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  • Crime History: Southern congressman beats Northern senator with cane

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    On this day, May 22, in 1856, Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina beat Sen. Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerner sympathizers of pro-slavery violence in Kansas. Sumner's "Crime Against Kansas" speech mocked the...

  • Victim takes gun from robber in Laurel

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    A would-be robber in Laurel was foiled when he lost his gun to his victim. It happened around 1:45 a.m. Tuesday in the 3400 block of Laurel Fort Meade Road just off the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. A man approached a group of people in the rear parking lot near a Walmart, pointed a handgun...

  • Laurel man gets 20 years for secretly videotaping teen

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    A Laurel man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for secretly videotaping a 13-year-old girl in a bathroom. Frank Alan Klukosky, 43, pleaded guilty in March to producing child pornography. After he finishes his prison sentence, he will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his...

  • Teen gets 4 years for Yorkie gun robbery

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    An 18-year-old D.C. man was sentenced to four years in prison for robbing a woman of her dog at gunpoint. Christopher Young approached the woman who was walking her Yorkshire Terrier in the area of 5th and Kennedy streets in Northeast Washington on the morning of Jan. 5.

  • Crime History: Teens kill 14-year-old in attempt to commit 'perfect crime'

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    On this day, May 21, in 1924, rich University of Chicago graduates Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks in one of the most notorious "thrill killings" in American history. Leopold, 19, who graduated from college the year before, spoke several languages...

  • RadioShack robber arrested after using taxi as getaway car, police said

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    A woman who robbed a RadioShack in Silver Spring was arrested after she tried to use a taxi cab as a getaway vehicle, Montgomery County police said. Around 9 p.m. Thursday, police responding to a report of an armed robbery at 8213 George Ave. and saw a woman who matched the description of the...

  • Fugitive becomes 53rd capture credited to Examiner

    Scott McCabe

    Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

    A violent fugitive who had been on the run for seven months has been captured thanks to a tip from a reader of The Washington Examiner. Jericho Missouri was featured in the newspaper on Thursday, and was in handcuffs by Friday, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. Authorities frisked...

  • Violent fugitive keeps running from authorities

    Scott McCabe

    Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

    U.S. Marshals are looking for a fugitive accused of escaping from a District of Columbia halfway house and driving a carjacked SUV. Twenty-three-year-old Jericho Missouri was finishing his armed robbery sentence at the time of his disappearance in 2010. Police caught up to him in Southeast...

  • Cold Case: Police still purse leads in Johns Hopkins grad student's slayings

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

    The disappearance of a Johns Hopkins University graduate student once gripped the region and became known as the "Route 29 Stalker" investigation, but 17 years later her case remains unsolved. On March 2, 1996, the 25-year-old Alicia Showalter Reynolds was driving along Route 29 to...


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