***BREAKING NEWS!!!*** TODAY on WEBSLEUTHS ***BREAKING NEWS!!!***

[zwiebel]

Police Presser today, 4pm CA time; suspected serial killers in OC.

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=241088&highlight=martha+anaya

 

[dotr]

" A day of partying to celebrate the last day of classes has ended in tragedy at a student home in Calgary, where five people have been stabbed to death.

Calgary police say they were called around 1:30 a.m. MT to a home in the residential neighbourhood of Brentwood, where students had been having an all-day party.

Five people were found suffering from stab wounds, all of them in their late teens and early 20s"

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/five-dead-after-stabbing-at-calgary-house-party-1.1776541#ixzz2yyMoEQeM


5 dead after stabbing at Calgary University house party - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

 

[zwiebel]

A French woman living close to where little Fiona Chafoulais is still missing, has been charged with inventing a fake, missing two year old child on FB, leading to full-scale searches.

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=210018&page=20&highlight=chafoulais

 

[Salem]

GVS from Fox is doing a program on Jennifer Kessig. [ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10458274#post10458274"]FL - Jennifer Kesse, 24, Orlando, 24 Jan 2006 - #11 - Page 13 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]

Fox News Channel- Greta Van Susteren, cable FNC (Brighthouse Networks Channel 37), is presenting a full hour special on Jennifer's case this Friday, April 18th, 2014 at 7:00pm and replayed at 2am. It will also be shown on Saturday, April 19th at 9:00pm and again at 1:00am. The Special is named: Greta Investigates- The Mysterious Disappearance of Jennifer Kesse. Please pass on this information concerning the show to all you know and thank you for continuing to care.

 

[zwiebel]

A convicted killer's online visits to Websleuths were mentioned at his trial in Oregon, as part of the evidence that led to his conviction.

Det. Brandon Bloomfield of the Southern Oregon High Tech Crimes Unit testified:

'I found the user had been to a website www.websleuths.com and one of the things that would have been viewed at that website was captured in this article: 'Most common way men murder their wives and get away with it'.
http://kobi5.com/news/item/detectiv...ay-have-searched-for-online.html#.U1TmossaySN

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=223927&page=40

 

[zwiebel]

A man in Fife, Scotland has been detained by police following the suspicious death of 2 year-old Madison Horne Sunday evening.

[ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10474676#post10474676"]UK-Man arrested after death of 2 yr old Madison Horne in Scotland. - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]

 

[bessie]

Stephen McDaniel has pleaded guilty in the strangulation and dismemberment of Lauren Theresa Giddings, 27, in Macon, GA, June 25-26, 2011.

McDaniel: "I am extremely sorry"

By Amy Leigh Womack and Joe Kovac Jr.
Telegraph staffApril 21, 2014

In the late hours of June 25 or early hours of June 26, Stephen McDaniel broke into Lauren Giddings’ apartment and fatally choked her on the floor of her bedroom. ** He used a master key and was wearing gloves and a mask.

“I walked to her bedroom door and stood there, observing her sleeping. As I took another step, the floor creaked, and she awoke. She sat up in bed,” McDaniel wrote in a statement confessing his actions on the night Giddings was killed in 2011.

Read more here: http://www.macon.com/2014/04/21/305...d-guilty.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1#storylink=cpy

Guilty Plea: Georgia Man Confesses to Strangling, Dismembering Law Student

Posted by Scott Bernarde (Editor) , April 21, 2014 at 01:17 PM

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Stephen McDaniel, the man accused of killing and dismembering Mercer law graduate Lauren Giddings, pleaded guilty to murder Monday morning. ** As part of the plea deal, McDaniel will serve life in prison with the possibility of parole in 2041. He must also provide a written allocution detailing the events of the night Giddings was murdered back in the summer of 2011.

McDaniel pleads guilty to murder: 'It is difficult for me to explain why I killed Lauren'

41-WMGT Macon, GA
04/21/2014 09:51 AM - 04/21/2014 02:55 PM

Giddings' family was in the courtroom. Her mother, Karen Giddings, addressed the court and said Lauren would have turned 30 last Friday on Good Friday. She said McDaniel has robbed our family and friends of so much.” ** Cooke said Giddings' family now has justice.

[ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=222443"]GA - Stephen McDaniel pleads GUILTY to strangulation murder of Lauren Giddings, April 2014 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]

 

[zwiebel]

A man has been charged with the murder of two year old Madison Horne in Fife, Scotland.

[ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=241794"]UK-Man arrested after death of 2 yr old Madison Horne in Scotland. - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]

 

[zwiebel]

A 7 year old found on fire on an Aberdeen Street has died.

[ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=241551"]7 yr old found on fire in street in Aberdeen - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]

 

[zwiebel]

A body found in a pond in Lackawanna Cnty, PA, has been identified as missing Diane Zavislak.

[ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=228481"]PA PA - Diane Zavislak, 56, Kingston Township, 3 Novermber 2013 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Madeleine McCann mystery: UK police say 6 more intruder cases may be linked

By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN

updated 9:45 AM EDT, Wed April 23, 2014

(CNN) -- Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal are looking at six more cases where a male intruder entered holiday villas where children were staying, police said Wednesday.

The development means there are now 18 potentially linked crimes at resorts near where the 3-year-old vanished in June 2007, London's Metropolitan Police said.

