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Woman: I Posed for 'Charming' Dating Game Killer
 Woman: I Posed 
 for 'Charming' 
 Dating Game Killer 
'LUCKY TO BE ALIVE'
Apr 22, 2010 4:28 AM CDT

Woman: I Posed for 'Charming' Dating Game Killer

On a NYC rooftop with Rodney Alcala, and lived to tell the tale

(Newser) - Judy Cole posed for a serial killer and lived to tell the tale. Cole and eight other women came forward this week after police released a trove of pictures taken by photographer-turned-serial-killer Rodney Alcala, also known as the Dating Game killer , who was sentenced to death last month. Cole tells...

Girlfriend 'Accidentally' Killed During Sex: Beau

'She liked to be throttled,' he tells cops

(Newser) - An unfaithful lover claims he "accidentally" killed his girlfriend who liked to be throttled during sex, a British court was told yesterday. Beauty therapist Kerry Sneddon urged her beau to apply "a bit of pressure" to her throat during sex and they had done it some 7 times...

Boxing Champ Suspected of Wife's Murder Kills Self

Edwin Valero found hanging in cell, police say

(Newser) - Edwin Valero, the former Venezuelan boxing champion arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife, killed himself in jail today. The 28-year-old, who was found hanging by his clothes from a bar in his cell, died around 1:30am, the AP reports. His wife, 24-year-old Jennifer Viera, was found stabbed yesterday...

Sex Offender Admits Pair of Teen Murders

California's John Gardner will serve 2 life sentences

(Newser) - Confirming suspicions that have swirled since his arrest for the murder of 17-year-old Chelsea King, John Gardner admitted yesterday to killing both King and 14-year-old Amber Dubois almost a year earlier. The San Diego district attorney won't seek the death penalty against Gardner, reports NBC San Diego , who had guided...

Prosecutors Seek Life for Knox

Yank already sentenced to 26 years

(Newser) - Italian prosecutors have filed an appeal seeking to boost American student Amanda Knox's murder sentence to life in prison. Knox, convicted late last year of brutally killing roommate Meredith Kercher, is already serving 26 years. Her family tells ABC News they're "quite disappointed" by the action. They plan to...

Man Who Shot Family Wishes He'd Had More Bullets

Says voice of Allah told him to do it

(Newser) - The man police suspect shot and killed his wife, infant son, and two nieces says the voice of Allah told him to do it, and that he would have continued killing if he hadn’t run out of ammo, a person close to the case tells the AP . Police found...

Inmate Kills Lover During Conjugal Visit

Prison blasted after 'romantic' visit ends in murder

(Newser) - German prison authorities are being slammed after a convicted rapist and murderer killed his lover during an unsupervised 6-hour conjugal visit. Two knives and a monkey wrench were found next to the woman's corpse when guards opened the "love cell" after the couple's time was up, Der Speigel reports....

Kennedy Cousin Denied New Murder Trial

Connecticut Supreme Court rejects Michael Skakel's new argument

(Newser) - The Connecticut supreme court has again upheld Michael Skakel's 2002 murder conviction in the 1975 killing of the Kennedy cousin's neighbor. Skakel, 49, is serving 20 years to life for beating 15-year-old Martha Moxley to death with a golf club. The state's high court also upheld his conviction in 2006,...

Cops Probe Gay Sex Link in Supremacist's Murder

'Something shocking,' says suspect's attorney

(Newser) - South African police are probing a possible gay sex link to the murder of white supremacist land owner Eugene Terreblanche. A teenager has admitted that he killed the farmer with a co-worker after Terreblanche refused to pay them wages. But police said they are probing all possible motivations, including gay...

Survivor Producer Was Having Affair

Victim's sister says Bruce Beresford-Redman's arm is scratched

(Newser) - Monica Beresford-Redman, the Survivor producer's wife who was found dead in Mexico yesterday, had recently learned her husband was having an affair. “I know he was having an affair, and she found out," Monica's sister tells Radar , adding that she believes Bruce Beresford-Redman, who is being questioned by...

