Woman who carried toddler son’s body in car trunk sentenced to 55 years in prison

September 30th, 2009 NY woman convicted in mutilation death of fatherNEW YORK — A woman has been convicted of killing her father and mutilating his body in her New York City apartment. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown says 28-year-old Brigitte Harris was convicted Wednesday of manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon in the 2007 slaying of 55-year-old Eric Goodridge.

September 23rd, 2009 OH man who made toddler smoke pot gets 10 yearsCOLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio man who videotaped himself forcing his 18-month-old niece to smoke marijuana has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Prosecutors say 19-year-old Melvin Blevins of Pataskala was part of a marijuana-trafficking ring.

September 17th, 2009 Austria: Man convicted for flame-thrower killingsVIENNA — An Austrian court has convicted a man for killing his in-laws by setting them on fire with a homemade flame-thrower. The court in the southern city of Graz sentenced the 49-year-old, who was not identified by name, to 12 years in prison for the October 2008 incident.

August 31st, 2009 Woman gets nearly 3 years in fake marriage caseSEATTLE — A 35-year-old Seattle-area woman who ran a visa fraud scheme involving sham marriages to Cambodians faces two years and nine months in prison. Vuthy Sim was sentenced Monday for three counts each of visa fraud and money laundering, conspiracy to commit those offenses and concealing an illegal alien.

August 19th, 2009 Family seeks to free terminally ill Calif. womanLOS ANGELES — Relatives and friends are calling on Gov.

July 22nd, 2009 Wis. man gets 2 years in prison for hiding corpseMAUSTON, Wis. — The leader of a Wisconsin religious order has been sentenced to two years in prison for hiding a dead follower's body on a toilet for weeks so he could collect her Social Security payments.

July 6th, 2009 Woman gets prison for Library of Congress ID theftWASHINGTON — A woman who worked with her cousin to steal the identities of 13 unsuspecting Library of Congress employees was sentenced Monday to two and a half years in prison. Labiska Gibbs admitted that in spring 2008 she asked her second cousin William Sinclair Jr., who worked in the library's human resource department, to get her the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of library workers from the payroll database.

July 1st, 2009 Montreal woman gets 15 years in son's Vt. drowningNORTH HERO, Vt.

June 30th, 2009 DC tax fraud ringleader gets 17 years in prisonWASHINGTON — A former Washington, D.C., employee has been sentenced to 17½ years in prison for leading a scheme that stole nearly $50 million from the city using fraudulent property tax refund checks. Former D.C. tax office manager Harriette Walters pleaded guilty in September to wire fraud, money laundering and other charges and has been jailed since her arrest in 2007.

June 23rd, 2009 Man who aired Hezbollah TV shows sentenced in NYCNEW YORK — A man who helped the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah by broadcasting its television programs in New York City has been sentenced to more than a year in prison. Saleh Elahwal (soh-LAY' ee-loh-WAH') was sentenced Tuesday to a year and five months by Manhattan federal Judge Richard Berman.

June 16th, 2009 Ohio woman who was 3 when mom killed won't testifyTOLEDO, Ohio — The case against an Ohio man accused of strangling his wife and stuffing her body into a car trunk nearly 18 years ago is going to the jury. Prosecutors in Toledo rested their case Tuesday without calling the defendant's former stepdaughter to testify.

June 11th, 2009 Ohio man on trial in killing of wife 17 years agoTOLEDO, Ohio — A prosecutor in northern Ohio says a man accused of killing his wife and stuffing her body in a car trunk 17 years ago knew his marriage was coming to an end at the time the woman disappeared. Thomas Zich is accused of strangling Mary Jane Zich and faces life in prison if convicted.

May 29th, 2009 Australian jailed in American Idol singer stalkingMELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian woman was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Friday for stalking "American Idol" contestant Diana DeGarmo over the Internet from the opposite side of the world. Tanya Maree Quattrocchi, 23, pleaded guilty earlier this month to four charges of cyber-stalking for hacking into DeGarmo's My Space account and intercepting her e-mails and those of her mother, Brenda, and housemate, model Donielle Morris.

May 9th, 2009 Man gets more prison time in transgender slayingDENVER — A man convicted last month of murder and a hate crime in the slaying of a transgender Colorado woman has received another 60 years in prison after being found a "habitual criminal." Allen Andrade of Thornton was convicted of beating 18-year-old Angie Zapata to death with a fire extinguisher July 17 after discovering she was biologically male. A judge sentenced him to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder after the jury's April 22 verdict.

April 24th, 2009 NY woman convicted for role in body parts schemeROCHESTER, N.Y. — An upstate New York woman who helped illegally remove bone and tissue from corpses in 2005 has been convicted on 103 counts.