Scott McCabe
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Air Force chief of sex assault prevention charged with sexual battery
Scott McCabe
Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013
The head of the U.S. Air Force sexual assault prevention office was arrested in Crystal City over the weekend on charges of sexual battery. Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski was accused of groping a woman in a Crystal City parking lot in the 500 block of S. 23rd Street early Sunday, according to an...
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Crime History: Chicago's hotel killer executed by hanging
Scott McCabe
Published: Mon, May 6, 2013
On this day, May 7, in 1896, Dr. H.H. Holmes, the mass murderer who tortured and killed dozens of guests inside his Chicago hotel, was executed by hanging. Holmes admitted to 27 murders, but the total count could be more than 100, many during the 1893 World's Fair. Holmes built a block-long...
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Crime History: Knight beheaded for murder of Princes in Tower
Scott McCabe
Published: Sun, May 5, 2013
On this day, May 6, in 1502, Sir James Tyrrell was beheaded after supposedly confessing to the murders of the Princes in the Tower. In 1483, the princes, Edward V of England and his brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, were sent to live in the Tower of London, a royal residence at...
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Cold Case: Father of three's Christmas Eve slaying remains unsolved
Scott McCabe
Published: Sun, May 5, 2013
Joel "Buddy" Simpson was running out of time on Christmas Eve 1991. Simpson called his mother to let her know that he still had to pick up his three children. They were all supposed to spend the night at her house in Southeast Washington and open presents the next morning. But Simpson never...
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Husband in missing belly-dancer case accused of hiding machine gun in girlfriend's car
Scott McCabe
Published: Sun, May 5, 2013
The husband of a 36-year-old Leesburg woman who disappeared under suspicious circumstances has been arrested on federal gun charges after investigators said he tried to hide a submachine gun shortly after she vanished. Leyla McCullagh and Matthew Ryan McCullagh, 33, had a contentious...
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Crime History: Rogue detective arrested in swindle of D.C. heiress
Scott McCabe
Published: Sat, May 4, 2013
On this day, May 5, in 1932, police in D.C. arrested Gaston B. Means, the so-called Conman of the Century, after he persuaded a wealthy Washington heiress to give him $100,000 to help track down Charles Lindbergh's kidnapped child. Means was a former FBI agent who worked both sides of the law....
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