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True Crime Book Watch!
New: Jessica Lunsford Jon Benet Ramsey DNA Rules Out Parents! Between 1976 and 1994, almost 37,000 children were murdered. 66% were less than 1 years old and 58% of those from 1 - 4 years old were killed by beating with fists, or blunt objects or by kicking. US Department of Justice Family Members or Acquaintances commit most of the Child Murders. Bureau of Criminal Justice Standards Between 1976 and 1994 an estimated 37,000 children were murdered. Children under 18 account for 11% of all murder victims in the US in 1994. Nearly half of these 2,660 child victims were between 15 and 17. 1 in 5 child victims were known to be killed by another child. In most murders of a young child, a family member killed the child, while in most murders of an older child, age 15 to 17, the perpetrator was an acquaintance to the victim or was unknown to law enforcement authorities. 1976 - 1994 in family murder of a child 10% of victims were age 15 - 17, while in murders by strangers were 67% of victims were in this age category. 1 in 5 child murders were committed by a family member. Since the mid-1980's the increases in the number and the rate of murder among 15- to 17-year-olds, particularly among black youth in this age range, outpaced changes in murder in all other age groups. Half of all child murders in 1994 were committed with a handgun; 7 in 10 victims aged 15 to 17 were killed with a handgun. FBI Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-94 Unsolved Murdered Children Cases Murdered Children and their stories The Ward Weaver Story: On a stormy winter morning, Ashley Pond, 12, a seventh-grader at Gardiner Middle School, headed for the school bus stop in Oregon City, OR about 8 a.m. on Jan. 9, 2002. Ashley did not make it to school. Two months later on March 8, 2002, 13-year-old Miranda Diane Gaddis, disappeared after she left her apartment at 8 a.m. for the school bus. Ashley and Miranda attended the same school, rode the same bus, were in the same dance class and had a common friend. Eric Smith, 13, murdered 4-year-old Derrick Robie. Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells10-year-old pupils disappeared August 4, 2002, shortly after being seen near their homes. Former school caretaker Ian Huntley denies murdering Jessica and Holly. He and former teaching assistant Maxine Carr are charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice. David Westerfield, 49, guilty of the murder and kidnapping of Danielle van Dam, 7, after February 1, 2002, who lived next door in San Diego, CA. The Trial of David Westerfield. Interview with Brenda van Dam Brenda van Dam and Gloria Allred, civil attorney for the van Dam family. The van Dam Family, PO Box 501515, San Diego CA 92150 -- Email the van Dam Family Samantha Runnion, 5, southern California, was snatched kicking and screaming, July 15, 2002 by a stranger outside her apartment while she played with a friend. Her body was found the next day by a hiker in Cleveland National Forest. Mom coping slowly after Samantha's death. Alejandro Avila accused of murdering Samantha Runnion, was acquitted of molesting 2 young girls. The mother of one of those girls and Avila's former fiancee, Beth Veglahn, shares her painful story. Grant County , Washington, Michelle Vick, 14, life veered suddenly from a tomboy slugging softballs to a runaway lured by a child rapist. Law enforcement allowed her to fall between the cracks. "What's there to talk about?" asked Mattawa police Chief Randy Blackburn. "She ran away, she wound up dead. End of story." Martha Moxley, 15, Greenwich CT, went out for some pre-Halloween shenanigans October 30, 1975. The next day, she was found beaten to death in her own back yard, the blows inflicted with a golf club. A former resident of a Maine reform school Michael Skakel attended in the 1970's told her his brother he had a romantic encounter with his 'girlfriend.' Skakel is the nephew of the Ethyl Kennedy, widow of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The Cheerleaders -- Dryden, New York, Upstate near Ithaca -- Tiffany Starr was captain of the Dryden High School cheerleading squad, member of the student council, and voted biggest flirt in her class. In 4 years, 6 of her peers, including Sarah Hajney, Jen Boldu, and Katie Savino were dead. So was her father, Stephen Starr, the High School Football Coach. Christina Long, 13, came to Danbury CT 2 years before to live with her aunt, Shelly Rilling, because her parents had problems. At her Catholic school, the 6th-grader made good grades, led cheerleading, was an altar girl and routinely had sex with partners