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The disapperance of Kristin Smart

Kristin Denise Smart (born February 20, 1977, legally presumed dead May 25, 2002) is an American missing person. She disappeared on May 25, 1996 while attending California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Three fellow-students had escorted her back to her hall of residence after a party. One of them, Paul Flores, was the last person known to have seen her alive, and he claims that he left her to return to her dorm alone. When a police-dog located evidence of human remains close to the Flores family home, the Sheriff’s office refused to issue a search warrant, and a local newspaper raised suspicions of a cover-up. Smart is still on file as a high priority missing person.

Disappearance

The night Smart disappeared, she attended a birthday party of a fellow student, which fell on Memorial Day weekend 1996. At approximately 2:00 a.m. on May 25, 1996 she was found passed out drunk on the neighbor’s lawn by two fellow students and party-goers: Cheryl Anderson and Tim Davis, who both had just left the party. They helped her to her feet and decided to walk her back to her nearby dorm. Another student from the party, Paul Flores, joined their group and offered to help the two get Kristin back to her dorm room safely. Tim Davis departed the group first since he lived off campus and had driven to the party. Cheryl Anderson was the second to depart the group after she told Paul Flores that he could walk Kristin Smart back to her dorm since he lived closer. Flores stated to police that he walked Smart as far as his dormitory, Santa Lucia Hall, and then allowed her to walk back to her Muir Hall dorm by herself. This was the last known sighting of her. She did not have any money or credit cards at the time she went missing.

Official Investigation

The campus police originally suspected that Smart had gone on an unannounced vacation, as was common among students over the holidays. It was because of this that the campus police were slow at reporting her as a missing person to local law enforcement. During the high profile Laci Peterson murder investigation, there were unfounded rumors in the media that Scott Peterson had something to with Kristin’s disappearance since Scott attended California Polytechnic State University at the same time as Smart. There was a brief initial inquiry into whether Peterson had any involvement. Peterson was totally ruled out as a suspect by police. Scott has publicly denied any involvement in the Kristin Smart case. Smart’s disappearance remains essentially an unsolved case however, and no firmly proven explanation for her disappearance exists. Her body has never been found.

Legacy

Smart’s disappearance and slow response by the California Polytechnic State University Police Department resulted in the Kristin Smart Campus Security Act being written and sponsored by Democratic state Senator Mike Thompson, passed 61-0 by the California State Legislature, and signed into effect by then Governor of California Pete Wilson on August 19, 1998. The law took effect on January 1, 1999 and requires all public colleges, and other publicly funded educational institutions to have their security services have agreements with local police departments about reporting cases involving or possibly involving violence against students, including missing students. Kristin Smart was declared legally dead in May 25, 2002, the sixth anniversary of her disappearance. Smart’s parents, Denise and Stan Smart, took a civil case of wrongful death against Paul Flores in 2005, but dropped it after Flores pleaded the fifth amendment. The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office still reviews the case monthly. The FBI have her on file as a high priority missing person investigation, with a reward of $75,000 for information leading to finding her or resolving her case. Terry Black, a local businessman and friend of the Smart family, has offered a $100,000 reward for Smart’s body. In 2005, Paul Flores’s mother Susan Flores and her boyfriend Mike McConville filed a lawsuit claiming loss of employment, harassment and emotional distress against Kristin Smart’s parents and a family friend who operates a website tracking Flores.

