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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 28, 2009

Police Nab Poster of "Sex For Phillies Tickets" Craiglist Ad

Susan Finkelstein, 43, was nabbed in the sting, but will not serve any jail time, since no money was exchanged. The offer isn't considered illegal for that reason.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 15, 2009

Forensic Scientists Link Suspect's DNA to Dallas Rape in 'Shotgun Bandit' Trial

The prosecution introduced two forensic scientists who testified about DNA they said linked Ledbetter to the 2006 rape in Far North Dallas. Defense attorneys attempted to undermine the scientific evidence, asking if another lab might have come up with a different conclusion.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 5, 2009

LAPD Cuts DNA Evidence Backlog

A year ago, amid increasing community pressure, the department acknowledged that nearly 7,500 evidence kits from victims of those sex crimes were languishing in storage freezers without having been analyzed.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 22, 2009

U.S. Agent Takes Down Sex Tourists

Agent Megan DiPatri took the stand and described how millionaire Bucks County businessman Andrew Mogilyansky traveled to Russia and sexually assaulted three young teenagers brought to him from an orphanage.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 22, 2009

Prosecutor Calls for Investigation into Detroit PD's Handling of Rape Kits

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy wants an independent investigation into what she says may be thousands of kits holding evidence of possible sexual assaults that were found in a Detroit Police Department evidence storage facility.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 1, 2009

Californians Ask Why Sex Offender Garrido Only Served 11 Years of 50-Year Sentence

As details continued to emerge about Jaycee Lee Dugard's alleged kidnapper, questions intensified Monday over how Phillip Garrido could have served only 11 years in prison after a 1976 rape and kidnapping for which he had been given a 50-year federal sentence as well as a life term in Nevada.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 1, 2009

Garrido Search Turns Up Human Bone Fragment

Searchers picking through a pair of properties outside Antioch connected to alleged kidnapper and rapist Phillip Craig Garrido reported Monday that they had found a bone fragment, but it is not clear whether it is human, authorities said.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 1, 2009

Miami Prosecutors Argue Man Wanted to Drown Young Girls Because of Sex Fetish

To satisfy his sexual perversion, Jeffrey Doland flew to Miami to meet Kathy, a woman he met online who agreed to let him forcibly dunk her two young girls in a pool or bathtub ``until the bubbles stop rising,'' prosecutors say.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 31, 2009

UC Berkeley Officers' Alert Action Uncovers 18-Year Kidnap Victim

The timeline of the steps the two officers took came into sharper focus following Garrido's arrest, as university leaders, law enforcement officials and the media credited Lisa Campbell, the manager of special events, and Ally Jacobs, a campus police officer, with closing the 18-year-old case.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 14, 2009

Alabama Man Admitted Sex Crimes During Police Interview

A 21-year-old man who admitted to possessing child pornography and having sex with an underage girl during a job interview with Montgomery police has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, AL.com reports.

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