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...case remains officially unsolved. But Ward, a self-made businessman, has been on a mission ever since to keep the investigation into Julie's murder alive. He has visited the crime scene more than 100 times, and spent nearly $4 million of his own money searching for clues. Ward has always maintained that British authorities have actively thwarted his investigations because they placed smooth relations with the Kenyan government above the search for justice. Beyond a few sympathetic newspaper profiles, however, his allegations have been largely dismissed as the obsessions of a grief-stricken father...
...this week the Sunday Telegraph newspaper revealed that an independent police report - completed secretly in 2004 - has found that Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the British High Commission in Kenya had made mistakes and engaged in cover-ups in the investigation into Julie's murder...
...physical evidence in the case suggests that after Julie Ward was hacked to death, her remains were set on fire. She was probably raped before her murder. Yet in the immediate aftermath of the crime, the Kenyan authorities refused to declare the death a murder, insisting that Julie either killed herself or was torn apart by wild animals. When Ward presented evidence to the contrary, pointing out that animals or dead women cannot start fires, a British Foreign Office official told him that his daughter was probably struck by lightning (This has also since been ruled...
...asked by every parent and survivor--Why?--has rarely been systematically approached. Fast, a professor of social work at Yeshiva University, examines five case studies from 1974 to 1999--spending most of his time on 1999's Columbine massacre--hoping to figure out what drives young perpetrators to mass murder. Unfortunately, the motives are as varied as they are tragic: while Fast faults easy access to powerful firearms as a constant factor, sexual abuse, mental illness, broken homes and social isolation have all played a part in one rampage or another. Fast regards school shootings as "acts of terrorism without...
...just anybody.' MOHAMED FOUAD, a Cairo business executive, on Egyptian lawmaker and billionaire Hesham Talaat Moustafa, who was arrested for arranging the murder of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim (right...