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Darlie Routier

Less than two weeks after the violent deaths of her two sons, Darlie Routier stood accused of their murders, and was held under suicide watch in Dallas County's central jail. "I did not murder my children. I had nothing to do with this," says Darlie, proclaiming her innocence. The state decided to try Darlie for the murder of 5-year-old Damon. Because of his age, that killing was a capital offense in Texas, punishable by death. To bolster its circumstantial case and provide a motive for the killings, prosecutors Greg Davis and Toby Shook focused on Darlie's character. They depicted her as a pampered wife distraught because her husband's computer business wasn't making enough money to pay the bills. They also seized upon a journal entry Darlie had made while suffering from postpartum depression after the birth of her third son, Drake. It was written just one month before the killings and addressed to her three boys. "She said, 'Forgive me for what I'm about to do,'" says Shook. "She was contemplating suicide." To the prosecution, the motive was clear: A depressed, self-involved Darlie had killed her boys in an attempt to maintain an extravagant lifestyle. Darlie's family pooled their resources and hired two high-powered defense attorneys, Doug Mulder and Richard Mosty. On Jan. 6, 1997, the jury heard opening arguments. Although cameras were banned, both sides played to the media outside. Author Barbara Davis also watched every minute of testimony in the standing-room-only chambers. The state began building its case by recounting its long list of circumstantial evidence, including testimony from a forensics expert who told the jury that fragments from that garage window screen which had been cut were found on a second knife in the Routier kitchen. Prosecutors believe that, at some point, Darlie cut the garage window screen with that second knife. Then, after stabbing her sons with the other knife, they say she ran down the alley to plant the bloody sock, raced back home, slit her own throat, finished staging the crime scene, and called 911. But perhaps the most devastating evidence against Darlie was the infamous Silly String video - the local news crew video of Darlie and her family at the boys' grave, singing Happy Birthday to son Devon and spraying Silly String at the site. "I could see a lot of people in that jury box having the same kind of reaction that I had had when I first saw it," says Davis. "They couldn't believe their eyes. They were disturbed by what they saw." The defense, however, countered by attempting to discredit the DA’s circumstantial case. They also argued that Darlie could not have had the presence of mind to stage the crime scene. Plus, Darlie’s attorneys claimed there were no witnesses, no confession, and no motive. "There is absolutely no reason for her to kill those children," says Mosty. But against the advice of her lawyers, Darlie took the stand, and withered under cross-examination by prosecutor Toby Shook. “She claims to have amnesia, yet the amnesia was very convenient," recalls Shook. "If she needed to explain a piece of damning circumstantial evidence, she'd come up with a new story. She'd have a memory of it.” The trial lasted nearly five weeks, and the case went to the jury on Jan. 31, 1997. The following day, the jury reached a verdict. Darlie Routier was sentenced to death for the capital murder of her son Damon. In her account of the crime and trial, "Precious Angels" author Barbara Davis left no doubt that she also believed Darlie Routier was guilty as charged. But just weeks after the book was published, Davis met with a source who showed her photos that were not presented to the jury. "I saw a woman who fought for her life," says Davis, who claims that Darlie was covered in bruises that she couldn't have put on herself - places, in fact, where she couldn't have reached. However, prosecutors and even Darlie's defense attorneys disagree with Davis, saying that every picture of Darlie's wounds was admitted into evidence. "They were shown," says Davis. "They were considered. And they were argued at the trial." But, there's something else: A police surveillance tape secretly recorded views of the boy's gravesite and revealed that, on the day of the infamous silly string celebration, the Routiers' first held a solemn memorial service for their boys. Because of legal concerns about the hidden camera, the tape was never shown to jurors. Convinced Darlie was wrongly convicted, her family enlisted the help of Texas millionaire Brian Pardo, who had spent his own money before to defend another Death Row inmate. Pardo hired attorney Stephen Losch who developed two theories - including one which fingered Darlie's husband, Darin Routier, as a suspect. The motive: a $300,000 insurance policy on Darlie. In the wake of these allegations, Darin Routier severed all ties with Pardo. Dallas attorney Stephen Cooper also represented Darlie and filed an appeal in July 2001, claiming that Darlie deserved a new trial because her original defense attorney, Doug Mulder, had previously represented Darin Routier - which constitutes a conflict of interest. "There is no question that she got a raw deal, that she got an unfair trial," says Cooper. "There's no question in my mind that she's innocent." Just this past May, however, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected that appeal. And earlier that same month, Darlie's other attorney, Losch, passed away. But the legal efforts continue to get Darlie another trial. Another appeal has been filed by another new attorney, claiming there is evidence important to the case that was not addressed in her 1997 trial - including a mysterious bloody fingerprint found at the crime scene. The Routiers had Devon and Damon's bodies exhumed in May 2000 to take their fingerprints. Cooper claims that forensic testing indicates the partial print is from an adult and not one of Darlie's children - supporting his defense that an intruder was in the home. But perhaps an affidavit signed last summer by Darin Routier is the most surprising in this case. In this document, Darin admitted that three months before the murders, he was looking for someone to burglarize his home for an insurance scam. "Darin was confronted, denied the burglary," says Cooper. "The circle kind of got narrower and narrower and he ultimately admitted it." In the same affidavit, however, Darin also says that Darlie had asked for a separation the night of the murders. In addition, Cooper says there's something more that he'd like a new jury to hear: "We do have a new witness that was unknown at the time of the original trial." A witness, he says, who fears for her life and has declined 48 Hours' request for an interview. This new witness claims that on the night of the murders, she saw two men walking by the side of the road around the time the boys were killed - one man who loosely matched the description of the intruder Darlie had just given police 10 blocks away. Less than an hour later, she saw a small black sedan leaving the area. But whether any of these new leads eventually reveals a new suspect, one thing remains constant: Darlie Routier insists she is not the killer. Now, more than seven years after the murders, Darlie's family and supporters carry on a public crusade to clear her name. "I'm going to do everything in my power, for the rest of my life if that's what it takes to prove my daughter is innocent," says Darlie Kee, Darlie's mother. "They've never come up here with anything new for us," says Davis. "They'll take the evidence that was presented, they'll tell the public that it was never presented. They'll reinvent the case." Darlie Routier says the only thing she did that terrible night was try and save her sons. "I have been robbed of so much. Not just with Drake, with Devon and Damon. I have been robbed," says Darlie. "For the rest of my life, I have to wonder what they would have looked like, how big they would have been, how their voices would have been changing. I didn't do anything and this has been taken from me and it's wrong." The fate of Darlie Routier's latest appeal now rests with the state of Texas. Her attorneys believe that their new evidence - the fingerprint on the coffee table, the new witness who saw the two men and the black sedan that night - will be strong enough to persuade a jury to free Darlie. The prosecution stands ready to re-try the case. Meanwhile, Darlie and Darin's youngest son, Drake, 8, visits his mother once a month - but they remain separated by bulletproof glass. He hasn't touched his mother in more than six years.

