UNION CITY Fugitive's 33 years on the run come to end in girlfriend's closet Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer Thursday, February 22, 2007
A man who escaped from a New Jersey prison nearly 33 years ago was found hiding in a closet at his girlfriend's Union City apartment Tuesday after federal and state officials followed his trail through four states.
James Quisenberry, now 59, was serving time for aggravated assault with intent to kill and armed robbery when he escaped from state prison on June 6, 1974, said U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Michael Schroeder. Authorities believe that since his escape, Quisenberry has adopted as many as eight aliases and false identities and lived in Kentucky, Nevada and California.
When Quisenberry was found Tuesday afternoon, he was coy at first, Schroeder said.
"Finally the officer came out and said, 'I think you know why we're here,' " Schroeder said. "There was a pause, then Quisenberry said, 'Well, I've got a pretty good idea.' "
The case was reopened in 2004, after the Marshals Service was directed to create regional task forces across the United States in an attempt to track down state and local fugitives. The task forces include members of law enforcement agencies in the areas where they are based, Schroeder said.
In this case, a marshal partnered with a New Jersey Department of Corrections investigator who dug out Quisenberry's case, he said.
"He literally blew off the dust," Schroeder said. "They started going over a lot of the stuff investigated in the past and some new things. They found out four months ago that his mother had passed away in Louisville, Ky., in 2000, then they looked into it more and found out that he himself was named as one of the remaining sons, the next of kin."
Excited to find that Quisenberry was still alive, the investigators trooped down to Louisville, where they found that he had been arrested several times under several different aliases. Local officials never put two and two together, Schroeder said, because the crimes were minor and nonviolent, and Quisenberry would always skip out on bail before his fingerprints came back.
"From the arrests, we found more aliases and more identifiers, which led investigators to more minor arrests in Las Vegas, including one for credit card fraud," he said. "They come to find out that he had about eight aliases and one was the name Ewel Daniels."
The real Daniels lived in San Antonio, Schroeder said, but Quisenberry was using the name in California, where he had secured a state driver's license using the alias. While the fugitive had been evicted from his most recent address, investigators soon found out that he had a girlfriend, Mattie Riggs, who also went by Mattie Daniels.
At the investigators' request, marshals based in Oakland went by Riggs' Union City address and found her car, a 1992 Buick, parked outside with a for-sale sign on it, Schroeder said.
The two investigators flew out from New Jersey and, from Riggs' apartment complex parking lot, one of them called Riggs and posed as a potential buyer. When she hung up suddenly, they knocked on her door and later found Quisenberry hiding behind some clothes in a closet.
Quisenberry is now being held by Alameda County while he awaits an extradition hearing, Schroeder said. No charges have been filed against him or Riggs in connection with the identity theft, Schroeder added.
Schroeder did not have information on Quisenberry's original crime or the length of his prison term, but said the New Jersey Department of Corrections -- which was a different agency at the time of Quisenberry's escape -- is combing its archives to determine his criminal history.
Cynthia Sommer, 33, is shown in court, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007, in San Diego, Calif. Sommer, a Florida woman accused of poisoning her Marine husband with arsenic to cash in on his $250,000 life insurance policy, was convicted of murder on Tuesday. (AP Photo/ K.C. Alfred, Pool) AP via Yahoo! News - Jan 30 1:36 PM
Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Beating Death Of Daughter December 14, 2006
A Queens man is going to prison for ten years after beating his 7-year-old daughter to death last year.
Russell Roberts pleaded guilty to manslaughter for beating Sierra Roberts for two straight nights in October of 2005. Russell then waited two days to call 911 even though Sierra was obviously in pain.
She later died at the hospital.
An autopsy showed Sierra suffered blunt trauma to the torso, a laceration to the small intestine and fractured ribs.
(CBS/AP) RIVERHEAD, N.Y. A young man who nearly beheaded his stepfather with a samurai sword last year was convicted Wednesday of second-degree murder after jurors rejected his claim that his mother committed the brutal slaying.
The verdict capped a trial that included lurid testimony from Zachary Gibian alleging that his stepfather had sexually abused him since age 15 and that his mother flew into a murderous rage after finding out. Gibian's testimony contradicted the written and videotaped confessions that he made to police.
