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...Pukanic, 47, and his colleague were killed just after 6 p.m. by an explosive device placed near Pukanic's Lexus. The police immediately blocked off the city center and called in helicopters, but by Monday, no arrests had yet been made. A police spokesman described the murder as a "professional...
...Pukanic's murder caused an outcry, not just because he was an important player but because it revealed the extent of the connection between politics, crime and corruption in the former Yugoslav republic. Less than three weeks ago, Ivana Hodak, the 22-year-old daughter of a prominent lawyer, was shot three times in the back of her head just several blocks from the site of Pukanic's death. Police are investigating whether the two assassinations may have been linked: Ms. Hodak's father, Zvonimir, had publicly accused Petrac of ordering his daughter's murder. Petrac, who is in custody...
...Knox, 21, her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and Rudy Guede, from the Ivory Coast, were accused of the Nov. 2 rape and murder of Meredith Kercher. The case has generated months of lurid headlines around the world, and featured as much confusion as prurient curiosity. A Perugia judge offered the first big dose of clarity late Tuesday after all the contradicting defense alibis, allegations of police mishandling of evidence and a prosecutorial reconstruction more chilling than any tabloid account. After 12 hours of deliberation, Judge Paolo Micheli found Guede, 21, guilty of the murder and rape of Kercher, and ordered...
...Tamara Greene, a 27-year-old exotic dancer who was killed in 2003, filed their witness list in a $150 million federal civil lawsuit against Kilpatrick and the city, alleging that the former mayor, his top aide and local police hindered the investigation into Greene's murder because of her rumored presence at a 2002 party at the mayor's Manoogian Mansion...
...blood-soaked disaster" that was the American Rocketbelt Corporation, Montandon reveals the underbelly of this single-minded quest. Brawls and lawsuits over "Pretty Bird" - a "cherry red" belt whose "silver tanks shone so brightly you could comb your hair in their reflection" - spiral into a sordid tale of murder, kidnapping and torture. After being sentenced to life imprisonment, one of the perpetrators, Larry Stanley - "paunchy, graying, defeated, and washed-up at fifty-seven" - tallies the price of his dream: "My search for the rocket belt has cost me more than half a million dollars and left my family destitute...