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The disapperance of Kristin Smart

Kristin Denise Smart (born February 20, 1977, legally presumed dead May 25, 2002) is an American missing person. She disappeared on May 25, 1996 while attending California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Three fellow-students had escorted her back to her hall of residence after a party. One of them, Paul Flores, was the last person known to have seen her alive, and he claims that he left her to return to her dorm alone. When a police-dog located evidence of human remains close to the Flores family home, the Sheriff’s office refused to issue a search warrant, and a local newspaper raised suspicions of a cover-up. Smart is still on file as a high priority missing person.

Disappearance

The night Smart disappeared, she attended a birthday party of a fellow student, which fell on Memorial Day weekend 1996. At approximately 2:00 a.m. on May 25, 1996 she was found passed out drunk on the neighbor's lawn by two fellow students and party-goers: Cheryl Anderson and Tim Davis, who both had just left the party. They helped her to her feet and decided to walk her back to her nearby dorm. Another student from the party, Paul Flores, joined their group and offered to help the two get Kristin back to her dorm room safely. Tim Davis departed the group first since he lived off campus and had driven to the party. Cheryl Anderson was the second to depart the group after she told Paul Flores that he could walk Kristin Smart back to her dorm since he lived closer. Flores stated to police that he walked Smart as far as his dormitory, Santa Lucia Hall, and then allowed her to walk back to her Muir Hall dorm by herself. This was the last known sighting of her. She did not have any money or credit cards at the time she went missing.

Official Investigation

The campus police originally suspected that Smart had gone on an unannounced vacation, as was common among students over the holidays. It was because of this that the campus police were slow at reporting her as a missing person to local law enforcement. During the high profile Laci Peterson murder investigation, there were unfounded rumors in the media that Scott Peterson had something to with Kristin's disappearance since Scott attended California Polytechnic State University at the same time as Smart. There was a brief initial inquiry into whether Peterson had any involvement. Peterson was totally ruled out as a suspect by police. Scott has publicly denied any involvement in the Kristin Smart case. Smart's disappearance remains essentially an unsolved case however, and no firmly proven explanation for her disappearance exists. Her body has never been found.

Legacy

Smart's disappearance and slow response by the California Polytechnic State University Police Department resulted in the Kristin Smart Campus Security Act being written and sponsored by Democratic state Senator Mike Thompson, passed 61-0 by the California State Legislature, and signed into effect by then Governor of California Pete Wilson on August 19, 1998. The law took effect on January 1, 1999 and requires all public colleges, and other publicly funded educational institutions to have their security services have agreements with local police departments about reporting cases involving or possibly involving violence against students, including missing students. Kristin Smart was declared legally dead in May 25, 2002, the sixth anniversary of her disappearance. Smart's parents, Denise and Stan Smart, took a civil case of wrongful death against Paul Flores in 2005, but dropped it after Flores pleaded the fifth amendment. The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office still reviews the case monthly. The FBI have her on file as a high priority missing person investigation, with a reward of $75,000 for information leading to finding her or resolving her case. Terry Black, a local businessman and friend of the Smart family, has offered a $100,000 reward for Smart's body. In 2005, Paul Flores's mother Susan Flores and her boyfriend Mike McConville filed a lawsuit claiming loss of employment, harassment and emotional distress against Kristin Smart's parents and a family friend who operates a website tracking Flores.

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Aaron Hernandez a serial killer?

