BRIANNA DENISON: JAMES BIELA, KILLER, KIDNAP, RAPIST, FOUND

James Biela
Police Arrest Suspect in Sex Assault Slaying of Reno Teen Brianna Denison
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Police arrested a suspect in the kidnapping, rape and killing of Reno teenager Brianna Denison, ending an exhaustive 10-month-long manhunt for the college student's alleged murderer.

James Michael Biela, 27, of Sparks, Nev., was taken into custody about 9 p.m. Tuesday and booked at the Washoe County Jail on suspicion of kidnapping, murder and sexual assault, authorities said. He is being held without bail.

Denison, 19, was abducted while she was sleeping at a friend's house during winter break in January. Police said a secret witness and DNA were crucial to cracking the case.

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At an afternoon news conference about the arrest, the girl's aunt Lauren Denison thanked police for getting the suspect "off the streets."

"Can you believe it?" Lauren Denison told the Reno Gazette-Journal earlier Wednesday. "The police said the DNA came back, and it's him. ... This is what we have been waiting for."

Reno investigators told reporters that a secret witness was key to capturing Biela. The witness' information "indicated that Biela's activities and behavior made him a likely suspect," police said.

IT'S NOT EASY TO CATCH A KILLER..BUT SCORE ONE FOR THE GOOD GUYS. CHOMP CAN'T BEGIN TO SAY WHAT I THINK OF THIS SONOFABITCH !!!

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SEATTLE: BARRY SAUNDERS, SOUTHCENTER MALL KILLER CAUGHT

Holiday Inn, 8439 N.E. Columbia Blvd., Portland, Oregon

Portland police arrest suspect in Washington mall shooting
by Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian
Wednesday November 26, 2008, 7:28 PM

Portland police responding to a routine call to check out suspicious activity at a Northeast Portland Holiday Inn on Wednesday stumbled upon a 21-year-old man wanted on a murder charge in a deadly shooting at Washington's Southcenter shopping mall Saturday.

Northeast Precinct officers arrested Barry L. Saunders Jr. after they were called at 11:33 a.m. to the Holiday Inn at 8439 N.E. Columbia Blvd. The call had come in as "unwanted people" involved in suspected drug activity, police said.

By 2:15 p.m., police identified Saunders among the "unwanted" near a rental car at the hotel, but realized he was very much wanted as the alleged gunman in Saturday's gang-related fatal shooting that occurred while thousands shopped at the largest mall in Washington.

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Within hours of the shooting, police said, Saunders was identified as the one who pulled the trigger. He was apparently coming to the aid of his teenage brother who had gotten into a fistfight with some rival gang members or associates who were taunting him with gang signals, according to police and Saunders' lawyer, David Gehrke, of Des Moines, Wash. The victims involved had ties to the Hoover Crips gang, a group that's been active in Portland.

SAUNDER'S FAMILY "HORRIFIED!" READ UPDATE...
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SEATTLE: SOUTHCENTER MALL -BARRY SAUNDERS, 21, IS THE KILLER

Barry Lee SaundersIdentified as the Southcenter Mall killer! He has not been found. Police say Saunders may be armed. The public is asked to call 911 if they see him or know of his whereabouts.

Last updated November 25, 2008 3:36 p.m. PT
Warrant issued in Southcenter shooting
By CASEY MCNERTHENYP-I REPORTER

Police have issued a warrant for Barry L. Saunders, the man suspected in a Saturday shooting spree at Westfield Southcenter mall that left one 16-year-old boy dead and another seriously injured.

Officers searching for Saunders, 21, say he is the sole suspect in the case. He may still be armed, and anyone with information is asked to call 911.

A warrant was issued Tuesday for the suspect in last weekend's shooting at Westfield Southcenter mall that killed one teen and wounded another one.

Saunders has lived in Kent and Tukwila, police spokesman Mike Murphy said. He has been charged with second-degree murder and first-degree assault.

Tukwila police declined to discuss additional details in the case, citing the continuing investigation.

About 3:45 p.m. Saturday, police said shots were fired on the mall's first floor just east of the central portion beneath the second-floor food court.

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Police suspect that at least five victims in the weekend's shootings -- the two at Southcenter, one at a First Hill nightclub and two on Rainier Avenue South -- had ties to the 74 Hoovers, based in South Seattle.

