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Abducted girl found alive, sex offender in custody

Oct 24, 5:06PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Abby Berthoff, 5

/ CBS St. Louis

(CBS) POPLAR BLUFF, MO.- Poplar Bluff police have confirmed that just before 2 p.m., 5-year-old Abigail Berthoff was found alive after reportedly being taken from her home by a registered sex offender, CBS St. Louis reports.

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Parents: Slain NJ girl was treated like "trash"

Oct 24, 5:05PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Autumn Pasquale

/ Personal photo
(CBS/AP) CLAYTON, N.J. - The mother of 12-year-old Autumn Pasquale, a New Jersey girl who was strangled and dumped in a recycling bin, said Wednesday that the teenage brothers accused of killing her had treated her daughter "like a piece of trash."

Pictures: Body of missing NJ girl found

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Cops: Ga. megachurch shooting suspect in custody

Oct 24, 5:01PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Gregory McDowell (left) was killed in a shooting at a Ga. church Wednesday; Floyd Palmer (right) is the suspected shooter

/ CBS Atlanta
(CBS/AP) FULTON COUNTY, GA - Authorities say the suspect in a fatal shooting at a Georgia megachurch has been taken into custody, reports CBS Atlanta.

Police located Floyd Palmer, 52, on Wednesday afternoon at Atlanta's Lenox Square Mall.

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Lawrence Taylor sex accuser testifies at trial

Oct 24, 4:14PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Cristina Fierro (right) and attorney Gloria Allred at a 2011 press conference in Manhattan

/ AP Photo/Seth Wenig
(AP) NEW YORK - A teenager who has accused former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor of sexually assaulting her when she was 16 cried Tuesday as she described her encounter with the NFL Hall of Famer at the start of a civil trial.

Read: Suing Lawrence Taylor "next frontier" in fighting sex trafficking, expert says

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Prosecutor: Day care owner betrayed parents' trust

Oct 24, 3:38PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Jessica Tata

/ The Harris County Sheriff's office/AP Photo

(CBS/AP) HOUSTON - A woman charged with murder after a fire at her Houston home day care killed four children betrayed the families who entrusted her with their kids' lives, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

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Cops: Girl may have been abducted by sex offender

Oct 24, 3:00PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Abby Berthoff, 5

/ Personal Photo

(AP) POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Law enforcement officers in southeast Missouri searched Wednesday for a 5-year-old girl they believe was abducted from her home by a convicted sex offender.

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Family member arrested in Calif. triple slaying

Oct 24, 2:00PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Grigory Bukhantsov

/ CBS Sacramento
(CBS/AP) SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Police say they have arrested the 19-year-old brother-in-law of a woman who was found brutally slain along with her two toddlers in their suburban Sacramento home.

Sacramento County Sheriff's Department spokesman Sgt. Jason Ramos said "something bad was brewing for some time" between the suspect, Grigoriy Bukhantsov, and his extended family.

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Megachurch deadly shooter ID'd as ex-church worker

Oct 24, 1:33PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Floyd Palmer is being sought by police after a fatal shooting at a Ga. megachurch on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012.

/ CBS Atlanta
(CBS/AP) COLLEGE PARK, Ga. - Police say the gunman suspected of opening fire Wednesday morning inside a Georgia megachurch, killing a man, was a former church employee.

Authorities say they are searching for Floyd Palmer, 52, who should be considered armed and dangerous.

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Therapist allegedly commits triple murder-suicide

Oct 24, 12:58PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Colin McGrattan

/ CBS Sacramento
(CBS/AP) STOCKTON, Calif. - A marriage counselor who specialized in anger management allegedly killed his ex-wife, her sister, and her aunt before turning his gun on himself inside a nursing home Monday, reports CBS Sacramento.

The killings took place at multiple locations in Stockton, Calif., including a senior assisted living center, said police.

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Kennedy cousin denied parole in 1975 slaying

Oct 24, 12:37PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter
Michael Skakel looks up while listening to a statement from John Moxley, unseen, brother of victim Martha Moxley, in court in Middletown, Conn., Jan. 24, 2012.

Michael Skakel in court in Middletown, Conn., on Jan. 24, 2012.

/ AP Photo

(CBS/AP) SUFFIELD, Conn. - Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel has been denied his first bid for parole since he was convicted a decade ago of killing his neighbor in 1975.

A Connecticut parole board rejected Skakel's request following a two-hour hearing Wednesday in which he proclaimed his innocence.

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