Bridget Dicosmo
NewsOctober 23, 2009
Before Cape's police department was founded, security was privately providedBefore the Cape Girardeau Police Department was formed 150 years ago, law enforcement in town consisted of private security hired by local business owners to keep the peace. When one of these security guards would arrest someone, usually for being drunk and disorde...NewsOctober 16, 2009
Owner of dog suspected part of fighting ring disputes accusationA dog named Cowgirl has become an issue of dispute between her former owner and animal rescue activists in the two months since she was brought to the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri. Cowgirl, a 4-year-old American pit bull terrier, was picked up Aug. 11 in Ea...
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Unsolved cases: Cheryl SchererScherer, 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 ...
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Know Your Officer: Roger FieldsMajor 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.....otherOctober 15, 2009
Fallen officersDonald 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 effectiv...NewsOctober 15, 2009
Cape Girardeau police still searching for burglary suspectCape Girardeau police continue to search for the suspect believed to have been involved in a burglary that occurred Tuesday morning on Woodlawn Avenue, said Cpl. Adam Glueck, spokesman for the police department. The other burglary suspect, Dominique Maxwell, 17, 28...
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Case files: Timothy W. KrajcirName: 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...NewsOctober 15, 2009
Domestic violence victims struggling in unstable economyBefore a 49-year-old woman found herself at Safe House for Women, Cape Girardeau's domestic violence shelter, her self-esteem had plunged so far because of the abusive situation she was in, she said she felt she had no future at all. Three months later, that same w...
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Unsolved cases: Bonnie HuffmanThe 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 ...
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Case files: Russell Earl BucklewRussell 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,...Advertisement
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