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Police search Michigan landfill for missing woman
ROSEVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Authorities searched a Michigan landfill Monday for any evidence of a Detroit-area woman who has been missing for more than a week. Aerial photos and video posted online by news media showed people in yellow suits at the landfill in Macomb County's Lenox...
Book Review: Robert Crais spins the tale of a hardboiled private eye who uncovers a conspiracy
Traci Beller was 13 when her father — co-owner of a heating and air conditioning company — went out on some service calls and never returned home. The police, who found no trace of him, concluded that he had simply abandoned his family. The family then turned to Jessica Byers, a...
30 years after discovery of remains, DNA could identify all of a serial killer’s victims
WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Decades after investigators unearthed thousands of human bones and bone fragments on a suspected Indiana serial killer’s property, a renewed quest is playing out in laboratories to solve a long-running mystery: Who were they? A new team working to identify...
Minnesota man pleads guilty to killing and dismembering 2 women found in different storage units
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man pleaded guilty Thursday to killing and dismembering two women whose bodies were found in different storage units. Under his plea deal, Joseph Steven Jorgenson, 41, of Woodbury, is expected to be sentenced Feb. 28 to two 40-year terms for the...
Remains found near Michigan music fest site confirmed to be fan missing since 2018
ROTHBURY, Mich. (AP) — The disappearance of a Detroit-area man from a 2018 music festival has been solved with the discovery of human remains in northern Michigan, authorities said Thursday. Remains found by hunters this week near the site of the annual Electric Forest Festival...
Ecuador orders the detention of 16 soldiers charged with the disappearance of 4 children
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — An Ecuadorean judge Tuesday ordered the arrest of 16 soldiers charged with the disappearance of four children who went missing three weeks ago in the coastal city of Guayaquil. A request to detain the soldiers was made by Ecuador’s Attorney General’s...
Wisconsin police seek person of interest after 3 people are found dead
NEW LISBON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin police investigating the deaths of three people, including two juveniles, were searching Tuesday for a person of interest who is “considered armed and dangerous.” The New Lisbon Police Department said the bodies of two juveniles and one adult...
A missing Tennessee girl, 14, was left in the woods by a man she met online, sheriff says
HAHNVILLE, La. (AP) — A missing 14-year-old Tennessee girl has been found safe in the Louisiana woods, where authorities say she was left by a man who had picked her up from her home after the two met online. Alexander Materne, 28, drove the girl to his home in St. Rose, Louisiana,...
Investigation of disappearance of children in Ecuador was delayed for days despite video evidence
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — A probe into the military's role in the disappearance of four children in Ecuador this month was delayed for almost two weeks, even though police had access to surveillance videos showing soldiers taking two of the children, The Associated Press has learned. ...
Ecuadorian police probe if bodies found are of missing children allegedly taken by soldiers
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorian police on Tuesday found an undisclosed number of bodies in an area close to a military base, officials said, and were investigating whether the bodies could be of some of the four children who were last seen taken by men in military uniform earlier this month....
