STRANGE CRIMES

LUCASVILLE, Ohio – One family wept loudly and another family cheered Wednesday as a man was executed for killing a 6-month-old as he raped her.

Steve Smith, 46, was executed by lethal injection at the state prison in Lucasville in southern Ohio for the 1998 killing of his live-in girlfriend's daughter, Autumn Carter, in Mansfield.

Smith had recently tried to get his sentence reduced to life in prison, arguing that he was too drunk to realize that his assault was killing Autumn and that he didn't mean to hurt her. The Ohio Parole Board and Gov. John Kasich turned him down unanimously.  Full Article

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HONOLULU (AP) — A day after a woman reported finding an abandoned newborn crying in the sand on a Hawaii beach, police arrested her and revealed she's the baby's mother.

Keala Simeona, 21, of Honolulu, was arrested Tuesday for filing a false police report. Police don't expect to pursue additional offenses at this time. She posted $250 bail and was released.

She had told police she was parked at Sandy Beach in east Honolulu sometime between 11:30 p.m. Sunday and midnight when she heard several people screaming. After the screaming stopped, she said, she walked toward the ocean and found the naked newborn and took her to a hospital.  Full Article

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DEVELOPING: Three additional suspects were taken into custody in the Boston Marathon bombing case, the Boston Police Department tells FoxNews.com.

Police would not confirm when the suspects were taken into custody, and referred further questions to the FBI.

Charges against the new suspects involve providing some sort of assistance to the two main suspects, sources told Fox News.

Police did not confirm the gender of the suspects and did not say when or where they were taken into custody.

More information was expected to be provided by the US Attorney’s office later Wednesday.

Prior to the latest development, authorities had named only brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as suspects in the April 15 bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Full Article

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HAZEL PARK, Mich. - Two men have been arrested in connection with a home invasion in Hazel Park where a 9-year-old boy hid inside a bedroom closet before running from the home and alerting his neighbor about what was happening.

Monte Rowe, 22, and 34-year-old Clarence Wilson Jr. are now charged with armed robbery, first degree home invasion and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

The alleged incident happened Sunday, April 28 at a home in the 1200 block of east Muir. That's when Wilson allegedly knocked on the door and told the person inside he was a friend of a relative. He reportedly asked about getting his car fixed before he left. Full Article

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ST. PETERSBURG, Florida – Jarvis Sutton said he wanted three things Sunday: food, drink, and drugs.

He asked the wrong people for help getting those items, though.

Police said Sutton, 34, of St. Petersburg, called 911 approximately 80 times on Sunday. “The defendant admitted to calling 911 because he ‘wanted Kool-Aid, burgers and weed to be delivered to him,’ ” an officer wrote in an affidavit.

Sutton never got those things.

Instead, he was booked into the Pinellas County Jail.

On the way there, he started chewing foam attached to the metal caging in the back of the police cruiser. Full Article

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Palatine police said they have charged three teenagers -- and are seeking a fourth -- in connection with the assault of a 12-year-old boy with a glass ketchup bottle during a home invasion and robbery.

Palatine residents Vanessa Mejia, 17, of the 1500 block of Silver Lane, and Sendi Ocampo, 18, of the 1200 block of Long Valley Lane are charged with home invasion and armed robbery, police said.

A 16-year-old girl accused of cutting the boy with the bottle is being charged as a juvenile, according to police.  Full Article

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UK – An American woman is in a United Kingdom prison after repeatedly forcing her 14-year-old daughter to inseminate herself with donor sperm, because the mother wanted another baby and could not conceive or adopt more children.

After a miscarriage at 14, the girl had a baby at 17, after regularly inseminating herself with sperm her mother purchased on the Internet, according to a report in The Guardian.

The girl — a virgin– was apparently too scared to refuse her adoptive domineering mother’s request.

Over a two-year period, the daughter had to inseminate herself seven times, while alone in her room at home, using syringes of semen.

In hopes of getting a girl, the mother forced her daughter to follow a special diet and use painful acidic douches containing vinegar or lemon and lime juice, in the belief it could affect the baby’s gender. Full Article

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PARKSIDE, Pennsylvania – A borough woman was charged in the fatal shooting of her husband in their West Roland Road home during what police said was her first gun lesson in the wee hours Saturday.

Michele, 42, and William Wanko, 43, had been drinking vodka and lemonade for about six hours when she asked him to show her how to shoot a handgun in case someone attempted to break into the house.

He had owned guns for years and it couldn’t have been a worse time. It was a recipe for disaster, mixing guns and alcohol.

William C. Wanko died of a gunshot wound to the chest and the manner of death was ruled homicide. Full Article

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Chicago – A Matteson woman is being held on bail after she allegedly ran over her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend Thursday in Park Forest, prosecutors said.

Alexius Keys, 20, was ordered held in lieu of $750,000 bail on an attempted murder charge in a Cook County Bond Court hearing Sunday.

Police were called to the 400 block of Rutledge Street in Park Forest about 6 p.m. Thursday after Keys saw her former boyfriend driving with his new girlfriend, according to court documents.

After seeing the couple, Keys rear-ended their vehicle, causing them to stop and get out, Assistant State’s Attorney Anthony Gattuso said.

At that point, Keys drove in reverse across a lawn and struck the woman, Gattuso said in court. Full Article

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Federal officials say a suspected drug trafficker affiliated with the deadly Sinaloa Cartel couldn't dance his troubles away.

