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CLEVELAND — With dozens of balloons and a quiet vigil, friends and neighbors surrounded the home family have been waiting to welcome Gina DeJesus to for a decade. The family's squat, light brown house was draped with a banner that said it all: "Welcome home Gina.""It's a blessing," said Carrie Gillespie, who said she grew up with DeJesus and now lives only blocks away from where her friend was all...
Tim Lambesis, lead singer of the Grammy-nominated, Christian heavy metal band As I Lay Dying, has been arrested for allegedly trying to hire someone to kill his estranged wife, officials said Tuesday.San Diego County Sheriff's Department said in a statement that it had received information Lambesis was “soliciting another individual” to murder his wife Meggan.A search of court records showed that ...
Elizabeth Smart. Jaycee Dugard. Shawn Hornbeck. Many parents of missing children repeat these names like a mantra -- each one is evidence that their long-lost child is not a lost cause.Now Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight can be added to that list of found children. The discovery of the three Ohio women on Monday is exactly the kind of hope that keeps parents of missing children going...
TACOMA, Washington - A survivor of a shooting spree that killed five U.S. servicemen at a combat stress clinic in Iraq testified on Tuesday that he remembered the gunman, a fellow soldier, chuckling after he shot an unarmed man who had been trying to hide.U.S. Army Sergeant John Russell pleaded guilty last month to killing two medical staff officers and three soldiers at Camp Liberty, adjacent to ...
Two days after three women missing at least a decade were freed from a home in downtown Cleveland, details about the victims and the suspects are starting emerge.Police say Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were all held captive in a home owned by local musician and bus driver Ariel Castro and his brothers.Neighbors said they had no idea anyone else was inside Castro’s home on Seymour...
When Amanda Berry and Georgina DeJesus disappeared in 2003 and 2004, a community rose up to help them.Activists and neighbors in Cleveland’s West Boulevard area helped to organize searches near where the girls lived and were last seen – then kept the cases in the spotlight as months stretched into years.On Tuesday, those involved in the efforts expressed joy that Berry and DeJesus, along with anot...
A registered sex offender who was jailed in 2006 after a tipster wrongfully accused him of murdering kidnap victim Gina DeJesus wants an apology from the city of Cleveland.“I’m happy they’re home and safe,” Matthew Hurayt said of DeJesus, and fellow kidnap victims Michele Knight and Amanda Berry, who were rescued by a neighbor Monday after years of captivity. But Hurayt, whose home was searched in...
