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Murdered Student Posted Troubling Last Tweet

'Should've known,' wrote Kogut during beau's visit

(Newser) - A New York college freshman was thrilled her boyfriend was visiting last weekend—and then ominously disappointed shortly before police say she was brutally murdered by him in her dorm room. "Ahhh see you sooon !! :)" tweeted 18-year-old Alexandra Kogut to boyfriend Clayton Whittemore, reports the Utica Post-Dispatch. But...

Supreme Court Refuses Body Scanner Case
 Supreme Court 
 Refuses Body 
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Oct 1, 2012 12:17 PM CDT

Supreme Court Refuses Body Scanner Case

A rundown of cases the court refused to hear as new session open

(Newser) - The new Supreme Court term, which begins today, won't include a review of TSA body scanners: Justices have refused to take on a man's appeal in a case against the machines, which was also dismissed by federal courts in Florida and Washington, the AP reports. Nor will justices...

Beau Charged in NY Frosh's Dormitory Murder

Clayton Whittemore was nabbed heading out of town

(Newser) - The boyfriend of an upstate New York college freshman found beaten to death in her dorm room has been charged with her murder. Clayton Whittemore, 21, was nabbed at a gas station some 100 miles away from the College at Brockport where Alexandra Kogut's body was discovered, reports the...

DC Sniper: &#39;I Was a Ghoul&#39;
 DC Sniper: 'I Was a Ghoul' 
Sep 30, 2012 11:27 AM CDT

DC Sniper: 'I Was a Ghoul'

Lee Boyd Malvo speaks 10 years after rampage that paralyzed DC

(Newser) - It's been a decade since Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad terrorized the nation's capital, randomly shooting 13 people in a bloody three-week rampage that killed 10. The Washington Post sits down with Malvo, the surviving half of the so-called DC Sniper, and finds a pensive 27-year-old...

Chef Who Cooked Wife Guilty of Murder

David Viens admitted that he took desperate steps to hide body

(Newser) - A chef who told police he boiled his wife's body for four days to hide evidence of her death was convicted today of second-degree murder. David Viens showed no reaction as the verdict was read, while the sister of his victim burst out sobbing. In a recorded interrogation presented...

Woman Suspected of Killing 5 Newborns

German woman says she was afraid husband would leave

(Newser) - A German woman charged with killing five of her newborn babies says she was afraid her husband—who didn't want any more kids—would leave her. The 28-year-old and her husband have two living children, 8 and 10, and the husband was unaware of the subsequent births. She has...

China Cops: Man With Ax Kills 3 Kids at Day Care

Another 13 are injured in assault

(Newser) - A man with an ax attacked children at a day-care center in southwestern China today, killing three and injuring 13 others. The official Xinhua News Agency said the man in Guangxi province burst into the center this afternoon and attacked the children. A police officer in Pingnan county says the...

Chef 'Slow Cooked' Wife's Body for Days: Cops

Dawn Viens' body was never found

(Newser) - Investigators say a southern California chef has confessed he "slow cooked" his wife's body for days in 2009, then disposed of the remains. "For some reason I just got violent," David Viens, a chef who ran a restaurant in Lomita, told cops. He said he bound...

Fatal Vision Convict Heads to Court to Try to Clear Name

Jeffrey MacDonald hopes DNA exonerates him in 1970 family slayings

(Newser) - Jeffrey MacDonald, a clean-cut Green Beret and doctor convicted of killing of his pregnant wife and their two daughters, is getting another chance at trying to prove his innocence—more than four decades after the slayings terrified a nation gripped by his tales of Charles Manson-like hippies doped up on...

Alps Massacre Victim Saw Only One Killer

7-year-old girl could be crucial witness

(Newser) - A clue has emerged in the brutal murder of three British family members as they vacationed in the French Alps last week. One of the survivors, a 7-year-old girl, reveals to police she saw only one killer, reports Sky News . Zainab al-Hilli, the daughter and granddaughter of the victims, could...

