Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cali cartel's alleged leaders behind bars. Some have been arrested, while others have felt the pressure and surrendered. After Santacruz's capture, Phanor Arizabaleta Arzayuz turned himself in. Known as a particularly violent cartel leader, he is suspected of, but not yet charged with, involvement in the murder of a police intelligence officer. Arizabaleta says he is innocent, and gave himself up only to clear his reputation...
...militias contain a virulent strain, however. And it is these few who take preemptive strikes against the imagined shadow government. It is these few who plant bombs that murder innocent children and innocent federal employees. And it is these few who really are the enemies of the people...
Taking the recommendation of the state's chief psychiatrist, Dr. Donald Morgan, South Carolina Circuit Judge William Howard ruled thatSusan Smith is mentally able to stand trial. A subdued Smith quietly told the judge during a hearing today that she understood that she is charged with murder and faces the death penalty if convicted. Her attorney, David Bruck, had argued that his client was suicidal and if called to testify might ask the jury to give her the death penalty. Dr. Morgan found Smith to be suicidal, butsaid she was saneand able to understand the proceedings. After the hearing, Bruck...
...didn't. The "sweater girl" simmered through three decades of movies, mostly for MGM, which was the ideal studio for her high-wattage glamour. Aglow in white shorts, white top, white turban and acres of bare flesh for The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), she bedazzled John Garfield into murder; in Johnny Eager (1942), she helped Robert Taylor live up to his character's name. Her turn in 1957's Peyton Place won her an Oscar nomination. She followed it with a role in the real-life melodrama that erupted when her daughter fatally knifed an abusive boyfriend of Turner...
Jury selection will begin in another high-profile child murder case Tuesday as the trial of Richard Davis begins. Davis is accused of the 1993 kidnap and murder of 12-year old Polly Klaas. Davis, who led police to the body, said he was in a drug-induced haze when he took Polly from her Petaluma, Calif. bedroom and later strangled her. If convicted, Davis could get the death penalty...