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On October 29, 2009, police in Cleveland, Ohio went to the home of Anthony Sowell after a woman told police that he had raped her there.
The most notorious female criminals of the decade, including background information and chronological events.
On May 1, 2001, Washington D.C. intern Chandra Levy disappeared while walking her dog in Rock Creek Park. A year later, someone else walking a dog found her remains.
On Feb. 8, 2007, Anna Nicole Smith -- former Playmate, jeans model and bride of 89-year-old billionaire J. Howard Marshall II -- died at age 39 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
On July 9, 2009, several men dressed as ninjas invaded the home of Byrd and Melanie Billings, a wealthy Florida couple who were known for adopting children with special needs.
Even the rich and famous can find themselves in trouble with the law. Being a celebrity in the United States does not protect you from the pursuit of justice. Or does it?
On June 10, 1991, Jaycee Lee Dugard was a 11-year-old, four-foot, six-inch blonde with blue eyes. She was last seen waiting at a school bus stop near her in South Lake Tahoe, California. Witnesses said they saw her being abducted by a man and woman in an automobile.
On Sept. 8, 2009, days before she was planning to be married, 24-year-old Annie Le disappeared from the Yale University Medical School research laboratory where she was a pharmacology doctoral student.
Transcript of 911 call placed from Michael Jackson's rented Los Angeles home at 12:21 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, June 25, 2009.
On March 27, 2009, 8-year-old Sandra Cantu disappeared from the mobile home park where she lived in Tracy, California. She was last seen on a video surveillance tape skipping toward her best friend's home.
On June 25, 2009, less than a month before he was scheduled to begin a series of comeback concerts, paramedics were called to Michael Jackson's rented home in Holby Hills near Los Angeles where they found him unconscious and not responding.
George Sodini kept a blog detailing why he planned to go on a shooting rampage at a local Pittsburgh gym.
What is your theory about what actually happened to 2-year-old Caylee Anthony?
Transcript of 911 call placed from Michael Jackson's rented Los Angeles home at 12:21 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, June 25, 2009.
Philip Markoff, a 22-year-old medical student was arrested by Boston authorities in connection with a series of crimes against women who were advertising erotic services on the online classified service Craigslist.
Former Bolingbrook policeman Drew Peterson made national headlines in October 2007 when his fourth wife Stacey Peterson disappeared. a little more than three years after his third wife died under suspicious circumstances.
On Jan. 7, 2008, after having an argument with his 23-year old common-law wife, Lam Luong, 38, drove his van to the top of the 80-foot high Dolphin Island Bridge and threw his four children into the water.
In the summer of 2007, a man found a glass jar in the desert near Las Vegas in which there was a videotape showing another man sexually assaulting a 2-year-old girl.
The top crime stories of 2008 include a 2-year-old girl who was not reported missing for a month, a former football hero who finally faced justice, an Academy Award winner's family murdered, the death of a popular student body president, a death sentence for a serial sexual offender and last minute reprieves for a death row inmate.
On October 24, 2008, the bodies of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson's mother and brother were found in the family's home on Chicago's South Side. Shot to death were Hudson's mother, Darnell Donerson, and her brother, Jason Hudson.
On October 20, Anne Pressly, a popular morning anchorwoman at KATV television, was found badly beaten in the bedroom of her home in the Pulaski Heights section of Little Rock.
On Aug. 19, 1989, an off-duty Savannah, Georgia, police officer, Mark Allen MacPhail was working a moonlighting job as a security guard for a Greyhound bus terminal when he heard a homeless man cry out from the Burger King parking lot next door.
The timeline in the investigation of missing child Caylee Anthony has become a maze of unanswered questions.
On Dec. 19, 2007, Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach, a Marine stationed at Camp Lejuene, North Carolina, was reported missing by her stepmother who had not heard from her since Dec. 14.
On Feb. 27, 2007, two young women with blonde hair and wearing designer sunglasses were caught on videotape laughing and giggling as they presented a robbery note to a teller at a bank branch located inside a Kroger grocery store in Acworth, Georgia.