Woman Wants to Marry Daughter's Suspected Killer

Says she's trying to find out what happened to 'Baby Kate' Phillips

(Newser) - Four-month-old "Baby Kate" Phillips vanished in June 2011 , and her disappearance remains the subject of a homicide investigation. Now her mother is planning to marry the man suspected of killing her. The accused, Sean Phillips, is also Baby Kate's father. Ariel Courtland says she is marrying Phillips not...

Knox Beau: We Were Odd, But Innocent

Pair made out while cops processed death scene, says Raffaele Sollecito

(Newser) - Amanda Knox's former boyfriend admits they were a crazy couple who exhibited bizarre behavior after Knox's roommate was killed, but that doesn't make them murderers. The two were charged with killing Meredith Kercher in Knox's Italian apartment in 2007 during what cops described as a drug-fueled...

Behind Disney Town's First Murder, a Dark Past

Matteo Patrick Giovanditto accused of a history of child sex abuse

(Newser) - Celebration, Florida—a subdivision created by Disney in the 1990s— saw its first murder over Thanksgiving 2010. In an extensive Daily Beast article, Barbara Spindel and Maria Elena Fernandez report on the victim, Matteo Patrick Giovanditto, and reveal troubling information about his past. David-Israel Zenon Murillo, the 30-year-old transient accused...

Murder of Lawman, 82, May Be Decade-Old Vendetta

Herbert Proffitt arrested suspect Charles Hammer, 81, years ago

(Newser) - Police in a small Kentucky town are investigating whether a slow-burning desire for revenge that began with an arrest a decade ago was behind the murder of a career lawman last month. Herbert Proffitt, 82, was gunned down in his driveway while he went to fetch the mail. Charles Hammer,...

Bomb Squad at Home of Alps Murder Victim

Neighbors around Saad al-Hilli's home evacuated

(Newser) - Neighbors of Saad al-Hilli , who was killed along with his wife and mother-in-law in the French Alps last week, were evacuated today as an Army bomb squad descended on the $1.6 million home in England, Reuters reports. Police cordoned off a wider area around the house and released a...

France Murder Victim Clashed With 'Control Freak' Brother

Bludgeoned daughter emerges from coma

(Newser) - A new detail in this week's multiple murder in the French Alps: Saad al-Hilli, who was gunned down with his wife and mother, had written a letter calling his brother a "control freak" who should be wiped "out of my life." Saad and brother Zaid clashed...

French Murder Victims Each Shot Twice in the Head

Husband worked on secret defense contract

(Newser) - A multiple murder in France is looking more like a planned killing than a robbery gone wrong—because each of the four victims received two bullets to the head among their other gunshot wounds, the Guardian reports. "I cannot say if the killer or killers were professional; all...

Did Family Feud Lead to Grisly Alps Massacre?

Brother eyed, but he's already gone to police to attest to his innocence

(Newser) - The plot is thickening around the horrific massacre of a British family in the French Alps. Police say the killings bear the hallmark of a professional assassination—and they are questioning the brother of one of the victims. "It seems that there was a dispute between the two brothers...

Drew Peterson Guilty in 3rd Wife's Murder

Ex-cop killed Kathleen Savio: jury

(Newser) - After five years of headlines, the Drew Peterson murder case has come to a verdict: The former Chicago-area police officer is guilty of killing Kathleen Savio, his third wife, the jury says. His maximum sentence would be 60 years. It's a victory for a prosecution that based its arguments...

Girl Hid for 8 Hours Under Bodies in Alps Killing Spree

At least 4 shot to death in a forest: officials

(Newser) - A horrific story out of the French Alps: Four adults were found shot to death in or near a BMW yesterday, and beneath the legs of a dead woman cowered a 4-year-old, terrified but alive. She apparently spent some eight hours tucked beneath the body of her mother and next...

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