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Brian Rooney, the last known person to be seen with Michelle Gardner-Quinn has been 
charged with murder. Brian Rooney was officially charged with aggravated homicide, which generally indicates murder during sexual assault or attempted sexual assault.
BURLINGTON, Vt. – A man seen on surveillance video walking with a college student who was found beaten and strangled a week later was charged Wednesday with murder.
Police said DNA found on Michelle Gardner-Quinn’s body matched DNA from Brian L. Rooney, 36.
Rooney had been identified as a primary suspect in the 21-year-old Arlington, Va., woman’s death. He was the last person seen with her before she disappeared around 2 a.m. on Oct. 7 after leaving a bar in Burlington to walk back to the University of Vermont campus. A store surveillance video showed the two walking together.
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October 25th, 2006 at 10:10pm
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For the second time in less than a week Brian Rooney found himself back in court facing 
charges unrelated to the Michelle Gardner-Quinn murder. However, Brian Rooney remains the primary suspect in Michelle’s murder. The charges faced by Rooney were also a result of the investigation into Michelle Gardner-Quinn’s disappearance.
For the second time in less than a week, Rooney entered not guilty pleas to sex charges brought as a result of the probe into Gardner-Quinn’s disappearance.
The new charges are aggravated sexual assault and inciting a felony.
Authorities accuse Rooney of repeatedly sexually assaulting a former girlfriend and soliciting someone to have her killed.
He was ordered held without bail. (WAVY 10)
Earlier this week Brian Rooney was facing charges that he sexually abused and raped a 14 year old girl 8 years earlier.
“The defendant jumped on her while she was in bed, forced a rag over face with an ether-type smell, when she woke up he was there with her. She had a feeling in her legs like they were jello,” says Matt Levine, Vt. Assistant Attorney General.
Rooney pled not guilty to charges of lewd and lascivious conduct and sexual assault. His lawyer told the judge the sex charges should be dismissed. He claims they are a police tactic that permits them to hold Rooney while they look for the evidence to charge him with the murder of the UVM student. (WCAX)
Brian Rooney is being held on cash bail set at 150-thousand dollars on the sex crime charges. However, it does not appear that Rooney will be getting out any time soon. Vermont’s largest bail bond company, ZIGNA/Freedom Bail Bonds, rejected Rooney’s bail as they did not want to do business with the suspect. Can’t say we blame them.
Vermont’s largest bail bond company says Brian Rooney and his family have the assets to finance a bail loan, but the company just doesn’t want Rooney’s business.
Sprano says Rooney’s family has enough money and own enough property to secure the bail loan, but Sprano decided his company will not help Rooney get out of jail.
“After further reviewing the case we have decided to decline to write the bond,” Sprano explained.
“Due to the heinousness of the crimes, we’ve just decided against it,” he added. (WCAX)
October 19th, 2006 at 05:33pm
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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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Juan Miguel Medrano Jr., 54, of Brownsville, TX is wanted for aggravated sexual assault, unlawful restraint and for abandoning of his 14-year-old stepdaughter. Surprise, surprise, Juan Miguel Medrano Jr is an undocumented illegal immigrant as well. So who was the 14 year old girl going to run to for help while being abused? Tough to do and an impossible situation when you are an illegal and your abusive step-father knows it.
Juan Miguel Medrano Jr., an undocumented immigrant, is wanted on a warrant charging him with abandoning a child, aggravated sexual assault of a child and unlawful restraint, police said. (Brownsville Herald)
Suspect Wanted for Holding Girl Captive
BROWNSVILLE – Officers are searching for the man accused of keeping a teenage girl captive in a trailer.
Juan Miguel Medrano Jr., 54, is wanted for aggravated sexual assault, unlawful restraint and for abandoning a child.
He’s accused of holding his 14-year-old stepdaughter inside a travel trailer, isolating her from family and friends for the past 2 months. (News Channel 5)
If anyone has any information please call Brownsville Crimestoppers at 546-TIPS.
Police Looking For a Man Accused of Locking Up a Girl in a Trailer
The 14 year old girl and her mother are presently in a woman’s shelter.
According to investigators, the girl’s mother advised them the girl had been locked up by Medrano for the past two months and would not allow her to contact her family. Police say the young girl appeared to be delirious and unaware of her surroundings.
Medrano is wanted for aggravated assault of a child, unlawful restraint and abandonment of a child. Medrano was not at home when the girl was picked up and now they are asking for the public’s help to find him. (KGBT 4)
October 4th, 2006 at 11:10pm
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Sunday September 24th. 9pm et. LISTEN HERE LIVE
Dana’s guest will be Brook Hart lawyer for Duane Dog Chapman and his family.
Also Tonja Doe (Victim Of Andrew Luster) and her lawyer William Daniles discuss serial rapist Andrew Luster and how Dog Chapman’s capture of Luster affected her life.
PODCAST Replay here.
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September 24th, 2006 at 09:08pm
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The details of one of Austria’s most notorious crimes have kept the nation spellbound since Natascha escaped from her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil. She discusses her story for the first time.
The story of Natascha Kampusch has sparked a media and human interest frenzy the like that
has not been seen in Austria. Natascha Kampusch’s tale of being held captive by her abductor Wolfgang Priklopil for 8 years has enticed the curiosity of all. Natascha showed her face for the first time since her escape from her 8 year long captive hell. Natascha dreamed of escaping and fleeing her captivity although she had not planned to the day that she finally did.
The eighteen-year-old said her escape hadn’t been planned that day and that it was a flight of opportunity. She thought about fleeing many times but knew that if her attempt failed she would never come out of the windowless dungeon she was kept in for eight years.
