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JOHN LEGUIZAMO The Latino actor and comic makes his Spanish-speaking debut in Cr??nicas, a serial-killer thriller set in Ecuador...
...Christa Worthington, 46, a former fashion writer, was found dead, stabbed through the heart in a doorway of her bungalow. Alive and clinging to her was Ava, 21/2, her daughter, who had spent 36 hours alone with the body. The killer had stabbed Worthington so powerfully that the blade had left a mark in the floorboards beneath her. It appeared that Ava had tried to tend to her mother, dabbing her face with a washcloth. "Mommy fell down," she sobbingly told the person who found...
...match the evidence. But state law does not require them to keep their promise, says the A.C.L.U. In Baton Rouge, police swabbed 1,200 men, most of them white, in 2002 and 2003, following tips. Although the early focus was on white men, it turned out the killer was black. Some of the samples ended up in the state crime database anyway. More than a dozen of the men are suing to have their samples removed. Corporal Don Kelly, a spokesman for the Baton Rouge police, defends the investigation but acknowledges the long-term dilemma: "Let's face...
Probably not. A better question might be, Do DNA dragnets work? The answer so far is, rarely. The largest sweep in the U.S. took place in Miami, where in 1994 cops sampled 2,300 men in search of a serial killer. The dragnet did not catch the killer. Of the 18 publicized U.S. sweeps, only one--a narrow sampling of 25 workers at a nursing home--has been successful, according to a 2004 study by criminologist Samuel Walker of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Walker called the sweeps "unproductive" and said that if they are to continue, national guidelines...
...conviction. In 1998 Str??cklingen, Germany, undertook the largest collection to date. More than 16,000 men in a rural town were sampled after a girl, 11, was raped and strangled. In a quest to restore the town's innocence, entire soccer teams took the test together. The killer, pressured to participate by friends, also complied, sealing his fate...