The jury, which deliberated over seven days, twice sent out notes that it was deadlocked this week before finally reaching a decision. The second note came just four hours before the guilty verdict in the Feb. 27, 2005, killing of Scott Nager, a retired New York City police officer slain as he slept on his living room couch.
Gibian, 20, closed his eyes and grimaced slightly as the guilty verdict was read. He then sat down at the defense table and began weeping uncontrollably. Nearby, Nager's father and sister hugged as tears streamed down their faces
"I didn't win anything by him being convicted," said Nathan Nager, 82, who treated Gibian as a grandson for years. "It's an empty thing, because I still don't have my son back. It's a no-win situation for me."
Gibian faces a maximum of 25 years to life in prison at his Jan. 10 sentencing. Defense attorney William Keahon, who said jurors told him the panel was initially split 6-6, promised an appeal.
"They should have been dismissed as jurors," Keahon said of the jurors' first note indicating they were deadlocked. "There should have been a mistrial."
Juror Gerard Whelan, who said he was the lone holdout for an acquittal, said he ultimately decided to vote for a conviction after watching Gibian's videotaped confession for a fourth time on Wednesday; it was shown once during the trial, and the jury asked for it to be replayed three times during deliberations.
"The video was it," he said. "It was so believable."
Prosecutors contended that Nager, 51, was not a sexual predator but a concerned parent trying to rein in a rebellious teenager.
"He is the one who committed this murder," Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney John Scott Prudenti said of Gibian during closing arguments. "All the evidence points to it, all the witnesses point to it."
Gibian, the lone defense witness, made stunning allegations that Nager had sexually and psychologically abused him for years. He claimed that numerous times, beginning when he was about 15, Nager would get drunk and repeatedly force his stepson to perform a sex act on him -- sometimes with a pistol against the boy's head.
He testified that his mother learned of the abuse the night before the killing, when she walked in on her husband and son in the boy's bedroom. Gibian also said on cross-examination that there would be no forensic evidence of the attacks because his stepfather always used a condom.
Prudenti called Gibian's allegations "preposterous."
The key prosecution witness was Gibian's friend Troy "T.J." Harrelson, the son of former New York Mets star and manager Bud Harrelson. He testified that Gibian called him for a ride to ditch evidence from the slaying and admitted the slaying to him.
Harrelson cut a deal with prosecutors and will plead guilty to hindering prosecution.
Gibian's clothing, which was part of the dumped evidence, had no blood on it. The prosecution said that was because of the angle of the sword when Nager was fatally injured.
Gibian testified that after arriving at his Hauppauge home to discover his slain stepfather, he decided to dump the samurai sword and admit to the crime to protect his mother, Laura Nager.
His mother, through her attorney, has insisted she was not the killer. She did not attend a day of her son's trial, and was never charged with any crime -- although investigators plan to examine the case against her in the coming days, said John Collins, chief of the Suffolk County district attorney's office homicide unit.
"We are not finished," Collins said of the investigation.
Gibian said he gave written and videotaped confessions after detectives told him that he would likely serve a prison term of five to seven years if he admitted the killing and saved his mother from prosecution.
There is no evidence police made such a promise. In the confessions, Gibian said he killed his stepfather to end years of verbal abuse by the man.
EERIE ECHO OF CHRISTA BEAU EYED IN NYER'S NANTUCKET SLAY The New York Post By JENNIFER FERMINO
November 27, 2006 -- She was another pretty, charismatic New Yorker who fled to New England to escape the rat race - only to wind up brutally murdered there.
Beth Lochtefeld, like doomed fashion scribe Christa Worthington, had sought refuge from her successful yet harried, big-city lifestyle in the idyllic beach town in Nantucket where she'd summered as a child. And like Worthington, she was slain in a charming bungalow she called home.
Lochtefeld's accused killer, her ex-boyfriend, faces a hearing this morning in Barnstable Superior Court on Cape Cod to set a trial date in her gruesome 2004 slaying.
It's been only 10 days since Worthington's murderer, a local garbage man, was convicted in the same courthouse.
The similarities between the women's lives - and deaths - are chilling.
Worthington, a writer who'd worked for Women's Wear Daily and Elle, had moved to the remote Cape Cod fishing town of Truro in 1997.
Lochtefeld, a longtime Greenwich Village resident, sold the real-estate consulting firm that she founded in the 1990s to head to the quaint island of Nantucket, south of the cape.
