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.
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.
US/MI/Detroit – A convicted serial killer already serving life in prison was sentenced today to another 25 to 50 years behind bars for raping and beating a prostitute who survived his usually deadly attacks.
The formality in Wayne Circuit Court closes the case on Shelly Andre Brooks, a homeless man whom authorities believe killed at least seven prostitutes between August 2001 and June 2006. Investigators have said he may have killed another seven women, though no charges were filed in those deaths. Read More
US/MO/Kansas City – A suspected serial killer’s trial has been pushed back after his attorneys argued police were slow in turning over key evidence.
Terry Blair will now go on trial in March instead of next month. Circuit Court Judge John R. O’Malley moved the date.
Blair is charged with killing eight women in 2003 and 2004 and dumping their bodies in Kansas City neighborhoods frequented by drug addicts and prostitutes.
Blair’s attorneys had asked the judge to dismiss the murder charges or forbid the death penalty in the case. But the judge overruled those motions.
Blair’s lawyers say investigators were slow to turn over evidence. For example, they said videotape footage showing someone dumping 1 of the bodies has sat for three years at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.
AU/Adelaide – SERIAL killer John Justin Bunting hated pedophiles – yet he used their insidious, deceptive methods to recruit the youngest member of the Snowtown murder gang.
Documents, released for the first time yesterday, show how Bunting took 14-year-old James Spyridon Vlassakis under his wing and “desensitised” him to violence. Read More
US/Peoria/IL – For three years, Lucille Page has prayed for an answer to a lingering question that makes it difficult to move on with her life: Who killed her 29-year-old granddaughter, Frederickia Brown?
Brown was one of 10 black women found dead or who vanished from Peoria from 2001 to 2004, baffling authorities and raising racial tensions and fear in south-side neighborhoods where most of the women were last seen alive. Read More
IL/Petah Tikva – Police revealed Thursday that they have arrested a teenager whom they believe is a serial murderer who roamed the streets of Petah Tikva.
Rostislav Bogoslevsky, 18, is suspected of murdering two people, attempting to murder a third, and of torturing, killing, skinning and planning to eat an estimated 500 street cats. Read More
IL/Haifa – A Moldovan serial killer has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in Israel for killing four Russian immigrants. He burned the bodies of his victims after brutally murdering them. Now, Pridnestrovie’s Russians reach out to Moldova to stop hate crimes.
The Haifa District Court on Sunday sentenced Nicolae Bonner, a Moldovan, to four consecutive life sentences for the grisly serial killings of four immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Also known under the name Nicolai Bonner, the Moldovan-born immigrant is 33 years old. Read More
AU/Bowraville – For 16 years, the suspected serial killings of three children in the small community of Bowraville in the state’s north have gone unsolved.
But police and relatives are hopeful the cases will take a new turn with the annoucement of a $250,000 reward for information leading to their killer or killers. Read More
US/Phoenix/AZ – A serial rapist-killer appears to have struck again in Phoenix. Police believe there are connections between four unsolved homicides and the discovery of a woman’s body Thursday night in Phoenix.
“We’re almost certain it’s going to be the same guy,” police spokesman detective Tony Morales said. Read More
