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  • Crime History: Communist sympathizer commits first airline hijacking in U.S.

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

    On this day, May 1, in 1961, a passenger committed the first airline hijacking inside the United States. Antulio Ramirez Ortiz, 34, bought his ticket under the name Elpirata Cofrisi, a reference to a notorious pirate Roberto Cofresi. He used a steak knife and gun to force the Miami-to-Key West...

  • Motorcyclist killed in hit-and-run crash on I-95

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

    A 68-year-old motorcyclist was killed Tuesday morning in a hit-and-run crash involving a tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 near the Fairfax County Parkway. The crash happened about 4:30 a.m. in the rain. Virginia State Police say Timothy E. Halpin lost control of his 2001 BMW motorcycle while...

  • Prince George's police identify Suitland man as victim of stabbing

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

    Prince George's County Police identified the victim in a fatal stabbing as 35-year-old Nick Charles Boddie of Suitland. Boddie was stabbed at his Suitland apartment Monday and died after a friend tried to drive him to a hospital Monday afternoon, police said. Detectives believe he was...

  • Crime History: First prisoners enter Federal Industrial Institution for Women

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Mon, Apr 29, 2013

    On this day, April 30, in 1927, the first three prisoners entered the first federal prison for women in Alderson, W.Va. The Federal Industrial Institution for Women was opened officially in 1928 to reform the wives, girlfriends, mothers and sisters who harbored the gangsters from the...

  • Crime History: Exxon exec stuffed in wooden casket in kidnapping gone bad

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Sun, Apr 28, 2013

    On this day, April 29, in 1992, Exxon executive Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his New Jersey home by a former company security consultant. Arthur Seale, an ex-cop who was laid off by Exxon, and his wife snatched 57-year-old Reso from his driveway and shot him in the arm. They stuffed...

  • Cold Case: Aspiring model found dead near school

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Sun, Apr 28, 2013

    Audrey Hamilton, an aspiring beautician and model, told her friends at a McDonalds restaurant that she was tired and was going home. It was near midnight, Aug. 29, 1993. The several blocks walk through Congress Heights would be dangerous. To protect herself, Audrey, 18, carried an empty glass...

  • Mom's suspicions lead to arrest of Virginia man on sex charges

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Sun, Apr 28, 2013

    A 27-year-old Northern Virginia man has been arrested on charges of attempting to transport a 12-year-old girl across state lines after the child's mother called police. According to charging documents filed in federal court in D.C., the mother called Alexandria police on April 16 after her...

  • Crime History: Conviction in 'Falcon and Snowman' spy case

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Sat, Apr 27, 2013

    On this day, April 28, in 1977, Christopher Boyce was convicted for selling secrets to the Russians in a case made into the movie "The Falcon and the Snowman," starring Timothy Hudson and Sean Pean. Boyce's father, a ex-FBI agent, got him a job at a California company that operated America's...

  • Stupid Crimes: Unearthing the undead, doggie do's and don'ts, call of booty

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

    Unearthing the undead A 70-year-old woman was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for defrauding insurers by faking deaths and staging sham funerals while she worked at a Los Angeles mortuary. Jean Crump, 70, prepared bogus death certificates, bought a burial plot and in one instance...


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