WHAT DO YOU DO WITH BOYS WHO ACT STUPID...

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SEATTLE: SOUTHCENTER MALL -2 SHOT (1 DIED) IN TEEN SHOOTOUT

KATU.COM - KOMO TV / SEATTLE
A shooting victim is loaded into an aid car at Southcenter Mall shortly after the shootings there.

A crowd standing in a parking garage watches police clear the mall. (November 22, 2008) Mike Kane/Seattle Post-Intelligencer )

A King County Sheriff's officer stands guard as as police clear the mall. (November 22, 2008) Mike Kane/Seattle Post-Intelligencer )

HARBORVIEW MEDICAL CENTER, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
2 shot at Southcenter mall, 1 dead; suspect at large
One teenager is dead and another wounded following a shooting this afternoon at Westfield Southcenter mall in Tukwila.

November 22, 2008 / By Seattle Times staff

Seattle Times staff reporters Erik Lacitis, Nick Perry, Eric Pryne and Tan Vinh contributed to this story.

One teenager is dead and another wounded following a shooting this afternoon at Westfield Southcenter mall in Tukwila.

Police are searching for a suspect inside the mall, which has been locked down for hours. Many shoppers and store employees fled the mall after shots were reported just before 3:45 p.m.

The two victims were transported to Harborview Medical Center. A Harborview spokeswoman confirmed the identity of the dead teen as Daiquin L. Jones, 16. A 15-year-old boy, Jermaine McGowen, remains in serious condition, but his injuries are described as non-life-threatening.

The incident occurred near the south main entrance of the mall, in a corridor near two restaurants. Police said they have talked to one eyewitness and are reviewing surveillance tapes.

The suspect is described as a black male in his late teens or early 20s, of average build, about 5 feet 6 inches tall and 145 pounds. He was believed to be wearing a black jumpsuit with red piping.

(snip)

The mall parking lot was a mess, witnesses said, as police evacuated people there from inside.

"Everyone's standing around outside. There's no movement. Cars are taking up every space and traffic's not moving," said a worker at the Olive Garden restaurant, located in the mall parking lot, shortly after the shooting.

ANOTHER KILLER NEEDS TO BE CAUGHT...
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ST. JOHNS, ARIZONA: VINCENT ROMERO'S SON TALKS TO POLICE

MyFOXPhoenix.com
Vincent Romero

AP / Nov. 10, 2008: A man arrives at the funeral of Vincent Romero at the St. John the Baptist church in St. Johns, Ariz.

AP / Nov. 8, 2008: The house where Vincent Romero, 29, and Timothy Romans, 39, of San Carlos, Ariz., were found fatally shot.

Police say an 8-year-old boy confessed to murder. Legal analysts say the questioning crossed the line.

Experts: Interrogation of boy, 8, 'out of bounds'

By Ann O'Neill / CNN

(CNN) -- The third-grader's legs dangle at times from an overstuffed chair as he answers the questions of two female police officers. His manner and voice are casual, even helpful, but his words are shocking.

And so, legal analysts say, were the methods police used to obtain them.

By the time the boy was finished talking, say police in St. Johns, Arizona, he'd confessed to a premeditated double murder.

The 8-year-old is charged in juvenile court with killing his father, Vincent Romero, 29, along with Tim Romans, 39, a man who rented a room in Romero's home. Police have said the boy confessed to shooting the men. He has not entered a plea.

He will be allowed to leave a juvenile jail for 48 hours to spend Thanksgiving with his mother, a judge ruled Wednesday.

The furlough will start at noon November 26 and end at noon on November 28, Apache County court administrator Betty Smith told CNN.

Legal analysts who spoke with CNN were united in their opinion that the police questioning was improper and that any incriminating statements the boy made shouldn't stand up in court.

A review of the tapes shows that the boy's demeanor was more suitable for a session of show-and-tell than for a soul-baring confession as he describes the carnage he saw inside his home. He does not appear to be depressed, scared or sorrowful.

Watch police interrogate the boy »

The body of his father's roommate was sprawled downstairs, he says. He ran through the house, shouting, "Daaaad! Dad!" His father was lying dead upstairs.

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FLORIDA: SEARCH FOR CAYLEE - "Please don't let this be my Caylee."

