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...returning home from choir practice one day in April 1976. The last time Kistner called detectives at the Inglewood Police Department, in 2006, he was told that given the amount of time that had passed since the twice-widowed woman was murdered, the perpetrator was likely deceased or in prison...
...They had eliminated all of their suspects, cleared all of those suspects, so at that time, it was the investigators' belief that the guy was either dead or in prison. I thought that was the end of it," says Kistner, "until Inglewood called the other day and said we've got some real good news for you." (See the top 25 crimes of the century...
...adds, "I plan on attending the trials when they come up for the personal satisfaction of actually physically seeing him in custody and knowing that he's going to stand for the charges. I've always been a proponent of the death penalty, but if he gets life in prison, I would be just as happy knowing that he won't get out again...
...nearly two weeks, Roxana Saberi has been refusing food. The jailed Iranian-American journalist, who was sentenced by Iran's Revolutionary Court to 8 years in Tehran's Evin prison on charges of spying for the U.S., continues to proclaim her innocence while both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continue to call for her release. So far, the case's presiding judge has not been moved, calling the fast a ploy for propaganda purposes. One judiciary spokesman denied the news altogether: "She is in good physical condition and not on a hunger strike," Ali Reza Jamshidi...
...fields of Kazahstan, the practice has become a daily, global phenomenon that has been by turns successful, gruesome, tragic and sometimes all of the above. In 1981, a 27-year-old member of the Irish Republican Army named Bobby Sands led a hunger strike at Her Majesty's Prison Maze in Belfast, where he was serving time for gun possession, and used the attention to win a seat in the British parliament. He never served his term, though; he starved to death after 66 days without food. (See pictures of how Northern Ireland has transformed itself...