Also, Natascha Kampusch admits that there were several times she dreamed of killing her captor. Is it any wonder with the torment she went through that she did not carry out her thoughts.
“I also had nasty thoughts… Sometimes I dreamt of chopping his head off, if I had an axe,” the teenager told the magazine, but added that the man’s suicide was “a waste” as no one should resort to suicide.
(Sofia News Agency)
Natascha Kampusch would ask herself according to reports why of all people did this happen to her? During her eight year ordeal all she could do was dream of escaping.
Kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch has said all she could think of during her eight-year ordeal was how to escape and despaired when she learned that people believed she was dead.
“I asked myself again and again ‘why among all the million people did this happen to me?’,” Natascha told News magazine.
Priklopil had locked Natascha in the windowless cell in his house in Strasshoff, some 15 miles outside the capital, after abducting her on her way to school in 1998.
“I felt like a chicken in a hen battery,” she said.
“I promised myself that I would never lose the thought of escape.”
(UK Telegraph)
I tried to ask for help using my eyes, says kidnapped girl
The Austrian girl who was held captive in an underground cell for eight years has told how she tried in vain to signal for help with her eyes when she met people during occasional outings with her captor.
Last night, Feurstein said: “There were moments in the interview that really gave me the creeps. She told me she made eye contact with people time and again, and wanted to signal them, ‘Please help me’. And nobody reacted.”
(UK Telegraph)
Kampusch Interview “Gave Journalist the Creeps”
Christoph Feurstein, the ORF journalist who landed a career-deciding interview with Austrian abduction escapee Natascha Kampusch said to the BBC that talking to her gave him the creeps.
Kampusch claimed she had made eye-contact with people trying to ask them for help, but no one got her signals. This and other moments in the interview shocked the journalist, and the effect of Kampusch’s words was increased by the fact that she was not disguised or hidden in any way.
(Sofia News Agency)
Natascha Kampusch’s open letter, This must is a must read.
A transcript of the letter by Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian teenager who was held captive for eight years, as it was read to the media by her psychiatrist, Dr Max Friedrich
(The Austrialian News)
September 6th, 2006 at 02:57pm
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Thirty-five year old Miguel G. Canela was arrested Tuesday and charged with the rape of a 
15 year old.
A 35-year-old Henderson resident is arrested Tuesday morning, charged with rape, custodial interference and two counts of possession of a forged instrument.
Miguel G. Canela of 112 Letcher Street was found with a 15-year-old from Las Vegas Tuesday morning. The juvenile was listed as missing by the Las Vegas Police department.
According to Henderson police, Canela was also found to be in possession of a forged ID and Social Security card.
(14 WFIE)
September 5th, 2006 at 09:55pm
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The trial for 64 year old Dean Schwartzmiller, who authorities state may be the most prolific 
child molester in history. The story of Dean Schwartzmiller simply shows the problems in how child molesters are dealt with and the slaps on the wrists that are given. Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller was previously arrested nine times; however, managed to avoid lengthy prison terms, coach youth football, move in with another convicted sex offender
Now, more than a year after Dean Schwartzmiller was arrested for allegedly abusing two 12-year-old cousins, his trial is set to begin in a Santa Clara County courtroom.
Schwartzmiller, 64, has pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of child molestation and child pornography in connection with the boys, whom he befriended in December 2002. Opening statements are scheduled to begin Monday in a trial that could last more than a month. If convicted, he faces life in prison.
Schwartzmiller is suspected of possibly molesting over 36,000 victims.
A convicted child molester jailed in California may have committed sex crimes against thousands of victims, police said Thursday after finding computers, notebooks and meticulous, handwritten lists of boys’ names and apparent codes for various sex acts.
During a search of his bedroom in San Jose, police discovered binders full of child porn and numerous logs with lists of more than 36,000 children’s names — mostly boys — and codes that appear to indicate how he abused them.
August 27th, 2006 at 03:20pm
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Natascha Kampusch was ten when she was kidnapped on her way to school Natascha was then imprisoned in a tiny pit dug into the garage floor of her captor’s. What is only more unbelievable than Natascha’s story of being held as a sex slave is her dramatic escape and the fact that she is alive after all this time.
This is the tiny cell where sex slave victim Natascha Kampusch was held captive by her abductor Wolfgang Priklopil. The tiny pit was dug into the floor of her captor’s garage. See more pictures here. (Getty)
Natascha Kampusch, who was ten when she was kidnapped on her way to school, was imprisoned in a tiny pit dug into the floor of her captor’s garage.
Natascha told officers she was kept as a sex slave in a tiny windowless cell behind a heavy metal gate. She was forced to call her captor ‘Gebiete’ – an old-fashioned term for ‘Master’ used in fairy stories.
Initially, it was reported that she had escaped from Priklopil’s car when his BMW was stopped for a routine police check.
But it emerged that she had fled from his two-storey house in Strasshof near Vienna and was found by an elderly woman. Police quickly raided the property, finding Natascha’s passport and her tiny cell. Priklopil had already fled after discovering she was missing.
(The Daily Mail)
UPDATE (8/29/06): Sex slave ‘pregnant by kidnapper’
The girl held for eight years as a sex slave in a tiny cellar in Vienna, is pregnant by her captor, it was claimed today.
Natascha Kampusch, now 18, escaped the clutches of pervert Wolfgang Priklopil last Wednesday, but now according to German newspaper reports, it is feared she is carrying his child.
(Daily Mail)
UPDATE: Natascha Kampusch does first MEDIA Interviews
August 25th, 2006 at 11:37pm
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