By David Lohr
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| Robert Pickton |
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
New Westminster, British Columbia— The brother of accused serial killer Robert Pickton told members of the media this week that he was initially subpoenaed to testify at his brother's trial, but for reasons unknown to him, the prosecution changed their mind. During an interview with Canadianpress.com, Dave Pickton stated that he first received word of the subpoena in June. "The cop came around and told me all this. 'Here's your thing (subpoena) where you've got to show up and the time you've got to show up,'" Pickton said. "Then, all of a sudden, the cop phoned me back a couple days later and said, 'That's all cancelled now. Don't worry about it.'" According to Pickton, he does not know whether his brother's attorneys will ask him to testify. "It's too premature," he stated. Robert Pickton is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of six women. Following this trial, he will be tried on an additional 20 counts of murder.
Friday, September 21, 2007
NOIDA, India — In January, Mohinder Singh Pandher, a millionaire businessman, and his servant Surendra Kohli, alias Satish, were arrested after the bodies of 20 children were unearthed from a drainage ditch behind Pandher's house. Pandher was initially charged with concealing evidence and soliciting prostitutes; however, a court in India has now ordered police to file charges of rape and murder against him. It is not yet clear with how many counts of each crime Pandher will be charged.
Michigan - On Friday September 21, 2007, Coral Eugene Watts died in a Michigan hospital of prostate cancer. He was 53-years-old. Hospital officials pronounced Watts dead at 11:10 a.m.
Watts's death comes just two month after a jury convicted him in the 1974 stabbing death of Western Michigan University student Gloria Steele, 19. The conviction carried a mandatory sentence of life without parole.
"We're just glad that it's over," Carol Tilley, mother of Linda Tilley, told Star-telegram.com. "We feel like it helps to close the book on this. It's never over. But it helps."
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| Bible John |
CRIME LIBRARY — Bible John: That's what they called the tall, very handsome and well-dressed young man who kept reciting passages from the scripture.He was the last person seen with three young murder victims, none of them sexually assaulted; oddly, all three were menstruating at the time of their deaths.DNA has brought forward new leads in this strange unsolved case.
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