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Police: Child found in submerged luggage may have been raped
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/14/california.slain.girl/index.html
The woman accused of kidnapping and murdering a young girl may have also raped her. "When she was booked, she was booked on charges of kidnapping and murder," Tracy Police Sgt. Tony Sheneman said. "And we're informed by the district attorney that she'll be charged with abduction, murder, rape with a foreign object and lewd and lascivious acts with a child." The young girl was found dead in a suitcase.

State reverses itself, will seek death in Casey Anthony case
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/13/casey.caylee.anthony/index.html?iref=nextin
Casey Anthony murdered her 2 year-old daughter and said she didn’t know what had happened to her for almost 7 months. The truth finally came out and she is being charged with murder. The state of Florida has now decided to reverse and give her the death penalty.

Woman on business trip disappeared from hotel
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/14/grace.coldcase.biggers/index.html?iref=nextin
Pam Biggers, a 52-year-old woman from Hueytown, Alabama, disappeared while on a business trip to the Florida Panhandle. The woman went out to dinner with a colleague and when returned to her hotel, simply disappeared. "We think she may have initially wandered off on her own," Don Biggers said. "She had some episodes ... complaining of voices in her head and paranoia."

Phil Spector found guilty of actress' 2003 murder
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/13/phil.spector.verdict/index.html?iref=nextin
After about 30 hours of deliberation, a jury on Monday convicted music producer Phil Spector of second-degree murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson more than six years ago. Clarkson, 40, was found dead, slumped in a chair in the foyer of Spector's Alhambra, California, mansion with a gunshot wound through the roof of her mouth in February 2003. "This entire jury took this so seriously," she said with tears in her eyes, before adding that "it's tough to be in a jury," because another person's life is in the jury's hands.