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Etan Patz Disappearance: Man Arrested 33 Years Later for Murder
Originally posted 05/24/2012 08:50PM
After more than three decades, one of the country's biggest missing persons cases has finally been solved, say police.
Pedro Hernandez, a former corner store worker, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder after he confessed to strangling 6-year-old Etan Patz and disposing of his body in 1979, police said Thursday.
"He was remorseful, and I think the detectives thought that it was a feeling of relief on his part," New York police Commissioner Ray Kelly told a news conference.
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Casey Anthony: Meet the Teen Actress Playing Her in TV Movie
Originally posted 05/24/2012 07:00PM
Holly Deveaux, a little-known teenage Canadian actress, is about to portray one of the most controversial women in America when she takes the role of Casey Anthony in a TV movie
Is Deveaux ready for the attention?
"Definitely not," the 19-year-old acknowledges to ET Canada. "It's nerve-wracking to combat such a controversial issue as well, the outpouring of negativity for Casey Anthony is unlike anything we've seen in the media in years."
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Suspect in Robyn Gardner Disappearance Arrested for Indecent Exposure
Originally posted 05/22/2012 05:00PM
Gary Giordano, who had been held for four months in the disappearance of Robyn Gardner in Aruba, was arrested in Maryland after he was found naked with another woman in the back of a Cadillac Escalade, police say.
Giordano, 51, and a woman identified as Carol Bock, 45, of Tennessee were arrested for investigation of indecent exposure after they were discovered by Annapolis police responding to a call of possible sexual activity in a car in a parking garage last Friday evening.
When officers shined a light through an SUV window, the pair were seen lying naked on a mattress in the rear cargo area with a blanket hanging "in what appeared to be an attempt to conceal their activity,” say charging documents reported by the Washington Times.
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Missing Teen Cheerleader Presumed Murdered; Suspect Arrested
Originally posted 05/22/2012 03:30PM
A 15-year-old Northern California high school cheerleader who disappeared in March on the way to the bus stop is believed to have been kidnapped and murdered, and a man has been arrested in the case.
"We believe this is the worst kind of crime – a stranger abduction of a young girl," Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith told a news conference Tuesday.
The body of Sierra LaMar has not been found and authorities have not said how or when she was killed. Smith says only that investigators have "strong facts" LaMar was murdered.
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Casey Anthony Flushed Out of Hiding
Originally posted 05/21/2012 06:20PM
Ten months after she went into hiding, Casey Anthony has been found and now may have to face tough questions under oath in a courtroom.
Investigators have been waiting outside Anthony's residence in Florida for several days to serve her with a subpoena in a defamation action filed by a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez.
"Our investigation team had her whereabouts pinned down," says Gonzalez's attorney, Matt Morgan. "Their backs were against the wall, so her attorneys said that they would accept service on her behalf."
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Estrella Carrera's Husband Wanted by FBI
Originally posted 05/18/2012 09:15AM
A national manhunt is on for Arnoldo Jimenez, the man charged with the murder of his bride, Estrella Carrera, in Chicago.
The FBI has issued a federal warrant for Arnoldo Jimenez, the Chicago Tribune reports. "The warrant was issued on the fact that Jimenez will or has fled the boundaries of the State of Illinois," Burbank police said in a news release.
Carrera was found stabbed to death in her bathtub last weekend, still wearing her wedding dress.
Jimenez has been charged with first-degree murder, the Tribune reports, and the federal warrant reveals more clues about what happened to Carrera.
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Rev. Marvin Winans Beaten, Carjacked in Detroit
Originally posted 05/17/2012 10:30AM
The pastor and gospel recording artist who gave the eulogy at Whitney Houston's funeral in February was beaten and carjacked in Detroit on Wednesday.
The Rev. Marvin Winans suffered cuts and bruises and had his wallet, a $15,000 Rolex watch and his 2012 Infiniti SUV stolen, according to the Detroit Free Press.
The three or four men who attacked Winans at a gas station in a northwest part of the city likely did not know who he was, police said.
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Estrella Carrera Found Stabbed to Death in Wedding Dress
Originally posted 05/16/2012 11:30AM
A bride in Chicago was found dead in her bathtub last weekend, two days after getting married, according to reports.
Estrella Carrera, 26, had been stabbed to death and was still wearing the cocktail dress she had on at her wedding reception, the Associated Press reports.
Police have now issued a warrant for Carrera's husband, Arnoldo Jimenez, 30, and have launched a manhunt involving 32 law enforcement agencies and the FBI, according to the AP.
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Nick Stahl's Wife Says He Is Missing
Originally posted 05/16/2012 09:20AM
Where is Nick Stahl?
TMZ.com reports that his wife, Rose, filed a missing persons report with the Los Angeles Police Department on Monday. According to her report, Stahl, 32, was last seen on May 9.
UPDATE: LAPD confirms that Stahl's wife reported him missing at 10 a.m. Monday morning. "I can confirm that he's missing," LAPD Officer Rosario Herrera tells PEOPLE. "And, as of now, he is still missing."
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Montana Jogger Said 'Hi' to Suspects Before Being Attacked: Court Docs
Originally posted 05/15/2012 06:30PM
Two men pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the kidnapping and murder of Sherry Arnold after prosecutors filed court documents with new alleged details of her brutal attack.
Arnold disappeared at dusk along a rural road near her hometown of Sidney, Mont., where she was a star high school math teacher and mom to two kids and three stepchildren.
Before the arraignment, prosecutors added murder charges that make Michael Keith Spell, 22, and Lester Van Waters Jr., 48, both of Parachute, Colo., eligible for the death penalty.
According to the new documents, a jailhouse informant named Michael Pruit says Spell told him that Waters instigated the attack because the men were "high on drugs and Waters wanted to have sex."
Pruit says Spell told him that Arnold jogged past him and said, "Hi."
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