Eve Marie Carson, the popular president of the student body at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was found shot to death laying in the street at an intersection near campus. She had been shot several times including once in the head.
Joe Francis, who has made millions with his 'Girls Gone Wild' videos and magazines, has found himself entangled in legal trouble in civil and criminal courts on the state and federal levels.
Brianna Denison, a 19-year-old Santa Barbara City College student, who was home in Reno, Nevada, on winter break, went out partying with friends Saturday night Jan. 19, 2008 and then spent the night on their couch.
On New Year's Day 2008, 24-year-old University of Georgia graduate Meredith Emerson went hiking in the north Georgia mountains hear Vogel State Park with her dog Ella as she had done many times before. She failed to return home from the hike.
On Nov. 23, 2007, 18-year-old Kansas college student Emily Sander was last seen leaving a bar with a 24-year-old man. Her body was found six days later about 50 miles east of El Dorado.
Brooke Carol Wilberger was last seen on the morning of May 24, 2004, in Corvalis, Oregon. She was working outside an apartment complex near the campus of Oregon State University which was managed by her sister and brother-in-law.
On October 29, 2007, a fisherman found a plastic storage box washed up on an island in Galveston Bay that contained the body of a two-year-old girl. An autopsy revealed that the child, named "Baby Grace" by investigators, had a fractured skull.
Debra Lafave, a 24-year-old married middle school teacher in the Tampa, Florida, area was arrested in June 2004 and accused of having sex numerous times with one of her 14-year-old students.
On Feb. 6, 2007, U.S. Navy Capt. and NASA Astronaut Lisa Nowak, 43, was charged with trying to kidnap a woman she regarded as her romantic rival for the affection of a space shuttle pilot.
On October 3, 1995, O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of the June 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, but his legal problems did not end then by a long shot.
Profile of Imette St. Guillen, the young, beautiful college student brutally raped and murdered in New York City.
On February 25, 2006, Imette St. Guillen, a graduate student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, was last seen around 4 a.m. at The Falls, a bar in the SoHo section of New York City. Her nude body was found 14 miles away near a Brooklyn street.
At approximately 4:15 a.m. on June 30, 1986, a fire broke out at the Old Farm Village Apartments in Columbus Grove, Ohio, in the second-floor apartment of Hope Collins, killing her two-year-old daughter Cynthia.
On Sept. 15, 2006, police found the body of 23-year-old Jimella Tunstall in a vacant lot in Belleville, Illinois. An autopsy revealed that her unborn child had been cut from her womb with a pair of scissors.
Between August 2005 and September 2006, the Phoenix, Arizona, area was terrorized by a serial criminal who authorities believe was responsible for nine murders, 11 sexual assaults of women and young girls and several robberies.
On June 2, 2007, Kelsey Smith stopped at a Overland Park, Kansas, department store to buy items for a high school graduation party, but she never made it home to the event. Her body was found four days later in a shallow creek 20 miles away in Missouri.
On June 15, 2007, after not having heard from her daughter for two days, Patricia Porter, the mother of nine-months-pregnant Jessie Davis went to her house and found her bedroom in disarray and her two-year-old son alone in the house.
Fugitives from justice who are wanted by the FBI for violent crimes.
Michael Skakel was indicted for the murder of Martha Moxley after a book came out about the 1975 case and he was convicted in June 2002, mostly on statements he made to others while in rehab.
On December 16, 2004 the body of eight-months-pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett was found at her Skidmore, Missouri home by her mother. Her unborn baby had been cut from her womb.
On May 26, 2006, Clemson University student Tiffany Marie Souers was found dead in her off-campus apartment by a former roommate. She was wearing only a bra and had a bikini top wrapped around her neck.
Mary Winkler, 32, is charged with first-degree murder for the shotgun shooting death of her husband, Matthew Winkler, on March 22 at their Fourth Street Church of Christ parsonage in Selmer, Tennessee.
Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old graduate of Mountain Brook High School in Birmingham, Alabama, traveled to the Caribbean island of Aruba with 125 members of her senior class. On Monday, May 30, 2005, she did not show up for her flight back to the United States.
