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...sketches of two men who were seen near the house on the morning of the murders. And they are analyzing a rich trove of evidence from the scene, including shell casings and a possible fingerprint. But they say it's too early to draw a clear profile of the killer. Judge Lefkow and her husband were involved in hundreds of cases. Several of hers featured violent characters ranging from Mafia hit men to street thugs. Just last year an angry defendant ranted at her, "You can run, but you can't hide...
...know that society no longer believes in sentencing a 17-year-old killer to death? Kennedy's argument mirrors his reasoning in a 2002 decision that outlawed death sentences for the mentally retarded. He notes that since 1989 five states have banned capital punishment for juveniles, making the practice illegal in 30 states, including the 12 with an outright ban on executions. Second, Kennedy cites scientific literature showing that, like the retarded, adolescents lack mature judgment and a full appreciation of the consequences of their actions. They are also more vulnerable than adults to peer pressure. Third, Kennedy points...
Like all young moms in Wichita, Kans., in the late 1970s, Paula Rader had every reason to be afraid. A killer was on the loose. He was known as BTK--for "bind them, torture them, kill them," from a note sent to the local newspaper after he murdered four members of the Otero family in 1974. By 1979, when Paula's daughter Kerri was born and her son Brian was 4, BTK had killed three more female victims. But years later, BTK would send the cops a photocopy of a book cover with the adage "Never kill anyone you know...
...quite a lot of shock," says Brent Lathrop, a friend of hers since elementary school and co-owner of the Snacks convenience store, where Paula has worked as a bookkeeper since 1985. She is not alone in her distress. Any sense of righteous satisfaction that a brutal killer might be off the streets came with questions about how Rader--a former scout leader, a pillar of his church, a devoted husband and dad--allegedly could be so skillful at leading a double life...
...murder back in 2003 shows how radically party attitudes have changed. When, a day after her son's death, Eileen McGinley asked for help at Sinn Fein's local office, "They wouldn't speak to me," she says. "I got the cold shoulder." She had heard whispers identifying the killer as an I.R.A. man, Bart Fisher. A month later people describing themselves as Fisher's supporters and members of the "republican movement" came to her home to warn the McGinley family off attending court or drawing attention to the case. The warning went unheeded. At one court proceeding...