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Charles' Crime / Punishment Blog April 2006 Archive

By Charles Montaldo, About.com Guide to Crime / Punishment since 2004

Duke Players' Accuser Cried Rape Before

Friday April 28, 2006
The woman who accused three members of Duke University's lacrosse team of rape told police 10 years ago that she was raped by three men in 1993 when she ... Read More

Texas Teens Charged With Attacking Hispanic

Thursday April 27, 2006
Two white teenagers have been charged with beating, cutting and sodomizing a Hispanic 16-year-old boy at a party because they thought he was trying to kiss a 12-year-old Hispanic ... Read More

Snoop Dogg Arrested in Airport Brawl

Thursday April 27, 2006
Rap star Snoop Dogg and five members of his entourage were arrested at London's Heathrow Airport for creating a disturbance after they were apparently denied access to a first-class lounge ... Read More

N.Y. Bouncer Arraigned on Another Abduction

Thursday April 27, 2006
A New York bar bouncer, accused in the kidnapping and murder of graduate student Imette St. Guillen in February, has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping, assault, robbery and criminal impersonation ... Read More

Former Teacher Pamela Rogers Jailed Again

Thursday April 27, 2006
Two weeks after she was arrested and threatened with violating her seven years' probation for having sex with a 13-year-old student, former Tennessee teacher Pamela Rogers has been arrested and ... Read More

Teen Killer, Now 29, To Leave Prison

Thursday April 27, 2006
An Indiana woman who was 15 years old when she and three others were convicted for the brutal murder of a 12-year-old girl, one of the most grisly murders of ... Read More

Phil Spector's Trial Delayed Again

Wednesday April 26, 2006
Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler has again delayed the murder trial of music producer Phil Spector, for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson at his California home, because of ... Read More

Aruban Teen Arrested Because Witness Lied

Wednesday April 26, 2006
Deputy police chief Gerold Dompig says the 19-year-old teen, who was arrested in the Natalee Holloway case and released a week later, was detained by investigators because of a false ... Read More

Amber Alert Issued for Tennessee Girl

Tuesday April 25, 2006
An Amber Alert has been issued in middle Tennessee for a two-year-old girl who disappeared from her mother's apartment sometime during the early hours of Monday when her mother woke ... Read More

Susan Polk: I'm Not Crazy

Tuesday April 25, 2006
Acting has her own attorney, Susan Polk opened her defense in the trial for the murder of her husband with an opening statement in which she told jurors that she ... Read More

Aruba Releases Suspect in Holloway Case

Monday April 24, 2006
Investigators in Aruba have released Geoffrey van Cromvoirt, 19, saying that the grounds to continue to hold him are no longer there, but he remains a suspect in the disappearance ... Read More

National Crime Victims' Rights Week

Monday April 24, 2006
Each April since 1981, the Office for Victims of Crime has lead communities throughout the country in their observances of National Crime Victims' Rights Week. This year's observance, with the ... Read More

BTK's Good Behavior Earns Him Privileges

Monday April 24, 2006
To the chagrin of prosecutors and his victims' family members, Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer, has earned the privilege to watch television, listen to the radio, read and draw ... Read More

Family Sued for Downloads Has No Computer

Monday April 24, 2006
A Georgia family is being sued by the Recording Industry Association of America for infringing on copyrights by downloading on Internet file-sharing networks, but there is one problem with the ... Read More

Trial for Jessica Lunsford's Murder Moved

Friday April 21, 2006
A Florida judge has granted the request from John Evander Couey's attorneys to move to another county his trial for the kidnapping, rape and murder of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford. Prosecutors ... Read More

Death Row Inmate: Pedro Sosa

Friday April 21, 2006
Pedro Solis Sosa was convicted in 1983 of the murder of 55-year-old Texas deputy sheriff Ollie F. Childress Jr. After 22 years of appeals, Sosa's time may finally be up. ... Read More

