OUTRAGE! CHILD KILLER JOHN ATHAN WALKS FREE

A MONSTER nabbed after 20 years for the murder of Kristen Sumstad, 13, has walked out of jail free thanks to a loophole. Dedicated Seattle cold case detectives arrested John Athan 20 years after the 1982 murder by tricking him into licking an envelope. DNA sealed the deal for the monster.But wait...the judge sentenced Athan to a laughable...

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PHILANDER HAMPTON PLEADS GUILTY TO '78 MASSACRE

PURE EVIL. A New Jersey man who pleaded guilty to murdering five teens ended the saga in one of the Garden State's oldest active cold cases. Philander Hampton, of Jersey City, told cops he and his cousin, Lee Evans, lured the teens to a ramshackle area of Newark and into an abandoned house with the promise of jobs--then they locked them inside...

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MISSING: MARIO ANDRES OLGUIN-BOCANGEL

On July 29, 2011 Mario Andres Olguin-Bocangel was abducted by his father Mario Olguin in Fairfax, Virginia. The 4-year-old who turns 5 on September 18 is a male, Hispanic who stands 3'6", is 38 lbs. and has black hair and brown eyes. A felony warrant for Kidnapping was issued for Mario on August 1, 2011. They may travel to Mexico. The child...

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SYLVIANE FINCK LOZADA MISSING: FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED

MISSING? MISSING? A POPULAR Belgian schoolteacher who has been missing for over a month may have been the victim of foul play, cops have revealed.Sylviane Finck Lozada was reported missing from her Baton Rouge, LA home on July 18, although she last spoke with her family a couple of weeks earlier.Her husband Oscar Lozada boarded a plane...

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$10,000 REWARD FOR INFO ON CLEO BURDETTE MURDER

$10,000 REWARD A $10,000 reward has been put up for any information that will lead to the capture of Cleo Burdette's killer.Back in August 2004, the 78-year-old's battered body was found on the couch of his Sissonville, WV, home but cops are refusing to reveal anymore details about the baffling case.Deputies did however find broken windows,...

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HOW GA. COPS CAUGHT LAUREN GIDDINGS' KILLER

LAUREN Giddings' accused killer first became a person of interest, when he appeared distraught in various media appearances, cops told the court yesterday. Then they took a closer look and found the evidence they think will convict 25-year-old law graduate Stephen Mark McDaniel. Among his possessions: a master key to an apartment where...

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TRIAL BEGINS FOR 1994 JENNIFER CUSWORTH MURDER

JUSTICE AT LAST? A FATHER four  has begun his trial for the 1993 murder of a gorgeous 19-year-old college student.Jennifer Cusworth's battered body was found the night after she had attended a huge house party near her home in Kelowna, Canada.But despite the length of time, cops refused to give up on catching their killer, taking over...

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WALLER CASE EERIE REMINDER FOR AMANDA JONES KIN

AS THE SEARCH for missing Missouri mom Jacque Sue Waller appears to have hit a wall, the haunting image of another missing mom is casting a long shadow. Waller--a mother of triplets--disappeared June 1 and her estranged hubby Clay is considered a person of interest. Meanwhile, the disappearance of Amanda Jones just has hit the six year mark. ...

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MISSING KATELYN MARKHAM'S FIANCE: SHE'S OKAY

The fiance of missing Ohio woman Katelyn Markham believes that she is still alive--despite vanishing more than two weeks ago. The search for the pretty art student has now gone national.John Carter told ABC: "My gut feeling is that she's alive and that she's ok. I have to believe she's alive. I have to believe that I'm going to have her in my arms soon." He was the last person to see her. So far cops say there's no evidence...

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SUSPECTED KILLER OF EILEEN ADAMS NEW TRIAL IS OCT. 11

ON OCT. 11, Eileen Adams may finally get justice after nearly 44 years. That's when suspected sex killer Robert Bowman will be retried for the 1967 torture murder of Eileen, 14 at the time of the slaying. The creepy 75-year-old's first trial ended in a hung jury, although one juror said it was 10-2 to convict. There is a gag order on the...

