![[SeMissourian.com]](http://www.semissourian.com/images/nameplate.png)
|
|
Fog ~ Dense Fog Advisory Saturday, May 18, 2013 |
|
|
Unsolved cases  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...  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  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...  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 
Two Cape Girardeau men arrested in connection to burglaries
(05/17/13)
Authorities announced the arrests of two men Friday in connection with a series of recent home burglaries. Xavier Dee Canada, 23, and Steven R. Johnson, 27, both of Cape Girardeau, were arrested after a joint investigation by the Cape Girardeau Police Department and the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department...
Cape police investigating morning brawl
(05/17/13)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department is investigating a brawl that occurred early Friday morning at the Boardman Pavillion at the intersection of Independence and South Main streets. According to Darin Hickey, department spokesman, the fighting started at the pavilion at about 1:30 a.m. ... 
Former deputy's lawsuit settled for $145,000
(05/17/13)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- A former Bollinger County deputy's lawsuit against the county prosecutor, sheriff's department and former sheriff was dismissed last month after the defendants agreed to settle out of court for $145,000. Court records obtained by the Southeast Missourian through a Sunshine Law request show under the terms of the April 5 settlement, Kelley Barks was to receive $135,714.38, plus another $9,285.62 for legal expenses, to resolve ... 
Details emerge in Stoddard County murder case
(05/16/13)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A woman accused of murdering her husband at their Puxico, Mo., home is expected in a Stoddard County courtroom today. Victoria Isaac, 48, was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the shooting death of her husband, 48-year-old Christopher L. Isaac...
3 Bootheel men charged with first degree murder
(05/16/13)
CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. -- Three men, each charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action, will make their first appearance in court today. Charges were filed Tuesday against Frank Rogers Jr., 27, of Caruthersville and Kevin T. Tilson, 36, and Dedrick F. Tilson of Hot Springs, Ark., for the murder of Rodney Maxwell, 33, of Caruthersville. Maxwell, who was found shot in his vehicle Friday, later died from his wound... 
Tougher drunken driving threshold recommended
(05/15/13)
WASHINGTON -- States should cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half -- from .08 blood alcohol level to .05 -- matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries, a federal safety board recommended Tuesday. That's about one drink for a woman weighing less than 120 pounds, two for a 160-pound man...
Woman charged with husband's murder in Stoddard County
(05/15/13)
PUXICO, Mo. -- A man is dead and his wife charged with murder after an early morning shooting in Puxico. Stoddard County Sheriff Carl Hefner on Tuesday afternoon said Victoria Isaac, the victim's 48-year-old wife, of Puxico, was charged with first-degree murder...
Cape Girardeau police report 5/15/13
(05/15/13)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests...
Jackson police report 5/15/13
(05/15/13)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI...
9-year-old arson victim was born in Perryville
(05/14/13)
A 9-year-old girl born in Perryville, Mo., was among four children killed Friday in an apparent arson at her home in Percy, Ill. Kailey A. Owen and her brothers Ethan, 12, and 5-year-old twins Brandan and Landan Owen were asleep at their home in Percy when fire broke out about 2 a.m., The Associated Press reported...
Suspect in 1980 rape case declared indigent
(05/14/13)
A prison inmate charged with the 1980 rape of a Southeast Missouri State University student was found indigent by a public defender Monday. Daryl K. Davis is accused of breaking into the student's basement apartment and raping her at knife point. DNA evidence implicated Davis in the 1980 case. He already is serving nine life sentences for a series of sexual assaults in St. Louis County...
Cape man pleads not guilty to DWI, fleeing police
(05/14/13)
A Cape Girardeau man accused of trying to help a fugitive escape arrest pleaded not guilty Monday to two felony charges. Eddie Kent was charged with driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest or detention by fleeing in connection with a February incident in which Cape Girardeau police officers said he tried to help his son, Eric Kent of Jonesboro, Ark., avoid arrest... 
Philly abortion doc guilty in 3 babies' deaths
(05/14/13)
PHILADELPHIA -- An abortion doctor was convicted Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy, "house of horrors" clinic. In a case that became a grisly flashpoint in the nation's abortion debate, Dr. ...
Cape Girardeau police report 5/14/13
(05/14/13)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY The Southeast Missouri State University Department of Public Safety released the following item: DWI...
Caruthersville police investigating shooting death
(05/13/13)
CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. -- A shooting death is under investigation by the Caruthersville Police Department. At 9:51 p.m. Friday, Caruthersville officers responded to a report of a motor vehicle accident in the 300 block of East Seventh Street. According to Caruthersville Chief of Police Tony L. Jones, when officers arrived they found a man unresponsive in the driver's seat with a single gunshot wound... |
Map database 
Find out where crime happens in Cape GirardeauOur interactive crime database features a map that shows you where police have received reports of crime in Cape Girardeau. Click below to access the map. 
Cape Girardeau Police Department makes many changes in 150 years since creationToday 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
|
