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From the Fairway police blotter ...

Posted on February 04, 2008
Date: 2/1/2008 Time: 19:15 to 19:45 Offense: SUSPICIOUS PERSON Location: 4550 Shawnee Mission Parkway Narrative: Suspicious person, possibly with psychological issues was asking reporters to do a story about the voices he hears coming through his television set...

TX man blames exorcism for his wife's death, police say

Posted on February 04, 2008
An Odessa man is accused of killing his wife during an alleged exorcism, police report. He was reportedly holding her down "when the devil entered his body and caused her to die," the Houston Chronicle says. When officers arrived at...

Do big cash rewards help solve crimes?

Posted on February 04, 2008
Interesting story from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. That area has seen a few cases where high-dollar rewards were offered for tips. After a Broward County deputy was killed, donors raised $267K for a reward. Boca Raton offered $350K after someone....

There's a huge backlog in DNA testing

Posted on February 04, 2008
The FBI has a backlog of 180,000 DNA samples that haven't been processed yet. Another 50K samples have been processed, but haven't been uploaded to CODIS, the bureau's DNA database, the Denver Post reports. And that's not really counting the...

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Kim Mattingly

Posted on February 04, 2008
Mattingly is the wife of Don Mattingly, an assistant coach for the Dodgers. They're getting a divorce, though. Indiana police say she showed up at his house, accusing him of having her phone. (He said he didn't.) Police told her...

Abercrombie & Fitch manager accused of obscenity

Posted on February 04, 2008
Because his Virginia Beach store had photos/posters of "three shirtless young men, with one man's upper buttocks showing. The other image was of a woman whose breast was mostly exposed," The AP reports. Upper buttocks -- that cracked me up.

MO woman accused of beating toddler to death

Posted on February 04, 2008
Story is from Brumley, Mo., which is between Jeff City and Fort Leonard Wood. The victim was only 20 months old. No word if the suspect, age 32, is related to her.

KCK man pleads guilty to taking teen across state line for sex

Posted on February 04, 2008
Jesse Herd entered a guilty plea this morning in federal court in KCK, the Leavenworth Times reports. In his plea, Herd admitted that the abuse started in 2004 when he began driving around with the 14-year-old girl looking for men...

From the Shawnee police blotter ...

Posted on February 04, 2008
3:03 a.m. Feb. 4 ... Subject broke his wife's phone during an argument.

Saints player stabbed, woman killed near Georgia nightclub

Posted on February 04, 2008
Charles Grant, a defensive end for the Saints, was stabbed in the neck during a fight where a pregnant woman, an innocent bystander, was shot and killed by stray gunfire. It happened in Colquitt, Ga., his hometown. Grant wasn't seriously...

More on the Chicago strip-mall shooting

Posted on February 04, 2008
The Chicago Tribune has a good article here about the five women who were shot and killed at a Lane Bryant store in that city's southwest suburbs on Saturday. It's pretty moving -- each of the women had stories to...

Police: High-school dropout posed as missing woman, enrolled at Harvard and Columbia

Posted on February 04, 2008
It's a sad story because the family of the missing woman -- who disappeared eight years ago -- thought they had found their daughter alive and well. Except it was just an identity thief using her personal information to enroll...

Have they really solved the Natalee Holloway case?

Posted on February 04, 2008
Over the weekend, a Dutch TV program aired a hidden-camera footage showing Joran van der Sloot, a suspect in the Natalee Holloway case, saying that he had a friend throw her body into the ocean. Van der Sloot now says...

Wyoming girls cited for "hurling missiles" -- and by "missiles," we mean french fries

Posted on February 04, 2008
Story is from Laramie. Three 13-year-old girls were cited for allegedly throwing french fries during lunch. The day before, the principal -- who heard a rumor about a food fight -- had warned everybody against doing this. "Hurling missiles" is...

Where should terrorist suspects be tried?

Posted on February 04, 2008
Leonie Brinkema, the federal judge who oversaw the Zacarias Moussaoui trial, gave a speech on Friday and talked about the case. She said a lot -- chastised the government for seeking the death penalty, called Moussaoui a chatterbox -- but...

Amber Alert tied to double slaying in KCK

Posted on February 03, 2008
From Sara Shepherd: A young woman and a baby girl were found shot to death this morning in Kansas City, Kan. Police issued an Amber alert to help find a person of interest in the deaths, a man who they...

KCPD identifies homicide victim from 16th and Topping

Posted on February 03, 2008
From KCPD: The victim has been identified as Jesse Garcia (Hispanic male), a 16yr old KCMO resident. There are no suspects in custody and detectives ask that anyone with information to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.

Woman fights off would-be rapist with knee to groin

Posted on February 02, 2008
From The Star: A 23-year-old woman fought off a would-be-rapist Thursday night by kneeing him in the groin. The woman told police a stranger grabbed her and pushed her into an alley about 9 p.m. a half block from Independence...

Nun, age 79, gets 1 year for decades-old rapes

Posted on February 02, 2008
The victims, now middle-aged, were teenagers at a Catholic school in Wisconsin when the assaults happened. The nun was their principal. The AP's report indicates one of the victims was upset about the length of the sentence. One of Giannini's...

Sneha Anne Philip

Posted on February 02, 2008
Philip was a doctor who lived in New York City ... and disappeared on Sept. 11, 2001. For years, she's been considered a missing person by the police, who couldn't find any proof that she somehow died at the World...

Officer Nicola Cotton

Posted on February 02, 2008
Cotton was a New Orleans policewoman who was shot and killed by a man who wrestled her gun away from her, her department said. But that man -- Bernel P. Johnson -- had been committed and was supposed to be...

What a bunch of @#$%

Posted on February 02, 2008
Here's a fun fact: Under U.S. law, debt collectors cannot use profanity when they try to drum money out of deadbeats. But a New York man says a company sent him a letter addressed "S---face" to get him to pay...

Her stories were gruesome, but were they illegal?

Posted on February 02, 2008
Karen Fletcher of Pittsburgh wrote stories about children being raped and tortured, which she published on her Web site, "Red Rose Stories." Every month, 29 people paid $10 to subscribe to the site. Until the feds filed an obscenity charge...

Lisa Montgomery wants out of solitary

Posted on February 02, 2008
From Mark Morris: Lisa Montgomery has asked a federal judge to order her released from solitary confinement at a Leavenworth jail so she can associate with other inmates. A federal jury convicted her in October and voted the death penalty...

12 years for man who killed a woman while fleeing police

Posted on February 02, 2008
Antawn McCant was fleeing Kansas City police in 2005 when his SUV (which was actually stolen) crashed into a vehicle carrying volunteer Diane Fisher, who died. McCant ran away -- and left his 19-month-old daughter behind in the wreckage. He's...

Open Thread ... Weekend Edition

Posted on February 02, 2008
The Open Thread never really shuts down, not even on weekends. So thanks for spending a little here with us! Please sign your comments, and please avoid profanity, as well as racially and sexually abusive language. And when you sign...

KCPD investigates homicide at 16th and Topping

Posted on February 02, 2008
From KCPD: Tonight at approximately 7:30pm, KCMO Police were called to the area of 16th and Topping in regard to a shooting. Upon arrival, officers located a Hispanic male (mid to late teens) deceased from an apparent gunshot wound. Witnesses...