DNA NABS RAPIST LUIS GARCIA FOR 2000 ATTACK

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A SADISTIC rapist who posed as a good Samaritan before viciously attacking a woman has been busted after DNA linked him to the 2000 crime.
The victim who's car had broken down was waiting at a bus stop when Luis Garcia allegedly offered her a ride with his pal.
But instead of driving her for help they went punched and kicked her and dragged her into an apartment in Tacoma, WA.
Ripping off her clothes, one of the attackers put on a condom and raped her, before forcing her into the bathroom and telling her to wash.
She refused and when the men left, the woman, who was still nude fled and got help from another apartment.

After she was taken to hospital doctors found they'd beaten her so badly that she had several facial fractures, along with other injuries.
Cops found the used condom in the apartment, which they used to build a DNA profile, but although they ran it through several DNA databases a match was never found.
But when they tried again in 2008 Garcia, 27, matched the attacker, but he'd disappeared, until cops picked him up on a routine traffic stop on Saturday.
He told cops he'd been living in California.
He was arraigned on the rape and assault charges Monday and ordered held in the Pierce County Jail in lieu of $200,000 bail.

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COPS BUST SUSPECT IN 1983 OK OLA KIRK HOMICIDE

LESTER BLACKBEAR was one day away from freedom--then the past caught up with him. Blackbear was charged with first-degree murder in the 1983 unsolved slaying of Ola Kirk, 77, in Geary, Oklahoma. Blackbear--a lifelong criminal--was always on the periphery over three decades and now, kindly Ola's family is finally at peace.
Kay Mathews said: "It's a relief. Maybe the wait is over. I know it's probably going to be a long process yet, but it's getting closer and the family wants closure." Last year a retired detective--who claimed investigators dropped the ball in the original probe-- found Blackbear living off the grid in Phoenix, Arizona after doing time for several other violent crimes. He was extradited back to Oklahoma on an unrelated charge and sentenced to a short prison term. Blackbear was denied parole while OSBI tested old evidence from the murder scene for new DNA samples, and it paid off. Blackbear could face the death penalty if convicted.

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MICH. COMIC BOOK KILLER MICHAEL GEORGE GUILTY!

MICHAEL GEORGE is guilty. The accused Comic Book Store Killer was convicted in Macomb County, Michigan yesterday of first-degree murder in the July 13, 1990 death of his wife Barbara who was found shot to death. The largely circumstantial case was sealed by a customer's chance call to the comic book store on the day of the murder. According to The Detroit News: Michael Renaud, a regular customer, claimed George took a phone call at the store just before the slaying July 13, 1990. George's mother, Janet, said he was asleep on her couch at the time.
"Comparing Renaud's timetable with Janet George — the jury spent an awful lot of time on that," said George's attorney, Carl Marlinga. "Those were the issues they felt were key."
It was always believed that George didn't like the fact that his wife had gotten fat and he was carrying on an affair with a store employee who later became his wife. With the insurance money he hoped to become the McDonalds of comic book impresarios.
Barbara George's brother Joe Kowynia told the News: "He thought he could get away with murder, and it didn't work — twice. Now that this is over, our family can go on with our lives, and Barb can rest in peace. He can rot in jail." MORE ON COMIC BOOK MURDER

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STILL NO SIGN OF MISSING JENNIFER LYNN PENTILLA

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A MISSING missionary who was on her way to Mexico when she vanished continues to baffle authorities almost 20-years since she vanished. 

Dedicated Jennifer Lynn Pentilla, was just 18-years-old when she decided to meet a missionary group in Las Cruces, NM and help the poor, before heading south of the border. 

Armed with a backpack and a couple of bibles, she planned to ride down on her mountain bike from San Diego and called in with mom eight times to report her progress. 

But on October 17, she changed her plans, telling her mother that she'd heard that a woman traveling alone in Mexico could be dangerous and she'd decided to go and meet a pal in Minnesota instead.  

Her mom offered to pay for her transport there after she made more concrete plans, and Pentilla agreed to call her back that evening. 