Aruba Coast Guard Searches Offshore for Natalee

Thursday April 20, 2006
Aruban authorities confirmed that its coast guard has been searching a specific area off the Caribbean island for the past four days, a time period that would have begun shortly ... Read More

Duke Rape Suspects Suspended, Rooms Searched

Thursday April 20, 2006
The dormitory rooms of two Duke University lacrosse players, charged with the rape and kidnapping of a stripper at an off-campus team party, were searched after they were arrested ... Read More

Judge Orders Teen Held in Holloway Case

Wednesday April 19, 2006
A judge in Aruba has agreed to allow a 19-year-old teen arrested over the weekend in connection with the Natalee Holloway case held another eight days while investigators question him ... Read More

Two Arrested Duke Players May Have Alibis

Tuesday April 18, 2006
Two Duke University lacrosse players posted $400,000 bonds after they were arrested early Tuesday on charges of kidnapping and raping a stripper who was hired to dance at an ... Read More

Lawsuit Against Michael Jackson Dismissed

Tuesday April 18, 2006
U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a New Orleans man who claimed he was lured into Jackson's limousine during the 1984 World's Fair, held ... Read More

Flashback: Profile of Charles Manson

Monday April 17, 2006
In 1969 Charlie Manson emerged from his prison cell onto the streets of Haight-Ashbury and soon became the leader of followers who became forever known as the Family. How did ... Read More

Security Guard Arrested in Holloway Case

Monday April 17, 2006
Aruban authorities announced that they have made an arrest in connection with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, but typically they would not say who was arrested and how they were ... Read More

Police Search for Escaped Sex Offender

Monday April 17, 2006
Authorities are searching for a convicted rapist who escaped with three others Saturday night from a state treatment center for sex offenders in St. Peter, Minnesota. The other three escapees ... Read More

Rapper Proof Shot 'In Self Defense'

Saturday April 15, 2006
DeShaun Holton, known as the rapper Proof, was shot and killed after he shot a bouncer inside the CCC nightclub, witnesses told police. The bouncer, Army veteran Keith Bender, 35, ... Read More

Oklahoma Girl's Body Found, Neighbor Arrested

Saturday April 15, 2006
The body of a 10-year-old Oklahoma girl, who had been missing since not returning from a trip to the library Wednesday, was found inside the apartment of a neighbor and ... Read More

Teacher's Assistant Fired Over Sex Charges

Friday April 14, 2006
A 22-year-old teacher's assistant at a North Carolina high school has been charged with sexual activity with a 19-year-old student and has been fired from her position at North Buncombe ... Read More

Teacher Charged in Sex, Murder Plot

Friday April 14, 2006
A 30-year-old female Alabama teacher has been charged with having sex with at least four high school students and involving at least one of them in a plot to kill ... Read More

Amber Alert Issued for Oklahoma Girl

Friday April 14, 2006
An Amber Alert has been issued by Oklahoma State Police and the Purcell Police Department for 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin, who police say may be with a Texas man she ... Read More

Man Confesses to Killing 6 Family Members

Thursday April 13, 2006
A 21-year-old Pennsylvania man has been charged with killing his grandmother and five other family members after police say he confessed to the weekend murders, but gave no explanation for ... Read More

Kansas Teen's Kidnapping Was a Hoax

Thursday April 13, 2006
A popular 16-year-old high school student who called 911 to report that she had been kidnapped by gunpoint in front of her Kansas home, turned up safe 15 hours later ... Read More

Ex-Teacher Arrested for Contacting Teen Victim

Thursday April 13, 2006
A 28-year-old former elementary school gym teacher, who served nine months in jail for having sex with a 13-year-old student, has been arrested for violating her probation by using a ... Read More

Pervert Alert: Have you seen Frederick McLean?

