A city man arrested for calling a black delivery truck driver a ''watermelon,'' then trying to hire men to kill the police officers who arrested him, has been given a special form of probation. Prosecutors announced in court Wednesday that they would seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing his girlfriend and two of her children with a pen knife. He was also charged with second-degree murder, attempted murder and attempted assault. German teen guilty of killing boy whose head was later stolen from grave. Convicted serial killer Harold Shipman has been interviewed over a further nine suspicious deaths which happened during his time as a GP, police have said.
Denials are the equivalent of innocent pleas in adult court.
He was arrested Monday in the death of Diamond Miller, who died at a hospital a day earlier. Coroner Elizabeth Balraj said the infant died from massive head injuries and internal bleeding. A man who witnesses said committed a 1980 Orange County murder for which a wrongly convicted man spent 20 years in prison has been set free, and prosecutors have no immediate plans to charge him in connection with the case. JonBenet Ramsey was alive, awake and struggling when she was strangled, another link in a chain of evidence that retired detective Lou Smit believes points to an intruder as her killer. Two stun gun experts dispute an investigator's theory that such a weapon was used by JonBen t Ramsey's killer.