A man already in custody on attempted sexual assault charges was arrested this week by New London police after DNA testing linked him to a series of violent rapes there. The investigation of alleged serial killer Geoffrey Griffin spread beyond Chicago after forensic tests this week linked the man under investigation for six killings in the Roseland neighborhood to another slaying in south suburban Harvey. He strangled her, stashed the body in the trunk of her car and left it in a hospital garage, police say. Police are trying to determine whether a Tennessee man who allegedly posed as an officer, stopped a woman and demanded sex late Wednesday could have been doing the same thing elsewhere. A Rockingham County jury took 90 minutes Thursday to find Allie Thomas Jr. guilty of two counts of solicitation to commit first-degree murder.
Medical records are among the items sought in newly issued search warrants.
A Spanish teacher at Killingworth Elementary School has been charged with sexual assault involving a student. Two men implicated in three murders in Vermont were being held Thursday in the Benton County jail, awaiting transfer by U.S. marshals. A jury convicted a handyman Thursday of sexually assaulting and strangling a young Woodbridge mother after prosecutors sought to link the 1994 killing to an attack on a female state police trooper in Maine. A suspect in a domestic dispute was critically injured after he was electrocuted and set ablaze while trying to escape police by hiding on a transformer at a power plant. The emergency room doctor had never seen a body so badly beaten.