Crowd Gathers To Begin Search For Caylee Anthony
Saturday, November 8, 2008 – updated: 9:36 am EST November 8, 2008

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- People began gathering in the cool, predawn hours to take part in what organizers hoped would be a massive search for little Caylee Anthony's body.

Officials of the Texas-based search group EquuSearch estimated earlier in the week they would draw as many as 5,000 volunteers to comb through woods and swampland to look for skeletal remains of the child.

(snip)

The command post is near the corner of Judge Road and Shadowridge Drive (see map), almost directly north of Orlando International Airport. The search is set to begin at 8:00am Saturday and they are expecting as many as 5,000 people. If you want to be one of them, you can show up Saturday morning at the command post.

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AUDIO RELEASED OF GEORGE ANTHONY INTERVIEW

Late Friday afternoon, Eyewitness News obtained new audio tapes of interviews with George Anthony. They indicate he feared the worst when Caylee disappeared.

"My, my heart is killing me right now to say it's going into my granddaughter is not, no longer alive," he said (listen to full interview).

WHAT DID EQUU-SEARCH FIND?

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LAS VEGAS: OJ SIMPSON DENIED NEW TRIAL, BAIL DENIED

Questioned over raid on hotel room: OJ Simpson (file photo). (Getty Images)

O.J. Simpson, left, hugs his friend Thomas Scotto, with his sister Carmelita Durio, right, after he was found guilty on all counts following his trial at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. The verdict comes 13 years to the day after Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. (Photo/Steve Marcus, Pool)

O.J. Simpson Getty Images

OJ Simpson loses bid for new trial in Las Vegas
By KEN RITTER – 1 day ago

AP Associated Press

LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson was denied a new trial Friday by the Nevada judge who presided over his conviction in the gunpoint robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room.

Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass said challenges raised by lawyers for Simpson and co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart did not rise to the level of granting another trial.

"All of the issues have been preserved for the (Nevada) Supreme Court," Glass said, acknowledging her rulings could be appealed to the state's only appellate court.

Simpson and Stewart, who were shackled and in jail garb, did not speak during the 20-minute hearing, at which the judge also denied requests to release them on bail pending sentencing Dec. 5.

"They face life sentences, mandatory prison," Glass said. "Your motions are being denied."

Simpson, 61, and Stewart, 54, were convicted Oct. 3 of charges including kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon in the hotel room confrontation on Sept. 13, 2007. Simpson has argued he was trying to recover stolen mementos.

Each faces five years to life in prison on each of their two kidnapping convictions, and a mandatory sentence of at least two years or up to 30 years on each of the two armed robbery convictions.

SOME TRIALS ARE NEVER OVER...KEEP ON READING

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BOISE, ID: JOSEPH DUNCAN -DEATH AND 6 LIFE SENTENCES

JOSEPH EDWARD DUNCAN III

JOSEPH DUNCAN WITH KIDNAPPED SHASTA GROENE

Joseph Duncan is escorted to jury selection for his trial at the Boise Centre on the Grove convention center on Monday. Duncan pleaded guilty in December to 10 federal charges, three of which could bring the death penalty.Associated Press (Associated Press)

Convicted Child-Killer Joseph Duncan Gets 6 Life Sentences
FOXNEWS.COM Tuesday, November 04, 2008

BOISE, Idaho — Confessed child-killer Joseph Edward Duncan III received his final sentences Monday for the torture and slayings of an Idaho family with a judge telling him that his cruel rampage "exceeds the bounds of human understanding."

Six life prison terms in federal and state court were added to the death sentences a federal jury handed Duncan in August. He already is serving three life sentences handed to him by a state judge in 2006 on kidnapping counts.

In May 2005, Duncan kidnapped 9-year-old Dylan Groene, and his sister Shasta, then 8, from their Coeur d'Alene home and held them for weeks in western Montana. He tortured and sexually abused both children, eventually killing Dylan but Shasta was rescued after seven weeks.

Duncan had targeted the children, watching their home and killing their 13-year-old brother, Slade Groene, their mother, Brenda Groene, and her fiance, Mark McKenzie, in order to take the young siblings.

In state court Monday, Duncan was sentenced to three life terms for those murders, a penalty agreed upon mainly to spare Shasta the trauma of testifying. Shortly after that hearing, U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge sentenced Duncan to three federal life terms, one for kidnapping Shasta, and one each for sexually abusing Shasta and her brother.

