After 37 years, police nab Los Angeles serial killer

September 30th, 2009 Jet that crashed in 1955 found in Pacific near LALOS ANGELES — An amateur historian says the wreckage of an Air Force jet believed lost at sea 54 years ago with two crewmen aboard has been found off the coast of Southern California. G. Pat Macha, who heads a group of volunteer searchers, said Monday that the plane was found earlier this month during a sonar survey for another aircraft near Los Angeles.

June 24th, 2009 Public help sought in 1976 slaying of singer's exLOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County sheriff's homicide detectives on Tuesday asked the public's help in solving the 1976 rape and killing of the ex-wife of The Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley. Karen Klaas was attacked Jan.

May 20th, 2009 PANAJI - Anticipating public ire, the police have secretly shifted the wife of an alleged serial killer to an undisclosed location, after she was ostracised and threatened by the local community in a Goa village. Mahanand Naik has been accused of murdering 10 women over a period of 15 years.

May 1st, 2009 Police say man, 72, tied to L.A. serial killingsLOS ANGELES — Larry Manchester discovered the body on Feb.

May 1st, 2009 Police call man LA's 'largest ever' serial killerLOS ANGELES — Police believe a 72-year-old insurance claims adjuster arrested earlier this month is the most prolific serial killer in the city's history, having raped and strangled as many as 30 older women over two decades. The break in the cold case came in October when John Floyd Thomas Jr., who had twice been convicted of sexual assault, had a DNA sample taken as part of an effort to build an offender database.

April 30th, 2009 Police say man, 72, tied to SoCal serial killingsLOS ANGELES — Larry Manchester discovered the body on Feb. 18, 1976. The woman, a 67-year-old retired school administrator, was dead inside her red-and-black '65 Chevy Chevelle, two blocks from her west Los Angeles apartment.

April 30th, 2009 Police call man LA's 'most prolific serial killer'LOS ANGELES — Police believe a 72-year-old insurance claims adjuster arrested earlier this month is the most prolific serial killer in the city's history, having raped and strangled as many as 30 older women over two decades. The break in the cold case came in October when John Floyd Thomas Jr., who had twice been convicted of sexual assault, had a DNA sample taken as part of an effort to build an offender database.

March 4th, 2009 KATHMANDU - The entry of his old foe in the ring once again does not scare yesteryear's super criminal Charles Sobhraj, who says he is ready to take on Bollywood, with or without the diplomat-turned-consultant who has hounded him for years. 'It is just a gimmick,' said the 64-year-old's lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, dismissing reports that Bollywood filmmaker Prawaal Raman is signing up former Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg as a consultant for his upcoming film 'Charles and I', which is speculated to be based on the past life of Sobhraj.

February 13th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Police in Assam are in a quandary with a mysterious 'stone man' claiming his sixth victim - a pavement dweller - in less than two months in the state's main city of Guwahati, officials said Saturday. Even as a thriller based on the unsolved serial killings of pavement dwellers in Mumbai in 1983 hit the screens Friday, the police recovered a badly battered body of a young beggar from outside a Hindu temple in Guwahati.

February 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Punjab businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Surinder Koli, who were given the death sentence Friday for raping, killing and cannibalizing Rimpa Haldar - the first among the 19 cases registered against them - may well figure in the infamous list of serial killers who gained notoriety for the methods they employed. Of all the famous killers Harold Frederick 'Fred' Shipman, a British general practitioner, was perhaps the most prolific known serial killer in history, with 236 murders being ascribed to him by a government inquiry.

January 31st, 2009 HONG KONG - Police in Hong Kong were Sunday investigating whether a serial killer is behind the murders of three prostitutes in three weeks. The latest victim, a 38-year-old Thai prostitute, was found murdered in the flat where she worked in the city's Kowloon district Saturday night.

January 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Friday asked for response from Delhi Police to a bail plea of a suspected terrorist, allegedly involved in the Sep 13 serial blasts, who wants to appear for an MBA exam next month. Saquib Nisar, a suspected member of the Indian Mujahideen (IM) who has been in custody since Sep 20 last year, pleaded that he should be granted bail to appear in his MBA third semester examination, which begin Feb 7.

January 10th, 2009 Film: 'Anu'; Cast: Pooja Gandhi, Baalu, Naag Kiran, Sundar Raj, Duniya Rashmi, Ramesh Bhat and others. Director: Shiva Ganapathy; Story-Screenplay: Ravi Babu; Producer: Baalu; Camera: Niranjan Babu; Music: Shekhar Chandru; Rating: *** 'Anu' is a Kannada remake of director Ravi Babu's Telugu Hit film 'Anasuya', which had Bhoomika Chawla in the lead.

January 7th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Security forces Thursday gunned down the main accused in the New Year's Day serial bombings that rocked this Assam city, officials said. A police spokesman said 20-year-old Pranjal Deka of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) terror outfit was killed in a gunbattle at Ghilakuti village near Rangiya town, about 70 km west of here.

December 31st, 2008 MUMBAI - A court here Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment a notorious serial killer who had earned the nickname 'Beer man' for leaving an empty beer can beside all his roadside victims, whom he killed by clubbing and stabbing. Ravindra Kantrole was Thursday sentenced for the murder of a man on a foot-overbridge in Marine Lines railway station two years ago, his lawyer said.