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...face indicates the killer was within 4 feet when he fired. According to forensic experts familiar with the pictures, that would be close enough for Cosby to have been killed while offering a cigarettes. But Bosco says these details are actually making the prosecution's case against Michael Markhasev, 18, the suspect charged in the murder, more difficult. "The prosecution is already struggling with tainted witnesses and a paucity of evidence," Bosco says. "The reconstruction is worrisome because the killer would have been so near Cosby that the victim's blood would have spattered from the kick onto the perpetrator...
...investigators to a field off Cold Water Canyon Road, about five miles from the crime scene. There they found a gun that ballistics experts have reportedly linked to the murder, and a knit cap believed to have been worn by the killer. The trail also led to Markhasev, who was arrested at his North Hollywood apartment...
...background of victim and suspect could not be more different. Cosby, 27, was the son of a cultural icon whom many Americans felt they knew as part of his father's sitcom family, only to discover that the real-life son led a quieter yet deeply inspiring life. Markhasev came to the U.S. at age 10. After a start in a gifted-students program, he drifted in and out of schools in Los Angeles, West Hollywood and Orange County, picking up the nickname "Pee-wee," for a purported resemblance to Pee-wee Herman. Eventually, Markhasev found...
...authorities went out of their way to deny reports that Markhasev has links to the Russian mafia, which has been a growing presence in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities, or to immigrant auto-theft rings that target luxury cars. Police released a man and a woman, who had been brought in for questioning last week, and say they are not looking for additional suspects. Meanwhile, the sole witness at the crime scene reportedly viewed a lineup last week, the results of which have not been made public...
...with our son." Even after the arrest, the family expressed displeasure with the paper. "They were very happy to get the information," says Cosby family spokesman David Brokaw, "but they had real reservations and regrets that the way it was found was through the Enquirer." Still the paper contends Markhasev's arrest is the ultimate vindication of its controversial approach to information gathering. Says Enquirer executive editor David Perel: "Money can be a very valuable and powerful tool to pry loose the truth...