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JUDGE FREES PSYCHOTIC THOMAS GERGEN, KILLED WIFE KARI OSTERHAUG

KARIN INGRID OSTERHAUG 1971 - 2003
Photos from fall 2006 at Kari's Bog on Redmond Ridge Trail.

Dan DeLong / P-I
John Osterhaug, father of victim Kari Osterhaug, listens Friday to a hearing for Thomas Gergen, who pleaded to insanity five years ago.

Angry judge forced to free man who killed wife in 2003
A man who killed his wife five years ago in a psychotic rage must be set free, a judge ordered Friday, because prosecutors presented no proof he is a danger to the community.

By Natalie Singer
Seattle Times staff reporter

Thomas Gergen will live in Bellevue.
Related
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A man who killed his wife five years ago in a psychotic rage must be set free, a judge ordered Friday, because prosecutors presented no proof he is a danger to the community.

Superior Court Judge Michael Hayden told Thomas Gergen, 36, he would be released from Western State Hospital to live with his mother in Bellevue in the next 45 days, as soon as a treatment program can be set up.

During Gergen's court hearing on Friday, the judge chastised prosecutors, saying their failure to present any substantial evidence made it virtually impossible for him keep Gergen in custody.

"It is the burden of the prosecutor to provide substantial evidence that Mr. Gergen presents a substantial risk to the community. What evidence have you given me? ... You presented no proof," Hayden scolded.

Gergen has been held at the state mental hospital since he was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2003 shooting death of his wife, Kari Osterhaug. The hearing Friday was to decide whether he is stable enough to be released into the community. It was one of several such hearings for Gergen since he was committed.

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According to testimony and court documents, Gergen's mental illness first appeared while he was in college, and it mushroomed in the months after Osterhaug became pregnant with their first child in 2002. He had become convinced that his father-in-law was trying to poison him, and that the baby wasn't his. He heard voices and believed that his wife asked him to kill her, he later told police and doctors.

On Jan. 4, 2003, Osterhaug, a biologist, and Gergen's mother took Gergen to the hospital for a psychological evaluation. He was released about 2 a.m. the next day. Within five hours, he shot his wife five times in their Shoreline home and shot himself in the face in a suicide attempt, according to court documents.

SHOULD THOMAS GERGEN BE RELEASED? YOU DECIDE...

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9/11: AMERICA REMEMBERS AND STANDS UNITED. GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Remarks by the President After Two Planes Crash Into World Trade Center Emma Booker Elementary SchoolSarasota, Florida

Listen to the President's Remarks

9:30 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. I, unfortunately, will be going back to Washington after my remarks. Secretary Rod Paige and the Lt. Governor will take the podium and discuss education. I do want to thank the folks here at Booker Elementary School for their hospitality.

Today we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country. I have spoken to the Vice President, to the Governor of New York, to the Director of the FBI, and have ordered that the full resources of the federal government go to help the victims and their families, and to conduct a full-scale investigation to hunt down and to find those folks who committed this act.

Terrorism against our nation will not stand.

And now if you would join me in a moment of silence. May God bless the victims, their families, and America. Thank you very much.

END 9:31 A.M. EDT

ALGER, WA: ISAAC ZAMORA LEFT A COMMUNITY IN PAIN AND SORROW

Isaac Zamora, 28: suspect in six slayings...and more wounded.

MIKE SIEGEL / THE SEATTLE TIMES
The motorcade escorting Deputy Anne Jackson travels south along Riverside Drive on its way to the Hawthorne Funeral Home in Mount Vernon Wednesday afternoon.

THOMAS JAMES HURST / THE SEATTLE TIMES
"Right now, people are just reeling. It still seems unreal," says Rich Deruiter, a local pastor and chaplain for the Alger community's volunteer fire department.

Alger residents wonder if the pain will ever fade
By Sara Jean Green / Seattle Times staff reporter
Friday, September 5, 2008

The Skagit County community of Alger has been stunned by two horrific crimes: the April slaying of Ferndale high school track coach Jeremy Scully and Tuesday's rampage by alleged gunman Isaac Zamora that left six dead. The people of Alger now wonder if things can ever return to normal.

ALGER, Skagit County — There's no post office here, no community center and no schools.

Though it's one of the oldest communities in Skagit County, Alger isn't even a town. Here, the local tavern — strategically located on the northwest corner of what is essentially a rural crossroads — is the main hub where people gather to swap news and share gossip.