Aaron Hernandez began dating Shayanna Jenkins in 2007. They have a daughter, Avielle Janelle, who was born in November 2012.[28] That same month, Hernandez purchased a 7,100 square feet (660 m2) four-story home, with an in-ground pool, in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, for $1.3 million. Legal issues 2007 Gainesville bar fight On April 28, 2007, according to a police report in Gainesville, Florida, 17-year-old Hernandez consumed two alcoholic drinks in a restaurant, refused to pay the bill, and was escorted out by a restaurant employee. As the employee walked away, Hernandez punched him on the side of the head and ruptured his eardrum. Although the police department recommended charging Hernandez with felony battery, the incident was settled out of court with a deferred prosecution agreement. 2007 Gainesville double shooting On September 30, 2007, five shots were fired into a car containing Randall Carson, Justin Glass, and Corey Smith while they were waiting at a Gainesville stoplight after having left a nightclub. Carson, a passenger sitting in the back seat who was uninjured, told police that the shooter was a "Hawaiian" or "Hispanic" male with a large build weighing about 230 pounds with a lot of tattoos. Glass, the driver, was shot in the arm, and Smith was shot in the back of the head and still suffers seizures as a result of the shooting. Hernandez invoked his right to counsel and refused to talk to police, and no charges were filed at the time. However, due to his 2013 arrest and subsequent conviction for the murder of Odin Lloyd, Massachusetts authorities have reached out to police in Florida to determine whether Hernandez may have had a role in the 2007 shooting. 2012 Boston double homicide Hernandez was investigated in connection with a double murder that took place on July 16, 2012, in Boston's South End, when Daniel Jorge Correia de Abreu, 29, and Safiro Teixeira Furtado, 28, both of Dorchester, were killed by gunshots fired into their vehicle.On May 15, 2014, Hernandez was indicted on murder charges for the killings of Abreu and Furtado,[37] with additional charges of armed assault and attempted murder associated with shots fired at the surviving occupants in the vehicle. 2013 Miami shooting On June 13, 2013, Alexander S. Bradley, described as a friend of Hernandez, filed a lawsuit against Hernandez in a Florida federal court. Bradley claimed that on February 13, 2013, Hernandez had shot him while the two were riding in a car on Interstate 95 in Palm Beach County, following an altercation at a Miami strip club; Bradley alleged that he lost his right eye as a result. When police came to assist Bradley, he declined to name his assailant, and no arrest was made at the time. Bradley's lawsuit was dismissed on June 17, 2013, as a result of incorrect paperwork, and refiled on June 19, 2013. On September 3, 2013, Hernandez's lawyers filed a postponement request in federal court until his murder charges were resolved. They said it would be legally unfair to Hernandez to permit the lawsuit to continue while he was defending himself in the shooting death of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd. On May 11, 2015, Hernandez was indicted for witness intimidation in relation to the 2013 Miami shooting of Alexander Bradley, since Bradley was reportedly a witness to the 2012 Boston double homicide. The intimidation charge for Hernandez carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. 2013 Murder of Odin Lloyd Main article: Murder of Odin Lloyd Aaron Hernandez Criminal penalty Life imprisonment Conviction(s) First-degree murder Capture status Incarcerated Killings Victims Odin Lloyd Date June 17, 2013 On June 18, 2013, the police searched Hernandez's house in North Attleboro for several hours in connection with an investigation into the shooting death of a friend, Odin Lloyd. Lloyd's body was found in an industrial park about a mile from Hernandez's house with multiple gunshot wounds to the back and chest. The Massachusetts State Police obtained a search warrant after evidence surfaced that Hernandez intentionally destroyed his home security system. A cell phone belonging to Hernandez was turned over to police "in pieces" and Hernandez allegedly hired a "team of house cleaners" the same day Lloyd's body was discovered, raising additional suspicion. On June 20, 2013, the Boston Herald reported the Patriots had "barred" Hernandez from Gillette Stadium.[49] According to NFL.com, Patriots owner Robert Kraft decided to have Patriots staff ask Hernandez to leave because he did not want Gillette to be "the site of a media stakeout". However, the Boston Globe reported that Kraft, head coach Bill Belichick (who is also effectively the Patriots' general manager) and the rest of the team's brain trust had decided to cut ties with Hernandez if he were arrested on any charge related to the case, even an obstruction of justice charge. Reportedly, this decision was made a week before Hernandez' arrest. On June 26, 2013, Hernandez was taken from his home in handcuffs and into police custody. The Patriots released Hernandez from the team about 90 minutes later, before officially knowing the charges against him. Their press release stated: A young man was murdered last week and we extend our sympathies to the family and friends who mourn his loss. Words cannot express the disappointment we feel knowing that one of our players was arrested as a result of this investigation. We realize that law enforcement investigations into this matter are ongoing. We support their efforts and respect the process. At this time, we believe this transaction is simply the right thing to do. Later that day, Hernandez was charged with first-degree murder, in addition to five gun-related charges;[56] he was held without bail at the Bristol County Jail. Two other men were also arrested in connection with Lloyd's death: Carlos Ortiz, on June 27, 2013, and Ernest Wallace on June 28, 2013. Ortiz revealed to the police that Hernandez had secretly rented an apartment in Franklin, Massachusetts. A subsequent search of the apartment, according to the Associated Press, "turned up ammunition and clothing that police believe could be evidence in the murder case against him". On August 22, 2013, Hernandez was indicted by a grand jury for the murder of Lloyd. On September 6, 2013, he was arraigned and pled not guilty to first-degree murder. He was held without bail but reserved the right to request bail later. On September 27, 2013, Jenkins was indicted on a perjury charge in connection with Lloyd's killing. On April 15, 2015, Hernandez was found guilty of murder in the first degree, a charge that in Massachusetts automatically carries a sentence of life in prison without a possibility of parole, as well as five firearm charges. Hernandez did not face the death penalty, as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts abolished the death penalty in 1984. Immediately following the conviction, Hernandez was temporarily transferred to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Cedar Junction, a maximum security intake facility located only 1.5 miles from Gillette Stadium where he formerly played, to begin serving his sentence. He was transferred to serve the remainder of his life sentence at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum security facility adjacent to the medium security Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Shirley.

