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November 19, 2009 10:25 AM

Mohler Family Sex Crimes Case: Wife Found Incest Porno, Say Cops

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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (CBS/AP) Incest pornography.

That's what authorities investigating six members of the Mohler family for alleged sex crimes against related children in rural Missouri, say they found in one of the suspect's home, and it was the suspect's wife that led them to it.

The search warrant issued last week after the arrest of Burrell E. Mohler Sr., 77, of Independence, said investigators seized several items from Mohler's home, including four computer towers, several pornographic magazines and books, several DVDs, and cameras.

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November 12, 2009 3:22 PM

Cops: Child-Raping Missouri Family May Have Bodies in Yard

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LEXINGTON, Mo. - Police investigating a western Missouri family accused of sexually abusing children are now searching a family property for dead bodies. They are also looking for buried glass jars, which the alleged victims say contain notes documenting their sexual abuse years ago.

Lafayette County Sheriff Kerrick Alumbaugh said there has been an indication of "body or bodies in numerous locations," although he would not say whose bodies they might be.

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October 30, 2009 8:29 AM

Cops: Two Brothers, Two Motives in Beason Family Murder

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LINCOLN, Ill. - Indictments released Wednesday claim two brothers, Christopher and Jason Harris, armed with a tire iron broke into a family's home in Beason, Ill. to rob them and assault a teenage girl before beating five people to death.

The most surprising part of the story is that the victims were known quite well to Christopher Harris. They were his ex-wife's family. And the ex-wife, Nicole Gee, is standing by her former lover. She has said she doesn't believe he could have killed her family.

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October 22, 2009 1:32 PM

Wesson Family Massacre: Children Tell Story of Murder and Sexual Abuse

(CBS)
LOS ANGELES - It is the worst mass murder case ever seen in Fresno, an agricultural town in the heart of California's Central Valley.

On March 12, 2004, officers were summoned to Marcus Wesson's rundown home after his two nieces, who had escaped from the home, went back to try to get their children.

Wesson talked with officers at the front door, then went into the back bedroom and shut the door.

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October 9, 2009 11:27 AM

John "Junior" Gotti Courtroom Explosion: "You're a Punk!"

(AP)
NEW YORK - "You're a Punk!"

Those were the choice words of an angry John "Junior" Gotti as he shouted in anger towards a former close friend who blamed him for a trail of organized crime violence while on the stand at Gotti's racketeering trial in New York.

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September 25, 2009 1:30 PM

Book 'Em: Victoria Gotti's "This Family of Mine"

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NEW YORK - THIS FAMILY OF MINE is a memoir by Victoria Gotti that captures "the life" of the late Mafia boss, her father John Gotti, and chronicles the "other life" of the Gottis – the behind-the-scenes world of one of America's most talked about families.

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September 22, 2009 3:55 PM

Beason, Illinois Killer Slays Five but a Child Survives

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BEASON, Ill. - Five family members are dead, a toddler is in the hospital, and a killer is on the loose in Beason, Illinois.

Residents of the tiny farming community are waiting anxiously as authorities search for suspects in the slayings of five members of a local family.

Logan County authorities say they're following up leads but they haven't made any arrests in what the sheriff calls a "brutal homicide."

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September 7, 2009 6:30 AM

Fund Created to Help Jaycee Lee Dugard and Her Daughters

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NEW YORK - By now you likely know the story of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped from a South Lake Tahoe school bus stop in 1991.

If police have it right, Jaycee was forced to endure 18 years of horrors including rape and impregnation by her captor Phillip Garrido and was forced to live in a squalid tent in Phillip and his wife Nancy Garrido's backyard.

Now, an official fund is being setup to help Jaycee and her daughters turn the next page in a horrible story that may yet have a happy ending.

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August 28, 2009 3:16 PM

Forensic Psych: Does Phillip Garrido Really Believe His Kids Cured Him of Pedophilia?

(CBS/ AP)
ATLANTA - How could four individuals, two of them captors and one of them an abducted little girl, come to live together as a family unit for eighteen years? If police have it right, not only did Phillip Garrido, Nancy Garrido, Jaycee Lee Dugard and Garrido's mother live as a family unit, but Phillip Garrido and Jaycee Lee Dugard also had two daughters together (now 11 and 15 years old).

Forensic psychiatrist Mathew W. Norman ponders what was going on inside the Garrido's alleged house of horrors.

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August 24, 2009 9:13 AM

Book 'Em: Murder by Family

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It was an evening of excitement, December 10, 2003, as the Whitaker family returned home from a dinner celebrating their son Bart’s impending graduation from college. Upon entering the house, the family was met by a masked gunman who opened fire, instantly killing the youngest Whitaker son, Kevin, and his mother, Patricia. The father, Kent, and Bart were also shot, but survived.

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