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Roger Fields
Major Roger Fields serves as assistant chief of police for the Cape Girardeau Police Department. He has held the position for about five months after the retirement of former assistant chief Randy Roddy. Fields is also the chairman of Seniors and Lawmens Together...
Unsolved cases
Unsolved cases: Bonnie Huffman
The smoking gun is made of plastic. An unnamed witness who claims to know what happened that night is afraid to talk. And the physical evidence is long gone. The question of who killed Bonnie Huffman, a pretty young schoolteacher whose body was discovered 55 years ago in an overgrown drainage ditch in Cape Girardeau County, has been hailed as one of Missouri's most baffling unsolved murder mysteries...
Unsolved cases: Cheryl Scherer
Scherer, a 19-year-old whose family lived on a farm in old Illmo, Mo., was abducted 30 years ago during an apparent robbery of the Rhodes Pump-Ur-Own-Service station where she worked on Main Street in Scott City. It was late morning on April 17, 1979, when Scherer was working, and had just called her mother, Olevia Scherer, to chat, inquiring about what was for dinner...
Case files
Case files: Timothy W. Krajcir
Name: Timothy W. Krajcir Age: 64 Current location: Stateville Correctional Center, Stateville, Ill. Born: Eastern Pennsylvania Crimes: Arrested: Dec. 10, 2008 Convicted: April 4, 2008 Sentence: 13 life sentences Prior criminal history: Rape, child molestation...
Case files: Russell Earl Bucklew
Russell Earl Bucklew Age: 41 Location: Missouri Department of Corrections: Potosi Correctional Center Sentence: Death plus 60 years Charges: first-degree murder, forcible rape, burglary, kidnapping, armed criminal action Victim: Michael L. Sanders, killed March 21, 1996...
Fallen officers
Donald Henry Crittendon: Patrol officer Age: 24 Date of death: March 21, 1961 Badge number: 23 Crittendon died of wounds he sustained during a gun battle that occurred less than two hours before his resignation as a Cape Girardeau officer would have become effective...
Headlines
Confessed serial killer Krajcir moved to Kentucky (03/18/10)
Cape Girardeau County's only convicted serial killer, Timothy Krajcir, was moved from the Stateville, Ill., Correctional Center Wednesday to Paducah, Ky., where he's charged with kidnapping, resulting in a death, and first-degree burglary. Krajcir was nearly three years into an 80-year sentence at Stateville for two murders, one in Williamson County, Ill. and another in Jackson County, Ill...
Judge eases bond conditions for lawyer charged with assault (03/18/10)
Before a gallery of Missouri Bar members and the family of Scott Reynolds, a Cape Girardeau lawyer charged with allegedly assaulting his fiancee, visiting Circuit Court Judge Robert Wilkins ruled Wednesday to modify Reynolds' conditions of bond.
In federal court: Cape man pleads guilty to meth charge (03/18/10)
The following information was released Tuesday by the federal prosecutor's office for defendants appearing in federal court before U.S. District Judge Carol E. Jackson. PLEADED GUILTY...
Cape police searching for person who took money from Sonic restaurant (03/18/10)
Cape Girardeau police officers are still looking for a suspect who broke into the Sonic fast-food restaurant at 1764 N. Kingshighway on Monday and stole several hundred dollars in cash.
Sikeston police, drug task force arrest several in drug sweep (03/17/10)
SIKESTON, Mo. - Several people are in custody following two sting operations by the Sikeston Department of Public Safety and the SEMO Drug Task Force. The undercover operations to arrest people purchasing methamphetamine precursors such as pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in manufacturing meth, began in February, according to a news release from Sikeston DPS...
Former arts council employee charged with credit fraud (03/17/10)
A one-time employee of a local not-for-profit arts organization has been charged with stealing from her former employer.
Preliminary hearing set for jailer charged with sex with inmate (03/17/10)
A man charged with having a sexual encounter with a Scott County Jail inmate will have a preliminary hearing next month Ron Baker, 41, of Sikeston, Mo., will appear April 15 for a preliminary hearing.
Bollinger County man pleads guilty to statutory rape (03/17/10)
A Zalma, Mo., man has pleaded guilty to statutory rape. Jaramiah Hood, 30, pleaded guilty March 3 before Judge Stephen Sharp in Stoddard County Circuit Court to one felony count of second-degree statutory rape. His trial was set to begin this week.
Georgia man pleads guilty to two November bank robberies (03/17/10)
A Georgia man who committed recent bank robberies has pleaded guilty to the crime. 18-year-old Keiran Pippins of Forest Park, Georgia, appeared before Judge Carol Jackson in Saint Louis Tuesday and pled guilty to two felony counts of bank robbery by force. ...