Folks here are largely independent sorts who know their neighbors yet respect each other's privacy. The quiet and solitude are what drew so many to this wooded area that's dotted with lakes but is still just a quick jaunt from the nearest freeway onramp.

In less than five months, though, Alger has been stunned by two horrific crimes: In late April, the body of a popular Ferndale high-school track coach was found on nearby Blanchard Mountain and an Alger man is the prime suspect. Salacious talk about online swingers, an extramarital affair and the yet-unsolved homicide had switched back to more mundane topics when alleged gunman Isaac Zamora went on a shooting rampage earlier this week, killing six people — including a Skagit County sheriff's deputy — and injuring four others.

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A candlelight vigil to mourn those killed in Tuesday's shooting rampage will be held at 8 tonight at Alger Community Church. The church is at 1475 Silver Run Lane, about a quarter-mile north of Lake Samish Road off Old Highway 99. Everyone is welcome.

CAYLEE ANTHONY: CHLOROFORM FOUND IN MOM'S CAR

Chloroform Reportedly Found in Car of Missing Florida Tot Caylee Anthony's Mom
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
FOXNEWS.COM

"Significant levels" of chloroform were found in the car used by missing tot Caylee Anthony's mom Casey, MyFOXOrlando.com reported Wednesday, citing sources close to the investigation.

The significance of the find to the Caylee case is not clear, but sources said one of the computers taken from the Anthony home showed someone was searching for information on chloroform and how to use it, the TV station reported.

Chloroform, a solvent, once was used as an anesthetic, because inhaling the vapors depresses the central nervous system, though inhaling too much can be fatal.

Caylee was 2 when she disappeared in mid-June. Casey Anthony, 22, been charged with child neglect any lying to the authorities investigating her daughter's disappearance.

Police this week said they fear the little girl may be dead.

Leonard Padilla, the California bounty hunter who helped secure the release of Casey by posting the required $500,000 bond and then withdrew it, told MyFOXOrlando.com he is willing to get it reinstated.

(snip)

Padilla, who originally thought Caylee was alive, said he now thinks the little girl is dead.

But searchers, despite their scant numbers and suggestions Caylee is dead, haven't given up on finding the girl.

EquuSearch volunteers said they're more determined than ever to find her. The 30 to 40 people combing the Orlando area for Caylee, who would have turned 3 last month, are "not pulling out until they find this baby or exhaust every lead," search director Mandy Albritton told the Orlando Sentinel.

HOW MUCH WORSE CAN THIS STORY GET?

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ALGER, WA: SIX SHOT, TWO WOUNDED, SUSPECT CAPTURED

Scott Terrell / Skagit Valley Herald
Washington State Patrol troopers and a Skagit County Sheriff's Deputy lead a shooting suspect to the county jail Tuesday afternoon after he led authorities on a high speed chase from Alger to Mount Vernon. Six people were killed in a shooting rampage in Skagit County. (Scott Terrell/Skagit Valley Herald)

A suspect vehicle, metallic tan GMC pickup truck, is seen leaving southbound on Interstate 5 at the Kincaid Street exit in Mount Vernon, Wash., Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. The Washington State Patrol says six people are dead and two are wounded after a shooting rampage. Authorities say the suspect turned himself in after the shootings Tuesday afternoon. A sheriff's deputy is among the dead. (AP Photo/Skagit Valley Herald, Scott Terrell)

THOMAS JAMES HURST / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Local Sheriffs and police drive down Silver Creek Drive in Alger in Skagit County where several people are reported murdered in a killing spree and car chase on I-5.

JIM BATES / THE SEATTLE TIMES
One of the victims of the shooting spree remains in his car, where it came to rest in the median of I-5 just south of the Alger Exit.

Six people killed, two wounded in Skagit County
By CASEY MCNERTHNEYP-I REPORTER

P-I reporter Casey McNerthney can be reached

at 206-448-8220 or caseymcnerthney@seattlepi.com.

MOUNT VERNON -- Six people were killed, including a Skagit County Sheriff's deputy, in a Tuesday afternoon shooting rampage orchestrated by a man police had previously identified as "possibly mentally disturbed."

Two people also were wounded in what appears to be a series of shootings in seven different Skagit County locations, authorities said.