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Deadly Bank Robbery: Stockton Has Struggled With Crime

Stockton, the city of some 300,000 people where a bank robbery, deadly hostage drama and gunfire-filled pursuit played out Wednesday, has struggled to contain violent crime and homicide in recent years amid the great recession and housing collapse, large-scale municipal budget cuts including deep reductions in the police department as well as a Chapter 9 bankruptcy. The city saw record-setting homicide rates in 2011 when 58 slayings were reported climbing to 71 the following year. The murder rate dropped by half to 32 in 2013 as Stockton PD formed partnerships with outside law enforcement agencies, tried to bolster community based policing in addition raising and restoring funding to bolster the force. Still the violent crime rate is high given its population. The violent crime rate in Stockton in 2012 was 4,630 violent crimes per 100,000 population with 4,155 per 100,000 the previous year, according to the most recent full-year of crime statistics in the FBI Uniform Crime Report. In contrast, San Jose, a city of nearly of 1 million people saw 3,547 violent crimes per 100,000 people in 2012 and 3,206 per 100,000 in 2011. Stockton gained notoriety for a 1989 schoolyard shooting that shocked the California’s conscience and led to changes in the state’s gun-control laws that became models for the country. In 1989, California became the first state to ban military-style assault weapons after shooting rampage in the northern San Joaquin Valley city where a drifter Patrick Purdy opened fire at a schoolyard, killing five children and wounding 30 others. Purdy fired more than 100 rounds using a AK-47 type semiautomatic before taking his own life. Outcry from the shooting led the California Legislature to pass the Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act restricted importation, distributing or manufacturing about 75 types of semiautomatic rifles, shotguns and pistols designated by brand name to be “assault weapons.” The law was later strengthened to restrict generic features — such as large-capacity magazine clips, folding stocks and flash suppressors. The California law became the inspiration for efforts to outlaw assault weapons.

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On July 22, 2010, 16 year old James Earl Rivera, Jr. was shot and killed in a hail of 48 bullits fired by Stockton PD Officers, Gregory Nunn and Eriz Azavard and San Joaquin County Sheriff Deputy John Nesbit. Unarmed James Rivera was driving at normal speed to his home when he was rammed and turned around by a Stockton police car. A second police car rammed him again, pushing him through two neighboring garages and immobilizing his car. Witnesses at the scene say the crash through the garages would have easily injured James seriously. The three officers exited their vehicles and positioning themselves on both sides and behind (the seriously injured) James, opened fire with 48 rounds from 2 (9mm) handguns and a AR-15 Army Assault rifle. 19 of the 48 bullits hit the 16 year old Black youth on both sides of his body and in the back of his head. His mother followed the ambulance to the hospital and was threatened by police dogs and forced out of the hospital when she demanded to see her sons body. Two years after the brutal assassination style killing of James Rivera, the police have still not released a report to the family. Witnesses have stated that James was stopped by Stockton police and let go minutes before he was killed. Police claimed they shot Rivera because they thought he would back his car up and was a threat to them. It is clear from pictures of the crime scene that it was impossible for James' car to move. In fact, police had to use a tow truck to pull James car over the debris of the crash and out of the garage. This video contains disturbing images of the deceased after being rammed through two garages and shot 19 times. View with discretion. In this video, both parents appeal to their communities to stand up against police brutality before their loved ones are killed.