Both women had settled into picturesque cedar-shingled cottages that seemed to be the very essence of a charmed New England existence - until violence struck.
Worthington was raped and stabbed to death at her home by Christopher McCowen in 2002.
Lochtefeld wasn't the victim of random violence, but she met just as grisly an end. Cops said she was done in by a man she'd once loved, and like Worthington, she was stabbed to death in her home.
Both women were charming and driven, seeming to have it all.
The only thing that Lochtefeld didn't have - and truly longed for - was a family of her own. Worthington had a young daughter.
Still, Lochtefeld didn't sit at home crying over it.
She traveled the world, studied aikido, worked on an inspirational book and was a beloved aunt.
Then, her charmed life took a tragic turn when she was introduced to Tom Toolan in the summer of 2004.
Toolan was dapper, Columbia-educated and seemingly crazy about her.
But beneath his glossy exterior, lurked a heart of darkness.
He struggled with alcoholism and lost his job as a vice president at Smith Barney.
When Lochtefeld got wise to his problems, she dumped him - and he snapped, cops said.
The former Wall Street exec locked her in his Upper West Side apartment for a night, her relatives said. She managed to escape and head back to Nantucket.
So, Toolan jumped on a flight to the island and exacted revenge.
He showed up at Lochtefeld's home and stabbed her to death, cops said.
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Henry Dickens, Charles Enfinger, Patrick Garrett, Raymond Hauck, Charles Helms Jr., Henry McFadden Jr., Kristin Schmidt and Joseph Walsh II each face one count of aggravated manslaughter, a first degree felony.
If convicted, the eight defendants could face up to 30 years in prison.
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Rolling Admitted Louisiana Murders
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SHREVEPORT, La. -- Before being executed for five Florida murders, serial killer Danny Rolling gave his spiritual adviser a handwritten confession to a grisly murder triple slaying 17 years ago in his home town of Shreveport.
Police and the Rev. Mike Hudspeth released copies of that apology and confession on Friday, two days after Rolling's execution.
Police have long suspected that Rolling stabbed William T. Grissom, 55, his 24-year-old daughter, Julie, and his 8-year-old grandson, Sean, as they got ready for dinner on Nov. 4, 1989, in Grissom's Shreveport home.
They had been sure of it since 1997, when Rolling sent a detailed confession, including a description of the crime scene, to the woman he had married in prison, and she sent it to police, said retired police detectives Don Ashley and Danny Fogger, who had worked on the case.
Since Rolling had pleaded guilty in Florida to killing five college students and his execution was expected, Louisiana authorities saw little reason to try him.
Still, police said Friday, it is a relief to have a signed, public confession.
Hudspeth said that during a two-hour visit on Tuesday, Rolling told him that he had killed the Grissoms, and would give him a written confession the following day. That was the document released at Friday's news conference.
Rolling was executed for killing Sonja Larson, Christina Powell, Christa Hoyt, Tracy Paules and Manny Taboada in 1990 in Gainesville.
He told a Florida television interviewer in 2000 that he accepted responsibility for the Grissoms' deaths, but stopped short of confessing.
Text of Danny Rolling's confession
The text of executed killer Danny Rolling's confession to a triple murder in Shreveport, in 1989, the year before he killed five college students in Gainesville.
Spelling, punctuation and capitalization are Rolling's. Most of the text is in cursive, with large, gothic-style capitals at the start of each paragraph and in the word "By" in the third paragraph. Rolling's first signature, the names and all capitalized matter in the second section, and the entire last section are in print rather than cursive writing.
I know that sorrow, that heartfelt bane, that dross th' mortal flame. Stone 'pon stone th' final throw ... etched hither tow _ th' captive soul.
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In order to fulfill all things that no stone be unturned. Here by I make a formal written statement concerning the murders of Julie, Tom & SEAN GRISSOM in my hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana ... HAL CARTER, Julie Grissom's former fiancee is 100% INNOCENT -- TOTALLY PURE of that crime. I, and I alone am guilty. It was my hand that took those precious lights out of this ole dark world. With all my heart & soul would I could bring them back. Being a native son of Shreveport, I can only offer this confession of deep felt remorse over the loss of such fine _ outstanding souls.
