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There has been a big break in the murder investigation of Michelle Gardner-Quinn. We have 
a match. A DNA sample taken from the pants of the prime suspect, Brian Rooney, in the disappearance and murder of Michelle Gardner-Quinn has been found to be hers.
The blood was found on the blue jeans of Brian L. Rooney, 36, giving police at least one piece of physical evidence allegedly linking the man they call their prime suspect to the Oct. 7 disappearance of Gardner-Quinn.
Rooney, who has denied any involvement in the woman’s disappearance but is being held on unrelated sex charges, was ordered by Vermont District Court Judge Michael Kupersmith to submit to DNA testing during a closed-door hearing Thursday, according to David Sleigh, his court-appointed lawyer.
It appears that the court appointed attorney for Brian Rooney let the cat out of the bag even though the court hearing was supposed to be closed. This could be the beginning of the end for Brian Rooney and the piece needed to prove who was responsible for the murder of Michelle Gardner-Quinn.
That was revealed by David Sleigh, a court appointed lawyer for Mr. Rooney in an interview with the Associated Press. He said the DNA evidence was revealed at a hearing, a hearing that Sleigh thought was open, when it was actually closed. (WCAX)
DNA match even though mums the word because of a sealed affidavit.
In an affidavit, prosecutors said a Vermont State Police analysis showed the DNA samples to match, according to Sleigh.
Deputy Chittenden County State’s Attorney Justin Jiron would not confirm or deny the DNA match when asked Thursday, saying the affidavit was under seal. “I’m not allowed to talk about the results,” Jiron said.
Neither Police Chief Thomas Tremblay nor Lt. Kathleen Stubbing would confirm it, either.
District Court refused to release the affidavit, saying it was under seal.
A search of the suspects home on Monday revealed the following.
In a Monday search of Rooney’s parents’ home in Richmond, police found photographs and videotapes of naked women, one of which was labeled with the girlfriend’s name and showed a woman lying face down on a bed, making no movements as she was sexually assaulted.
The latest charges could put Rooney away for life. (Burlington Free Press)
From the material found during searches and the past allegations against Brian Rooney, one wonders what the police in Vermont were thinking by having this predator walk the streets. Its okay to press charges against Brian Rooney now, but not in the past?
October 19th, 2006 at 10:02pm
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Juan Miguel Medrano is presently arrested and was denied bond. He is being charged with aggravated assault among others.
A judge denied bond Monday for Medrano, who was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child, unlawful restraint and endangerment, and child abandonment.
Medrana smuggled his 14 year old step daughter across the Texas-Mexican border what was to be for the purpose of going to school. Instead he held her captive and sexually abused her.
The girl, who suffered “substantial bodily injury,” told detectives she had moved in with Juan Miguel Medrano about six months ago but had been kept in the trailer, sometimes with her ankle chained, for about the past two months, according to arrest records. She said Medrano sexually abused her and sometimes got her drunk. (The Guardian)
October 15th, 2006 at 08:21pm
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Juan Miguel Medrano has been arrested found hiding in a closet of a relatives Brownsville trailer. Medrano was being sought for the unlawful restraint and abandonment of his 14 year old step daughter.
BROWNSVILLE – Brownsville police arrested a man wanted for holding holding his 14-year-old stepdaughter captive for a month and a half.
They’d been searching for Juan Miguel Medrano for the past week.
He’s scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning on several charges, including aggravated sexual assault of a child and unlawful restraint. (News Channel 5)
UPDATE (10/10/06): Captive’s stepfather held without bond
October 10, 2006 — Bond has been denied for Juan Miguel Medrano Jr., a fugitive accused of holding his teenage stepdaughter captive for 45 days in his travel-trailer home on Thomas Street.
A disheveled Medrano, 54, appeared Monday morning before Brownsville Municipal Judge Phil A. Bellamy who arraigned him on one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child, one count of unlawful restraint/endangerment and one count of child abandonment. (Brownsville Herald)
October 9th, 2006 at 12:51am
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Oakland police have arrested 41 year old Earl Stefanson is the torture and murder of 36 year 
old Leslie Lamb. It appears from their investigation that Stefanson may have killed two other woman in his home as well. What they found in Stefanson’s home upon attaining a search warrant was chilling.
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Police said they were able to determine that Lamb had not been inside the car where Stefanson claimed to have found her.
Police said they determined Stefanson had a history of abusing Lamb.
When authorities searched his home in the 3400 block of Coolidge Avenue, they found Lamb’s blood and the blood of two other unidentified women.
