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Corpse Found in Chicago Isn't Peterson
Corpse Found
in Chicago
Isn't Peterson
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Corpse Found in Chicago Isn't Peterson

But cops haven't ID'd decomposed woman

(Newser) - The badly decomposed body of a woman found yesterday in a Chicago industrial lot is not Stacy Peterson, reports the Chicago Tribune, the suburban mom whose husband, Drew, is suspected in her October disappearance. Officials also determined that the body was not another area housewife, Lisa Stebic, missing since April....

Missing NY Woman's Blood Found in Suspect's Car

Police: no chance she survived loss of blood

(Newser) - With Stepha Henry missing for months after a trip to south Florida, New York police yesterday arrested a suspect whose abandoned car held so much of Henry's blood that police, declaring "no one could survive with that loss of blood," charged the man with second-degree murder, the Miami ...

Hiker's Friends Remember Slain 'Angel'

Her accused killer named as suspect in three more murders

(Newser) - Hundreds of people packed a Georgia church yesterday to remember slain hiker Meredith Emerson as both a "firecracker" and an "angel," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. "Her light is reflected in your eyes," said her mother, who took the podium when Meredith's nephew became overcome with...

Pregnant Marine Is Dead: Sheriff
Pregnant Marine Is Dead: Sheriff

Pregnant Marine Is Dead: Sheriff

Lance corporal was scheduled to testify about sexual assault; defendant is suspect

(Newser) - The pregnant Marine missing from Camp Lejune, NC, since Dec. 14 is dead, the local sheriff said today. The search is on for her body and for the suspect in the case, a fellow Marine she had accused of sexual assault, CNN reports. Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach disappeared just before...

Hiker Possibly Still Alive When Suspect Spotted

She may have been trussed up in van at restaurant stop

(Newser) - Witnesses saw a "real fidgety" suspect Gary Hilton at a Georgia restaurant when kidnapped hiker Meredith Emerson was probably still alive in his van parked outside, CNN reports. The owner of a restaurant eight miles from where Emerson's decapitated body was found says Hilton came into the diner a...

Pregnant Marine Missing
Pregnant Marine Missing

Pregnant Marine Missing

Hunt on for young mom-to-be set to testify about incident at base

(Newser) - A pregnant 20-year-old Marine scheduled to testify about an incident that occurred at her North Carolina military base has been missing for nearly a month, reports the Dayton Daily News. Maria Lauterbach's cell phone was found at the camp's gate, and her car at a bus station six miles away....

Suspect in Ga. Hiker's Murder Denied Bail

Autopsy shows she was held captive for 3 days, bludgeoned

(Newser) - Gary Michael Hilton was denied bail this afternoon on murder charges in the gruesome death of 24-year-old Georgia hiker Meredith Emerson. The DA on the case says he has not decided whether to seek the death penalty, despite an agreement between Hilton and investigators to forgo it if Hilton led...

Man Charged with Kidnapping Georgia Hiker
Man Charged with Kidnapping Georgia Hiker
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Man Charged with Kidnapping Georgia Hiker

Police find her bloody shirts, warn that she is likely dead

(Newser) - Police charged 61-year old Gary Hilton with kidnapping with bodily injury today in the case of a missing Georgia hiker, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Surveillance photos showed Hilton trying to use Meredith Emerson's credit card recently at a bank; police also linked his car, which has a seatbelt cut out,...

Searchers Zero In on Missing Hiker
Searchers
Zero In on Missing Hiker

Searchers Zero In on Missing Hiker

Police pick up 'person of interest,' but he's not cooperating

(Newser) - Rescuers have narrowed the search for Meredith Emerson, the 24-year-old hiker missing since New Year's Day, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Officials won’t say why, but they’re now concentrating their search on the 5-mile area where Emerson’s car was found. Police yesterday found Gary Hilton, the last person...

'Amazing Kreskin' Offers Help in Peterson Case

Case needs break, psychic foresees

(Newser) - The man who bills himself as "The Amazing Kreskin" has offered to use his psychic powers to help police find missing Illinois mom Stacy Peterson, the Chicago Tribune reports. The celebrity mentalist  said it doesn't take a psychic to know the case needs a breakthrough. Peterson vanished two months...

