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• Convicted killer's home destroyed

  December 6, 2011 7:58 AM

  CLEVELAND (AP) - Cleveland is tearing down the home where a serial killer dumped the remains of the 11 women he murdered. Live video from the scene on Tuesday shows demolition equipment clawing apart Anthony Sowell's house. Victims' relatives and neighbors tell media outlets that razing the home... more »

• Accused killer in Fremont County not competent to stand trial

  November 22, 2010 7:48 PM

  A man accused of killing his girlfriend and dismembering her body is headed to the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo. On Monday, John Paul Williams was found incompetent to stand trial in the murder of Rebecca Magallanes. News First 5 talked with the victim's brother and sister-in-law who are... more »

• Another death may be linked to Colorado serial killer

  September 15, 2010 1:19 PM

  A man who pleaded guilty to killing four people has reportedly been investigated as a suspect in the 2004 slaying of a woman in Westminster. Catrina Powell's body was found dumped behind a strip mall. Sister-in-law Dachelle Powell said a detective involved in the case told her Scott... more »

• Escaped Arizona prison inmate, fiancee captured

  August 20, 2010 8:17 AM

  The last man on the run following a prison break in northwest Arizona is back behind bars. John McCluskey and fiancee Casslyn Welch, who's also his cousin, were captured Thursday evening at an Arizona campsite, just 300 miles east of the prison. Authorities say a ranger with the... more »

• White supremacist in '84 Denver murder dies

  August 18, 2010 9:09 AM

  A white supremacist convicted of civil rights violations in the 1984 machine-gun slaying of Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg has died in federal prison. Bruce Pierce, 56, died of natural causes Monday at the Allenwood Federal Correction Complex near Allenwood, Pennsylvania. Pierce was serving a 252-year sentence... more »

• Cancer is leading economic killer

  August 17, 2010 6:30 PM

  American Cancer Society researchers say that cancer is now the world's leading economic killer as well as its likely top cause of death. Their new report says that cancer costs more in productivity and lost life than AIDS, tuberculosis or other infectious diseases. Cancer's economic impact was $895 billion in... more »

• Accused serial killer arrested at airport in Atlanta

  August 12, 2010 10:01 PM

  Relief today for people in three states after police announced they'd arrested a man accused of being a serial killer. Elias Abuelazam was arrested at Atlanta's airport moments before he was to board a plane bound for Israel. Police believe Abuelazam is the person responsible for a three month stabbing... more »

• Colorado inmate charged in cold case murder

  July 22, 2010 8:44 AM

  Prosecutors in California have charged a Colorado inmate with murdering a bar owner nearly four decades ago. Investigators say Roy Melanson, 73, fatally stabbed a Napa woman in July 1974, just two months before murdering another woman in Colorado. Melanson is serving a life sentence in the Colorado... more »

• Police seeking driver who picked up alleged killers

  June 3, 2010 3:57 PM

  Two men are accused of murdering a Colorado Springs man back in January and dumping his body off Gold Camp Road. Steven Henson and Coyte Holbert were both arrested for the murder of Levi Ortivez (No relation to NewsFirst5's David Ortiviz). The Colorado Springs Police Department reports that the two... more »

• Village hunts for 7-meter killer python

  March 29, 2010 9:53 AM

  Indonesian villagers are hunting a giant python that killed a 13-year-old boy a week ago on Sumatra island. Police say the 23-foot-long python was believed to be hiding in waterway tunnels built by a textile company for its industrial waste. Villagers blocked road access to the tunnels Sunday to protect... more »

• Girl's remains found near recent killing

  March 8, 2010 10:11 AM

  When 17-year-old Chelsea King went missing last month, Maurice Dubois had a sinking feeling that his 14-year-old daughter had fallen victim to the same killer. Amber Dubois vanished walking to school on Feb. 13, 2009, about 10 miles from where Chelsea was last seen in running clothes at a... more »

• Inquiry in Ohio bodies case widens worldwide

  November 9, 2009 2:33 PM

  Authorities are investigating whether a man whose home and yard harbored the remains of at least 11 people is connected to any killings in places he lived while in the military, including Japan, California and the Carolinas. The FBI told Cleveland police that the agency will investigate any leads... more »

• Columbine killer's mom: 'No inkling' son suicidal

  October 11, 2009 9:03 AM

  In the first detailed public remarks by any parent of the two Columbine killers, Dylan Klebold's mother says she had no idea her son was suicidal until she read his journals after the 1999 high school massacre. Susan Klebold's essay in next month's issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, says... more »