Sally Blackwell, 53, had been missing since Tuesday morning when she didn’t show up for work. The woman had recently complained of threats that had been made against her.
A Child Protective Services worker whose body was found Wednesday in rural Victoria County had spoken of threats made to her at work, according to police and her family.
Tina Taulbee said her stepmother had spoken of threats she’d received as a program director for CPS. The agency investigates reports of abuse and neglect of children, and, if necessary, places them in foster care.
“In the 15 or 16 years she has been there, this is the first time she was actually scared,” Taulbee said.
(Houston Chronicle)
March 16th, 2006 at 06:59pm
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Defense attorney Len Kachinsky who is representing 16-year-old Brendan Dassey in the murder of Teresa Halbach states that a plea may definitely be in the best interest of his client.
The attorney for Steven Avery’s nephew said that a plea deal could be in the boy’s best interest.
Defense attorney Len Kachinsky is representing 16-year-old Brendan Dassey. The teen and his uncle are charged in Manitowoc County with sexually assaulting and killing freelance photographer Teresa Halbach before destroying her body.
(The Milwaukee Channel)
March 12th, 2006 at 11:35pm
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From FOX News: Blood Match in Rape and Murder of NYC Grad Student
Police say they found blood and DNA evidence on plastic ties allegedly used to restrain St. Guillen during her rape and murder last month. They say that evidence links the crime to Littlejohn.
New York police say they will seek an indictment against Darryl Littlejohn for the murder of Boston-native Imette St. Guillen.
UPDATE: AP; NYPD: DNA Link Between Bouncer, Student
NEW YORK (AP) — DNA evidence found on the plastic ties that were used to bind strangled student Imette St. Guillen has been matched to prime suspect Darryl Littlejohn, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Sunday.
The New York Police Department commissioner said authorities would be taking that match and other evidence to a grand jury to get an indictment against Littlejohn for the murder of the graduate student last month. He didn’t give a date for when the grand jury would get the case.
DNA Links Littlejohn To Murder Of St. Guillen
(CBS) NEW YORK Darryl Littlejohn has been named the prime suspect in the murder investigation of Imette St. Guillen after DNA evidence linked the 41-year-old bouncer to the crime, NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly said at a press conference Sunday.
The forensic match was made after Littlejohn’s blood was found on hand ties used to bound St. Guillen, Kelly said.
(CBS2)
“This is very significant development. When you talk about DNA here you are talking about the certainty of 1 in a trillion, so it’s a very important piece of evidence for us,” Kelly said. “The investigation is going forward and has certainly not reached a finality. There’s a lot more work to be done.”
MSNBC: N.Y. police ID prime suspect in student death
Club bouncer’s blood found on ties used to bind victim, commissioner says
March 12th, 2006 at 04:38pm
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Steven Avery, who is already being charged in the murder of Teresa Halbach had further charges added to the litany of ones for the brutal and heinous murder of the young freelance photographer.
Additional charges filed Wednesday accuse Avery of being party to first-degree sexual assault, kidnapping and false imprisonment of Halbach. The maximum punishment for the new charges are 106 years in prison.
(JS Online – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel )
Judge rules Dassey will be tried as an adult.
A Manitowoc County Circuit Court judge ruled Friday that Brendan Dassey will be tried as an adult for the crimes related to the death of Teresa Halbach, according to the Appleton Post- Crescent.
(Fourth Estate – UWGB)
March 10th, 2006 at 12:03am
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Finally an Avery family member with a conscience. Arland Avery, the uncle of Steven Avery and great-uncle of Brendan Dassey, stated he thinks the two are guilty of Teresa Halbach’s murder.
He says there’s too much evidence to think otherwise.
“I believe that he could have been a hero and Teresa Halbach would have been alive today. If they did commit the crime, then they should rot in hell.”
(WBAY)
That is pretty much the consensus opinion of many and the reason why this heinous murder of Teresa Halbach has brought back talks to possibly reinstate the “death penalty” in Wisconsin.
March 9th, 2006 at 11:38pm
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The Darryl Littlejohn spider web is beginning to branch out in all direction. First suspected as a “person of interest” in the rape and murder of Imette St. Guillen. Then a possible tie to previous sexual assaults in the NYC/Long Island area. Now a possible gang involvement as a hit man? You think the owners of The Falls bar wished they had spent $20 on and INTERNET background check at the very least?
