Scott McCabe
Staff Writer - Crime
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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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Crime History: Child who sneaked into zoo mauled by polar bears
Scott McCabe
Published: Sat, May 18, 2013
On this day, May 19, in 1987, an 11-year-old boy was killed by two polar bears after he and his friends sneaked into their enclosure at a Brooklyn zoo. Police found the bears, standing 8 feet tall and weighing 900 and 1,400 pounds, tugging at the body of the dead boy, Juan Perez. It took 20...
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Stupid Crimes: Losing weight; Happy Meal, happy ending; there are rules
Scott McCabe
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
Losing weight A Georgia woman is facing charges after police said she dropped weights, plates and beer mugs from an 18th-story balcony at people down below. Witnesses said they heard a woman, later identified as Chloe Chalavoutis, screaming from a balcony above, go back into her apartment...
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Crime History: Two-year FBI probe finds 'Louie Louie' unintelligible
Scott McCabe
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
On this day, May 17, in 1965, after a nearly two-year investigation, the FBI Laboratory declared the lyrics of "Louie Louie" to be unintelligible. The Kingsmen's 1963 cover about a Jamaican sailor who missed his girlfriend had caused a countrywide panic. Rumors spread that the incoherent...
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