Charles' Crime / Punishment Blog May 2006 Archive

Two more bodies found in Missouri may be connected to the couple who were arraigned today on charges of first-degree murder, first-degree assault, kidnapping, forcible rape and forcible sodomy in ... Read More

After hearing four weeks of testimony, a Maryland jury deliberated less than four hours before finding John Allen Muhammad guilty of six murders in Maryland, which took place during the ... Read More

Natalee Holloway, 18, disappeared on May 30, 2005 while vacationing on the island of Aruba with her high school graduating class from Alabama. One year after her disappearance, her ... Read More

Charles Manson made a poor call when he picked Linda Kasabian to join the group of killers who set out to kill everyone inside the homes of actress Sharon ... Read More

A Wisconsin couple, who kept a Philippine woman confined to their home for 19 years so that she would work for them as a domestic servant, have been convicted in ... Read More

Thanks to tips from the public, authorities have arrested one of two suspects who are accused of gunning down a 46-year-old Orlando woman as she got off a city bus ... Read More

A Missouri couple accused of videotaping the rape of a woman before killing her and burying her in a shallow grave turned themselves into police after a massive, week-long search. ... Read More

Judge Laurel Brady sent the jury in the Susan Polk murder trial home early after the defendant and the prosecutor got into a heated argument before the jury over Polk's ... Read More

Most of the photographs are decades old, black-and-white mug shots that have faded over the years, but the horror created by the followers of Charles Manson, known as the ... Read More

The full extent of the Washington D.C. area snipers plan to terrorize the nation came to light for the first time when Lee Boyd Malvo took the witness stand to ... Read More

The latest suspect detained in connection with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, who worked as a croupier at the hotel casino where the Alabama teen was staying in Aruba, has ... Read More

The results of the National Violence Against Women Survey, jointly sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that stalking was ... Read More

Dutch police have arrested in Holland a suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway who apparently left the island of Aruba and returned to his home country just before he ... Read More

A man who shot four people at a Baton Rouge church, abducted his estranged wife and three children from the church, and killed his wife has been captured and taken ... Read More

Attorneys for John Evander Couey, the convicted sex offender charged with the kidnapping, rape and murder of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford, have filed motions to suppress his confession because they said ... Read More

The mother of the teenage boy who accused Michael Jackson of molestation at the singer's Neverland Ranch was ordered to stand trial on felony charges of defrauding $8,000 from the ... Read More

The state of Florida is beginning to crack down on child predators in light of the Jessica Lunsford case and others, if the 90-year sentence handed to a 60-year-old Sebastian ... Read More

After one of the Duke University lacrosse team member accused of raping a stripper at a team party was verbally accosted by a heckler in the courtroom, his attorney was ... Read More

Susan Polk took the witness stand in her trial for the murder of her husband and told the jury that she believed her husband was an Israeli secret agent who ... Read More

As a New York judge prepares to rule on the jurisdiction in that state of a civil lawsuit filed by the family of Natalee Holloway against Joran van ... Read More

The former teacher accused of breaking 17-year-old Ashley Reeves' neck and leaving her for dead in a wooded area behind a baseball field was released from jail after his mother ... Read More

A random sample of more than 3,400 women in a group health program in the United States found that 44 percent of them had experienced intimate partner violence in ... Read More

David Benjamin Creamer was charged with distribution of child pornography, transportation of obscene materials, firearms violations, money laundering and income tax evasion, but never showed up for court. His ... Read More

A senior captain of the Duke University lacrosse team, who says he is "absolutely innocent," was indicted by a grand jury on the same charges facing two other team members ... Read More

Thirty years after she was kidnapped by her father when she was only 21-months old, a Michigan woman was found by authorities living in Arizona, now 32 years old with ... Read More

Actor and rap performer DMX was arrested at Heathrow Airport in London after he refused a request to fasten his seatbelt as an American Airlines flight started its final decent ... Read More

For 22 years New Jersey has tried to execute Robert O. Marshall, who was convicted for hiring a hit man to kill his wife at a rest stop in 1984, ... Read More

A Kansas teenager who made up an elaborate story about being kidnapped and called 911 to report she was being held in the back of a white van will face ... Read More

Music producer Phil Spector lost a motion to delay a civil lawsuit involving his former personal assistant. His attorneys argued that if the civil case is allowed to proceed it ... Read More

The long-awaited second round of DNA testing results in the Duke University lacrosse rape accusation scandal returned the same results as the first round of testing with no conclusive ... Read More

An Ohio jury deliberated six hours before finding a Roman Catholic priest guilty of the stabbing death of a nun as she prepared for Easter services 26 years ago, in ... Read More

A judge lowered the bond for a 36-year-old former South Carolina teacher accused of having sex with one of her 11-year-old students, but she may not be leaving jail any ... Read More

Byron Keith Perkins promised to donate a kidney to his ailing son, but skipped town instead. This callous act resulted in his being dubbed the "most hated man in America." U.S. Marshals ... Read More

A grand jury is expected to hear evidence May 19 in the case of Ashley Reeves, the 17-year-old Illinois high school student who was left for dead in a heavily ... Read More

The murder trial of Susan Polk took another bizarre twist this week when an expert witness for the defense, who testified under direct examination last week, left town and refused ... Read More

Duke University officials were slow to respond to the rape allegations facing its lacrosse team because Durham police told school officials that the accuser "kept changing her story and ... Read More

The FBI has added polygamist church leader Warren Jeffs to their 10 Most Wanted list and increased the reward for his capture to $100,000 in hopes the added exposure and ... Read More

Escaped murderer, Richard Lee McNair, has a way with words. He proved it when he convinced a police officer in Ball, Louisiana that he was just out for ... Read More

A 17-year-old Illinois girl remains in serious condition five days after she was found with a broken neck, covered in insect bites and unable to speak where she was left ... Read More

A 53-year-old North Carolina woman has turned herself in to Texas authorities to face charges of murder in connection to the shooting death of her husband while he was asleep ... Read More

Former Department of Homeland Security spokesman Brian Doyle waived extradition to Florida and his bail was set at $230,000 when he appeared in a Polk County courtroom to face charges ... Read More

A Seminole, Florida middle school band teacher was arrested on unlawful sexual activity with a student after a female student, whose age was not given, told another teacher about the ... Read More

The Sonoma County California Sheriff's office has released for the first time details of evidence they collected at the scene of the murders of two Christian camp counselors, who were ... Read More

A seven-day nationwide fugitive roundup led by the U.S. Marshals Service and hundreds of partners from state, local and other federal agencies led to the arrests of 9,037 individuals, the ... Read More

Probation officials can use polygraph tests to ensure that convicted sex offenders are adhering to the terms of their probation and courts can ban the use of the Internet for ... Read More

Installing speed camera networks in the United States -- like the ones used extensively in England, Australia and France -- could reduce the number of highway deaths by 10,000 a ... Read More

A Level 3 sex offender who escaped with four others from a Minnesota treatment center April 15 has been captured by the FBI in Kansas City, Missouri after they received ... Read More

Attorneys for Michael Skakel have finally revealed in court papers the names of two suspects they say actually killed Martha Moxley in 1975, a crime for which Skakel was convicted ... Read More

If the first day of jury selection is any indication, finding jurors who have not already formed an opinion in John Allen Muhammad's Maryland trial for the Washington D.C. area ... Read More

A 20-year-old Florida man has been charged with first-degree murder after he threw his nine-month-old son out of his girlfriend's car window, picked him up by the leg and bashed ... Read More

A 17-year-old Illinois high school junior, who was left to die in woods so thick rescue workers had to use chain saws to get a stretcher to her, was found ... Read More