Police said Stefanson tortured her in a room set up in his basement, which they described as frightening.
(The home on the 3400 block of Coolidge Avenue in Oakland where police arrested Earl Stefanson, SF Chronicle)
The authorities did not go into great detail regarding the basement; however, it was described as something like out of “Silence of the Lambs”. Police are trying to determine who the woman are who the blood belonged to. Stefanson has a history of abusing women. Police are trying to determine whether there are more women out there who may have been abused by Stafanson and ask that they come forward.
It appeared as if Stefanson had made an attempt to clean up the blood and conceal evidence of Lamb having been at the residence, Jones said. At this point, police have no idea who the other two victims are or even whether they are dead or alive.
When police attempted to arrest Stefanson Tuesday night, he led them on a lengthy chase through Oakland and Hayward, Jones said.
Oakland police, with assistance from Hayward police, were eventually able to capture Stefanson and take him into custody. (NBC San Diego)
A former wife of an Stefanson she had lived in fear of her husband and endured “major abuse” during their relationship a decade ago.
She said the abuse stopped only after she and her husband, Earl Stefanson, were arrested for running a methamphetamine lab in Butte County.
“I was forced to be there. I was afraid to leave,” said the woman, who has since remarried and asked that she not be named because she was afraid for her safety. “I lived in a state of fear.”
Stefanson, 41, the son of an ex-president of the Hells Angels’ Oakland chapter, was charged Thursday with murdering Leslie Lamb, a single mother who police said was his girlfriend. Police said he had a torture chamber in his home in the Oakland foothills and that they fear he may have harmed other women. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Earl Stefanson has quite the checkered past:
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Ex-wife said she had suffered regular abuse from Stefanson during their five-year marriage. She would not go into details, but said the abuse did not include torture.
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In 1995, she and Stefanson were arrested for allegedly making methamphetamine and growing marijuana in Oroville (Butte County).
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Stefanson pleaded no contest in June 1996 and was sentenced to nine years in state prison for running a methamphetamine lab.
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she had often seen her daughter with black eyes and bruises. “She got away safe,” she said.
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Court records show that another ex-wife of Stefanson’s, Antonia Gutierrez, obtained a restraining order against him in Fresno County in 1985, alleging harassment.
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The younger Stefanson had one previous encounter with police in Oakland: In 2004, he pleaded no contest to lewd conduct and being drunk in public after police found him masturbating in a pickup truck near 15th and Castro streets, records show. (
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Oakland police homicide investigators can be contacted at (510) 238-3821, or on the department’s anonymous tip line at (510) 777-3211.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:21am
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Police made an arrest Thursday in the kidnapping and murder of Casey Crowder. 46 year old Kenneth Osburn was arrested Thursday and charged with capital murder and kidnapping.
Police make an arrest in the disappearance and death of missing Arkansas teen, Casey Crowder. 46-year-old truck driver Kenneth Osburn was arrested Thursday and charged with capital murder and kidnapping. Crowder disappeared during the early morning hours of August 27th after running out of gas while returning home from her boyfriend’s house. Crowder’s body was found six miles from the spot where she ran out of gas. (KSLA)
Crowder Murder Suspect Arrested
A 46-year-old truck driver is under arrest in the death of a 17-year-old girl who was killed after running out of gas in Arkansas on August 27th near Dumas on US 65.
Desha County officials say Kenneth Osburn was arrested on suspicion of murdering and kidnapping Casey Crowder. He made his first court appearance on Friday morning. The judge has ordered that Osburn be held without bond.
Officials say D.N.A. evidence and interviews with residents led to Osburn’s arrest. (WREG)
Desha Co. Officials Arrest Truck Driver In Crowder’s Death
A 46-year-old truck driver from McGehee was arrested Thursday in the death of Casey Crowder, a 17-year-old girl who was killed after running out of gas on U.S. 65.
Desha County Sheriff-elect Jim Snyder says Kenneth Osburn was arrested on suspicion of capital murder and kidnapping. (Eyewitness News ABC 24)
September 29th, 2006 at 12:16pm
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53-year-old Randall Casseday was arrested in a sting operation for soliciting a teenager on the internet for sex. How many times will people fall for this?
WASHINGTON (AP) – The human resources director of The Washington Times has been arrested on charges of soliciting a teenager for sex on the Internet.
D-C police say 53-year-old Randall Casseday of Dobbs Ferry, New York, was arrested Tuesday night in Northeast Washington.
