Misc. cases I

[Lady Cop]

i posted somewhere in here in here about this case.



Jordan Brown, now 14, was found delinquent by Judge John Hodge in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania - the juvenile court equivalent of a guilty verdict. He had been accused of killing his father's girlfriend and her unborn son before leaving for school. The verdict means Brown could remain in juvenile court custody until he's 21.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...st-11.html

[Lady Cop]

A 15-year-old girl was brutally stabbed to death and her body dumped in a creek about one mile from her home.

Chelsea Johnson, from Fairfield, Ohio, was last seen leaving her home on Sunday morning to go to a local store.

Her body was found on Monday evening around 6pm by a passerby who made a frantic call to police.

The Butler County Coroner's Office performed an autopsy on Tuesday and ruled her death a homicide by stabbing.

The hunt is now on for her murderer but police are releasing few details on the case and will not say if it was a random attack or if the teen knew her killer, according to WCPO.com.





mother



found here

[Lady Cop]

presser just ended in Orlando re: missing Michelle Parker. it's been 6 months.

Orlando Sentinel

Several dozen law enforcers have gathered this morning at FDLE headquarters to discuss the Michelle Parker missing-person case.

Parker's mother, as well as Orlando Police Chief Paul Rooney, spoke during a news conference to announce a new multi-agency team created to review the cold case.

Dale Smith Jr., the father of two of Parker's children, remains a suspect, Rooney said.

Rooney says investigators are making progress and are very close to getting a break. He said investigators are "connecting the dots' and looking for that missing puzzle piece."

Yvonne Stewart, parker's mother, expressed frustration.

"I don't know who did it for sure,'' she said, urging someone with information to step forward. "Man up. Do the right thing."

Parker disappeared six months ago, when she dropped off her two youngest children with their father, Dale Smith Jr., at his southeast Orlando home.

That day, a pre-taped episode of "The People's Court" aired, featuring a dispute between Parker and Smith over a lost engagement ring.

Divers discovered Parker's cell phone in a lake in Belle Isle, but there has been no other sign of the 34-year-old mother.

Smith was named as the main suspect in Parker's disappearance, but he has not been charged.

[racine]

presser just ended in Orlando re: missing Michelle Parker. it's been 6 months.

Orlando Sentinel

Several dozen law enforcers have gathered this morning at FDLE headquarters to discuss the Michelle Parker missing-person case.

Parker's mother, as well as Orlando Police Chief Paul Rooney, spoke during a news conference to announce a new multi-agency team created to review the cold case.

Dale Smith Jr., the father of two of Parker's children, remains a suspect, Rooney said.

Rooney says investigators are making progress and are very close to getting a break. He said investigators are "connecting the dots' and looking for that missing puzzle piece."

Yvonne Stewart, parker's mother, expressed frustration.

"I don't know who did it for sure,'' she said, urging someone with information to step forward. "Man up. Do the right thing."

Parker disappeared six months ago, when she dropped off her two youngest children with their father, Dale Smith Jr., at his southeast Orlando home.

That day, a pre-taped episode of "The People's Court" aired, featuring a dispute between Parker and Smith over a lost engagement ring.

Divers discovered Parker's cell phone in a lake in Belle Isle, but there has been no other sign of the 34-year-old mother.

Smith was named as the main suspect in Parker's disappearance, but he has not been charged.

I think Michelle's mom could make a pretty argument for custody since he is being called the main suspect. I know she tried once,but since then Josh Powell blew up his kids.

[Jezreel]

As far as I have read also he doesn't hardly let Yvonne see the twins. It's such a shame, I am sure they need their grandparents and big brother more then ever. I don't think Dale will loose custody unless of course he gets charged with the crime.

[Lady Cop]

i can't wait for this asshole's trial.


Chicago Sun-Times

He’s been called untouchable, unflappable and a killer.

“I’m sick of being called sinister,” said accused wife murderer Drew Peterson, who has been imprisoned for the past three years awaiting trial for the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, and is the chief suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson.

“I’m just a wise-ass [ex-cop] who gets in trouble for attempting to be funny,” Peterson told Sneed. “But what’s happening is not funny.

“I’m very angry about what has happened to me and my family— and especially the Illinois State Police unexpectedly interrogating my son Tom recently at college and questioning him for hours [about the death of his mother, Kathleen Savio].

“I want them to get off his back,” said Peterson in an exclusive pre-trial interview with Sneed Sunday at Will County jail, where he has been held for the past 1,158 days. “My children have suffered enough"

PHOTOS:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-rant.html

FULL ARTICLE HERE:
http://www.suntimes.com/12959517-761/dre...ister.html


Trial Thread here:

http://mockforums.net/thread-8554.html

[RJs-Ex]

He meant to say, "My children have suffered enough, with me killing their moms and all that."

[Lady Cop]

murdered wife and baby ^ Rachel and Baby Lillian




Lillian



baby's bullet-ridden sleeper.