she met in Internet chat rooms. May 20, 2002, Christina was strangled by Saul Dos Reis, 25, a married restaurant worker. He confessed and led police to her body. Tampa Bay FL -- When Kathy Hartman awoke early September 11, 1998, her daughter, Amanda Brown, 7, was gone and so was Willie Crain, Jr., a convicted child molester who spent the night with her. Ashley Mance - Clearwater, FL -- On April 3, 1999, Jessy Joe Roten, 19, fired a single shot into the exterior wall of the Mance family's home. The bullet passed through the sleeping bodies of Ashley, Aleesha, and their stepsister, Jailene Jones. Ashley, 6, bled to death, Aleesha was severely injured and Jailene was nicked by the bullet. A jury convicted the teenage skinhead of murdering a biracial girl. Trial of South Carolina vs. Saltz -- Joseph "Joe" Barefoot, 12, was missing in Columbia, SC, was last seen May 25, 1997. Months later his body was found in the woods near his home. Michael Saltz, Jr., 17, was charged with murder. After interrogation by police, Saltz signed a confession, was arrested, tried and found guilty. The community rallied around Saltz, convinced police coerced the confession. Sherrice Iverson,7, murdered in Primm, NV on May 25, 1997 -- Sherrice was kidnapped, raped and strangled by Jeremy Strohmeyer, 18, in a bathroom stall at the Prima donna Casino, South of Las Vegas. Strohmeyer pleaded guilty to all counts in a deal resulting in 3 sentences of life without parole and 1 sentence of life with parole possible after 20 years. Photo archives Jeffrey Curley, 10, - Oct. 10, 1997 Cambridge, MA -- Salvatore Sicari and Charles Jaynes lured Curley into Jaynes' Cadillac with the promise of $50 and a bicycle. The men made sexual advances, then suffocated him. Sicari was found guilty of 1st-degree murder and kidnapping. Jaynes and Sicari are serving life sentences. January 2001, Robert and Barbara Curley filed a $200 million wrongful death lawsuit against North American Man Boy Love Association -- an organization that defends pedophiles. The lawsuit claims NAMBLA encourage the "illegal rape of young male children," which led to the murder of Jeffrey. Nicole Parker, 8, disappeared November 20, 1993, playing outside her father's apartment in Woodland Hills, CA. She was sexually assaulted, , strangled, she choked on her own vomit and was stuffed into a suitcase in the closet of a neighbor's apartment. Hooman Ashkan Panah, 23, was arrested after he told a friend. Panah, was sentenced to death by a Van Nuys, CA Jury on 3/6/95. Panah's mother, Mehri Monfared characterized herself as a parent who beat her son and harbored an unnatural physical interest in him. The West Memphis Three -- The murder deaths of 3 -- 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Ark. Steve Branch, Michael Moore and Chris Byers -- were found May 6, 1993, naked, hog-tied with their shoelaces in a creek bed in Robin Hood Hills woods. All were beaten, 2 died from drowning, the 3rd, Byers, bled to death after he'd been repeatedly stabbed, and castrated. Summer 1991, East Lampeter Township, Penn, 4 teens from find themselves in a deadly triangle that would end in the death of Laurie Show, 16. Lisa Lambert began dating Lawrence "Butch" Yunkin. Their relationship was out of control, they had violent arguments and they used others to make each other jealous. Lawrence sought out Laurie, a popular 10th grader. Cary Ann Medlin, 8, Greenfield, Tenn., Sept. 1, 1979 -- She was going to ride her bike with her brother, Michael, 6. Robert Glen Coe saw the children, stopped his car and "conned" Cary Ann into the car, then kidnapped, raped and murdered her. Her brother was found standing on the side of a road holding both bikes. Robert Coe was executed by lethal injection, the first person put to death in Tennessee since 1960. Patty Rebholz - 1963 a 15-year-old high school cheerleader, Patty Rebholz, was brutally strangled and beaten to death. Greenhills, OH can't forget her. Kari & Associates Copyright Kari Sable Burns 1994-2006 |
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Drexler An Hour to Kill: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Justice in a Small Southern Town by Dale Hudson, Billy Hills -- Church-goer. Family friend. All-American boy. Murderer. Ken Register of Conway, South Carolina, was all of these. Clean-cut, polite, and respectful of elders, Ken was the guy parents wanted their daughters to date. Ken and Crystal Todd, 17, were "best friends," and briefly dated. Crystal's gutted body was found near the woods. DNA tests confirmed he repeatedly raped and stabbed Crystal Todd, then left her in a ditch. Slayer
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