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The Murder of Jeffrey Wheatley

A murder trial began Thursday for two of three people charged with shooting, stabbing and beating a man before lighting him on fire in a Stockton home last year. Graphic photos and gruesome descriptions of torture that 49-year-old Jeffrey Wheatley suffered proved unsettling in court. A relative of the victim could be heard crying in the rear of the courtroom. San Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney Mark Ott’s voice quivered in his opening statement as he described the excruciating death Wheatley experienced on April 7, 2010. “He was subjected to the highest levels of pain and suffering any human could endure,” Ott told jurors inside the San Joaquin County Superior Courtroom. On trial are 26-year-old Valerie Nessler, who was a roommate of the victim, and 33-year-old Robert Turner. A third defendant, Allen Periman, 31, will be tried later. According to the prosecution, Nessler had heard Wheatley brag of killing a man in 1994 with a gun. That crime, as he described it, resembled the way Turner said his own brother had died, Ott said. Yet, Ott added that the accused killers didn’t have the facts correct. Turner’s brother died of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot, something Turner and his family never could accept. Nessler told Turner about her roommate’s story of killing a man, and then she set him up to be killed, the prosecutor said. On the day of his death, Turner and Periman kicked in the door to the home in the 8300 block of Sussex Way, Ott said. Turner shot Wheatley twice with a shotgun, the prosecutor said, adding that Nessler and Periman next stabbed him 30 times, and they doused him with gasoline. Wheatley was able to get up and stumble to the front door before falling. That’s where Ott said the trio lit him on fire, engulfing the entire home. When Stockton firefighters arrived, they found the body inside, launching a murder investigation that led to the three defendants. Turner’s attorney, Deborah Fialkowski, told Judge Edward Lacy that she would give her opening statement to jurors later in the trial. Nessler’s attorney, John Panerio, said his client admits that she was there. In a video of her statement to detectives, Nessler admitted to once stabbing at Wheatley, but only because Turner ordered her to do it. “Any aiding and abetting she did in this murder, she did out of fear,” Panerio said. “She was terrified.” Panerio, who said the residents of the home were using methamphetamine, asked jurors to focus on the big picture. The prosecution will not meet the burden of proof, Panerio said

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September 19, 1994 - TJ Lane is born.

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Susan Wright

Susan Lucille Wright (born April 24, 1976) is an American woman from Houston, Texas, who made headlines in 2003 for stabbing her husband, Jeff Wright, 193 times and then burying his body in their backyard. She was convicted of first-degree murder in 2004, and is currently serving a 20-year sentence at the Crain Unit in Gatesville, Texas. She became eligible for parole consideration on 28 February 2014.

Crime

According to evidence presented by the prosecution, on Monday, January 13, 2003, Susan Wright, 26, tied her husband, Jeff Wright, 34, to their bed and stabbed him 193 times with two different knives. She then buried his body in their Houston backyard. She attempted to cover up the crime scene by painting the bedroom. The next day, Wright filed a domestic abuse report in order to get a restraining order against her husband. According to the evidence adduced during the 2010 punishment trial, it was shown that the prosecution's theory that Jeff was tied to the bed was not supported by the medical examiner who excavated the body. The medical examiner testified that Jeff had a significant amount of cocaine in his body the night he died - so much so that Jeff's body had not metabolized all the cocaine. The cocaine evidence supported the defense's assertion that Jeff was intoxicated the night of his death, when he came home from a boxing class and punched his son. Jeff also had several knife wounds on his hands, forearms, back, and the backs of his legs, indicating defensive wounds inconsistent with being tied to a bed. On January 18, Wright asked her attorney, Neal Davis, to come to her home and admitted to stabbing her husband. Davis contacted the Harris County district attorney's office to inform them a body was buried under Susan Wright's house and that she had confessed to the crime. Wright turned herself in to authorities at the Harris County Courthouse on Friday, January 24 and was arraigned on murder charges the following Monday.

