Category Archive for : ‘ABDUCTION KIDNAPPING’

Newsday

In the end, there was no smoking gun, no new evidence, not even anyone policecould charge.  All they  had was what was right in front of them the whole time. Yesterday investigators finally closed the 27 year old case of Adam Walsh, the little boy whosegruesome killing helped spur improvements in finding missing children and catapulted his father tofame as the host of America’s Most Wanted.  Police said the man long considered the leadsuspect, Ottis Toole, was conclusively linked to the murder, but largely with circumstantialevidence that they’ve had all along.

Newsday

Ben Hawkins, a 44 year old man accused of conning parents into allowing him to be alone withtheir children to conduct a marketing survey of underwear, was indicted yesterday on 19 criminalcounts involving 11 minors.  Hawkins was indicted on charges including kidnapping, grosssexual imposition and attempted gross sexual imposition.  He contacted parents by taking outads in an alternative newspaper and online and by responding to ads for home child care.

Cincinnati

Newsday

Florida carried out its first execution yesterday since a botched lethalinjection procedure prompted a review of how it conducts capital punishment.  Mark DeanSchwab,39, convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing Junny Rios-Martinez, 11, of Cocoa in 1991, died at6:15 p.m.  It was a test of Florida’s new procedure, instituted after Angel Diaz was executedin December 2006.  Needles missed their mark and Diaz suffered burns and extreme pain. It took 34 minutes for Diaz to die.Schwab’s execution lasted 12 minutes.
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Wayne Taylor, a 35 year old veteran NYPD detective, and his wife Zalika Brown, a 28 year old madam, have been arrested on charges of pimping out teen girls to perverts attending bachelor and strip parties.  The tip that led to their arrests came from a 13 year old Bedford-Stuyvesant runaway who had been pressed into service by Taylor and another, unidentified pimp.  The lawyer representing the girl who was forced into prostitution and held captive by Taylor and Brown, is asking other victims of the duo to come forward.

A 12 year old boy has told Suffolk police he was abducted by four men wearing ski masks in Coram earlier this week.  The boy was allegedly kidnapped after walking to a bus stop Tuesday afternoon to pick up his brother from school.  But his sibling had decided to stay late and so the boy walked alone back home to the family’s Homestead Village apartment complex.  That’s when, he says, two men grabbed him from behind and put him inside a dark colored van with tinted windows.  He was driven

DECEASED 11/28/1994

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Authorities in South Florida are re-examing statements in the unsolved 1981 slaying of 6 yearrnold Adam Walsh if serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer might have murdered him. The possible connectionrnwith the 26 year old case and Dahmer, who was convicted in the deaths of at least 17 men and boysrnfrom 1978 to 1991, some of which involved dismemberment and cannibalism, follows calls from twornretired FBI agents to re-examine the possibility that Dahmer abducted and killed Walsh inrnHollywood, Florida.

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