A federal probe into Darryl Littlejohn’s suspected work as a hit man for a notorious New York drug gang has been hastily reassigned to a Long Island judge after cops began eying Littlejohn in the murder of Imette St. Guillen of Boston, according to a source and federal court records.
A source familiar with the investigation said authorities have been developing evidence that Littlejohn was involved in murders allegedly committed by a Queens gang formerly led by jailed drug kingpin Lorenzo “Fat Cat” Nichols.
Maybe The Falls should have examined his resume a little more carefully and actually cared who they exposed their patrons and the public to?
Littlejohn, a career con from Queens working as a bouncer at The Falls bar in Manhattan’s Soho district, remained jailed at Rikers Island on a parole violation yesterday as NYPD cops worked to develop evidence linking him to St. Guillen’s murder. The brutalized body of the 24-year-old Mission Hill woman was found Feb. 25, 17 hours after Littlejohn escorted her out of the Soho nightspot.
As the investigation continued yesterday, newly unearthed court documents revealed that Littlejohn committed an armed robbery in 1995 with a member of the Queens drug crews formerly controlled by “Fat Cat” Nichols – an infamously violent drug lord now in the federal witness protection program.
(Read more from the Boston Herald on Littlejohn’s past)
March 9th, 2006 at 11:48am
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According to the Boston Herald, police have made a link to the bouncer from The Falls, Darryl Littlejohn, by matching carpet fibers from his home to ones found on the tape and blanket at the crime scene of Imette St. Guillen. It also appears that Littlejohn may also be charged in a previous sexual assault of another woman who picked him out of a photo array.
Detectives who executed a search warrant on the 41-year-old parolee’s Queens home on Monday removed a section of his red carpet. Fibers from it are “identical” to those found when St. Guillen’s brutalized body was located in a grimy section of Brooklyn on Feb. 25, several sources said.
“It’s a match. The same carpet threads were found in the packing tape and on the comforter,” a law enforcement official told the Herald. “We are continuing to collect evidence in the case and will probably charge him this week or early next. He’s not going anywhere.”
In addition, investigators told the Herald they recovered DNA that is not Littlejohn’s from a blanket taken from his home. Police are probing whether the DNA belongs to St. Guillen, sources said.
Is it possible that career criminal Darryl Littlejohn is responsible for previous sexual assaults? Evidence and accounts from previous rape victims seems to be showing a similarity in patter.
All three victims “told investigators he put a blanket over their heads, raped them and then wiped down their bodies with some sort of swabs,” said a ranking NYPD official. “The one victim picked him out in a photo lineup. The victims in the other two cases could not make a positive ID because their heads were covered.”
In a sketch released after the 19-year-old was attacked in October, the suspect is a bespectacled black man wearing a baseball cap reading “Fugitive Agency.” He was wearing black clothes and a windbreaker with the same words emblazoned in yellow on the back.
(Boston Herald)
March 9th, 2006 at 11:09am
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The heinous murder of Imette St. Guillen shocked the collective conscience and souls of all. The sadistic rape and murder of Imette and the manner in how she was found 
instills not only fear that the perpetrator has not yet been arrested, but also the will and drive for all to find those responsible and bring them to justice.
Police and investigators have been piecing together the last steps of Imette St. Guillen on that terrible night as she went with friends from the Pioneer to The Falls.
Until yesterday, the last sighting of St. Guillen was about 3 a.m. last Saturday, when friends she had been drinking with left The Pioneer. She left a short time later with another friend, a woman, and made a 3:40 a.m. phone call to one of the friends whom she had been with earlier.
Imette St. Guillen went to The Falls, a trendy SoHo hot spot, after drinking earlier at another bar, The Pioneer, with friends, police said.
If this horrific crime was not bad enough it also has a connection to a past crime that swept NYC many years ago; the Central Park/Robert Chambers and Jennifer Levin murder.
But interviews with workers at The Falls, which is eerily operated by the same owners of Dorrian’s Red Hand – the Upper East Side watering hole made infamous as the place where convicted Central Park killer Robert Chambers met his victim, Jennifer Levin, in 1986 – did not appear to move detectives any closer to finding out who killed St. Guillen.
The focus of police has turned to the bouncer of The Falls, ex-con Darryl Littlejohn, 
41.
Police say the bouncer, identified in reports as 41-year-old Darryl Littlejohn, is a parolee with convictions for armed robbery, gun possession and drugs under multiple names — but no record of sex crimes. Police confirm that Littlejohn is a potential suspect but said he was not under arrest.