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LOIS SCHMIDT, SON TARGETED BY PROFESSIONAL KILLER

IT WAS a heinous crime that demands justice. On June 28, 2004 a cold-blooded murder rocked Virginia Beach, Virgina. Lois Schmidt, 29, and her son, Jonathan Vetrano, 7, were found dead. Both had been shot in the head and their home set on fire. Cops say at about 6 a.m. that day, an unknown male approached Schmidt's home claiming to be a former...

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SEXY ROBYN GARDNER PHOTOS ADDS TO MYSTERY

WHO WAS Robyn Gardner? The pretty 35-year-old Maryland dental assistant also had modeling aspirations and our sister site Crime Scene USA (thanks to Chelsea Hoffman at Gather.com) have gotten their hands on some fairly provocative pictures. Gardner vanished in Aruba on Aug. 2 after going on a sex holiday with secret beau Gary Giordano...

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NO CLOSE IN HEIDI CHILDS, DAVID METZLER MURDERS

IT'S NOW been two years since Virginia Tech students Heidi Childs and David Metzler were mysteriously murdered. Heidi, 18, and David, 19, of Lynchburg were shot to death on the evening of Aug. 26, 2009 in the parking lot of a campground in the Jefferson National Forest. There have been no arrests. Their bodies were discovered the next day...

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COULD SAFE CRACK RICHARD CHARTRAND MURDER?

ANSWERS? A HUGE safe found hidden away in an old casino could help police finally crack the 1968 murder of former casino boss.Richard Chartrand was blown up in his South Lake Tahoe, NV neighborhood by a sophisticated bomb but his killers were never caught.It's current owner, attorney Mike Laub said last Thursday crews discovered a secret...

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DID PSYCHO PHD. KILL CO-ED BETSY AARDSMA IN 1969?

HE WAS brilliant and deeply disturbed. In the dying days of flower power, in 1969, a number of experts now believe Penn State Phd. Rick Haefner went into a university library and stabbed to death Betsy Aardsma, 19, a freshman from Holland, Michigan. For four decades the case has remained cold but two authors are fingering Haefner--now dead--as the killer. And his nephew is backing them up. Above is a clip on the case from 2008....

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9/11 ANNIVERSARY MOST WANTED: AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI

I KNEW Osama bin-Laden and you sir, are no Osama bin Laden. Well, they say Number 2 tries harder. As the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 approach we're featuring these most wanted nutters. The FBI is offering a $25 million reward for information leading to the apprehension or conviction of Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the death cult...

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FAMILY OF PAULA HERNANDEZ STILL WAITING FOR JUSTICE

UNSOLVED THEY'VE waited 15-years for justice, but Paula Hernandez's family are still no nearer to finding the cold blooded killer who gunned down their daughter.Back in 1996, she was executed on the driveway of her of their South Austin home, by a person who cops have yet to find.Her distraught mom Josie, 70, said: "Our family has been...

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JUSTICE AT LAST FOR 1978 CARROLL BONNET MURDER

WATSON THREE decades after his naked body was found dead of a single stab wound, with a taunting note left for cops, justice has finally been served on his killer.A jury took just a few hours to convict Jerry Watson, now 52 of first degree murder for the weird 1978 murder of the 61-year-old hospital worker.At the time of the killing, the...

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1981 USMC BASE TRIPLE HOMICIDE STILL UNSOLVED

A MOM and two children dead. Unsolved. Cold. Chilling. A teenager accused. In 1981, two sisters and their children were living at USMC Camp Lejeune in North Carolina while their husbands were stationed in Alaska and Japan. On a warm summer evening when one of the sisters, a nurse, was working four pre-teen cousins camped out in a family...

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DID WENDY SUE WOLIN'S KILLER GET AWAY WITH IT?

AS FLOWER power revved up, Elizabeth, New Jersey was stunned by the heinous murder of a 7-year-old girl. On March 8, 1966, Wendy Sue Wolin planned to leave her apartment with her mom Shirley Fleischner. Shirley went around back to get the car and then pick up the skinny little girl at the front of her building. Then, a stocky man wearing...

