By David Lohr
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
RAHWAY, N.J. — In 2002, suspected serial killer Robert Zarinsky was acquitted in reference to the 1958 murder of a Rahway police officer Charles Bernoskie. Following the trial, the officer's widow, Elizabeth Bernoskie, took Zarinsky to civil court, and won a judgment. She was awarded $150,000, which she divided between her adult children. In an unexpected decision, an appeals court has ruled in Zarinsky's favor, and ordered Bernoskie to return the money. According to Bernoskie, the money has already been spent. "I don't know what I am going to do," Bernoskie said in an interview with The Star-Ledger. "It is so horrible. I don't know where to turn, who to talk to. I have to digest it, but I don't want to digest it." Zarinsky has been behind bars since 1975, when he was convicted of murdering 17-year-old Rosemary Calandriello. Police suspect Zarinsky is responsible for a series of murders of teenage girls during the 1960s and '70s.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
NASHVILLE, TN— Authorities have arrested a long-haul truck driver suspected of murdering six women in four states. According to Tennessean.com, Bruce Mendenhall, 56, of Albion, IL, was taken into custody today on North 1st Street in downtown Nashville. While in custody, Mendenhall allegedly made statements implicating himself in at least five murders in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana and Tennessee. The investigation continues.
Friday, July 13, 2007
HAYS, KS — Convicted serial killer Francis Donald Nemechek has been denied his bid for parole. In 1977, Nemechek was sentenced to five life terms for the killing of five people, including a 21-year-old mother and her 3-year-old son. According to his 1976 confession, Nemechek raped and murdered the young mother and then left her son at an abandoned farmhouse where he froze to death from exposure to the elements. Their bodies were found one month later.
Serial Killer Story of the Week:
CRIME LIBRARY — The Axeman of New Orleans: For many years, this phantom stalked the people of the Big Easy, killing without any consistent pattern or motive. One of the truly great unsolved crimes.
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