Susan Powell, the 28-year-old missing mother of two young children has not been seen since the night of December 6, 2009.
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Virginia investigators believe the skeletal remains of a blond female with black clothing that were found today are those of missing Virginia Tech college student Morgan Harrington.
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While it is currently anyone's guess as to why a 43-year-old "armed to the teeth" former Virginia man would be wandering around a Sommerset, New Jersey strip mall at 4 AM, hopefully the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) will soon have some answers. Evidently Lloyd R.
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While many Americans busied themselves as they awaited the results of the dramatic Massachusetts senate race to replace recently deceased Ted Kennedy, a far more deadly drama was being played out in rural Appomattox, Virginia.
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Some trace the genesis of suicidal attacks by terrorists back to the 11th century assassins. Others, at least prior to the events of 9/11/01, recall the 2500+ Japanese Navy “Kamikaze” or “divine wind” pilots who died in suicide attacks during WWII.
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In the middle of the terrible tragedy that struck Haiti this week in the form of a 7.5 earthquake, one that basically leveled the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, millions of people are now homeless, injured, trapped under the mountains of rubble, or dead.
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Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallabis the 23-year-old Nigerian charged with trying to blow up an American airliner on Christmas Day as it landed in Detroit, MI. By some standards he was both an unlikely as well as an obvious target for recruitment by radicalIslamic fundamentalists.
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As in the case of kidnapped 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart who was taken from her home in Salt Lake City, or 11-year-old Polly Klaas who was kidnapped from her own California bedroom, it was 11-year-old Sarah Foxwell's 6-year-old sister who witnessed Sarah's kidnapping from their o …
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A lone 23-year-old Nigerian tried to destroy Christmas for 289 fellow passengers and crew aboard an airline flight from Nigeria to Detroit when he attempted to ignite an incendiary device he had concealed on his body, this as the plane approached the runway to touchdown in Detro …
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While police in West Valley City, Utah, continue to press their investigation into the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of 28-year-old mother of two, Susan Powell, there are also striking similarities between this case and that of other missing women that make us ques …
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“Four police officers gunned down” screamed the headlines of a Puebla, Mexico newspaper referring to four local officers who were murdered in that small town on October 27 of this year.
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Most parents have learned that you cannot change or modify your child’s bad behavior by rewarding him when he does something totally inappropriate.
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There is only one thing both the defense and the prosecution appear to agree on in this case, someone murdered 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in the house she rented with three other young women in the centuries old town of Perugia, Italy.
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The search for missing and initially presumed kidnapped 5-year-old Shaniya Davis has ended with the grim recovery of her body not too far from the hotel where surveillance cameras captured her in the arms of her confessed abductor.
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"When Nidal Hasan's fellow students complained to the military medical school faculty about his 'anti-American propaganda,' a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim student kept these officers from filing a formal written complaint," thereby allowing him to remain in …
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Convicted rapist Anthony Sowell of Cleveland, Ohio was 46-years-old when he was released from prison in 2005, this after serving a 15-year sentence for the 1989 violent rape of a local Cleveland woman.
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For 23 frightening days in October 2002, a murderous team of domestic terrorists drove up and down Interstate 95 as it winds through Maryland, Washington, DC and south into the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Morgan Harrington, a 20-year-old VA Tech college student and a small group of close friends bought their tickets for the October 17th Metallica concert at the University of Virginia (UVA) over six months ago.
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The body of a 7-year-old Florida girl who has been missing since 3 PM on Monday has been found in a landfill some 60 miles from her home.
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Police investigators served two warrants Tuesday night on a "person of interest" in this case — Raymond Clark III, an animal lab technician who works for Yale.
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FBI Agents and Connecticut State Police officers clothed in white hazmat suits continue their search of a local trash dump just south of Hartford, Conn and Yale University, pressing forward their investigation concerning formerly missing 24-year-old Yale University graduate stud …
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Local and state police in Connecticut as well as the FBI continue their search for missing 24-year-old Yale University graduate student Annie Marie Le.
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On 9/9/09, AeroMexico flight 576, coming from Bolivia, was hijacked shortly after takeoff from the resort town of Cancun and flown to Mexico City.
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Most now know the story of Jaycee Dugard, the California girl who was kidnapped while awaiting a school bus in 1991, this by a husband/wife sexual predator team when she was just 11-years-old.
