Charles' Crime / Punishment Blog October 2006 Archive

Just when you thought the Duke lacrosse rape case could not take another strange twist, the second dancer at the team party dropped another bombshell on ABC's "Good Morning America" ... Read More

The woman charged with her boyfriend with the murder of a social worker, who brought her baby to her home for a visit, said that she did not hear or see ... Read More

The main suspect in the murder of University of Vermont student Michelle Gardner-Quinn, who disappeared Oct. 7 after spending a night out with friends, has now been officially charged with aggravated homicide. ... Read More

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has issued an opinion that prosecuting attorneys can no longer release information about arrest records or parole status of criminal defendants because it violates their privacy rights. ... Read More

Danny Harold Rolling, who killed five Gainesville area college students over a three-day period in 1990, was executed by the state of Florida at 6 p.m. today. Rolling claims to have ... Read More

More than a year after Hurricane Katrina hit the New Orleans, the storm is still having deadly effects, especially in Houston, where the murder rate is on track to hit its ... Read More

When Connecticut attorney Jonathon Edington learned from his wife that their two-year-old daughter said their neighbor had molested her, police say he went home, got a knife, broke into the neighbor's ... Read More

Told that her nine-month-old son was about to be put up for adoption, Renee Terrell was scheduled for a final supervised visit with the baby boy -- a visit that proved ... Read More

There were 7,163 criminal incidents involving 8,380 offenses labeled as hate crimes in the U.S. in 2005, according to statistics reported by the FBI. Hate crime statistics include crimes committed as ... Read More

Joseph Edward Duncan III pled guilty to the murders of Shasta Groene's family today in a last-minute plea deal that spared him from the death penalty in Idaho and spared the ... Read More

Horror struck again in another peaceful, rural town this weekend, when the bodies of an Iowa couple and their three teenage daughters were found shot to death in their ... Read More

Kim Roberts, the second exotic dancer at the Duke Lacrosse team party where three team members are accused of rape, refutes the accuser's account of the events of ... Read More

The body of a 21-year-old University of Vermont student missing since last weekend was found today along a rural road in a town east of Burlington, according to WCAX-TV. The body ... Read More

Prosecutors have rejected an offer to plead guilty from a man who killed three members of an Idaho family so that he could abduct and molest two young children. Joseph Edward ... Read More

After Nevada State Controller Kathy Augustine died in July an autopsy test found a drug used to paralyze the respiratory system in her body. Chaz Higgs, her third husband and a ... Read More

Jennifer Wilbanks, the Runaway Bride who disappeared four days before her planned April 2005 wedding, has filed a lawsuit against her ex-fiance, claiming that he defrauded her out of her share of ... Read More

A Ohio doctor who disappeared in March 2005, three weeks after his wife died from cyanide poisoning, has been arrested trying to enter Cyprus, according to the FBI. Yazeed Essa, 38, ... Read More

Police are searching for a 21-year-old University of Vermont student who was last seen while walking back to campus from downtown Burlington early Saturday morning after a night of bar-hopping with friends. ... Read More

A dispute over DNA evidence is awaiting a ruling from the judge in the case of a British man accused of killing his American wife and baby daughter in Massachusetts. Prosecutors ... Read More

A 44-year-old Brooklyn man, who spent 21 years in prison for the 1983 home-invasion rape of a policeman's wife, was freed from prison after long-lost DNA evidence in the case was located, ... Read More

From the outside, Earl Stefanson's home looks like many others in working class neighborhood of east Oakland, but when police searched the basement they found a "very dark and frightening" torture chamber ... Read More

Citing severe overcrowding at 29 of the state's 33 prisons, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in the prison system, a move that will allow administrators to ship thousands ... Read More

John Mark Karr, the substitute elementary school teacher who falsely confessed to the murder of JonBenet Ramsey to get out of Thailand, is now a free man after child pornography charges ... Read More

A New Orleans grand jury will hear evidence in the case of a doctor and two nurses who are accused of injecting patients with a lethal cocktail of painkillers to "put ... Read More

Federal prosecutors have decided to seek the death penalty against Joseph Edward Duncan III, the registered sex offender who killed an Idaho family so that he could abduct two young children. ... Read More

A former Texas hospital nurse will be sentenced to life in prison after entering a plea to charges of killing 10 of her patients by injecting them with a drug ... Read More

Before self-confessed child molester Charles Carl Roberts IV could carry out his perverted dream to bind and sexually assault 10 Amish schoolgirls, Pennsylvania SWAT team members stormed the building, but not before ... Read More

At least four people died after an armed man took hostages and barricaded himself inside a one-room Amish elementary school in Nickell Mines in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The shooter and three ... Read More

A domestic dispute that turned violent left a woman and her four children dead in their mobile home in the Ferndale area of North Charleston, South Carolina. The husband of Detra Rainey ... Read More

A Florida gunman, who shot and killed an officer and his police dog, was shot at 110 times and hit 68 times when SWAT team members found him the following day ... Read More