But she never called back, never arrived at the friend's home and has not been heard from again. 

About a year later, on September 4, 1992, two dove hunters found Pentilla's camping equipment and journal under a tarp in a remote area between Hatch and Deming off of State Road 26, about 46 miles northeast of Deming.

But despite a large investigation by the Missoula Police Department and a large amount of national news coverage no information has surfaced.

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CONCRETE THE KEY IN DAVID PARKER RAY MURDERS

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THE TWISTED "Toy Box Killer" may never have been caught because he buried his victims in concrete, it was revealed yesterday. 
As we reported here, David Parker Ray, repeatedly bragged about torturing and killing over 40 women in his 20ft white trailer which he called the "toy box" including Air Force worker Jill Troia, who vanished 16-years ago.
But although he was jailed for the sexual torture of three women, Ray who died in prison in 2002, was never convicted of murder.
But thanks to a tipster, cops have reopened the case and re-sweeping the Elephant Butte lake near Ray's home. 
The man who did not wish to be named told KRQE that the bodies may never have been found because the victims were encased in concrete.
He said Ray often hired him to pour concrete into large tires during the 1990's, which he told him he used them to anchor the marina down.
He explained: “I would go up to like an empty lot above the state parks area that was surrounded by concrete and cinderblock walls, where nobody could actually see in there."
He added that he always met him alone and insisted he stay in the truck when pouring the concrete.
He said: “You can definitely hide a body in one of them."
An FBI agent said encasing bodies in concrete at the bottom of the lake was a definite possibility, but added that they believe he may have used different ways to dispose of the bodies.
Frank Fisher said: “Something is a little suspicious when a person does not let somebody walk around or look around the area."
“Even in his own writings he would suggest ways to dispose of bodies, for instance to put them in areas where he knew they were going to pave roads."

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LAURA KEMPTON'S 1981 MURDER LINKED TO '82 SLAYING

On Monday, September 28, 1981 at 9:30am, the body of Laura Kempton, 23 years old, was found murdered in her apartment located at 20 Chapel St.in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The autopsy conducted by the NH Medical Examiner reported that Kempton died of massive head trauma, consistent with being struck by a blunt object, causing contusions and lacerations of the brain. Kempton was a student at the Portsmouth Beauty School and was employed at Macro Polo, Inc. and Karen's Ice Cream Parlor. Another woman, Tammy Little, who also attended the beauty school was murdered in a similar fashion a year later. It is believed the cases are linked.

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NM COPS HUNT FOR BODIES OF JILL TROIA, 40 OTHERS

COPS in New Mexico are searching for up to 40 bodies after a killer boasted his tally was sky high. And they've reopened the case of Jill Troia, 22, who disappeared in 1995 and is suspected to be a victim of David Parker Ray. It's believed Parker Ray dumped bodies near the Elephant Butte Reservoir and caves. Troia vanished in 1995.
According to Fox News: Ray wrote detailed accounts of sexual tortures and burials of victims, including one he described as an Asian woman -- a description that fits Troia. But authorities have said it's unclear if his writings were fantasies or actual crimes he committed.
He was arrested in 1999 after a naked woman wearing just a dog collar and a chain fled his house of horrors. She had been tortured by Ray and inside his house--that he called his "toy box"-- they found his surgical tools and video cameras. He was initially charged with 37 counts involving three women -- the woman who fled naked, a Colorado woman who was tortured in 1996 and another woman.
In 2001, Ray was convicted of kidnapping and torturing the Colorado woman, and he pleaded guilty to kidnapping and rape charges in the case of the woman who fled naked. He died in prison in 2002. No bodies have ever been located after a number of searches in the area around the reservoir.
Troia was last seen in October 1995 at the Frontier Restaurant with another woman--Ray's daughter Glenda Jean, who she had been dating in a lesbian relationship. She was later reported missing
Detectives have long believed the Glenda and her dad were linked to the disappearance. She was jailed on a kidnapping beef while Ray's girlfriend, Cynthia Lea Hendy, got hit with 36 years.

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