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At first police thought a thief had murdered Army Specialist Anthony Riggs, who was shot in Detroit within days of his return from the gulf. But then the plot twisted when suspicion fell on Riggs' wife Toni and her brother Michael Cato, who were accused of killing Riggs to collect...
Riggs' freedom may be short-lived. She can be charged again if her brother testifies against her in his own trial, if new evidence is brought or if Judge Svenson's ruling is overturned. Says Wayne County prosecutor George Ward, who will appeal the ruling: "We think even without that...
Murder, They Said. Three disk jockeys at Los Angeles radio station KROQ admitted that they had faked an on-air murder confession last June in a bid to boost ratings. The deejays watched police conduct a fruitless 10-month investigation before fessing up. Their minor penalty: a week off the...
Last week McCleskey again petitioned the Supreme Court. This time he sought to have his conviction reviewed on the ground that his constitutional right to counsel had been violated when the police used a jailhouse informer to obtain a confession from him; this time the court was even sterner in...
The last and best -- certainly by far the most inclusive -- comes, fittingly, from Alex Jones, whose reporting about the Binghams in the New York Times won a 1987 Pulitzer Prize and alerted publishers to the saga's dramatic potential. He and his co-author and wife, Susan Tifft, a TIME...