Convicted rail-riding serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz admitted killing two teens in Florida after authorities promised not to charge him in exchange for information. When Dr. Richard Sharpe pulled into the 19 Mile Bay Lodge searching for a room Saturday night, he looked like someone who had been on the run for more than 30 hours. A woman was apparently jabbed in the foot with a syringe as she sat in the Ohio State University library, authorities said. A suspect was arrested. His .45-caliber handgun is missing.
Some parents insist on reviewing criminal records, even of part-time baby sitters.
Some want a constant eye, choosing day care centers with Web video cameras. Others go to the extreme of declaring they would never hire a man to baby-sit, saying data show sexual predators are overwhelmingly male. The flurry of legal activity that put the execution of convicted murderer Mose Young on hold last week made headlines from St. Louis to St. Joseph. In contrast, the news made barely a ripple in the small town where the state carries out Missouri's executions. No smaller a ripple, though, than the earlier news that he was scheduled to die.