Wednesday April 12, 2006
Fugitive Frederick McLean, 55, is wanted on multiple counts of sexual assault on a child, but according to Deputy U.S. Marshal Tom Maranda, member of the U.S. Marshal-led San Diego ... Read More

Rapper 'Proof' Killed in Detroit Nightclub

Tuesday April 11, 2006
DeShaun Holton, known as the rapper Proof of the group D12 and a close friend of Eminem, was shot in the head and killed after an argument escalated into gunfire ... Read More

Entwistle Pleads Not Guilty to Murder

Tuesday April 11, 2006
Neil Entwistle, the 27-year-old British man who is accused of killing his wife and nine-month-old daughter in their Massachusetts home, entered a plea of not guilty to two counts of ... Read More

No DNA Match in Duke Lacrosse Scandal

Tuesday April 11, 2006
The rape and sodomy accusations that rocked the Duke University lacrosse team, causing the coach to resign and the team's season to be cancelled, took a surprising turn when DNA ... Read More

Judge Rejects Retrial for Robert Blake

Tuesday April 11, 2006
Superior Court Judge David Schacter had denied a motion from actor Robert Blake for a new trial in the wrongful death civil lawsuit in which a jury awarded members of ... Read More

Efforts Renewed to Solve Notorious B.I.G. Murder

Monday April 10, 2006
A new team of investigators are following up on leads and a Los Angeles City Councilman has proposed offering a $50,000 reward in the 1997 shooting death of rap super ... Read More

Natalee's Father Writes Book About Ordeal

Sunday April 9, 2006
Dave Holloway, father of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway has written a book "Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of Natalee Holloway and Corruption in Paradise," in which he describes the ... Read More

Two Face Trial in Sex Slave Case

Friday April 7, 2006
A Pennsylvania judge has ordered a school security guard and a hairdresser to stand trial in the bizarre case of 24-year-old Tanya Nicole Kach, who claims she was held against ... Read More

Deputy Chief Removed From Holloway Case

Thursday April 6, 2006
Aruba's Deputy Chief of Police Gerold Dompig has been taken off the investigation into the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway less than two weeks after he appeared on U.S. ... Read More

Attorney: Felix Polk Feared for His Life

Thursday April 6, 2006
The attorney who was representing Felix Polk in his divorce from Susan Polk when she stabbed him to death told the jury at her murder trial that his client was ... Read More

Dwight Gooden Headed to Prison

Wednesday April 5, 2006
Former Major League Baseball star Dwight Gooden was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for violating his probation by using cocaine, after he turned down a deal ... Read More

Homeland Security Spokesman Busted in Sex Sting

Wednesday April 5, 2006
A 55-year-old deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been arrested on seven charges of using his computer to attempt to seduce a 14-year-old girl and ... Read More

Scott Peterson's 'Search for the Real Killer'

Wednesday April 5, 2006
The family and supporters of death row inmate Scott Peterson are offering a $250,000 reward for "specific information" leading to his exoneration and the arrest and conviction of someone else ... Read More

Teacher Charged With 13-Year-Old's Rape

Wednesday April 5, 2006
A 34-year-old female teacher at a Delaware elementary school has been charged with 28 counts of raping a minor after authorities said she repeatedly had sex with the boy during ... Read More

Garth Brooks' Former Wife Kidnapped

Wednesday April 5, 2006
The former wife of country music singer Garth Brooks was kidnapped at gunpoint by a man who was working on her Oklahoma farm after she allowed a bail bondsman onto ... Read More

Robert Blake Seeks New Civil Trial

Tuesday April 4, 2006
Actor Robert Blake's attorney filed a motion seeking a new trial in the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Bonnie Lee Bakley, claiming jury misconduct, but at least ... Read More

Flashback: Kirk Douglas Billie

Monday April 3, 2006
Miccosukee Indian Kirk Douglas Billie, 36, was sentenced to life in prison for the 1997 drowning death of his two sons, Kurt, 5 and Keith, 3. His case became a ... Read More

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