, in her late 40s or early 50s.
	www.fredericksburg.com /News/FLS/2003/122003/12102003/1071077188 (264 words)

	:: TUCSON SLAYINGS 2000 ::
		Forty-four percent of Pima County's 95 homicides in 1995 occurred in Tucson's southern area and the city of South Tucson, compared with 27 percent in 2000.
		Now, slaying scenes dot the metropolitan region, from Oro Valley to Sam Hughes to San Xavier.
		One explanation for the shift: Anti-gang and other efforts are reducing violence on the South Side while domestic violence - a regionwide problem - remained a major category and showed a 6 percent increase.
	www.azstarnet.com /murder2000 (1695 words)

	CNN.com - Suspect in family slayings surrenders - Jun 4, 2006
		INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (CNN) -- The man police consider the prime suspect in the slayings of seven family members surrendered to police at a fast-food restaurant Saturday evening, a police source said.
		An officer told him they were punishable by death, Foley said, explaining that though it's up to prosecutors, there is "a high likelihood it's going to be a death penalty case."
		On Friday, police arrested the man suspected to be an accomplice in the slayings, 30-year-old James Stewart, after a traffic stop and charged him with marijuana possession.
	www.cnn.com /2006/US/06/03/indianapolis.killings (629 words)

	Exam sought for suspect in slayings at Captain D's - Saturday, 11/01/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		If a court finds LaTonya Taylor, 26, to be mentally retarded, she will not be eligible for the death penalty, which the state is seeking.
		The evaluation also will look at whether Taylor's mental condition prevented her from understanding what she was doing when she waived her Miranda rights to remain silent and not incriminate herself, a motion filed Oct. 16 by Rutherford County Assistant District Attorney J. Paul Newman said.
		A mental competency hearing that had been scheduled for yesterday for Percy Lee Palmer, who also is charged in the slayings of Scott Myers, Bryan Speight and William Troy Snell, was postponed until Nov. 17.
	www.tennessean.com /local/archives/03/10/41740383.shtml?Element_ID=41740383 (382 words)

	Demopolis Live - Trial delayed in slayings of Fayette officers, dispatcher
		I heard something about this today but was unable to post it because of who I got my info from.
		An outright blatant crime as this one deserves NO trial, but yet everyones tax money will pay for his boarding, food, clothing and entertainment while sitting in jail or prison while these officers families are the ones left wondering how to take care of the own well-being.
		The families must be devestated at the delays, but I would rather the prosecuter have all his ducks in row than not in a case like this.
	www.demopolislive.com /forums/printthread.php?t=2113 (839 words)

	Mexico to investigate slayings of 90 women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jose Luis Vasconcelos, the federal prosecutor in charge of organized crime, said his office is starting to examine 14 cases in which the informant, who is also a suspect in several cases, claimed to have seen women's bodies that had been "hollowed out" and had their organs removed.
		Officials in the border state of Chihuahua, where Juarez is located, have long been reluctant to give up or share jurisdiction, despite mounting allegations of planted evidence, coverups, framing of suspects and a continuing string of gruesome slayings.
		The federal government's decision to enter the case is seen by victims' families and human rights activists as crucial to solving a case that has been a blight on the image of the U.S.-Mexico border area and the subject of books, documentaries and women's rights marches.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/11/MN259036.DTL (799 words)

	CNN.com - Clique leader admits role in slayings - Feb. 27, 2003
		The leader of a high school clique who allegedly ordered the slayings of a classmate and his grandparents to test the loyalty of members pleaded guilty to reduced charges.
		He was out of the country when Isaac Robin-McCain Grimes, then 15, and Jonathan Matheny, then 17, allegedly carried out the slayings, but prosecutors say the teens were acting under Sue's orders.
		Glen Urban, 18, pleaded guilty to accessory to murder for destroying weapons used in the slayings.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/US/Central/02/27/clique.slayings.ap (313 words)

	WJLA - Groups Pledge Peace After N.J. Slayings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		JERSEY CITY, N.J. Declaring an end to "a period of agony in our community," Muslim, Christian and other religious leaders signed a pledge to strengthen interfaith ties in the aftermath of the slaying of an Egyptian Christian family.
		Representatives of Muslim, Coptic Christian, Roman Catholic, Hindu, Baha'i, Episcopal and Lutheran congregations met at City Hall on Wednesday to sign an oversized copy of a pledge not to let the divisions that followed the slayings happen again.
		The Coptic Christian family, Hossam Armanious, 47; his wife, Amal Garas, 37; and their children, Sylvia, 15, and Monica, 8, were found slain in their home Jan. 14.
	www.wjla.com /headlines/0405/222584.html (447 words)

