Saturday, March 15, 2008

TINLEY PARK LANE BRYANT: AMW SHOWS ENHANCED PHOTO/VIDEO

AMERICA'S MOST WANTED TIPLINE

1-800-CRIME TV

Detectives say this man killed five women and injured another in a brutal mass murder at a women's clothing store in a Chicago suburb.


Detectives say this man killed five women and injured another in a brutal mass murder at a women's clothing store in a Chicago suburb.This could be the best clue to the killer's identification.

An eyewitness told cops that she saw the killer had a braid over his right ear.

The end of the braid had four light-green beads on the end.

A police sketch artist incorporated those clues into this rendering.

  • Police describe the possible suspect as wearing a dark-colored, below-the-waist-length winter coat.
  • They say he had black jeans on with embroidery on the back pockets similar to a
    cursive "g".
  • The suspect was wearing a charcoal gray "skull" cap.



READ THE CRIME DETAILS, VIEW THE VIDEOS, CATCH THE KILLER...

http://www.amw.com/fugitives/video_photos.cfm?id=52877

CHOMP has a word on this. Someone knows this guy!

He has a mother, a father, a sister, a baby's momma, a pastor, a school pal, a jail "pal." He lives somewhere, so he has a neighbor. If his tooth hurts, where is his dentist? Where does he buy his clothes, his shoes? Who fixes his car or van?

He braids his hair? Who does his hair? Who saw this guy walking around with one braid over his right ear...the braid with the four green beads!

Please, come forward. He is big-time dangerous! After someone has killed, he has nothing to lose; he may kill you just because you know him.

CHARLES MANSON: BARKER RANCH SEARCH FOR MORE BODIES

March 15: The abandoned Barker Ranch house in the Panamint Mountains west of Death Valley National Park, Calif. Charles Manson and his followers retreated to the Barker Ranch after a killing spree during the summer of 1969.

Charles Manson in 1949 at the age of 14.This photo was in an Indianapolis newspaperalong with the headline "Boy leaves'sinful home' for new life in Boys Town."He escaped three days later.

AP/ Charles Manson, seen here in a 1986 court hearing.

Experts Find Possible Evidence of More Manson Family Murders
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Associated Press

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Bone-white stretches of salt, leached up from the lifeless soil, lay like a shroud over the high desert where a paranoid Charles Manson holed up after an orgy of murder nearly four decades ago.

Now, as then, few venture into this alkaline wilderness — gold-diggers, outlaws, loners content to live and let live.

But a determined group of outsiders recently made the trek. They were leading forensic investigators searching for new evidence of death — clues pointing to possible decades-old clandestine graves.


And the results of just-completed followup tests suggest bodies could indeed be lying beneath the parched ground. The test findings — described in detail to The Associated Press, which had accompanied the site search — conclude there are two likely clandestine grave sites at Barker Ranch, and one additional site that merits further investigation.

Next step, the ad hoc investigators urge: Dig.

For years, rumors have swirled about other possible Manson family victims — hitchhikers who visited them at the ranch and were not seen again, runaways who drifted into the camp then fell out of favor.

(snip)

Last month, equipped with cutting-edge forensic technology, the investigators assembled in the ghost town of Ballarat for a 20-mile ride in all-terrain vehicles to the ranch.

The team included two national lab researchers carrying instruments to detect chemical markers of human decomposition, a police investigator with a cadaver-seeking dog, and an anthropologist armed with a magnetic resonance reader.

WHAT A "CRIME FIND"...

Thursday, March 13, 2008

EVE CARSON: LAURENCE LOVETTE, SECOND KILLER ONLY 17

AP Photo/Sara D. Davis
Lawrence Alvin Lovett Jr., a suspect in the slaying of Eve Carson, is escorted by Durham police officers out of the police department, March 13.



Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr., 17, is escorted by Durham police officers out of the Durham Police Department in Durham, N.C., Thursday, March 13, 2008. Lovette, the second suspect charged with murdering University of North Carolina student body president Eve Carson surrendered peacefully to police early Thursday, authorities said. Lovette and Demario James Atwater, 21, of Durham, are both charged with first-degree murder in Carson's death. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)

Suspects in UNC Death Had Criminal Past
By MIKE BAKER – 1 hour ago / Associated Press

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A teenager's arrest Thursday ended a violent crime spree, authorities said, that included the slaying of a graduate student at Duke University and the University of North Carolina's student body president.

Police tracked Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr. to a Durham home, where he surrendered before dawn. He is charged with first-degree murder in the college students' deaths.

Court records show that Lovette, while on probation, had been arrested several times and charged with felonies ranging from burglary to car theft during the months between the two slayings. He was released on bond in those cases and court hearings were pending.

A manhunt started after Eve Carson, 22, a popular student leader at UNC, was found shot death last week on a street about a mile from the campus in nearby Chapel Hill.

Tips generated by several ATM and convenience store surveillance photos led to charges against Lovette, who police said appeared to be driving Carson's Toyota Highlander, and a second suspect in the back seat.

Police have not said whether they think Lovette or the second man charged in her death, 21-year-old Demario James Atwater, pulled the trigger.

Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez said while investigators worked on Carson's death, Lovette became a suspect in the death of Abhijit Mahato, 29, who was found shot to death in January inside his apartment a few block south of Duke's campus. His wallet, cell phone and iPod had been taken.

Mahato, originally of Tatangar, India, was a doctoral student at Duke in computational mechanics.

READ THIS TEEN'S LIFE OF CRIME

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

EVE CARSON: SUSPECTS - 1 CAUGHT, 1 SOUGHT

EVE CARSON

Police are also seeking Lawrence Alvin Lovett Jr. in the case

Demario James Atwater, 21, appears at his bail arraignment in Hillsborough, North Carolina, Wednesday.