$250K Search All for Naught: Wife Is Safe

Chicago woman ran away with her lover, authorities say

(Newser) - Police in Chicago who spent $250,000 searching for a missing suburban wife now say she's safe and sound—she just ran away with her lover. Police spent the week searching along the Des Plaines River after finding the woman's car in a parking lot with the door open and...

'Stacy's in a Graveyard'
 'Stacy's in a Graveyard'

'Stacy's in a Graveyard'

Missing woman's neighbors' creepy finds

(Newser) - Suburban Chicago neighbors of the former cop suspected in the mysterious disappearance of his wife Stacy Peterson received chilling notes in their mailboxes yesterday saying that the young mom is in a graveyard. One neighbor also found dozens of photos of grave sites scattered in her yard, reports the Chicago ...

Darwins Were Planning Panama Canoe Resort

'Dead' boater and wife were working on a Panama paradise

(Newser) - The British man who faked his own death in a boating accident had been planning with his wife to open an eco-tourism resort offering idyllic canoeing holidays, the Times of London has discovered. John and Anne Darwin spent almost half a million dollars on property in Panama, including $390,000...

Drew Peterson Feels Betrayed
Drew Peterson Feels Betrayed

Drew Peterson Feels Betrayed

Ex-cop suspected of wife's murder grumbles about being shunned by pals

(Newser) - It really got to Drew Peterson: his picture on a pinata at a vigil last weekend for his missing wife, Stacy. The former Illinois police sergeant, a suspect in Stacy's presumed murder, complains to the Chicago Tribune that he's been shunned by friends and former buddies on the force. He...

Wife in on 'Dead' Boater's Insurance Plot

Woman admits she banked benefits on 'missing' hubby

(Newser) - The wife of a British canoeist declared dead after missing for five years admitted yesterday that she knew her husband was alive before he walked into a police station last weekend claiming to be an amnesiac. Anne Darwin confessed when she was confronted with a photo of herself with her...

Police Charge 'Dead' Canoeist With Fraud

Photo surfaces on web showing missing man with wife in Panama

(Newser) - Police arrested John Darwin, the canoeist who reappeared in London after being presumed dead for 5 years, early this morning on evidence that he and his wife faked his death to defraud their life insurance agency. The mysteriously tanned and fit Darwin had claimed to have no idea where he'd...

Boater Appears, 5 Years Later, Sans Memory

Canoeist presumed dead; his wife moved to Panama 4 weeks ago

(Newser) - A man who was presumed dead five years ago, when he failed to return from a canoeing trip, showed up in London today, the Daily Mail reports. John Darwin, 57 and able to remember only his name, walked into a police station saying: "I think I am a missing...

Missing Co-ed Starred in Porn Site
Missing Co-ed Starred in
Porn Site

Missing Co-ed Starred in Porn Site

Police fear foul play in Kansas teen's disappearance

(Newser) - A missing Kansas college student apparently led a secret life as an internet porn star, according to police who suspect foul play in her disappearance. Emily Sander, 18, disappeared last week after leaving a bar outside Wichita with a man whose motel room was later found trashed and covered in...

Peterson Lawyer Hails FBI Joining in Wife Search

Hopes it will end 'witch hunt' against his client

(Newser) - Drew Peterson’s lawyer praised the arrival of FBI assistance in the search for Stacy Peterson, the ex-Chicago police sergeant’s missing fourth wife. "My hope is that this will move from the witch hunt that it has become and go back to a missing person case," Peterson’...

Husband Is Suspect in Disappearance
Husband Is Suspect in Disappearance

Husband Is Suspect in Disappearance

Case of missing Chicago woman embroiled fired TV anchor

(Newser) - Police named a suburban Chicago man a “person of interest” yesterday in the disappearance of his estranged wife, citing his lack of cooperation and their fears of foul play. Craig Stebic, who reported last seeing his wife on April 30, twice refused to let investigators talk to their children...

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