Jailhouse Letters Could Hurt Casey Anthony

She knew details about crime scene

(Newser) - Letters written by Casey Anthony to another inmate may become evidence in support of prosecutors' claim that the young mother murdered her 2-year-old daughter. In one, Anthony wrote that Zenaida Gonzalez, the supposed babysitter Anthony said kidnapped Caylee, did not exist. In another, Anthony cites details about the crime that...

Man Pleads No Contest in Killing of His Alleged Molester

Victim, 32, was 'pushed to breaking point'

(Newser) - A week before he was to stand trial for the murder of the former Boy Scout leader he says molested him as a child, a California man has reached a deal to plead no contest to voluntary manslaughter, a charge that will bring anywhere from probation to 10 years in...

Roeder Gets Life Sentence in Abortion Slaying
 Roeder Gets 
 Life Sentence 
 in Abortion Slaying 
no parole chance for 50 years
Apr 1, 2010 5:59 PM CDT

Roeder Gets Life Sentence in Abortion Slaying

Anti-abortion activist murdered Dr. George Tiller

(Newser) - An anti-abortion zealot convicted of murdering a prominent Kansas abortion doctor was sentenced today to life in prison and won't be eligible for parole for 50 years—the maximum allowed by law. Scott Roeder, 52, faced a mandatory life prison term for gunning down Dr. George Tiller in the back...

Driver of Van Used in DC Shooting Is 14

Cops think shooting was payback for arrest of shooter's brother

(Newser) - A feud and a quest for revenge among neighborhood crews may be behind the Washington, DC, drive-by that left four dead Tuesday—as well as other shootings. A 14-year-old boy accused of driving the minivan, and two adult men have been charged with first-degree murder. One of the adult suspects,...

Did Jeffrey Dahmer Murder Adam Walsh?
Did Jeffrey Dahmer Murder Adam Walsh?
investigation
Mar 28, 2010 3:12 PM CDT

Did Jeffrey Dahmer Murder Adam Walsh?

Evidence links serial killer, America's Most Wanted host's son

(Newser) - In 2008, police in Hollywood, Fla., announced they had confirmed the identity of the man who abducted and murdered Adam Walsh: Otis Toole, a longtime suspect in the 1981 crime who had died in 1996. But a Miami Herald investigation suggests a link between the disappearance of the 6-year-old—whose...

Condemned Man Spared During Last Meal

Murder convict Hank Skinner granted last-minute reprieve

(Newser) - A death row inmate in Texas was spared Wednesday just as he was finishing his last meal on earth—chicken, a bacon cheeseburger, fries, catfish, onion rings, and a salad. Hank Skinner, who had been on death row since 1995, was convicted of bludgeoning to death his live-in girlfriend and...

Fugitive Killer Nabbed Running Wedding Chapel

'Blended in with locals' say cops

(Newser) - A convicted killer on the lam for 38 years was finally nabbed this week—running the Cactus Rose wedding chapel in Arizona. Frank Dryman, who murdered a driver who picked him up hitchhiking on a snowy Montana road in 1951, skipped out on parole decades ago. He was finally tracked...

Duo Busted in Murder of 5 Teens Missing 32 Years

Newark police make breakthrough in 'Clinton Avenue 5' case

(Newser) - Jersey police have busted 2 men in a missing-persons case that baffled investigators for decades. The pair have been charged with murder and arson in the deaths of 5 teenage boys who vanished from a Newark street in 1978, AP reports. The arrests are a "bittersweet victory," said...

Kitties Fight Crime With DNA
 Kitties Fight Crime With DNA 
Mar 22, 2010 4:50 PM CDT

Kitties Fight Crime With DNA

Ubiquitous cat hair a valuable forensic tool

(Newser) - Dog is man's best friend, but cats can fight crime. Thanks to their tendency to groom and shed, household cats carpet a home—and anyone who sets foot in it—with DNA evidence. Kitty forensics have already led to one murder conviction after hair from a victim's cat was found...

Bangladesh Man Beheaded to Redden Bricks

Fortune teller calls for human sacrifice

(Newser) - A Bangladeshi man was beheaded in a bizarre ritual to improve a local brick business. When owners became concerned that bricks in a northern village were losing their sought-after reddish hue, a fortune teller encouraged a human sacrifice. Four laborers, following owners' orders, killed a 26-year-old fellow worker and baked...

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