CA/Edmonton - Across the country, the bodies of 67 women have surfaced, dumped in remote areas. In all but five cases, their killers remain unknown
More than a decade ago, Cara King went missing in Edmonton. The impulsive 22-yearold “liked to live on the edge,” her mother, Kathy, remembered last month, and “struggled with many, many things.” In her teens, she lost interest in school and got involved with a social circle of older men, eventually getting addicted to cocaine. Sometimes, the drug caused psychosis, which landed Ms. King in and out of psychiatric hospitals. By the time of her disappearance in 1997, she had dropped regular contact with her middle-class family and was on the street, prostituting herself.
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US/CA/SanJose - There was no texting, no whispering, no staring into space by the 30 Duquesne University students seated around a black speaker phone in Room 607 of Fisher Hall.
On the line was the special guest lecturer for the forensic investigation class. He had mesmerized the mostly female class by answering their questions about killings and crime scenes, motives and modus operandi, crime and punishment.
Consistently responsive, often humorous, always respectful, Keith Hunter Jesperson spoke of his extensive experience in what the students were studying.
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US/FL/Boca Raton - The FBI Behavioral Science Unit has joined the search for a killer who bound and a shot a Florida woman and her 8-year-old daughter last week.
A Boca Raton, Fla., shopping center security guard discovered the victims, 47-year-old Nancy Bochicchio and her daughter Joey Bochicchio-Hauser, in the mall parking lot Thursday, sprawled in her idling SUV, apparently tied up then shot at point-blank range, The Palm Beach Post reported Sunday.
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UK/Scotland/Tayside - Twice in less than a year, the frozen conifers of Dundee’s Templeton Woods shrouded the naked bodies of young women who died violently.
Tayside Police were already trying to track down the killer of teenage prostitute Carol Lannen when two rabbit hunters stumbled on the remains of trainee nursery nurse Elizabeth McCabe, covered only by debris from the trees and a blue jumper draped over her shoulders. It was the eve of her 21st birthday.
For a time detectives thought both girls had died at the hands of a serial killer - and they had been told that Ms Lannen was last seen talking to a taxi driver. But the trail soon went cold.
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US/AZ/Phoenix - A US court has sentenced a suspected serial killer to 438 years in jail for sexual assaults of two sisters in 2005. Mark Goudeau attacked the women as they were walking from a park in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. One of the victims was six months pregnant at the time.
Goudeau, suspected of being the Baseline Killer, is also facing trial in connection with the murder of eight other women and a man in 2005-06.
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US/PA/Allentown - It’s a case of murder in Berks County that went cold more than 25 years ago. Now new evidence linking a serial killer to the 1979 murder of Myrtle Rupp may finally give family members the closure that has eluded them for nearly 3 decades. WFMZ’s Joel D. Smith has the story.
It answers the question of who and why. When you don’t know, you don’t know if you’re passing that person on the street, if they’re local. >> Reporter David Rupp says he’s wondered for 28 years who killed his aunt, Mrytle Rupp. She was found naked and strangled to death inside her home, in Temple in 1979. Leads have been scarce since then, but DNA evidence from the scene was tested within the last year, and cross-referenced with a national database, and now police say there’s a match. >> Det. Pollock, Jr. We got a presumptive positive DNA result on the suspect Timothy Kracjir who is currently incarcerated in Illinois for several rapes and homicides in that area as well.
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US/PA/Allentown - On the day he was sentenced for the killing of an SIU student, Timothy Krajcir was charged with murdering five Cape Girardeau women more than two decades ago.
Timothy Krajcir is accused of committing those murders between 1977 and 1982. Cape Girardeau officials announced the new charges just hours after Krajcir was sentenced for the murder of Deborah Sheppard.
Police say he’s responsible for the deaths of Mary and Brenda Parsh, Sheila Cole, Margie Call, and Mildred Wallace.
Carbondale and Cape Girardeau police worked together to crack the cold cases.
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US/PA/Allentown - Police in at least 7 states are looking over their cold cases to see whether he might be involved. Investigators in several states, including Pennsylvania and New Jersey, are looking at unsolved murder cases from the late 1970s and early 1980s to determine whether confessed killer Timothy Krajcir could have been involved, authorities said yesterday.
Krajcir, 63, a native of Allentown, pleaded guilty Monday to the 1982 rape and murder of Southern Illinois University student Deborah Sheppard. Later Monday, he was charged in Cape Girardeau, Mo., with killing five women from 1977 to 1982. Authorities also announced that day that Krajcir admitted to three other killings.
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CA/BC/New Westminster - The brutal impact Robert Pickton’s crimes had on the lives of his victims’ families will be laid bare before a B.C. Supreme Court today before the Crown asks that the serial killer not be eligible for parole for at least 25 years.
Pickton, who was convicted on six counts of second-degree murder Sunday, will be handed a life sentence by Judge James Williams but the number of years he must serve before being eligible for parole is up to the judge who can pick a number anywhere between 10 and 25 years.
The jury declined to make recommendations when they returned a verdict in the case on after 10 days of deliberations.
Crown counsel Mike Petrie suggested Monday the Crown will seek the maximum 25 years.
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