Trial

Thirteen months after her arraignment, Susan Wright's murder trial commenced on February 24, 2004. She had already pled not guilty to killing her husband by reason of self-defense. Wright's prosecutor and defense attorney had very different portrayals of her. Assistant district attorney Kelly Siegler depicted Wright as a scheming wife who seduced her husband into bed, tied him up, repeatedly stabbed him, and then buried his body in their backyard, all in hopes of collecting a $200,000 life insurance policy. Wright's defense attorney Neal Davis claimed that his client had suffered years of physical and emotional abuse by her husband, and killed him to protect herself and her two young children. At her trial, Susan Wright testified in her own defense. In her emotional testimony on the stand, Wright claimed: "I couldn't stop stabbing him; I couldn't stop. I knew as soon as I stopped, he was going to get the knife back and he was going to kill me. I didn't want to die." She testified that on the night of the murder, Jeff Wright was on a cocaine binge and was violent, having allegedly beaten her. Wright once again persisted that she stabbed her husband in self-defense. Susan Wright's mother, among others, testified for the defense, claiming they witnessed Wright's bruises. Siegler said Wright's tears were faked for the jury's benefit. The prosecution presented an unusual demonstration by bringing the Wrights' actual bed into the courtroom. During closing arguments, Siegler brought up to the jury how Wright had been a topless dancer, and said she believed Wright's emotions were insincere. She contended that Susan Wright was a "card-carrying, obvious, no-doubt-about-it, caught-redhanded, confirmed, documented liar", whose frequent shows of emotion during the trial were deliberate efforts to influence the jury.

Verdict

On March 3, 2004, after five-and-a-half hours of deliberations, Wright's jury convicted her of murder. In contrast to her emotional testimony during the trial, Wright showed little reaction to the guilty verdict. The following day came Wright's sentencing. Prosecutors were hoping for at least a 55-year sentence, while Wright's attorneys argued for probation for their client. In the end, the jury met in the middle, sentencing Wright to 25 years in prison.

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The Cleveland School Massacure

Stockton, California The Cleveland School massacre was an incident of mass murder that occurred on January 17, 1989, at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California, United States. The gunman, Patrick Purdy, who held a long criminal history, shot and killed five schoolchildren, and wounded 29 other schoolchildren and one teacher, before committing suicide. His victims were predominantly Southeast Asian refugees.

The shooting

On the day of the shooting, an anonymous person phoned the Stockton Police Department and warned of a death threat against Cleveland Elementary School. Later that day, just before noon, Patrick Purdy, a disturbed drifter and former Stockton resident, started his attack by setting fire to his car that he had parked behind the school. He then moved to the school playground and began firing with a Chinese-made Type 56 semi-automatic rifle from behind a portable building. Purdy fired more than 100 rounds in three minutes killing five children and wounding thirty others including one teacher. All of the fatally shot victims and many of the wounded were Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants. Purdy, who had carved the words "freedom", "victory", and "Hezbollah" on his weapon, and "PLO", "Libya", and "death to the Great Satin" (sic) on his flak jacket, then took his own life by shooting himself in the head with a pistol.

Fatalities

1. Rathanar Or, age 9 2. Ram Chun, age 8 3. Sokhim An, age 6 4. Oeun Lim, age 8 5. Thuy Tran, age 6

Patrick Purdy

Patrick Edward Purdy was born on November 10, 1964 in Tacoma, Washington. His father, Patrick Benjamin Purdy, was a staff sergeant in the Army and was stationed at Fort Lewis at that time of his son's birth. His mother was Kathleen Toscano. When Patrick was two years old, his mother divorced her husband after he had threatened her with a weapon, and Kathleen moved with her son to South Lake Tahoe and later to the Sacramento area. He attended Cleveland Elementary School from kindergarten through second grade. Patrick's mother remarried, though was again divorced five years later. Albert Gulart, Purdy's stepfather, said Patrick was an overly quiet child who couldn't cope with things and according to his aunt, he was an alcoholic during his childhood. When Purdy was thirteen, he once struck his mother in the face and therefore was permanently thrown out of her house. Purdy began living on the streets of San Francisco for a while, before being placed in foster care. Purdy was adopted shortly after, and settled with his foster family in the West Hollywood area. There, he became a drug addict and went to high school only sporadically. On September 13, 1981 Patrick's father died in a traffic accident and the family filed a wrongful-death suit in San Joaquin Superior Court against the driver of the car, asking for $600,000 in damages, though the suit was later dismissed. Purdy also accused his mother of taking money his father had left him, using it to buy a car and making a trip to New York, an incident that deepened the animosities between them. Purdy had a long criminal history, which began during early adolescence. In order to support his drug addiction, he became a prostitute, which resulted in his first arrest in 1980. He was later arrested in 1982 for possession of marijuana and drug dealing, in 1983 for possession of an illegal weapon and receipt of stolen property. In October 1984 he was arrested for being an accomplice in an armed robbery, and spent 32 days in the Yolo County Jail. In 1986 his mother called police when he vandalized her car, after she refused to give him money for drugs. In April 1987, he was once more arrested for firing a semi-automatic pistol at trees in the Eldorado National Forest. At the time, he was carrying a book about the white supremacist group Aryan Nations, and told a County Sherriff that it was his "duty to help the suppressed and overthrow the suppressor." Later in jail he tried to commit suicide twice, once by hanging himself with a rope made out of strips of his shirt, and a second time by cutting his wrists with his fingernails. A subsequent psychiatric assessment found him to suffer from mild mental retardation, and to be a danger to himself and others. In the fall of 1987, he began attending welding classes at San Joaquin Delta College and complained about the high number of Southeast Asian students there. In early 1988 he worked at Numeri Tech, a small machine shop located in Stockton, and from July to October as a boilermaker in Portland, Oregon, living in Sandy, where he had relatives. He also bought the Chinese-made AK-47 derivative used in the shooting there on August 3. In October 1987 he left and drifted between Oregon, Nevada, Texas, Florida, Connecticut, South Carolina, and Tennessee searching for work. He eventually returned to California where he rented a room at the El Rancho Motel in Stockton on December 26. After the shooting the room was found decorated with numerous toy soldiers. Police stated that Purdy had problems with alcohol and drug abuse and had developed a deep hatred for everybody. His hatred was especially directed against Vietnamese and other Asian immigrants, stating that they take away jobs from native-born Americans, while he himself struggled to get along. According to his friends, who described him as nice and never violent towards anyone, Purdy was suicidal at times and upset and mad about the fact that he failed to "make it on his own". Steve Sloan, a night-shift supervisor at Numeri Tech described him as a "real ball of frustration" who "was angry about everything", while another one of Purdy's former co-workers noted: "He was always miserable. I've never seen a guy that didn't want to smile as much as he didn't." In a notebook, found in a hotel where he lived in early 1988, Purdy wrote about himself in a self-loathing perspective: "I'm so dumb, I'm dumber than a sixth-grader. My mother and father were dumb."