BOSTON HERALD
The six-year legal nightmare for the family of a murdered Hopkinton mom and her baby girl is finally over.

The state’s highest court ruled today the double-murder conviction of Neil Entwistle will stand and he will not be granted a new trial. The British native — who fled to England after the January 2006 murders and attempted to sell his sordid story of sex-swap sites and betrayal to the highest bidder — will now die behind bars in a Massachusetts prison. He is locked up in the Old Colony House of Correction in Bridgewater.

Entwistle’s taxpayer-funded legal team had argued local police violated his constitutional rights when they broke into his house on January 21 and 22, 2006, during a missing person search. The Supreme Judicial Court ruled the police searches were justified because of the possibility family members could be in danger.

“There was a reasonable basis to believe that something unfortunate might have happened,” the court ruled in a decision obtained by the Herald today.

Entwistle was found guilty of murdering his wife, Rachel, 27, and 9-month-old baby, Lillian Rose, on Friday, Jan. 20, 2006, with a gun he stole from his father-in-law.

Joe Flaherty, a spokesman for Rachel’s parents Joe and Priscilla Matterazzo of Carver, told the Herald this morning the family never lost faith in the court system and the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.

“It’s a relief. You just never know,” said Flaherty of today’s SJC ruling, that he said came faster than expected. “It would have been a nightmare” to go through another trial.

Flaherty, a former state police homicide investigator in Boston, backed the SJC in their ruling that Hopkinton cops had the right to conduct a “well-being check” on the couple’s home that bitter cold January weekend. Hopkinton police forced their way into the family’s 6 Cubs Path home that stormy weekend after family and friends became alarmed they could not reach Rachel or Neil.

On the second search, a “slight foul odor” led the cops to the master bedroom of Entwistle’s rented Colonial, where they found mother and child arm-in-arm and both shot to death.

Prior to his 2006 arrest, Entwistle complained about his staggering debt and his flagging sex life with his wife while conducting a double life. He posted a nude photo of himself on an adult sex swap website and peddled penis pumps and helped set up pornography sites on the Internet.

His defense team argued the international full-press coverage of his murder case was so “saturating and inflammatory,” it robbed him of a fair trial.

Not so, the SJC wrote today, stating: “We affirm the convictions and, after a complete review of the record, decline to exercise our authority ... to order a new trial or reduce the murder convictions to a lesser degree of guilt.”

UPDATE: Middlesex DA Gerry Leone released the following statement following the SJC ruling: “We are pleased that the Supreme Judicial Court has affirmed the conviction of Neil Entwistle for the horrific and cowardly murders of his wife and infant daughter. With today’s decision, the SJC has ruled the grounds of the defendant’s appeal as baseless and Neil Entwistle will continue to spend the rest of his life behind bars for the unimaginable, unforgiveable acts he committed against Rachel and Baby Lillian.”

[Lady Cop]

nasty old bat!



KTLA
TORRANCE, Calif. -- An 82-year-old woman with a rap sheet that dates back to 1955 could face new criminal charges in more burglaries.

Torrance Police Sgt. Robert Watt said the department is submitting evidence on eight burglaries to the district attorney's office Tuesday for possible charges against Doris Thompson.

Thompson -- who has 25 aliases -- is being held on $80,000 bail.

Watt said Thompson targeted doctors' offices. He said she would enter an office, hide until closing and search for keys to the cash box. He said she stole about $17,000.

Thompson was arrested at an El Segundo hotel without incident, Watt said, and police found evidence linking her to the burglaries.

Watt said a detective who had dealt with Thompson identified her from a video that allegedly caught her in the act.

The detective recognized her distinctive hair, which Thompson wears in a stand-on-its-end electric style similar to boxing promoter Don King.

Thompson has a 20-page rap sheet dating to 1955. Burglary appears to be her chosen career.

According to court records, Thompson has been imprisoned at least nine times for burglary in Los Angeles and Orange counties.

She first spent time behind bars in 1983, when she was 53, according to the records. It's unclear why they don't go back further.

As in the current case, a security camera was Thompson's undoing two years ago, when she was caught prying open drawers with a chisel and a screwdriver at the Children's Medical Group in Torrance.

She had hidden in a restroom until employees left.

Thompson took $400 in cash and checks, $25 worth of stamps, a device used to test children's hearing and a plastic urine container with a total value of about $1,400.

She was recognized by a Torrance detective who remembered her from a bulletin Beverly Hills police put out a few years earlier for a similar crime.

"That's her M.O.," Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Atty. Paulette Paccione said at the time. "What she does is she goes in with her little burglar bag. She takes cash, stamps, whatever she can find."

Although Thompson assured the court her burglarizing days were over, Paccione wasn't so sure.

"I don't think this will stop her from doing this again," Paccione said back then. "She's not really apologetic about it. This is her thing."