The beating death of a paraplegic resident at a Dallas nursing home earlier this month has state health investigators questioning supervision of the facility's elderly, disabled and chronically ill residents. The body of a young murder victim buried more than 20 years ago will be exhumed Monday in St. Helena Parish so authorities can apply new technology in the hunt for a possible serial killer. In the neighborhood where Tracy JoeVaun McGill lived, he is remembered as a trustworthy young man who seldom argued with anyone. It was the last time family members saw them alive. Exactly five years have passed since the day Patti Berry drove away from her job as a dancer at Honey's nightclub south of Everett and into the arms of a killer.
Murder is the crime that keeps on taking.
Like a rock hurled into the center of a still pond, every homicide unleashes ripples that keep radiating long after the murderer and the murdered have faded from memory. When the 911 call came through from the Cape Coral home that evening in March 1998, the police operator could only hear moaning, what sounded like movement and the shrill beeping of a smoke detector. One occurred on Wednesday when they robbed two women. One of the hostages had been shot and was in serious condition Sunday, and another was sexually assaulted, Police Chief Willie Johnson said. The orange survey tape flapping in the breeze over Penny Hardy's chicken pen at her Lowell Point homestead isn't a new gimmick to attract tourists driving the road along her property.