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Chronicles of crime: the crime news, as it unfolded, day by day. Based on the ongoing feature in True Crime magazine. Chronicles of Crime: December 2007 True Crime News: 31/12/2007 Simon Wastall FORMER ACCOUNTANT Simon Wastall, 47, a convicted murderer who disappeared after being released on licence in 2005, has been arrested in Italy outside his mother’s house in the village of Pino Torinese... more » True Crime News: 29/12/2007 The Yorkshire Ripper POLICE ARE investigating an attack on the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe by another patient at Broadmoor. The 61-year-old serial killer is understood to have been stabbed in the face with a piece of... more » True Crime News: 28/12/2007 Michele Anderson & Joseph McEnroe US POLICE in Carnation, Washington State are investigating the deaths of six members of one family; shot to death after a Christmas Eve row. Michele Anderson and her boy friend Joseph McEnroe, both ag... more » True Crime News: 27/12/2007 Yorkshire Ripper THE DAUGHTER of the Yorkshire Ripper’s first murder victim has killed herself – still tormented by her mother’s death in October 1975. The Ripper attacked Sonia Newland’s mother Wilma McCann with a ha... more » True Crime News: 20/12/2007 Children Heard Their Mother's Cries For Help DARRELL BACON, 40, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for stabbing to death his former girl friend on September 9th, when she arrived to collect her two children and a granddaughter after they vi... more » True Crime News: 19/12/2007 Jose Espinosa Otis Blunt TWO PRISONERS at Union County Jail in New Jersey, Jose Espinosa, 20, and Otis Blunt, 32, broke out of the security wing by making escape holes in the wall using a thick metal wire. They scratched away... more » True Crime News: 18/12/2007 Dena Thompson DENA THOMPSON, the woman dubbed the Black Widow, must serve at least 16 years behind bars for the murder of her husband, poisoned on his 31st birthday in 1994. The term to be served by Ms. Thompson, w... more » True Crime News: 17/12/2007 DNA Errors MORE THAN 2,000 cases are being re-examined in a wide-ranging review of forensic evidence where scientists are suspected of mistakes in gathering DNA. Police are reporting “enhanced results” in 26 cas... more » True Crime News: 15/12/2007 Yanadi Kondalah YANADI KONDALAH, an elderly Hindu priest who claimed his right leg had magical powers, was attacked by thieves who chopped it off. The priest had a reputation around his village in the South Indian st... more » True Crime News: 15/12/2007 Jesse Timmendequas STATE ASSEMBLY members in New Jersey voted 44-36 to abolish the death penalty. Governor Jon Corzine said he would sign the bill within a week. A special state commission found in January that the dea... more » True Crime News: 14/12/2007 Mark Hampson MARK HAMPSON, the man convicted of killing 26-year-old shipping clerk Geraldine Palk in 1990, has died at Wakefield Prison following a long illness. Geraldine was raped and stabbed 81 times before her... more » True Crime News: 12/12/2007 Death Penalty Change THE STATE senate of New Jersey has voted 21–16 to replace the death penalty with life imprisonment, taking a major step towards becoming the first US state to abolish the death penalty in three decade... more » True Crime News: 12/12/2007 Jose Luis Calva A MAN dubbed “The Cannibal,” after police found cooked pieces of his murdered girl friend on a plate in his New Mexico apartment, has committed suicide. Jose Luis Calva was found hanging from his belt... more » True Crime News: 12/12/2007 Andrew Mournian ANDREW MOURNIAN, 36, an unemployed heroin addict and alcoholic, has been found guilty of murdering his girl friend within five days of early release from prison. Mournian had been jailed five times be... more » True Crime News: 12/12/2007 Matthew Murray THE COLORADO church gunman had been identified as 24-year-old Matthew Murray. He was said to have been schooled at home by what neighbours described as his “very religious family.” He was thrown out o... more » True Crime News: 11/12/2007 Terence Townsend FOUR MEN accused of killing a homeless man have been convicted of his killing. John Dunn, 45, who was living in hostels in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, suffered more than 100 injuries when he was set ... more » True Crime News: 11/12/2007 Church Shooting in Colorado FURTHER DETAILS of the shootings at two churches in Colorado have emerged. The number of dead has risen to five, including the gunman who was responsible for both atrocities. Two sisters aged 16 and 1... more » True Crime News: 10/12/2007 Denver Shootings EIGHT PEOPLE were shot – two killed – in two separate attacks in the US. First, a white male gunman in his early 20s killed two workers at a missionary training centre in Arvada, a suburb of Denver, a... more » True Crime News: 8/12/2007 Joseph Ekaette JOSEPH EKAETTE, an 18-year-old illegal immigrant from Nigeria, has received a life sentence for killing family man Stevens Nyembo-Ya-Muteba who told him to be quiet. The jury at the Old Bailey were to... more » True Crime News: 8/12/2007 Robert Hawkins AUTHORITIES IN Nebraska had spent $265,000 (£310,000) attempting to treat Robert Hawkins, the teenage department-store gunman. Hawkins spent four years in treatment centres, care homes and foster care... more » True Crime News: 8/12/2007 Jose Luis Aquino A TRUMPET player has been found dead with his hands and feet bound and a nylon bag over his head in southern Mexico, in what authorities said was apparently the country’s third murder of a musician in... more » True Crime News: 7/12/2007 Five Brothers Dead in Germany POST-MORTEM examinations have been performed on the bodies of five brothers in Germany – looking for clues as to how and when they died. The bodies of the boys, aged between three and nine, were found... more » True Crime News: 7/12/2007 Beverley Allitt BEVERLEY ALLITT, who is serving 13 life sentences for attacking and murdering children in the hospital where she was a nurse, must serve a minimum of 30 years before being eligible for release. Althou... more » True Crime News: 7/12/2007 Robert Hawkins THE MAN who committed the mass killings at the Omaha shopping mall has been identified as Robert Hawkins, a 19-year-old former McDonald’s restaurant worker. Wearing a camouflage vest and sporting a cr... more » True Crime News: 6/12/2007 Mass Killing In Nebraska AT LEAST eight people were killed and five injured after a man in camouflage clothing entered the Westroads shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska, and fired up to 30 shots as he calmly walked though the ma... more » True Crime News: 5/12/2007 Professor Kenna Quinet PROFESSOR KENNA Quinet of Indiana University has claimed that serial killers may have killed up to 10 times more people in the US than thought because “marginalised” victims are being overlooked. He s... more » True Crime News: 5/12/2007 Mexican Singer Slain POP SINGER SLAIN WHILE IN INTENSIVE CARE THE SHOOTING of a Mexican singer is the latest in a spate of attacks on musicians in the country, often concerned with songs known as narcocorridos. Said to b... more » True Crime News: 4/12/2007 Daniele Emmanuello DANIELE EMMANUELLO, a 43-year-old Mafia Don, died while attempting to avoid arrest when 30 armed police officers burst into his isolated farmhouse hideout in Sicily. Considered as one of Italy’s 30 mo... more » True Crime News: 3/12/2007 Vitangelo Bini A RETIRED Italian traffic warden shot his wife dead “out of love” as she lay in a hospital bed with advanced Alzheimer’s disease. Vitangelo Bini, aged 77, shot 82-year-old Mara twice in the head and o... more »
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