All Blog Posts from Crimesider

CLEVELAND - Police in Cleveland have identified a 10th woman whose skull was discovered wrapped in paper in a bucket at the home of accused serial killer Anthony Sowell.

Police Lt. Thomas Stacho says 25-year-old Leshanda Long had not been seen since August 2008 but was not reported as a missing person. She had been reported missing twice when she was in her teens.

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NEW YORK - Attorneys for the owner of the chimp that violently attacked Charla Nash, disfiguring and blinding her, have argued that the incident should be treated as a workers' compensation claim, and nothing more.

Nash's family has filed a $50 million lawsuit against Sandra Herold, her friend and employer, who asked Nash to help lure the 200-pound chimpanzee, Travis, back into her Stamford, Conn. home on Feb. 16.

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LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) Embattled ex-boxing champion Mike Tyson has a fresh legal fight on his hands.

California police are investigating conflicting accounts of an airport confrontation between the former heavyweight champ and photographer Tony Echevarria, in which the shutterbug says he was attacked and Tyson claims he was protecting his family.

The scuffle resulted in both men being booked and released on suspicion of misdemeanor battery, with both wanting to press charges, police said.

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NEW YORK - Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean made a short but dramatic appearance on Larry King Live Wednesday, in which she refused to answer an openly gay caller and threatened to walk off the show, after King asked questions about the role a sex tape may have played in a lawsuit settlement.

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NEW YORK - Charla Nash, who was mauled by a 200-pound chimpanzee in February, said she doesn't remember the vicious attack, nor does she want to.

"I want to get healthy," she said on Wednesday's episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." "I don't want to wake up with nightmares."

Nash, who is blind and has to eat through a straw, told Winfrey that she isn't angry.

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NEW YORK - Miss Congeniality was nowhere to be found when dethroned beauty queen Carrie Prejean turned up on "The View" and talked about... the sex tape. Yes, that sex tape.

"But Miss Prejean, you made the tape, you have [topless] photos of yourself, you didn't go along with the morals clause which is in the pageant's rules, and yet you say you're a victim — I don't totally buy it!"

Those were the doubting words of Joy Behar to Prejean on the daytime talkfest's Tuesday episode.

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CLEVELAND - "The Cleveland Strangler" is what many people are now calling Anthony Sowell, the alleged Ohio serial killer whose home and yard were found to be littered with the body parts of 11 women.

But "roommate" and "boyfriend" is what Lori Frazier, the niece of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, called Sowell until recently. Frazier said she started a romance with Sowell soon after he was released from prison in 2005 and lived with the accused killer while a terrible stench, since learned to be rotting bodies, permeated his home.

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TUSCUMBIA, Ala. - Police in Tuscumbia, Ala., are on the lookout for a noseless robber after a man got the tip of his nose bitten off, they say, while stealing around $100 in cash from a home.

Police said a man armed with a knife and small screwdriver entered a private home about 11:30 a.m. Monday in this small town 2 1/2 hours north west of Birgmingham. He fought with two men inside, police say, and one of them bit off the tip of his nose during the struggle.

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NEW YORK - As American families mourn loved ones lost in combat and celebrate the heroes of war, the loss of 13 men and women in last week's Fort Hood, Texas massacre runs especially deep.

Those who died that day were young and old, natural-born and immigrants, but all were serving this country when they were allegedly gunned down by Army psychologist Nidal Malik Hasan.

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NEW YORK - At a New York Wal-Mart, last year's Black Friday wasn't just busy, it was deadly. A massive crowd crushed temporary Wal-Mart employee Jdimytai Damour to death.

In 2009, the world's largest retailer says it will do better and is ready to face the massive crowd of bargain hunters.

Wal-Mart Stores announced Wednesday it will keep its stores open 24 hours to prevent a rush at its doors and take new crowd-control measures during the 2009 Thanksgiving weekend.

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