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.
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/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.
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.
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.
US/FL/Jacksonville – A man accused of killing seven women and convicted of one murder was sent to Florida’s death row on Thursday.
Paul Durousseau was convicted in June of the rape and slaying of 24-year-old Tyresa Mack in 1999. The same jury voted 10-2 to recommend the death penalty.
Durousseau’s attorneys argued that his life should be spared because he suffers from brain damage and other mental illnesses that impaired his behavior. But prosecutors said Durousseau was well aware of what he did when he killed the woman and deserved the death penalty.
US/MI/Lansing – The attorney for accused serial killer Matthew Macon tries to get his clients’ trial moved to another county. It’s a case that captured mid-Michigan’s attention this summer. Matthew Macon is suspected of brutally attacking six women. He’s now set to stand trial in three of those cases. His attorney requested that Macons’ trial be moved out of Ingham County because he believes media coverage has tainted potential jurors. Judge William Collette denied a motion to move the murder trials. He told the prosecution and the defense that if the county could pick a jury for the high profile trial of Tim and Lisa Holland, he’s confident it can find one for Matthew Macon.
US/MO/Strafford - A serial killer confesses; a decades-old cold case is cracked; and one man from Strafford says he can now move towards closure.
Law officers in Cape Girardeau said Monday that an Illinois prison inmate’s admission to killing nine people solved a murder that has ties right here in the Ozarks. Don Call, a retired Strafford School District superintendent, is the son of one of the victims who was killed 25 years ago.
Timothy Krajcir, 63, pleaded guilty on Monday for first-degree murder for the strangling of a Southern Illinois University student in 1982. Detectives say he also has agreed to plead guilty for murdering five women in Cape Girardeau between 1977 and 1982.