Among the wounded was a State Patrol trooper who was grazed in the arm during a high-speed chase down southbound Interstate 5. His injuries were not considered life threatening.

State Patrol trooper Keith Leary said several law enforcement agencies were processing seven scenes and still trying to sort out basic details at 6:30 p.m.

The incident began at 2:19 p.m. when police were called to a disturbance in the 19500 block of Silver Creek Drive near the town of Alger, he said. Troopers did not specify what kind of disturbance it was.

The deputy was killed there, as was another person and two construction workers believed to be working at the house.

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The suspected shooter had been on a Skagit County Sheriff's Office watch list, Leary said.

"From what we were told, he was just going down the road and shooting at people," Leary said.

I'LL TRY TO GET AN UPDATE ON THIS LATER THIS WEEK...

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CAYLEE ANTHONY: DNA SENT TO TENNESSEE UNIVERSITY 'BODY FARM'

All the bodies are from people who donated for scientific research.

"You get so involved in your project, you don't even really realise there's another body lying on the ground, just right beside you." Body Farm student

Life on Tennessee's 'Body Farm'
Page last updated at 10:00 GMT, Sunday, 3 July 2005 11:00 UK
BBC NEWS

A two-acre spot in East Tennessee known as the "Body Farm", littered with human corpses, has become a popular spot for real-life crime scene investigators. The Body Farm - part of the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility - was set up in 1971, by forensic anthropologist Dr Bill Bass.

Dr Bass is proud of the success of the unit.

"We have certainly helped a lot of people, solved a lot of crimes, and put some bad people in prison," he told BBC World Service's Outlook programme.

Maggots

The Body Farm receives around 50 bodies a year, which are placed in the woods and other environments around the facility.

Intensive 10-week courses are run on the farm for investigators from police agencies around the US.

They learn the proper way to dig up and retrieve a buried body.

We teach them archaeological techniques so that they can recover evidence and bone in context," says Dr Lee Meadows-Jance, the co-ordinator of the Body Farm and one of the trainers.

A typical storyline of the CSI TV show might be that, when a human body is found, the forensic scientists try to establish how - and how long ago - the victim died.

Some of the methods of doing this have been pioneered by the Body Farm.

Prime among them is identifying the time of death through the presence of maggots, the recently-hatched larvae of blowflies.

READ ABOUT MODERN FORENSIC INVESTIGATION...
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ORLANDO: DNA PROVES CAYLEE DEAD! WHY DID MOM LIE? GUILTY OR NOT?

How long will Casey Anthony keep smiling?

FBI DNA Results: Caylee Likely Dead
POSTED: 2:38 pm EDT August 28, 2008
UPDATED: 6:11 pm EDT August 28, 2008

ORLANDO, Fla. -- New FBI DNA results in the case of a missing Orlando girl indicate the girl is most likely dead.

Hair samples found in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car are definitely that of her daughter, Caylee, and the hair samples do show signs of decomposition, Local 6 confirmed Thursday.

Also, preliminary air samples taken from the vehicle indicate the foul odor in the car was that of a dead body.

Casey Back In Jail?

Meanwhile, the celebrity bounty hunter who helped orchestrate the release of Casey Anthony said the woman could be back behind bars within a matter of days.

Leonard Padilla said that he planned to begin the process of revoking Casey Anthony's $500,000 bond and it could be completed either late Thursday or Friday.

"Your position has changed. You believe that Caylee is dead," Local 6 News reporter Louis Bolden said in an interview with Padilla.

"Yes, I do," Padilla said. "The tests from the University of Tennessee -- they said that a human body was in the process of decomposition in the trunk. It's a longshot that it's somebody else."

"You think it's Caylee?" Bolden said.

"Yes," Padilla answered.

"And you think Casey hid the body," Bolden said.

"Yes," Padilla said. "Yes and yes."

(snip)

Decomposing Body In Car

Wednesday, Local 6 reported that evidence removed from a car belonging to Casey Anthony indicated a decomposing body was in the vehicle's trunk.

Detectives now have scientific proof that a body has been in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car, sheriff's office sources confirmed to Local 6's Mike DeForest Wednesday night.

Early in the search for Caylee, Orange County sheriff's detectives took hair and air samples from Casey Anthony's vehicle. Local 6 showed video of CSI taking the samples in a garage.

