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The Brooklyn man accused of killing a young Hasidic boy and carving up his corpse will have to face trial in Brooklyn after an appeals court skewered his bid for a change of venue. |
Levi Aron sought to move his murder and kidnapping trail to Suffolk County or, failing that, The Bronx, citing considerable media attention to the murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky, who had gotten lost in Bough Park on his first trip home alone from day camp and died at Aron’s hands in July 2011. |
“Current defense counsel’s attempts to correct inaccurate information and to redirect the public to seek justice through trial instead of vengeance have been ignored,” wrote Jennifer McCann, Aron’s lawyer. |
British detectives reviewing the search for Madeleine McCann have travelled to Portugal for "formal" meetings with authorities. |
Scotland Yard said its officers have conducted their first face-to-face discussions with police chiefs who led the massive hunt after the youngster vanished. |
Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family's holiday flat in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on May 3 2007 as her parents dined with friends nearby. |
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "MPS officers travelled to Portugal at the beginning of August and had their first formal meeting with Portuguese authorities to discuss ways to progress the investigative review." |
Posted: 09/09/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT |
Updated: 09/09/2011 06:03:41 AM MDT |
Tony Lee will never forget meeting Travis Forbes at a gas station two days after his stepdaughter Kenia Monge vanished. |
"When I shook his hand, how he felt, how he was shaking — I knew I had shaken the hand of the last person that saw Kenia alive," Lee said Thursday afternoon, after Forbes was charged with first-degree murder. |
Forbes reportedly told Denver investigators where to find Monge's body. Her remains were recovered Wednesday from a field west of Keenesburg in Weld County. |
Forbes is in the Larimer County jail on a different charge. He will be held there without bond until Sept. 23, when he is to be formally advised in Denver District Court of the first-degree murder charge. |
By David Pilditch and Tracey Kandohla
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A NEW investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was under way last night after senior Scotland Yard detectives flew to Portugal. |
Officers from a 30-strong squad specially set up to revive the search for Madeleine McCann, who vanished four years ago, met Portuguese authorities for the first time. |
The top secret talks took place last month but details emerged for the first time yesterday. |
Last night Madeleine’s devoted parents Kate and Gerry told how the development gave them fresh hope of a breakthrough in the hunt for their daughter. Heart specialist Gerry, 42, and former GP Kate, 43, were said to be “extremely pleased” the meeting had taken place. |
It is the first time any international police force has been searching for Madeleine since the official Portuguese inquiry was shelved in July 2008. The couple’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell said Kate and Gerry believed it was “a positive step in the right direction”.
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By Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun
7:13 p.m. EDT, September 8, 2011
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Invited over to help celebrate his son's first birthday, 25-year-old Hari P. Close III had been a no-show. |
But overnight Tuesday, Close crept into the home where his son lived and climbed into bed with the boy's mother, records show. On Wednesday morning, 1-year-old Dalyire Damion McFadden was missing, and he was later found by police wrapped in a deflated air mattress in the basement. He had been stabbed in the neck, police say. |
Close, who was an aspiring male model, was charged Thursday with first-degree murder in his son's death and was being held without bond. Police say he admitted hiding bloody evidence, which was later found with the murder weapon. |
The arrest stunned Close's father, a well-known funeral home director in the city and president of the state morticians' board. He said he never saw any signs that his son was troubled. Read more at www.baltimoresun.com |
Posted: Thursday, September 8, 2011 11:22 am
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Updated: 4:15 pm, Thu Sep 8, 2011.
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BRANDON JOHANSSON
Aurora Sentinel |
The Denver County Coroner’s Office is performing an autopsy
today on a body believed to missing Aurora teen Kenia Monge. |
Denver police found the body Wednesday while in a “possible
clandestine grave” near Keenesburg in rural Weld County, according
to a statement from the coroner’s office. The Denver coroner took
custody of the body from Weld County. |
Officials haven’t confirmed that the body is that of 19-year-old
Monge, who disappeared from a Denver night club in April. |
by Frank Mungeam
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Posted on September 8, 2011 at 10:37 AM |
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- New searches were planned for Kyron Horman, who went missing from Skyline Elementary School on June 4, 2010. |
The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office planned to search this weekend in new areas that had not previously been searched, KGW news partner The Oregonian reports, citing Kyron's mother Desiree Young. |
Thursday, September 8, 2011 |
McCOOK, Nebraska -- The Bartley man accused of killing a McCook girl in January is not competent to stand trial now, according to a psychological examination submitted by defense attorneys. |
However, the defendant, Stathis Sebastian Mobley Kirkpatrick, 19, could be made competent by following a treatment plan, according to prosecutors.
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Kirkpatrick is charged with first degree murder in connection with the death of Kailee Nichole Clapp, 14. Defense attorney Derek Mitchell, told Red Willow County District Court Judge David Urbom that it was the opinion of the doctor who completed the report that Kirkpatrick was not competent to stand trial at this time.
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Prosecutors had no objection to entering the report into evidence this morning during a motions hearing, but Corey O'Brien of the Nebraska Attorney General's office pointed out that the report does indicate that a prescribed treatment plan would make Kirkpatrick competent in the near future.
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A Merrick man who stabbed an 8-year-old boy in the back at a Westbury arcade last year was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in prison. |
Evan Sachs had pleaded guilty at Nassau County court in July to second-degree attempted murder and assault. |
Prosecutors said the 24-year-old used a 4-inch hunting knife to stab the victim in the back five times as the boy stood in front of a video game at Dave & Buster’s on Oct. 8, 2010. |
Posted: Thursday, Sep. 08, 2011 |
The attorney for the ex-boyfriend of Phylicia Barnes' half-sister says his client was not responsible for the Monroe teen's death, WBTV is reporting. |
WBTV reporter Derrick Rose spoke this week with Russell Beverdon Sr., who is representing 27-year-old Michael Johnson. Beverdon told WBTV that Johnson has been questioned eight times by Baltimore police about the death of Barnes, who disappeared Dec. 28 from her half-sister Deena's apartment. |
Phylicia Barnes' body was discovered several months later in the Susquehanna River, north of Baltimore. Police say Barnes, 16, who was in her senior year at Union Academy in Monroe, was murdered. Investigators have not disclosed the cause of death. |
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