Omar Cota was taken into custody early Friday off a dance floor at Route 66 Casino's Club Envy in New Mexico. Officials say federal agents and police in Laguna arrested the 28-year-old after receiving a tip that he liked to go to the casino.  Full Article

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WASHINGTON DC - Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects had a conversation with his mother of a radical nature, officials confirmed to CBS News correspondent Bob Orr Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call.

In another conversation, the mother of now-dead bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, officials told The Associated Press.  Full Article

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LAUREL, Del. – Delaware State Police say a teenager was hit by a car, forced into the vehicle by the driver and sexually assaulted.

It happened early Thursday on County Seat Highway in Laurel. Troopers say the 17-year-old girl was walking when she was hit by a car.

Police say the driver went back to the scene, forced her into the car and drove her somewhere in Laurel, where he sexually assaulted her.  Full Article

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State corrections secretary Gary D. Maynard ordered polygraph tests Friday of top administrators and "integrity reviews" of every employee at the Baltimore City Detention Center in an effort to root out corruption at the jail.

Maynard has moved his office to the facility from Towson to oversee a review of leadership, staff and operations amid allegations that the Black Guerrilla Family gang developed broad power inside the jail, a spokesman said.

More than two dozen inmates and correctional officers in the city jail are charged in a scheme that officials say involved the smuggling of drugs and other contraband, including cellphones, into the facility.  Full Article

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At least 36 parolees in Colorado have been convicted or accused of murder while on supervised release from prison since 2002, a review by The Denver Post found.

Among them are a parolee charged with sexually assaulting and strangling a family lawyer two weeks after stepping out of prison, and another implicated in the stabbing deaths of five people at a Denver bar that was set on fire.

Another is awaiting trial on a daytime shooting spree outside a string of businesses in east Denver that left two men dead and two others wounded less than a month after his release from prison.  Full Article

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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Seattle police call it one of the boldest attempted drug thefts they have seen: A woman impersonating a nurse, apparently addicted to painkillers, crept through the hospital rooms of patients and tried to steal medication from their IV machines.

"It's pretty unusual, pretty brazen," Seattle police spokeswoman Renee Witt said on Wednesday. "It really shows how desperate this woman is and how powerful addiction can be."

Police are looking for the woman who, dressed in a shirt that resembled scrubs and wearing clogs on her feet, entered a man's room at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle on April 13 and began fiddling with his pain medication IV machine.  Full Article

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BRADENTON – A Bradenton teacher was charged with child abuse after he carried a student out of the classroom and threw him outside, authorities said Friday.

Colby Ray Cadwell, 32, a teacher at Horizons Academy, faces a third-degree felony charge with a maximum penalty of five years in prison if he is convicted.

Cadwell threw him on the classroom floor and then picked the student up by his ear and hair.

The teacher placed the student in a chokehold and carried him out the exit door, throwing him onto the grass, the student told authorities in the report. Full Article

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REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Police say a 64-year-old suburban Detroit man has been jailed after living several months in a trailer home with a woman's corpse.

Dennis McCauley was arraigned Friday for failing to report a death, mutilation of a corpse, identity theft and other charges.

McCauley was arrested Monday at Long's Mobile Home Court in Wayne County's Redford Township, west of Detroit.

Police Sgt. Kevin Crittenden says a court officer saw a woman's remains on a sofa after going to the trailer to serve an eviction notice.  Full Article

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PENNSAUKEN, New Jersey – Police say 35-year-old Susan Stillwaggon is facing charges after she told friends, family, and even her own son, he was sick with cancer.

Police say she then accepted fundraising money from friends.

“The soccer team, the mothers’ were doing cupcake sales, they were selling bracelets, they were selling necklaces, they had a bingo night that they raised money,’ said Pennsauken Police Lieutenant Michael Probasco.

Stillwaggon was charged Thursday with 3rd degree Theft by Deception, 3rd degree Forgery, 2nd degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child, 2nd degree Using a Juvenile to Commit a Criminal Offense. Full Article

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SALISBURY, Maryland – Authorities say a man accused of turning off power to a chicken house and causing the death of some 33,700 birds has been ordered to spend 60 days in jail.

Twenty one-year-old Joshua Shelton was convicted Thursday of fourth-degree burglary in a circuit court but found not guilty of animal cruelty, The Daily Times of Salisbury reported.

Shelton was ordered to serve three years of probation upon release.

Shelton was found smelling of alcohol and lying in the power control shed at a Delmar farm last August but told an investigator he didn’t remember entering the shed, according to charging documents. Full Article

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DORCHESTER COUNTY, South Carolina - The Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office says 51 year old Audrey Ferguson of the Dorchester community has called EMS at least 100 times in the last seven years.

Investigators say Ferguson was faking illness, just to get a free ride to downtown Charleston.

Officials say just about every time she asked to be taken to a hospital.

“She’ll have a vague medical complaint, for instance abdominal pain,” said Dorchester County EMS Director Doug Warren.

“She has medical complaints that are legitimate, and so until she’s been evaluated and determined not to be sick we have to assume she is.”

“We transport her to one of the area hospitals and then oftentimes before we can get our paperwork completed she’s signed out from the hospital and gone on to do other things.” said Warren. Full Article

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