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$5000 REWARD IN 1977 RONNIE ODELL DAVIS CASE

$5000 REWARD THEY'RE still hopeful of finding out the truth, despite it being more than 34 years since Ronnie Odell Davis disappeared. And now his family have offered $5000 to anyone who can help them finally put the mystery to rest.Back in August 1977 the 24-year-old vanished without trace from his home near Swink, OK and cops, suspecting...

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AZ. COPS: ON VERGE OF CLOSING RANDY PARSCALE CASE

 BAFFLING DISAPPEARANCE may have new hope. Randy Parscale was 10 when he vanished while on a hiking trip with his grandfather and two brothers in Peppersauce Canyon in Arizona on April 7, 1979. Randy wandered ahead of the rest of the group and was never seen again. An extensive search was launched but there was no trace of the boy. However,...

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LINDA K. WOODRUFF 1979 KY. MURDER COLD AS ICE

WHO MURDERED Linda K. Woodruff? The 28-year-old store clerk was shot to death during what may have been a robbery gone awry at a Kwick Pick store in in Madisonville, Kentucky on this date in 1979. She had been working in the store alone in the store. No money was taken and for 32 years, the case has been a mystery and getting colder with...

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HUNG JURY TRIGGERS ROBERT BOWMAN MISTRIAL

ONE JUROR said it was 10-2 to convict Robert Bowman, 75, in the 1967 sex slaying of Eileen Adams. But in the end the two holdouts would not be moved. We will take a guess: CSI effect. It's believed the prosecution is anxious to retry Bowman. MORE IN THE TOLEDO BL...

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WILLIAM WALTER ASHER III BUSTED 36-YEARS ON

BUSTED ARREST A DYING mom's wish led the FBI to capture her fugitive son, who had eluded capture for 36 years.Back in 1966 William Walter Asher III was part of a four man crew who shot and beat a San Francisco barman to death during a robbery.But although he was captured, convicted and given to life imprisonment, eight years into his...

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EILEEN ADAMS MURDER: JURY DELIBERATES ON BOWMAN

IT HAS been one of the most shocking cold case trials in memory and now it's coming to an end. Robert Bowman, 75, charged in the 1967 sex slaying of Toledo schoolgirl Eileen Adams is now waiting as the jury deliberat...

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GUILTY PLEA IN 1976 DARLENE STACK SEX SLAY

THE SUSPECTED killer in the notorious 1976 murder of Darlene Stack is set to plead guilty, his lawyer revealed. Michael Whitney will receive a life sentence for the killing. Whitney was charged in early August after cops revealed DNA at the scene linked Whitney to the crime. Whitney and Stack lived in the same boarding house in suburban Chicago....

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MELISSA HASKELL SMOTHERED BABY IN '92: COPS

FOR NEARLY 20 years a Pennsylvania woman got away with murder but on Monday, her run from justice came to an end. Melissa Haskell, 38, of Bridgeport was charged with third-degree murder in the death of Ryan Baurley, who was just 5-months-old in 1992.The baby's dad Michael said of the arrest: "The very recent developments in this investigation...

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WAS SCOTS ELVIS FAN GERRIE LAWRIE MURDERED?

A SCOTTISH Elvis Presley fan who vanished during celebrations of the King's birthday has been found dead but Memphis cops are still unsure how she died. Gerrie Lawrie, 40, had been to the southern city six times and hoped to move there. When she didn't fly home, her family became worried.Our sister site Crime Scene USA has the sto...

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GAL PAL BUSTED IN 1985 JOHN MAYERCHAK MURDER

KILLER FOR over a quarter of a century the death of John Mayerchak has remained a mystery. Found dead from a shotgun blast to the face in his Northampton, PA apartment, the jolly 51-year-old's murder baffled detectives for more than 26-years. With seemingly no enemies, no links to organized crime and no signs of forced entry at...