On March 13, 2006 members of the Duke University lacrosse team held a party at an off-campus house and hired two strippers to perform, specifically requesting that they be white or hispanic. When neither of the two dancers who showed up were white, they apparently became the target of racial slurs by some of the players. One of the dancers later claimed she was raped in a bathroom by three of the team members.
Nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford disappeared from her bedroom at her grandparents' home in the middle of the night Feb. 23, 2005.
Legendary rock and roll music producer Phil Spector is charged with the fatal shooting of former actress Lana Clarkston Feb. 3, 2003 at his Los Angeles mansion.
Photos of suspect trying to use Tiffany Souer's debit card at two ATM machines.
On Feb. 22, 2006, the bodies of Rachel Entwistle, 27, and her nine-month old daughter, Lillian Rose, were found shot to death under the covers of a bed in their Hopkinton, Massachusetts home.
On March 11, 2005, Nichols was on trial for rape at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta when he overpowered a female deputy, took her gun, and went into the courtroom where he trial was being held and shot the judge and a court reporter.
Ashley Smith, the hostage who notified police that the Atlanta Courthouse Killer wanted to turned himself in, read to Brian Nichols from "A Purpose Driven Life," shared her personal faith, and prayed with him for more than seven hours in her Duluth, Georgia apartment.
Joseph Edward Duncan III was out on a $15,000 bond in Minnesota for molesting a 7-year-old boy, when three people were killed in an Idaho home and their two children kidnapped. Six weeks later, Duncan was arrested after he was spotted in a restaurant with eight-year-old Shasta Groene.
Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home on June 5, 2004 and was found nine months later with the man and wife, Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee, who have been charged with her abduction.
Brian David Mitchell: A look at the life of the preaching drifter that was arrested and charged with the kidnapping of then fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart and held her captive for nine months.
The bodies of a pregnant woman and her seven-year-old son were found in a shallow grave near Denton, TX just hours after her ex-boyfriend, and the father of her unborn child, was arrested and charged with murder in the deaths.
Dennis Rader, the BTK murderer, confessed to his grisly crimes in a voice void of remorse but with a hint of pride and scholarly delivery.
The similarities between six murdered women found along roads in two rural Illinois counties have authorities believing that a serial killer may be responsible for some of the deaths.
The latest updates on current criminal cases in the news, including background information and chronological events.
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Dennis Rader, the BTK murderer, confessed to his grisly crimes in a voice void of remorse but with a hint of pride and scholarly delivery.
The latest updates on current criminal cases in the news, including background information and chronological events.
Dennis Rader, the BTK murderer, confessed to his grisly crimes in a voice void of remorse but with a hint of pride and scholarly delivery.
Dennis Rader, the BTK murderer, confessed to his grisly crimes in a voice void of remorse but with a hint of pride and scholarly delivery.
Dennis Rader, the BTK murderer, confessed to his grisly crimes in a voice void of remorse but with a hint of pride and scholarly delivery.
Dennis Rader, the BTK murderer, confessed to his grisly crimes in a voice void of remorse but with a hint of pride and scholarly delivery.
Dennis Rader, the BTK murderer, confessed to his grisly crimes in a voice void of remorse but with a hint of pride and scholarly delivery.
Dennis Rader, the BTK murderer, confessed to his grisly crimes in a voice void of remorse but with a hint of pride and scholarly delivery.
Dennis Rader, the BTK murderer, confessed to his grisly crimes in a voice void of remorse but with a hint of pride and scholarly delivery.
Dennis Rader, the BTK murderer, confessed to his grisly crimes in a voice void of remorse but with a hint of pride and scholarly delivery.
Dennis Rader, the BTK murderer, confessed to his grisly crimes in a voice void of remorse but with a hint of pride and scholarly delivery.
Dennis Rader, the BTK murderer, confessed to his grisly crimes in a voice void of remorse but with a hint of demented pride.
Dennis Rader, the BTK murderer, confessed to his grisly crimes in a voice void of remorse but with a hint of pride and scholarly delivery.