Children were sexually assaulted by the intruder in half of those cases.

Madeleine's disappearance while on a family vacation in the Portuguese resort town of Praia da Luz prompted headlines worldwide -- and remains a mystery...

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/23/world/europe/uk-portugal-madeleine-mccann/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=129"]Madeleine McCann - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]

 

[zwiebel]

UK/SA - A South African mother has been charged with the murder of her three disabled children in London, Tuesday night.

UK/SA-3 children dead, mother arrested. Apr22 '14 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

April 23, 2014 at 12:18 pm

Priest, administrator indicted, accused of $700K theft from Troy parish

Robert Snell/The Detroit News

Detroit — A Catholic priest and a parish administrator were indicted and accused of stealing almost $700,000 from St. Thomas More Church in Troy and blowing the cash on a condominium and other expenses.

The five-count indictment, announced Wednesday, charges the Rev. Edward Belczak, 69, of Troy and Janice Verschuren, 67, of Bloomfield Hills with stealing the money from the church and Archdiocese of Detroit between 2004 and 2012.

The stolen money allegedly included most of a $350,000 gift to the church from the family of a dead parishioner and cash donated by churchgoers during special Mother’s Day and Father’s Day collections, prosecutors alleged.

The duo tried to hide the alleged crime by creating false documents and submitting them to the Archdiocese, prosecutors allege. The documents under-reported the amount of the parish’s operating receipts.

Belczak and Verschuren face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of charges that include conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud...

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140423/METRO02/304230061#ixzz2zjcCvEYc

ETA: Websleuths discussion link - MI - Embezzlement Probe Focuses on Troy Priest - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

 

[zwiebel]

PA- Trial of Michael Morrone, charged with the third-degree murder of Christine McGhee, starts Monday.

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=166420&highlight=christine+mcghee

 

[KateB]

Websleuths members are mentioned in an article on HuffPo yesterday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/grateful-doe_n_5208512.html

Grateful Dead Fan Remains Nameless, 18 Years After Fatal Crash
Posted: 04/25/2014 1:37 pm EDT Updated: 04/25/2014 2:59 pm EDT
David Lohr

Today, nearly 20 years after his death, the story of "Grateful Doe," or "Jason Doe" as he is sometimes called, would likely be all but forgotten were it not for members of Websleuths, an online community of volunteers who brainstorm unsolved mysteries. For the past several years, multiple Websleuths members, including two known as "Killarney Rose" and "Rainwater," have picked apart the case and helped raise awareness about it on social media.
"He was someone's son, brother, grandson, nephew, uncle [and] it is so hard to believe that in this day and time that no one can identify him," Killarney Rose told HuffPost, explaining why she is dedicated to the case.
"Although Grateful Dead fans may not know each other's names, at a Dead concert all are members of the same family for magical hours," Rainwater said. "We want to see this family member given back his name."

[ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=172"]Grateful Dead Fan - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]

 

[Kimster]

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation will be holding a news conference on Tuesday afternoon to announce "new and significant" developments in the Holly Bobo Case.

The news conference will start at 4 p.m. at the Decatur County Sheriff's Office.

Holly Bobo, missing from Tenn, *ARREST*, 2014 general discussion #2 - Page 44 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Amanda Knox Fought With Meredith Kercher Before Killing: Court

Amanda Knox slit her British roommate's throat shortly after the pair had a heated argument about money, the Italian court that convicted her of the killing said Tuesday.

Meredith Kercher, 21, was killed by multiple attackers, including Knox's boyfriend Rafaelle Sollecito and small-time drug dealer Rudy Guede, but it was Knox “who lashed the deadly wound to the throat,” the appellate court in Florence said.

The fight with Kercher became increasingly aggressive, the judges said in their 337-page explanation for the January guilty verdicts against the American student and her former boyfriend. The explanation added that the group had gathered to use drugs before the 2007 murder...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/amanda-knox-fought-meredith-kercher-killing-court-n92491


Italian court explains Amanda Knox conviction

By CNN Staff

updated 1:53 PM EDT, Tue April 29, 2014

(CNN) -- An Italian court says it convicted Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend of murdering her onetime roommate in part because of evidence showing that more than one person killed the British student.

The Florence appeals court released its explanation Tuesday, less than three months after it convicted Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in Meredith Kercher's 2007 death in a retrial.

In the more than 300-page document, the court said that a third person convicted in the murder, Rudy Guede, did not act alone, and cited the nature of the victim's wounds...

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/29/world/europe/italy-amanda-knox/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Amanda Knox - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

 

[fran]

Second suspect Jason Wayne Autry indicted in murder, kidnapping of Holly Bobo

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced at a news conference this afternoon that a second suspect, Jason Wayne Autry, has been indicted on charges of the murder and kidnapping of Holly Bobo.

Gwyn also revealed at the news conference today that witnesses saw Bobo alive with Autry and Adams after her disappearance.

read more ............. http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20140429/NEWS01/140429020/-No-heading-

 

[Kimster]

The accused appeared in court in the Holly Bobo case. Lot of drama. My heart aches too much to repeat it, so be sure to check it out.

Holly Bobo, still missing from TN, *ARREST* 2014 discussion #3 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

 

[Kimster]

New forum to help the Vancouver Police Dept. solve cold cases:

Sleuthing Vancouver Cold Cases - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community