	NBC5.com - News - Image Gallery: Lefkow Family Slayings
		Police confirmed that all signs pointed toward Bart Ross as being inside the Lefkow home on the day of the killings, but were not ready to pin the crimes on him.
		A special task force headed by the Chicago Police Department, the FBI and the U.S. Marshall's Service is working 24 hours a day in an attempt to solve the slayings of Michael Lefkow and Donna Humphrey.
		Immediately following the slayings, suspicion was cast on various hate groups.
	www.nbc5.com /news/4250264/detail.html (397 words)

	CNN.com - 'Trained terrorists' behind Pakistan church slayings - October 28, 2001
		CNN.com - 'Trained terrorists' behind Pakistan church slayings - October 28, 2001
		BAHAWALPUR, Pakistan (CNN) -- Condemning Sunday's massacre of 16 Christian worshippers, Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf blamed "trained terrorists" for the slaying and vowed justice would be served.
		At least five others were critically injured in the attack when a group of bearded men on motorcycles opened fire on a morning church service in Bahawalpur in eastern Pakistan, officials said.
	www.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/10/28/pak.christian.shooting/index.html (604 words)

	The Morning Journal - Hollywood celebrities join protest of Juarez slayings
		CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- Actresses Jane Fonda and Sally Field marched through this gritty Mexican border city yesterday urging authorities to investigate the brutal slayings of hundreds of young women and girls.
		Mexican authorities say 258 women have been killed over the past decade in Ciudad Juarez, a city of some 1.3 million people.
		Fox also has appointed human rights lawyer Guadeloupe Morfin to head a commission coordinating the efforts of agencies investigating the slayings.
	www.morningjournal.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1699&dept_id=46376&newsid=10971908&PAG=461&rfi=9 (420 words)

	WJLA - Atlanta Slayings Suspect Surrenders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		They watched as a fl sport utility vehicle drove away, escorted by multiple police cars with lights flashing and sirens wailing.
		Prosecutors said Nichols could appear in federal court as early as Monday to face a charge of possession of a firearm by a person under indictment, the charge authorities are using to keep him in custody while they investigate the slayings.
		The killings came less than two weeks after a Chicago federal judge's husband and mother were slain in their home, setting off a fresh round of worries about the safety of judges and others involved in the criminal justice system.
	www.wjla.com /headlines/0305/212886.html (1008 words)

	USATODAY.com - Maine bed and breakfast slayings a shock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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		Apple Tree Realty via AP Maine bed and breakfast slayings a shock
		NEWRY, Maine (AP) — Julie Bullard and her daughter, Selby, tried to put tragedy behind them when they moved from California to Maine to run a bed and breakfast here.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2006-09-06-maine-slayings_x.htm?csp=34 (779 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Gallaudet Slayings
		The Gallaudet University campus continues to cope with the slayings of two students and ensuing arrests.
		Obstruction Alleged in Gallaudet Slayings: Mesa Accused of Asking Supporters to Destroy Evidence, Lie
		Clues Missed In 1st Slaying At Gallaudet: Missteps Took D.C. Police Further From Defendant
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/metro/specials/gallaudet (266 words)

	Army Recommends Death in Iraq Slayings : Land Forces : Defense News Air Force Army Navy News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Army Recommends Death in Iraq Slayings : Land Forces : Defense News Air Force Army Navy News
		Iran should be allowed to have civilian nulcear program
		An Army investigator has recommended that four Soldiers accused of murder in a raid in Iraq should face the death penalty if convicted, according to a report obtained Saturday by The Associated Press.
	www.defencetalk.com /news/publish/Army_Recommends_Death_in_Iraq_Slayings_20060905.php (753 words)

	USATODAY.com - Still no suspects in five Ga. slayings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		USATODAY.com - Still no suspects in five Ga. slayings
		MOULTRIE, Ga. (AP) — Investigators searched for clues Tuesday in the execution-style slaying of five people, including a 3-year-old boy, but police said they had no suspects.
		Authorities said the bodies were discovered by four older children who lived at the house when they returned from school Monday.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-11-09-georgia-slayings_x.htm?csp=36 (284 words)

	Army recommends death in Iraq slayings (AP) \| The News is NowPublic.com
		Army recommends death in Iraq slayings (AP)
		Web " /> Iraq should face the death penalty if convicted, according to a report obtained Saturday by The Associated Press.
		Populux has been a NowPublic contributor since October 2005
	www.nowpublic.com /army_recommends_death_in_iraq_slayings_ap (166 words)

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