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Drew Peterson must have the biggest balls in America. Why did he go on Matt Lauer? Is he fishing for wife #5? He was all GQ with not a worry in the world. The Illinois police officer who resigned after being named a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife said Wednesday [...]

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Reporter Jill Leovy covers every homicide in Los Angeles County, giving names to otherwise anonymous casualties — and some relief to their families.
Leovy is the creator of The Homicide Report, a blogging project by the Los Angeles Times in which she is attempting to record every homicide in Los Angeles County over the course of [...]

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MIAMI (AP) - Federal prosecutors planned to file murder charges Wednesday against two men in the killings of the captain and three crew members of a charter fishing boat, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. The charges were expected to be filed against Kirby Logan Archer, 35, and Guillermo Zarabozo, 19, according to two [...]

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MIAMI (AP) — Investigators found bullet casings on a charter boat whose four crew members are missing and one of the two men held in the possible quadruple slaying had blow gun darts and knives when found at sea, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
The new details came as a judge ordered the two men held without [...]

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 I don’t even want to think of these two pricks getting away with murder so lets hope there is evidence.
A Miami federal judge on Tuesday pressed prosecutors to produce more evidence against two men suspected in the disappearance of a charter boat crew to justify holding them while prosecutors build their case.
U.S. Magistrate William Turnoff [...]

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Word is these losers are blaming 3 Cubans for the murder of the crew.
MIAMI - Federal prosecutors for the first time said Tuesday that two survivors found near an abandoned Miami Beach fishing boat are suspects in the deaths of the vessel’s captain and three-member crew.

“They are presently under investigation for murder,” Assistant U.S. [...]

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Federal prosecutors, building a homicide case against the two men, hope for confessions, too. Without one, without the victims’ bodies and without compelling physical evidence, authorities face major challenges in bringing possible murder charges against Kirby Archer and Guillermo Zarabozo, who paid $4,000 cash to charter the boat on Sept. 22 for an ill-fated one-way [...]

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Without bodies or more evidence than they’ve revealed so far, federal prosecutors and the FBI might have to depend on a confession to solve the disappearance of four crew members of a fishing charter boat.Two men are jailed in connection with the case: 35-year-old Kirby Logan Archer because he’s a fugitive from the robbery of [...]

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CHICAGO —  The family of a missing Chicago woman said a body found early Thursday is that of their loved one.
Nailah Franklin, 28, a pharmaceutical sales representative for Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly, was last heard from a week ago.
Jon Merrill, Franklin’s uncle, told FOX WFLD that authorities confirmed it was his niece’s body. Chicago police would not [...]

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The story of the missing crew members aboard an abandoned Miami Beach charter boat took a strange turn on Wednesday with talk of mysterious hijackers and deadly shootings on the high seas.
One of the two men who hired the four-member crew to take them to Bimini told U.S. Coast Guard officials that all four were [...]

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Two men picked up in a life raft after hiring a Miami Beach charter boat whose four-member crew disappeared over the weekend were charged late Tuesday with federal crimes. Kirby Archer, 35, of Strawberry, Ark., was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Guillermo Zarabozo, 19, of Hialeah, was charged with giving a false statement [...]

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MIAMI — The man who calls himself “the angel of death” is behind bars, and investigators said they believe they have ended a reign of terror of a Miami-Dade County street gang because of his arrest.The alleged gang leader’s name is Johnny Charles, who is facing eight counts of murder, Local 10’s Rad Berky [...]

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