He had allegedly arranged to meet what he believed was a 13-year-old girl he had been corresponding with in an online chat room. (630 WMAL)
For those who wish to continue these practices, one never knows whether its a 13 year old girl or a detective with the department’s Internet Crimes Against Children branch. Want to flip the coin?
Its pretty bad when your own employer, The Washington Times, covers your arrest and discusses in detailin their newspaper what you were being accused of and had participated in on line with what you perceived to be a 13 year old girl.
As set out in an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court today, Mr. Casseday, whose home address was listed in the unit block of Manner House Drive in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., initiated a conversation with the undercover officer in an online chat room.
The officer identified himself as a 13-year-old girl in the District, and Mr. Casseday identified himself as a 53-year-old man who usually lives in New York but was spending time in the District, the affidavit states.
The conversation included discussion of an explicit sexual nature. In the course of the conversation, Mr. Casseday sent via e-mail several graphic photographs of himself, and the police officer sent him a photograph described in the complaint as of “a young child in a bathing suit.” The two agreed to meet at 9:30 p.m.
Brian Bauman, a spokesman for The Washington Times, said that Mr. Casseday had been suspended without pay pending the results of the investigation.
September 27th, 2006 at 10:45pm
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Seems that Dallas neighborhood residents took matters into their own hand and dished out some much needed justice to 20 year old Brandon Scott Burke. Burke is accused of showing pornographic pictures to children on a playground.
About a dozen residents of a Dallas neighborhood beat a man after reports that he had been showing pornographic pictures to children on a playground, police said.
Brandon Scott Burke, 20, showed up Wednesday at an Oak Cliff apartment complex and was alleged to have shown a magazine with pictures of naked women to some of the children playing there, police said.
When it was discovered what he was doing, one mother screamed while other dished out some much deserved justice. However, just inflicting minor injuries to the suspect, too bad.
According to a police report, Burke said about 15 men “jumped him and hit him repeatedly on the face with their fists.” He suffered minor injuries, police said. (Houston Chronicle)
September 23rd, 2006 at 12:48pm
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This story defies all sense of reality and offends the all conscious thought. A woman has been arrested for killing her cousin and cutting her cousin’s child from her womb. The murdered woman’s children are also missing: 7 year old DeMond, 3 year old Ivan and 2 year old Jinela.
Police sources said a child was cut from the womb of a woman whose body was 
found behind an East St. Louis home Thursday.
Police have arrested the victim’s cousin for the murder. She was taken into custody late Thursday night.
Friday morning, police announced they were looking for three children last seen with the suspect. They were searching part of Frank Holten State Park for the children.
The missing children are 7 year old DeMond, 3 year old Ivan and 2 year old Jinela. The suspect is not the mother of the missing children. Police did not issue an Amber Alert for the children, but they told NewsChannel 5 they are concerned because the children are missing and were last seen with a woman now accused of killing her cousin and cutting her cousin’s child from her womb.
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Woman Questioned About Killing Mother, Stealing Fetus; Victim’s 3 Kids Missing
A 26-year-old woman who police called a “person of interest” was in police custody Friday. Local FOX affiliate KSDK reported that the woman being questioned is the victim’s cousin.
On Thursday there was a funeral for a baby who the woman in custody claimed was hers and had been stillborn, East St. Louis Police Chief James Mister told the Belleville News-Democrat.
An autopsy will be performed on the baby Friday to determine if it was removed from the dead woman’s womb, Mister said. (Fox News)
UPDATE: Three Missing Children all Found Dead
Three missing children have been found dead, days after their mother’s body was discovered with the fetus cut from her womb, authorities announced late yesterday.
The bodies of the children were found hours after a woman was charged and jailed on US$5-million bail in the deaths of Jimella Tunstall, 23, who was seven months pregnant.
The two boys, ages 7 and 2, and their one-year-old sister were found together in an apartment in the East St. Louis public housing complex where their mother lived. (Calgary Sun)
3 children drowned and then put in washer and dryer
Good God, how could this story get any more sick and twisted. Woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and her fetus now admits to drowning three young children and putting them into a washer & dryer.
A woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and her fetus told police she drowned the woman’s three young children and stuffed them into a washer and dryer at their apartment, an official said today.
Preliminary autopsies on the dead children Sunday appear to show they were drowned, Ace Hart, a deputy St. Clair County coroner, told The Associated Press.
According to today’s autopsies, there were no signs of physical abuse or trauma on the children – ages 7, 2, and 1 – and toxicology tests were pending “to see if they were poisoned or possibly drugged,” Hart said.
