Darryl Littlejohn, the bouncer of The Falls bar, today pleaded not guilty to the first degree murder charge against him in the death of Imette St. Guillen.
Suspect pleads not guilty to first-degree murder.
NEW YORK (CNN) — A nightclub bouncer has been formally charged in the slaying of a New York graduate student, the Brooklyn district attorney’s office said Thursday.
The office said Darryl Littlejohn has been indicted on one count of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder. He entered not guilty pleas during his arraignment Thursday afternoon.
March 23rd, 2006 at 04:54pm
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Fox News is reporting that Darryl Littlejohn, The Falls bouncer, has been indicted for 
Murder of Imette St. Guillen. The heinous murder and rape of Imette St. Guillen shocked the collective conscience and souls of all.
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Grand Jury Indicts Littlejohn in Murder of N.Y. Grad Student
NEW YORK — A bouncer with a long rap sheet has been charged with murder in the death of a graduate student from Boston who was savagely raped, strangled and dumped last month in a desolate area of Brooklyn, a law enforcement official said Wednesday.
(FOX News)
Littlejohn indicted in St. Guillen murder
Littlejohn, 41, will be arrested at Riker’s Island tonight where he is being held on probation violations, sources tell the Herald today.
He will then be booked and fingerprinted at the 75th Precinct in Brooklyn, not far from the deserted area where St. Guillen’s body was found Feb. 25.
St. Guillen’s family is en route to New York City to be present at tomorrow’s arraignment of Littlejohn. New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is also expected to hold a press conference tomorrow.
(The Boston Herald)
March 22nd, 2006 at 03:51pm
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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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After being earlier ordered to be in a line up for a separate sexual assault than the Imette St. Guillen case, Darryl Littlejohn was not picked out of a lineup.
According to O’Donnell, the victim asked detectives to order each man in the lineup to shout “Shut up!” before concluding that her attacker was taller than any of them. Police had no immediate comment.
(News Day)
March 9th, 2006 at 07:48pm
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Darryl Littlejohn, a person of interest in the rape and murder of Imette St. Guillen is expected to be charged later today in another rape case.
The bouncer considered a person of interest in the slaying of a New York City graduate student is reportedly expected to be charged with rape in a separate case today as tests reveal that fibers found on the student’s body match those on a carpet taken from the potential suspect’s home.
Police also believe Littlejohn, 41, is connected to the rape of two women in Queens and one in Nassau County late last year. The New York Daily News reported that Littlejohn is expected to appear in court today and be charged in the Queens case. The alleged victim in that case, sources told the News, told police that she was abducted on Oct. 16, 2005, handcuffed and thrown into a van. There, she said, her attacker covered her face with a jacket, raped her and then dumped her onto the street.
The alleged victim, the News reported, identified Littlejohn as her attacker in a police lineup and recognized a van linked to him as a van used in her attack.
(More at ABC)
UPDATE: Judge rules for bouncer to appear in lineup for a separate sexual assault case
Just before noon, Darryl Littlejohn appeared before a Queens County criminal court judge that declared he would appear in a police lineup in connection with a second sexual assault case.
Eyewitness News reporter Ken Rosato explains why. He’s live outside the courthouse in Kew Gardens.
The court hearing before Judge Dorothy Chin-Brandt was to get a court order to put the suspect in a lineup regarding another sexual assault case in Queens, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office, which requested the hearing.
Darryl Littlejohn, the “person of interest” in the Imette Saint Guillen murder case has now peaked the interest of a Queens district attorney.
Police Commissioner Kelly: “We’re not in a position to rule anything out.”
(ABC Local)
March 9th, 2006 at 11:58am
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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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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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The recent horrific and unspeakable rape and murder of Teresa Halbach has reinvigorated efforts to reinstate the death penalty in Wisconsin. The recent announcements of what occurred to Teresa Halbach at the hands of Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey have shocked the collective conscience of most all.
The release of horrific details about Teresa Halbach’s death likely will reinvigorate efforts to reinstate the death penalty in Wisconsin, say two Fox Valley legislators and a prominent defense attorney.
“I expect that you are going to see people now asking for Wisconsin to reinstate the death penalty because, if these statements are true, this man’s as vicious as they come,” Boyle said. “I’ve already heard that argument being made on the radio.”
The description of how Teresa Halbach was allegedly raped and murdered has upset some by the graphic details but has outraged others to begin to discuss that there must be a greater penalty for those that would commit such heinous crimes other than life in prison.
Boyle, the Milwaukee attorney, said the details of the case have sparked outrage, and that “is going to cause a lot of people to start saying the penalty of life in prison without parole isn’t severe enough.”
(Appleton Post-Crescent)
March 4th, 2006 at 03:41pm
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Brendan Dassey, 16, pleaded not guilty Friday to helping his uncle, Steven Avery, sexually assault and kill a photographer. He also pleaded not guilty to then burning Teresa Halbach’s body and cleaning up the blood.
Brendan Dassey’s attorney told the court the teen had been threatened by his uncle, 43-year-old Steven Avery, who is also accused in the Oct. 31 slaying.
“He essentially has been victimized by Mr. Avery as well,” Ralph Sczygelski said.
Because some how the individual who came forward and told police of his uncle’s horrendous crimes and his participation in it is some how a victim? Brendan Dassey, you could have walked/ran away from the scene and called the authorities.
Dassey’s mother, Barb Janda, told the judge Friday that her son was forced to do the crime. “He didn’t do this on his own,” she said.
This family who has been proclaiming Avery’s and now Dassey’s innocence need to remember one fact in this case and that is who the victim is.
Special prosecutor Ken Kratz rebutted the characterization of the boy as a victim.
“There is only one victim in this case: Miss Halbach,” he said.
(FOX NEWS)
He waived his right to a preliminary hearing, and Judge Jerome Fox set bail at $250,000 cash.
Young Accomplice-Suspect Pleads Not Guilty in Halbach Murder Case
Sixteen-year-old Brendan Dassey is in a juvenile detention center in Sheboygan County after a judge set his bail at a quarter of a million dollars cash.
Hours later came word that Dassey’s defense attorney has to step away from the case. The Associated Press reports Ralph Sczygelski just learned he is a distant relative of the victim, Teresa Halbach.
Investigators say Dassey confessed to helping his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and murder Halbach last October 31, then burn her remains to cover up the crime.
(WBAY)
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