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...immune." An extradition hearing was originally scheduled for June, but Ping was hospitalized for depression, and the hearing is rescheduled for next month. She is expected to be extradited in August to face six federal charges of kidnapping, conspiracy and illegally transferring hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom money paid by friends and families of smuggled aliens. If convicted she faces a life sentence without the hope of parole...
...Derek T. Ransom and Janessa M. Ransom '98-'00 (nee Hunter) wed last August. The possibility of proposal was no surprise to Janessa--the couple had gone ring shopping together...
...himself on a mission to rescue Princess Pei-Pei (Lucy Liu), who, avoiding an arranged marriage, has run far, far away to Carson City, Nev. There she is enslaved by Lo Fong (Roger Yuan), an unredeemable bad guy who is exploiting Chinese railroad workers, smuggling dope and demanding a ransom...
...Sayyaf, the most feared Muslim rebel group in the predominantly Roman Catholic Philippines. At midweek the Philippine Defense Secretary confirmed that the hostages were being held by Galib Andang, a.k.a. "Commander Robot," the Abu Sayyaf leader on Jolo and perpetrator of other kidnappings. He wanted a multimillion-dollar ransom. Late in the week Abu Sayyaf allowed a free-lance journalist a glimpse at what the Murphys had avoided: almost all the hostages were ill, hungry and dehydrated. And the captors insisted on new political and economic demands...
...accidentally killed her daughter in a late-night rage over the child's chronic bed-wetting, mortally wounding her with a blow to the head, and then in a state of panic, tried to make the assault appear to be the result of a botched kidnapping. Patsy penned a ransom note, Thomas alleges, and carried JonBenet to a basement storeroom, where she garroted her. Thomas believes John Ramsey was asleep and unaware of the events until morning, when he discovered the body and moved to protect his wife and further cover up the crime...