“They were not drowned there in the wash machine,” Hart stressed.
Today, the community turned to prayer to understand the slayings at a service for the slain family. (Houston Chronicle)
September 22nd, 2006 at 04:27pm
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The abduction of Abigale Lynn Woods has some to a safe and happy conclusion. Abby was 
returned safe, unharmed and in excellent condition on Tuesday according to reports. The FBI have arrested a suspect in the brutal kidnapping. The suspects name is being reported as Shannon Beck, a woman who lived nearby the Ochsenbine residence and who was pregnant but who supposedly recently miscarried. The suspect amazingly fit the exact profile that the FBI had initially put forth.
FBI agent Roland Corvington identified the suspect as Shannon Beck, who had been pregnant recently but was believed to have had a miscarriage.
Abby was taken Friday when a home invader stabbed her mother.
Shannon Beck was passing the story that she had given birth; however, her sister-in-law became suspect of the story. The hero in this event is Shannon Beck’s sister in law, Dorothy Torrez, who confronted Beck when she noticed the strawberry birth mark on the baby’s forehead
Four days later, the case broke when Beck’s sister-in-law, Dorothy Torrez, contacted authorities.
Torrez became involved Sunday when Beck contacted her to say she had given birth, Corvington said. Torrez visited Beck on Monday and noticed what appeared to be makeup on the baby’s forehead, Corvington said. When she rubbed the forehead, a small birthmark became evident.
In publicizing the abduction, police had described Abby’s strawberry-red birthmark. Her suspicions aroused, Torrez confronted Beck, who gave her the baby, Corvington said. (Chicago Tribune)
Suspected Arrested supposed name is Shannon Beck
The woman, intially identified by police as Shannon Beck but who later claimed to have a different name, was arrested in connection with the disappearance of 11-day-old Abigale “Abby” Lynn Woods, who became known as “Baby Abby.” The woman’s age was not immediately known.
Beck miscarried a full-term fetus on Friday, the same day Abby was abducted and the baby’s mother, 21-year-old Stephanie Ochsenbine, was attacked with a knife, authorities said. Beck lived several miles away from Ochsenbine’s residence, said FBI Special Agent Roland Corvington. (Watch investigators discuss how the baby was found — 3:09) (CNN)
The suspects observant sister-in-law noticed the much publicized baby Abby’s birthmark and began to question where the suspect go the baby. Not taking no and the fabricated stories as the truth, Dorothy Torrez confronted her sister-in-law and she finally admitted what she had done.
Beck called her sister-in-law, Dorothy Torrez, on Sunday to say she had given birth, and Torrez visited Beck on Monday and Tuesday, Corvington said.
While accompanying Beck to a doctor’s appointment Tuesday, Torrez noticed makeup on the baby’s forehead, the special agent said. Police reports had indicated the baby had a birthmark on her forehead.
While Beck was inside the doctor’s office, Torrez rubbed Abigale’s forehead with her cap and the makeup came off, revealing a birthmark, Corvington said. Torrez called her own husband and Beck’s husband before confronting Beck, asking her if she had attacked the infant’s mother, the agent said.
Beck told Torrez she found the baby along a road, Franklin County Sheriff Gary Toelke said.
The district attorney is expected to announce charges against Beck Wednesday morning, Toelke said. (CNN)
September 20th, 2006 at 08:24am
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John Mark Karr was extradited to California yesterday from Colorado to face past charges of child pornography. Karr faces 5 counts of child pornography possession that date back to 2001.
Karr, 41, who faces child pornography charges here, spent the night in a Santa Rosa jail after landing at Oakland International Airport late Tuesday.
Five misdemeanor counts of child pornography possession have been pending against Karr in Sonoma County since April 2001, when authorities arrested him and seized his computer, alleging that the hard drive contained five sexually oriented images of children.
John Mark Karr was recently arrested in Thailand and brought back to Colorado in connection with the JonBenet Ramsey murder. It was later determined through DNA that Karr was not a suspect in the crime. However, John Mark Karr still faces the porn charges in California.
Karr pleaded not guilty to all counts and was jailed for six months, but he left the country before he could be tried. Prosecutors decided to pursue the charges after Karr surfaced last month as a suspect in the JonBenet killing.
During preliminary hearings in 2001, Karr’s public defenders waived his right to a speedy trial as they tried to get a judge to invalidate the search warrant that allowed Sonoma sheriff’s deputies to enter Karr’s home and seize his computer.
(Yahoo News)
September 13th, 2006 at 09:51am
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