The evidence was then sent to the University of Tennessee Body Farm -- a place that specializes in human decomposition.

READ MORE. THERE IS A LOT CRIME INFORMATION...
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CAYLEE ANTHONY: A BODY WAS IN TRUNK OF MOM'S CAR

1998 WHITE PONTIAC FIREBIRD
This is like the car that Casey Anthony drove.

OSCEOLA COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
Report: Body Was Decomposing in Trunk of Car Driven by Missing Tot's Mom
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
FOXNEWS.COM

Results taken from air samples reveal that a body was decomposing in the trunk of a car driven by the mother of missing Florida toddler Caylee Anthony, a local TV station reported.

Detectives with cadaver dogs said in July they detected the smell of human decomposition coming from the trunk of the Pontiac that the mother, Casey Anthony, was driving when police began investigating the dispappearance of her little girl, who was last seen more than two months ago.

The University of Tennessee "Body Farm" conducted the tests on the car's air samples Aug. 10, and on Wednesday their conclusion was released: a human corpse had been decomposing there, according to WESH-2 TV.

Back in July, Caylee's grandmother Cindy Anthony initially made a frantic 911 call to report that her daughter's car smelled like a dead body. She later said the scent just as easily could have been that of rotting pizza.

Casey Anthony, 22, remains a person of interest in her daughter's disappearance on or around June 16. She has pleaded not guilty to charges of child neglect and lying to investigators. She is out on house arrest after posting a $500,000 bond and being released Aug. 21 after a month-long stint in the Orange County Jail.

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Caylee was two years old when she vanished; her third birthday was Aug. 9.

The test results are reportedly the first scientific evidence that there was a corpse in Anthony's vehicle.

Anthony has been offered a conditional immunity deal by authorities if she helps with the search, MYFOXOrlando.com reported, but she only has until Thursday to accept the deal, which is contigent upon concrete information that leads to the discovery of Caylee or her remains.

WHAT LIE WILL CASEY TELL NOW?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,411942,00.html

CASEY ANTHONY DID NOT WANT CAYLEE: CADAVER REPORT, ARREST AFFIDAVIT

CADAVER REPORT

ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT
View Pdf copy of Arrest Affidavit
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/media/acrobat/2008-08/41844520.pdf


Mom Wanted to Give Up Missing Girl
By TRAVIS REED,
AP / posted: 5 HOURS 58 MINUTES AGO
filed under: Crime News

(Aug. 26) - Casey Anthony tried to give her missing 3-year-old daughter up for adoption before she was born, but her mother wouldn't let her, according to legal documents that paint the 22-year-old Florida woman as a perplexed, scheming and unbalanced person who repeatedly defended obvious lies in police reports.

The 400 pages released by prosecutors this week leave little hope that Caylee Marie Anthony will be found safe. Anthony says her daughter has been missing since June 9, but she didn't report it until more than a month later. She faces charges of child neglect, obstruction and making false statements.

The documents include a poem Anthony wrote on July 7, eight days before she reported her daughter missing: "What is given, Can be taken away. Everyone lies. Everyone dies."

Prosecutors have called her a person of interest in what is appearing to be a murder case. She was freed last week on $500,000 bail and is on home confinement awaiting trial. Despite searches using divers and cadaver dogs, police have been unable to locate the Orlando girl.

The documents show a pregnant Casey Anthony, who gave birth to Caylee when she was 19, considered offering the child for adoption.

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JAMES PREVATT III, GIRLFRIEND RENEE REYNOLDS IS ACCOMPLICE

Man And His "Hostage" Both Charged After Two-Day Standoff
Reported by: Megan Healey
Saturday, Aug 23, 2008 @12:12pm EST

HANCOCK, MD - Police have charged a South Carolina man and his pregnant girlfriend after a two-day standoff that appeared to be a hostage situation.

Police say James Prevatt III, 26, was not holding his girlfriend hostage. In fact, they say Renee Reynolds, 21, appears to have been a willing participant.

The pair was formally charged early Saturday morning. Prevatt faces various counts of felony theft and drug charges, and for threatening to use an explosive device; Reynolds is facing felony theft charges and conspiracy charges. Police say they expect additional charges will be filed in the near future.

Both are being held at the Washington County Detention Center. Prevatt is being held on $500,000 bond, and Reynolds on $250,000 bond.

