By David Lohr
September 28, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
BUFFALO, N.Y. — An Erie County grand jury has indicted suspected serial killer Dennis Donohue, 55, in the 1993 murder of Joan Giambra. Erie County District Attorney Frank Clark refuses to discuss details of the indictment, which will not be released until the case goes to a higher court next week. Donohue is also considered a "person of interest" in two other murders that occurred in 1975 and 1993.
SOWETAN, South Africa — Police have arrested a man in the murder of five women whose remains were discovered in sugarcane plantations on the KwaZulu—Natal South Coast earlier this month. Postmortem exams suggest the women were strangled and possibly raped. According to Umzimkhulu police spokesperson Superintendent Zandra Hechter, the suspect, who has not yet been identified, will make his first court appearance later this week.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
NEW DELHI, India— Police in Baljit Nagar are investigating the deaths of three women who all died under similar circumstances in the last two months. In each case the victim was murdered in her home while she slept. Police say the victims were hit over the head with a blunt object, probably a hammer. Robbery has been ruled out as a motive, leaving police to suspect a serial killer may be operating in the area. These cases may also be related to four other unsolved murders that took place in the same area at this time last year. According to one unnamed police source, investigators are considering the possibility that the murders may have an astrological significance to the perpetrator.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
FUKUOKA, Japan— The Fukuoka High Court has commuted the death sentence of convicted serial killer Junko Ogata, 45, and sentenced her to life imprisonment. Ogata and coconspirator Futoshi Matsunaga, 46, were convicted in October 2005 of killing seven people by torture and starvation. The victim's bodies were then dismembered and disposed of at sea. The couple was convicted partly on the basis of testimony given by a prisoner who managed to escape. In overturning the conviction, the court ruled that Matsunaga had controlled Ogata's actions.
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