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Lennon's Killer Denied Parole for Fifth Time

Chapman remains behind bars for 1980 murder of ex-Beatle

(Newser) - The man who murdered John Lennon nearly 30 years ago was denied parole for a fifth time today, the Daily News reports. A state parole board panel blocked the release of Mark David Chapman, who shot the former Beatle outside his New York City apartment building in 1980, because of...

Cult Starved Toddler Who Wouldn't Say Amen: Cops

Mom and 4 others charged in boy's death

(Newser) - A toddler was starved to death in a religious cult for refusing to say "amen" at the end of meals, according to police. The body of the 2-year-old was stuffed in a suitcase when the 1 Mind Ministries cult fled from Baltimore to Philadelphia, authorities said. The toddler's mother...

'Rockefeller' Linked to Missing Couple

Calif. officials to question him about vanished newlyweds

(Newser) - Accused kidnapper Clark Rockefeller is a German national wanted for questioning in a Los Angeles double-murder case, California authorities said today. The statement marked the first by officials that German Christian Gerhartsreiter used the Rockefeller name in Boston and Christopher Chichester when living with a couple that later disappeared in...

'Preppy Killer' Pleads Guilty to Drug Charges

Robert Chambers faces nearly 20 years in state prison

(Newser) - “Preppy killer” Robert Chambers pleaded guilty today to dealing cocaine from his Manhattan apartment, the New York Daily News reports. He also confessed to assaulting a police officer during his October arrest and faces nearly 20 years in state prison. Chambers gained national infamy in the 1980s after his...

US Volleyball Coach's Family Pulls Together After Stabbing

McCutcheon 'not indulging in anger'

(Newser) - Though his heart is broken, Hugh McCutcheon won’t indulge in anger as he grieves for his father-in-law, Todd Bachman, brutally stabbed to death in Beijing on Saturday. "It hurts. I think it's something no one should have to go through,'' the US Olympic men’s volleyball coach...

Relative of US Olympic Coach Killed in Beijing

After stabbing two, Chinese man throws himself off tower

(Newser) - A knife-wielding Chinese man attacked two relatives of a coach for the US Olympic men's volleyball team at a tourist site in Beijing, killing one and injuring the other on the first day of the Olympics today, team officials and state media said. The man then committed suicide by throwing...

Man Swaps Murder Plea for Fast-Food Orgy

Life sentence for buffet featuring KFC bargain for taxpayers, too

(Newser) - A Brooklyn man was sentenced to life in prison yesterday—and celebrated the occasion by chowing down on a buffet including fried chicken, pizza, and lasagna, the New York Post reports. One of the stranger plea deals on record saw Tremayne Durham plead guilty in Oregon to aggravated murder in...

Newspaper Rejects PETA Ad on Bus Decapitation

Group aimed to use murder to push anti-meat message

(Newser) - A Canadian newspaper has nixed a PETA ad that likened the decapitation of a bus passenger to the killing of animals in slaughterhouses, reports AP. The animal rights group had sought to run the ad, depicting a throat being cut, in a city close to where a man was stabbed,...

Mich. Gunman Plotted Killings for Years

38-year old Scott Johnson shot 3 teenagers to death

(Newser) - A gunman in Wisconsin who killed three teenage swimmers last week plotted to commit a shooting for the past 4 or 5 years, the AP reports, and finally implemented his plan after fearing police would charge him in an unrelated sexual assault. Scott Johnson had hidden an assault rifle and...

Britney's Next Role: Murderous Lesbian Stripper

Spears hopes next Tarantino film will turn her career around

(Newser) - Britney Spears will appear in Quentin Tarantino’s remake of the 1965 cult classic Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! as a lesbian stripper with a penchant for murder, the Daily Telegraph reports. Spears' character will encounter a young couple in the desert, murder the boyfriend and kidnap the girlfriend—and make...

Texas Defies UN, Executes Killer

World Court had ordered hearing

(Newser) - A Mexican national convicted of raping and murdering two girls was executed in Texas yesterday in defiance of an international court. Attorneys for Jose Medellin, 33, had argued that authorities violated an international treaty when Medellin was denied access to Mexican consular officials after his arrest, reports the Houston Chronicle....

Feds Pinch Gotti Jr. in Murder Case

Fla. conspiracy rap ties son of mob boss to killings in '80s and '90s

(Newser) - John Gotti Jr. was arrested today on murder conspiracy charges related to three decades-old killings, the New York Daily News reports. A lawyer dismissed the indictment brought in Florida against the son of the late Mafia boss. "I tend to think they don't have a lot of faith in...

Ohio Killer: I'm Too Fat to Execute

He argues in lawsuit that executioners won't find a vein

(Newser) - A convicted killer and rapist on Ohio's death row is arguing in a lawsuit that he's too fat to be humanely executed. Lawyers for Richard Wade Cooey claim the 5'-7", 275-pound inmate is morbidly obese, and veins suitable for lethal injection would be difficult to find, reports the Columbus Post ...

Killer Who Beheaded Bus Rider Ate Flesh: Cop

Suspect was 'very nice, polite guy,' says boss

(Newser) - The man who beheaded his seatmate in a savage random attack on a Canadian bus ate pieces of the body, an officer said in a police tape leaked online. The attacker is “at the back of the bus, hacking off pieces and eating it,” said one officer who...

Alleged Bus Killer Quiet in Canadian Court

Accused to face 2nd degree murder charge, psych test

(Newser) - The 40-year-old Edmonton native accused of beheading a man on a Greyhound bus made his first appearance in court yesterday, the Winnipeg Free Press reports. Visibly shaken and quiet, Vincent Weiguang Li was ordered to undergo psychological testing once he talks to a lawyer. He will remain in police custory...

Killer of 3 Captured After Wisc. Manhunt

Gunman emerged from woods, shot 4 swimmers

(Newser) - A man dressed in camouflage clothing walked out of the woods in northern Wisconsin woods yesterday and opened fire on four young people who had gathered at a river to go swimming, killing three of them, the AP reports. Authorities made an arrest this morming, after a dragnet that included...

Canadian Bus Passenger Beheaded by Seatmate

Horrified witnesses flee savage random attack

(Newser) - A "totally calm" attacker stabbed and beheaded his seatmate on a bus in Canada, the Globe & Mail reports. In an apparently random act of violence, the man suddenly stood up and slashed his sleeping victim dozens of times with a hunting knife. Terrified passengers fled as the attacker...

Ex-Beau Charged in Pregnant Soldier's Murder

Victim had ended affair with married man

(Newser) - The former boyfriend of a pregnant Fort Bragg soldier has been charged with her murder, reports CNN. Edgar Patino, 27, proposed to fellow soldier Spc. Megan Lynn Touma while the two were stationed in Germany, according to friends. But Touma, 23, broke up with Patino recently when they were transferred...

Bride Murdered on Honeymoon
 Bride Murdered on Honeymoon

Jul 29, 2008 2:34 AM CDT

Bride Murdered on Honeymoon

6 held as husband fights for life after suspected botched robbery

(Newser) - Six people are being questioned in the murder of a British bride on the final day of her honeymoon on the Caribbean island of Antigua, reports the BBC. The 31-year-old pediatrician was shot dead and her husband critically wounded in what investigators say was a botched robbery at a cottage...

US Army Admits Civilian Shootings in Iraq

3 who died in hail of gunfire were unarmed, innocent victims

(Newser) - American soldiers rained gunfire on a carload of innocent civilians in Baghdad, killing three, and the military falsely told news media that the victims were aggressors, the US military admitted last night. Top Iraqi officials had previously denounced the June 25 incident as murder, and used it to call for...

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