Police take Demario James Atwater into custody in case of UNC student's murder. (FNC)

Suspect charged in UNC student's death; second sought

(CNN) -- One suspect has been charged and police are hunting for another in connection with the killing of University of North Carolina student Eve Carson, police said Wednesday.

Demario James Atwater, 21, was arrested early Wednesday at a residence in Durham, North Carolina.

Authorities were watching the home after receiving a tip that Atwater was inside.
He was charged with first-degree murder in Carson's death.


Atwater is believed to be the man in a convenience-store photograph released by police.
A second suspect, Lawrence Alvin Lovett Jr., 17, is being sought in Carson's death, police said.
He also faces a first-degree murder charge.


Lovett could be armed and dangerous, police told CNN affiliate WRAL.

Police believe Lovett was the man seen in a surveillance-camera photo possibly using Carson's card at an ATM, Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran said.

The pictures showed a young man wearing a hooded sweatshirt and baseball cap. There also appeared to be a large, shadowy form of another person in the back seat of the vehicle, which may have been Carson's SUV.

Police believe Atwater was in the back seat, Curran said.

STAY TUNED FOR THE SECOND CAPTURE!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/12/unc.arrest/index.html

Monday, March 10, 2008

EVE CARSON: COLOR PHOTO OF SUSPECT REVEALED

EVE MARIE CARSON

UNC/ As part of her platform for student body president, the Athens native campaigned to locate a local frozen yogurt place in the student union.

Eve, a native of Athens, Ga., was a Morehead-Cain scholar, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and was a pre-med major studying both political science and biology.

PERSON OF INTEREST

AP/Chapel Hill Police Department/ March 10:

This undated image made from a surveillance camera shows a man police call a "person of interest" in the murder of Eve Carson.

AP/Chapel Hill Police Department/ March 10:
This undated image made from a surveillance camera shows a man police call a "person of interest" in the murder of Eve Carson.

"Person of interest"
Digitally enhanced color photo released by police.



Have you seen this cap?
Do you know the man in the photo who is wearing this cap?
Copyright 2008 WRAL.com

Police have also issued a bulletin for
Carson's blue 2005 Toyota Highlander with Georgia license plate AIV-6690.


Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the
Chapel Hill Police Department at 919-968-2760 or Crime Stoppers at 919-942-7515.


America's Most Wanted Tipline
1-800 CRIME TV

UNC offers a $25,000 reward in the Eve Carson murder case.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

MEMPHIS: JESSIE DOTSON KILLS BROTHER, CECIL DOTSON, AND FAMILY

Jessie Dotson, ex-convict, kills brother Cecil Dotson, including 2 of Cecil's children

Cecil Dotson

Brother Charged in Deaths of 6 in Memphis Shooting
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Associated Press

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A convicted killer recently released from prison was charged Saturday with fatally shooting his brother during an argument and then killing five witnesses, including two of his brother's children, police said.

Three remaining children were critically wounded in the attack last Sunday, but one of them was able to tell investigators about their assailant, an arrest warrant affidavit said.

Jessie L. Dotson, 33, was arrested on Friday — five days after the six bodies were discovered in a small rental house in a rough neighborhood called Binghampton. The affidavit said Dotson admitted to the killings.

"He tried to kill everyone in the house. He thought everyone in the house was dead," police Lt. Joe Scott said.

Dotson was charged with six counts of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted first-degree murder, police said. Among those killed was Dotson's brother, Cecil, 30, who was the father of all the children, ages 9 to 2 months.

Also killed were Hollis Seals, 33, Shindri Roberson, 25, and Marissa Rene Williams, 26, the mother of four of Cecil Dotson's children. Police identified the dead children as Cemario Dotson, 4, and Cecil Dotson, 2.

The surviving children remain under police custody at a children's hospital, but police declined to reveal their identities or their conditions.

One of the children "implicated Jessie Dotson as the person responsible," an arrest warrant affidavit said.

WHY DID THIS TRAGEDY HAPPEN?

LAUREN BURK: COURTNEY LOCKHART'S MOM APOLOGIZES

AP
Police have charged Courtney Lockhart, 23, with the murder of Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk.


Courtney Larrell Lockhart, 22, arrested and charged in murder of Lauren Burk, 18


MyFOXAtlanta.com
March 4: Auburn firefighters put out fire in Lauren A. Burk's car.

Lauren Burk

Mom of Auburn Slaying Suspect Apologizes to College Student's Family
Sunday, March 09, 2008

FOX NEWS

The mother of the man charged with killing an Auburn University student said her son was an Iraq war veteran who was changed after his service, and offered an apology to the freshman's family.

Catherine Williams, the mother of suspect Courtney Lockhart, made the apology to Lauren Burk's family in an interview with Columbus, Ga., television station WTVM.

"I am sorry that Courtney did that. ... First let me say I'm sorry to the Burk family for Courtney taking, taking their child. ... My heart goes out to her family," Williams said in the tearful interview.

But she also said her son did not confess anything to her.

The 23-year-old Lockhart has been charged with capital murder in the death of an 18-year-old Auburn University student and could face the death penalty if convicted.

Lockhart also faces charges of kidnapping, robbery and attempted rape, Auburn Assistant Police Chief Thomas Dawson said at a news conference. He affirmed that authorities have strong evidence to prove that Lockhart killed Lauren Burk, a freshman at Auburn University.

Dawson declined to identify the evidence or potential motives for the crimes, and he wouldn't say conclusively whether Burk had been targeted or was the victim of a random crime.

THIS STORY IS NOT OVER...

Courtney Lockhart has hurt more people than he will ever realize!
CHOMP