SWAT teams moved in on the room just after 7:30 p.m. Friday evening. Officers tasered Prevatt as he opened the hotel room door to get a meal. They also used a small explosive device to knock the back door down.

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Officers executed a search warrant in the room, but no weapons were found. They did find drugs and stolen property-- that includes jewelry, electronics, cameras and coins. Police say some of that property was stolen from a Hancock home on August 11th.

SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST STUPID!
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SKYLA WHITAKER, TAYLOR PASCHAL-PLACKER, 1 CLUE: .40 CALIBER GLOCK

Who owns the Glock like this one that killed these two young girls.

SKYLA JADE WHITAKER AND TAYLOR PASCHAL-PLACKER

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OKFUSKEE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA

.40-Caliber Glock Used in Slaying of Oklahoma Girls
Friday, August 22, 2008
By Sara Bonisteel

It was a .40-caliber Glock.

In their latest effort to solve a double-murder that thus far has neither motive nor suspects, Oklahoma police have revealed the make of one of the weapons used to kill two young girls on a country road nearly 10 weeks ago.

Police say two guns were used to kill 13-year-old Taylor Paschal-Placker and 11-year-old Skyla Jade Whitaker as they took an afternoon walk down County Line Road in Okfuskee County on June 8. It's a "brutal and deliberate" crime that has stymied investigators in this rural area 70 miles south of Tulsa.

"Since we don't have a motive, we just can't look in one direction for a certain person," Jessica Brown, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, told FOXNews.com. "It's wide open."

In a state that doesn't require gun registration, officials have had to canvas local pawn shops to check sales records for Glocks. They compiled a list of 60 gun owners and tested the weapons of about 40 last weekend. But they still need to test more.

"Here's the only way it's going to help us probably, if someone just bought a gun or they loaned it to someone recently right before the homicides and got it back," Brown said.

Officials said they were checking up with the remaining 20 gun owners to see why they chose not to have their weapons tested. "We just want people to cooperate so we can find this weapon, and then the person who had it in his hand," Brown said.

WHY? THAT'S THE BIGGEST QUESTION ON THESE MURDERS...

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MARYLAND: JAMES PREVATT III HOLDS PREGNANT GIRLFRIEND HOSTAGE

The newly renovated Americas Best Value Inn of Hancock, MD is located only 5 miles from both West Virginia and Pennsylvania at the narrowest point of Maryland. This charming, quaint 22 Guest room Inn is positioned on a picturesque hill of the Appalachian Mountains, near the banks of the Potomac River.

Hancock, Maryland: Historic main street

James A. Prevatt III (Submitted photo/)

The scene Thursday morning at the Americas Best Value Inn in Hancock where a hostage situation started late Wednesday night. (Joe Crocetta/Staff Photographer)

The Washington County SRT armored vehicle approaches Americas Best Value Inn Thursday in Hancock. (Joe Crocetta/Staff Photographer)

Suspect Holds Pregnant Woman Hostage at Maryland Motel
Associated Press / Thursday, August 21, 2008

HANCOCK, Md. — A burglary suspect wanted in four states remained holed up Thursday in a western Maryland motel, and doctors were standing by in case a woman believed to be his pregnant girlfriend gave birth, police said.

The standoff began around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday when state troopers and sheriff's deputies went to the America's Best Value Inn on Md. 522 in Hancock to arrest 26-year-old James A. Prevatt III, Maryland State police spokesman Greg Shipley said.

Shipley said Prevatt threatened to kill a woman in the room with him and any officers who tried to arrest him.

The woman is thought to be Prevatt's 21-year-old girlfriend, and Shipley said she is believed to be eight- to eight-and-a-half-months pregnant. Authorities don't know if Prevatt is the baby's father. A team of physicians from Johns Hopkins Hospital was standing by to handle any medical emergency, including childbirth, Shipley said.

Troopers and deputies evacuated about 12 of the 20 rooms in the one-story red brick motel where other guests were staying. Md. 522 was blocked in both directions near the motel, where a sign advertises room rates at $45 and up.

Prevatt is wanted in Maryland, South Carolina, Massachusetts and Virginia on burglary and larceny charges, Shipley said. Police did not know if he was armed, but Shipley said some of the burglaries involved the theft of firearms.

WE'LL UPDATE THIS BREAKING NEWS ASAP...
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