Ex-Con’s Home Searched In Student Slay
Cops raid bouncer’s flat
Cops got a search warrant after telling a judge that cell phone records put Littlejohn at his home at 5 p.m. on Feb. 25 – and place him an hour later near the secluded Brooklyn spot where St. Guillen’s body was found that night, sources said.
Bar owner could face legal action
Now it is learned that the bouncer, Darryl Littlejohn, and Imette St. Guillen argued after booting her from a tony SoHo tavern.
A brawny bouncer with a violent history argued with grad student Imette St. Guillen after booting her from a tony SoHo tavern the morning she disappeared – and bar staffers later heard a muffled scream, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Cops now believe that the bouncer, ex-con Darryl Littlejohn, 41, could be the sadistic fiend who murdered St. Guillen – as probers yesterday combed his Queens home looking for evidence that she may have been slain there.
(NY Post)
After nearly of week of stating that St. Guillen was served two drinks before she glanced at a note and walked out of the bar alone has now shockingly changed his 
story to a much different one where St. Guillen was forcibly removed from the bar out a side door.
The new details in the chilling case surfaced as sources revealed how an owner of The Falls bar, along with one of its bartenders, took nearly a week to come clean over what they saw early Feb. 25, the day St. Guillen disappeared.
The bar owner, Michael J. Dorrian – scion of the famous New York tavern-owning family – had told investigators on numerous occasions that St. Guillen was served two drinks before she glanced at a note and walked out of the bar alone, sources said.
But the sources said Dorrian has since admitted that at the end of that night, he had actually ordered the 5-foot-7, 200-pound Littlejohn to “Get her out of here!” because St. Guillen was so drunk.
A much different story indeed.
Littlejohn hauled the petite, 25-year-old woman – a forensic-science student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice – out a side door of the building at 218 Lafayette St., law-enforcement sources said.
Dorrian and the unidentified bartender said that moments later, they heard arguing in a hallway just outside a door to the bar, the sources said. They then heard a scream from the same direction.
The Detectives theories are as follows:
Detectives believe that Littlejohn tried to force sex on her, and when she resisted, panicked and killed her, possibly inside his pad in Jamaica, 
Queens (153-26 121st Ave)
Her fingernails were partially torn off, indicating she put up a fierce fight. Her head had been wrapped in tape like a mummy.
Meanwhile, Littlejohn showed up for work at 9:30 that night – with a scratch on the back of his neck, sources said.
Sources to the investigation are also saying that there may be cell phone records placing Littlejohn near the area where St. Guillen’s ravaged body was found.
The official said investigators have cell phone records possibly linking the bouncer to the spot where St. Guillen was found. The records show his phone was used in the same vicinity about two hours before police – responding to an anonymous 911 from a public phone – discovered her naked and bound body.
(Boston Herald)
What is never a good sign is when your own relative does not give one a glowing endorsement. Addie Harris, Littlejohn’s Aunt was asked whether he what she though and could it be possible that her nephew could be involved in something so heinous.
“I pray that it wasn’t him. The young lady was somebody’s daughter, somebody’s sister,” said Littlejohn’s aunt Addie Harris, caretaker of the 121st Ave. home where the bank robber with a long rap sheet lives.
She said she didn’t think her nephew – once branded a violent “menace to society” by a state Parole Board – was capable of murder. “That’s not a characteristic of him . . . not this,” she said. “I don’t know. But anybody is capable of anything.”
(NY Daily News)
March 7th, 2006 at 05:08pm
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27 year-old Michelle Townsend had been missing since last Thursday. Today, police discovered the body of Michelle Townsend inside the apartment of her estranged husband. However, Seymour Townsend is now no where to be found.
Anyone with information is asked to call Pittsfield Police at (413) 448-9705.
(WTEN)
March 7th, 2006 at 12:03am
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Time has done a masterful piece on the cruise ship industry and the rash of cruise-ship crime that occurs. From names that you have heard about in the news like honeymooner George Allen Smith to lesser unknown names like Janet Kelly and Merrian Carver.
The article begins with the chilling yet unfortunately all to accurate statement:
Like so many other tales of cruise-ship crime, Janet Kelly’s story begins with a cocktail and ends with a confidentiality agreement.
This is a must read from Time.
March 6th, 2006 at 12:59am
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