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Confusion seemed to float above the single wide trailer in rural south eastern Georgia that saw the murder of eight people this past weekend.
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Dear Mr. Van Zandt, I have seen you on TV many times and this past week I heard you call for a One Strike Law for pedophiles and I hope included rapist too. I want to know if you have started working on this law and if you need any help in making it happen?
I have never had anything bad happen to me or anyone in my family. But I do watch a good bit of news and I can't tell you how many tears I have cried over those that had to endure such awful situations like poor Jaycee Dugard and her precious daughters. To me this is the worst nightmare come true for all 3 of these poor girls. And practically every story listed above on your website is heart breaking. There are some real monsters out there and we seem to keep putting them back out on the street. I don't know what the first step is in making this "One Strike law" a real thing but I would love to help you make this happen. I would love to do something to make a difference in the world. This wouldn't stop someone from getting hurt/killed the first time but it will at least stop them from ever doing it again. The only thing that I would suggest is we go for the death penalty too because if we have DNA proof of the crime and we have a one strike law, there is no reason to keep them alive. If they have no chance of parole, then keeping them alive serves no purpose. Its a drain on the system and there is no need to keep monsters alive. I would really like to have that attached and make this a Federal Law. What can I do to help make this happen? I have started writing a law and heard you say this and thought maybe you have started the ball rolling already and I can help you get yours off the ground. I don't care who does it, I just think its time we send a message to those that do this that it won't be tolerated any more and there will be severe consequences to their actions. Please let me know if I can help in any way.
Thank you for all you do to help solve the many crimes you have worked on. We are blessed to have people like you that care enough to do the hard job that you have to do. I couldn't do it. I would cry all day. Dani G.
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It is such a shame that parents have to be so vigilant these days. When I was a kid {born 1957},all of my new and old friends parents were "Mr.&Mrs. Cleaver". I was able to go door to door,in any part of town to sell whatever my school was sponsoring. I now have grandchildren,and even though I was aware of "the boogieman" as my own children were growing,it seems as though the problem has been compounded ten fold over the past several years. I do believe the splintering of the American psyche began when prayer,{God}was ruled against the law. Boy scouts are not allowed to be boys, ect.
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I loved Clint Van Zandt's comments on David Shuster's 4 p.m. news segment re: the arrest of Professor Gates. What you said is exactly what everyone I know has been sharing... if this officer was trained in racial profiling (and I'm a white woman), why didn't he diffuse the situation once Professor Gates' identity was clear? Everyone I know feels that arresting Professor Gates for disorderly conduct was not only stupid but abusive. So, your clear, calm assertion that this police officer should have given Professor Gates his badge number with the suggestion that he file a complaint, is EXACTLY what should have happened. If Professor Gates was displacing some understandable anger toward his neighbor, this also should have factored into the officer's awareness. I'm appalled that a police officer didn't know how to diffuse the situation and instead inflamed it by arresting someone whose only crime was anger. As my mother taught me in the first grade, "sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never harm me." So, thank you for clearly laying out what this officer should have done but didn't do!
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On The ramsy case. Has anyone checked how the knots were tied. Left handed people tie difrently than right. [Any left handed people supect] Same with the head wound. On the art supplies were the original supplies placed in the open or in a closit etc. It seems that the ransom note was not examened for source of paper pen or pencil? left handed person or right. Were the clothing of family members analized for dna traces? How tight was the strangulation knot tied [signifies man or woman] was the original rool of duct tape checked for prints? when and whare did the child last eat and what. in strangulation the body deficates who did the child last eat with how long ago. If the brush used was broken whare is the outher half. Was the family garbage investigated only complete pre meditation leaves clues. Thus family or onknown person. Please answer.
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Would like to read your thoughts about the Sunday school teacher in Tracy accused of killing 8 year old girl. She was in a position of trust, her family acts as if the crime committed couldn't of been done by her hands yet she has a prior criminal history with similar instances of sexual abuse. Are they blind to this or forgiving of her sins?
— bennifer
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Hey Clint,
Long time no talk. Hope all is well with you and family.
I see you on the Today Show quite often, but when you are on it is a sign there is trouble somewhere.
My love to Diane and family!
John
PS: Everyone on this end is great.