Change of judge granted in lawyer's assault case (03/16/10)
A Cape Girardeau lawyer charged with first- and second-degree domestic violence for allegedly pointing an unloaded handgun at his fiancee's head has a new judge, KZIM KSIM radio reported. Scott Reynolds, 47, is being held in the Cape Girardeau County Jail on a $200,000 cash-only bond. ...
New judge assigned to Jetton assault case (03/16/10)
Former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton's assault case will proceed with a new judge. Jetton is charged with second-degree assault stemming from a woman's claim that he hit her in the face several times and choked her during a sexual encounter. The 42-year-old Republican was named in a complaint filed in Scott County Circuit Court. ...
'48 Hours Mystery' broadcast generates leads on 1992 Benton murder (03/16/10)
Before the "48 Hours Mystery" broadcast on a Benton, Mo., murder case came to a close Saturday, dispatchers at the Scott County Sheriff's Department began receiving phone calls from people with details on the 1992 murder of Angela Mischelle Lawless...
Woman pleads not guilty to forging college transcript (03/16/10)
A Malden, Mo. woman who allegedly submitted a fake transcript to Southeast Missouri State University in an attempt to gain admission pleaded not guilty to forgery charges Monday before Circuit Court Judge William L. Syler. Daneille M. Feagin, 22, was charged in February after a Southeast admissions office employee noticed multiple problems on the submitted transcript authorities say was a forgery meant to look like a Three Rivers Community College document...
Spring trial set for man charged in high-speed chase (03/16/10)
A Cape Girardeau man involved in a high-speed chase to Scott City last year will go to trial in the spring, Circuit Court Judge William L. Syler decided Monday. The case against Zatrun Twiggs, 24, who is charged with four counts of felony purchasing and distributing narcotics in Cape Girardeau County, will be heard before a jury starting May 20. ...
Cape man pleads not guilty to 2005 robbery (03/16/10)
A Cape Girardeau man who has been connected to a 2005 robbery at Quik Cash, 125 Broadview St., pleaded not guilty to the charges before Circuit Court Judge William L. Syler on Monday. Heyl, 56, is charged with armed criminal action and first-degree robbery for allegedly holding a woman at Quik Cash at knifepoint and stealing more than $1,000 in cash on April 4, 2005. ...
More crime news
Cape Girardeau Police Department makes many changes in 150 years since creation
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the formation of Cape Girardeau Police Department in 1859, when it consisted of a captain, a lieutenant and six officers. Since then, the department, now made up of 75 officers, has gone through a number of changes, including in its staff size, headquarters and role in the community...
national Crime news
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  • Trial opens for RI officer accused of on-duty rape
    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- An on-duty Providence police officer took advantage of a helpless and incapacitated woman by raping her in a police substation, then showed up to take a report after her aunt called 911, a prosecutor said Thursday on the opening day of a sexual assault trial.
  • Police: Items on Wash. beach are missing family's
    SEATTLE (AP) -- Authorities in Washington state say a shoe that washed up on a Puget Sound beach over the weekend probably belonged to the woman who apparently abandoned a van on the beach and disappeared with her 8-year-old son.
  • NY teen on trial in hate crime stabbing death
    RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) -- The fatal stabbing of an Ecuadorean immigrant in November 2008 on Long Island was the culmination of a campaign of violence against Hispanics, prosecutors told jurors Thursday at a teenager's murder trial.
  • Suspect in theft from dying man to plead guilty
    PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The attorney for a woman accused of helping to steal a wristwatch from a dying man in a hospital waiting room says his client will plead guilty.
  • AstraZeneca wins 1st trial over alleged drug harm
    TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- AstraZeneca PLC's blockbuster psychiatric drug Seroquel did not trigger diabetes in a Vietnam veteran, a jury ruled Thursday in the first trial out of thousands of cases alleging the powerful drug caused diabetes.
  • Atty: Ex-NY art dealer to admit nearly $100M fraud
    NEW YORK (AP) -- A once-high-flying art dealer plans to admit swindling nearly $100 million from a star-studded clientele that included tennis great John McEnroe and the estate of actor Robert De Niro's father, the dealer's lawyer said Thursday.
  • US citizen pleads guilty in 1968 air hijacking
    NEW YORK (AP) -- A 67-year-old man on Thursday admitted hijacking a plane four decades ago and forcing it to land in Cuba, telling a judge how he threatened to cut a flight attendant's throat to get access to the cockpit, where another man held a gun to the back of the co-pilot.
  • Multimillion-dollar UN corruption case uncovered
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    YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A U.S. citizen accused of subversion was released from prison in his native Myanmar and deported Thursday after serving part of a three-year prison sentence.
weird news
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