Repercussions

The multiple murders at Stockton received national news coverage and spurred calls for regulation of semi-automatic weapons. "Why could Purdy, an alcoholic who had been arrested for such offenses as selling weapons and attempted robbery, walk into a gun shop in Sandy, Oregon, and leave with an AK-47 under his arm?" Time magazine asked, ignoring the fact that the weapon used was not an AK-47. They continued, "The easy availability of weapons like this, which have no purpose other than killing human beings, can all too readily turn the delusions of sick gunmen into tragic nightmares." Purdy was able to purchase the weapons because the judicial system had not convicted him of any crime that prevented him from purchasing firearms. Neither had Purdy been adjudicated mentally ill, another disqualifying factor. In California, measures were taken to first define and then ban assault weapons, resulting in the Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Act. On the Federal level, Congress struggled with a way to ban weapons like Purdy's military-style semi-automatic rifle without also including semi-automatic hunting rifles. In the end, Congress defined "assault weapons" as semi-automatic weapons with certain military-style secondary features such as flash suppressors, bayonet lugs, and pistol grips. These were banned in the Federal assault weapons ban, enacted in 1994, which expired in 2004. President George H. W. Bush signed an executive order banning importation of assault weapons in 1989. President Bill Clinton signed another executive order in 1994 which banned importation of most firearms and ammunition from China.

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Oba Chandler

Oba Chandler (October 11, 1946 – November 15, 2011) was an American man convicted and executed for the June 1989 triple murders of Joan Rogers and her two daughters, whose bodies were found, with their hands and feet bound, floating in Tampa Bay, Florida. Autopsies showed the victims had been thrown into the water while still alive. The case became high-profile in 1992 when local police posted enlargements of samples of a then unknown suspect's handwriting, found on a pamphlet in the victims' car, on billboards. Chandler was identified as the killer when his neighbor recognized the handwriting. This was the first such use of billboards by law enforcement in the U.S.; billboards became useful tools in later searches for missing people. Prior to his arrest, Chandler worked as an unlicensed aluminum-siding contractor. He testified in his own defense, against the advice of his attorneys, saying that he had met the Ohio women and had given them directions, but that he never saw them again aside from in newspaper coverage and on the billboards set up by authorities. Police originally theorized that two men were involved in the murders, but this was discounted once Chandler was arrested. Following his conviction, Chandler was incarcerated at Union Correctional Institution, and, during his seventeen years of incarceration until his execution, he was notable for not having had a single visitor. Chandler was executed on November 15, 2011. He wrote a last statement to prison officials which said, "You are killing a (sic) innocent man today". The statement was read at a post-execution news conference. In February 2014, DNA evidence identified Chandler as the murderer of Ivelisse Berrios-Beguerisse, who was found dead in Coral Springs on November 27, 1990.