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HOLLY BOBO FAMILY'S HEARTBREAKING NIGHTMARE

IN AN exclusive interview with the Jackson (Tenn.) Sun, Holly Bobo's parents described the daily nightmare they have endured since the pretty, 20-year-old nursing student vanished April 13 from her Tennessee home. It has consumed their lives. Karen Bobo said: "It's the same thing. It's like a nightmare that you live over and over every day."...

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LET'S FIND CREEPY CHILD MOLESTER REX REICHERT

MEET DIRTY REX. As child molesters go, Rex Reichert is pretty brutal and the FBI would live to see him brought to justice. The 65-year-old pervert is wanted for thesexual abuse of two jboys, 14 and 10,  in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Reichert had cared for the boys while a relative was receiving medical treatment. The boys also visited...

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DAVID DIXON BUSTED FOR 32-YEAR-OLD MURDER

JUSTICE AT LAST? HE MUST have thought that after more than three decades they had got away with the vicious murder of security guard Rachel Moncrief.But now thanks to improvements in DNA technology, cops have arrested David Dixon, now 61, in connection with the 1979 killing which saw her stabbed more than 30 times.It is the third result...

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WHO IS RACINE JANE DOE TORTURED, KILLED IN 1999?

SHE HAS WAITED for love and justice for nearly a dozen years. Jane Doe was found dead on the morning of July 21, 1999 outside Racine, Wisconsin. She had been horribly abused and no one ever identified her. Her murder also remains unsolved.Cops say she is white, between 18 and 30, 5'8" and 120 lbs. She had brown hair and eyes and two front...

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COPS TURN UP HEAT IN 1992 MISTY COPSEY KIDNAPPING

MISTY COPSEY GREEN RIVER KILLER FOR 19 YEARS, the story has been the same: a bloody brick wall. Misty Copsey was a well-behaved 14-year-old who vanished into thin air on Sept. 17, 1992 after a night at the Puyallup Fair with a girlfriend. She never came home and there has never been a body or a single trace of anything to solve the heartbreaking...

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AUSTIN POWERS STAR ACCUSED OF 1990 KIDNAP/RAPE

RANDOM RAPIST? AUSTIN Powers star Joe Son is set to stand trial for the vicious 1990 kidnap and rape of a woman.The pint sized actor who made his name playing shoe throwing bad guy, Random Task has turned into a real bad guy after his DNA was matched to the vicious crime.On Christmas Eve of 1990 the 20-year-old woman was abducted off the...

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WILL EILEEN ADAMS FINALLY GET JUSTICE MONDAY?

THE FATE of Robert Bowman will be determined Monday. That's when the prosecution and defense present their final arguments in the case of the 75-year-old accused killer. The old creep is charged with first-degree murder in the 1967 sex strangling of Eileen Adams in Toledo. The 14-year-old was last seen a week before Christmas on a city bus....

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VELDA LEYBA VANISHED ON DAUGHTER'S BIRTHDAY

THE BIRTHDAY will never be forgotten. Velda Leyba was on her way to daughter Isabel Candelaria's birthday party. It was Dec. 6, 1992. But young mom never made. In the 20 years since, no one has heard from her. Did she meet with foul play or did she die in the raging blizzard howling at the time? Now, her case has been dusted off and cops...

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WHO MURDERED ADREANNA ANITA JACKSON IN '05?

ACCORDING to the FBI, Adreanna Anita Jackson left her home in Lakewood, Washington on Dec. 2, 2005 and was not seen alive again. She left to go to school that day but never made it. The school had been closed due a howling blizzard. Her body was found in a vacant lot in Pierce County, Washington on April 5, 2006. She was last seen wearing...

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SHOCKING PORN PIX OF ROBYN GARDNER ON CAMERA

SHOCKING images found on the camera of the boyfriend of Robyn Gardner, the Maryland woman who disappeared in Aruba, have been described as "beyond pornographic", sources say. Cops on the Caribbean island say the images came from the camera of Gary Giordano, 50, who is being held in the disappearance. MORE AT OUR SISTER SITE, CRIME SCENE ...

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