Have wept an ocean of tears ... By which mournful doth float 'pon a sea of regret.
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Police Foil Alleged Attack Plot A Man Wanted His Ex-Girlfriend Crippled, Prosecutors Say By Lauren DeFranco
(Mineola - WABC, November 7, 2005) - Police on Long Island say they have foiled an attempt by a man to have his ex-girlfriend's finger cut off and her knee caps broken.
The man allegedly tried to hire someone to pull it off. What he didn't know was that he was talking to an undercover cop. Long Island reporter Lauren DeFranco is in Mineola.
Prosecutors tell us that Carl Leidig had no idea he was making that deal to an undercover investigator. And today, the Nassau D.A.'s office played secretly recorded conversations that are chilling.
A semi-automatic handgun, an arsenal of weapons, and eleven boxes of ammunition. Carl Leidig allegedly bragged about having enough bullets to shoot every cop in North America.
Prosecutors say the 51-year old from Upstate New York was buying and selling dangerous firearms on the streets of Nassau County. Leidig was arrested after prosecutors say he unknowingly tried to hire an undercover detective to cripple his ex-girlfriend.
Dan Looney, Nassau County Assistant District Attorney: "Leidig told the detective he wanted his former girlfriend's index finger cut off and her knee caps broken. He then discussed the price for the assault. Leidig went on to tell the detective there were other weapons he could get to the detective and that he could get the detective ammunition to shoot every cop in North America."
During one discussion, which is filled with profanities, Leidig allegedly asked the undercover investigator to return his ex-girlfriend's severed index finger. Prosecutors say he planned to freeze it and put it on display at a nightclub.
And tonight, Leidig is facing numerous weapons charges and conspiracy to commit assault. If convicted, he faces up to 25 years behind bars.
Report: Killer's escape sends victims' families into hiding Fugitive still at large after walking out of jail in street clothes
Saturday, November 5, 2005; Posted: 11:19 a.m. EST (16:19 GMT) (CNN) -- Relatives of victims of an escaped Texas death row inmate were in hiding or under police protection as the search for him continued Saturday, according to published reports.
Among those in hiding are several relatives of convicted killer Charles Victor Thompson's former girlfriend and her friend, The Associated Press reported, citing the Houston Chronicle.
Some jurors also were fearful, according to the reports.
Wynona Donaghy, mother of victim Dennise Hayslip, told reporters Friday she had been advised to go into hiding.
"He is a threat not only to himself but to anybody around him," she said. "I believe he'd come after anybody. He's capable."
Donaghy said she wanted to appear before reporters because she is convinced someone helped Thompson escape. "They don't know how dangerous he is," she said.
Jurors on edge
Later, she told the Chronicle: "He can make people believe he is the most innocent man in the world."
Cathy Lange, who served on a jury that recommended the death penalty for Thompson on October 28, told the Chronicle she was terrified when she learned of his escape.
"I was shaking," Lange told the Chronicle. "I went all over the house making sure that all the windows were locked."
Lange told the newspaper she later decided that Thompson would be more concerned with escaping than hunting down jurors, but she had spoken to other jurors who also were worried.
Officials at a Houston jail took responsibility Friday for the escape of Thompson.
Thompson, 35, walked out of the Harris County Jail on Thursday after changing into civilian clothes and talking his way past guards.
Escape '100 percent human error'
"There were a number of points where this could have been prevented," Lt. John Martin told reporters. "In this incident, there were a series of lapses. The one thing that is evident about this incident is that it is 100 percent human error and absolutely could have been avoided."
Thompson was convicted of capital murder in April 1999 in the shooting deaths of Hayslip, a former girlfriend, and her friend Darren Cain, 30. Thompson's re-sentencing was ordered by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which had upheld his conviction.
Police have received a number of significant leads into Thompson's whereabouts, Martin said. Several agencies were searching for him, including the U.S. Marshals Service and the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force.
The U.S. Marshals Service on Friday night announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to Thompson's capture.
Thompson escaped after meeting with an attorney. Such meetings take place in a locked booth that has a Plexiglas divider between inmate and attorney. No deputy is present so that the client-attorney privilege is maintained.
Slips out of handcuffs
Thompson slipped out of his handcuffs, changed from his orange jumpsuit into street clothes and walked away after showing guards identification indicating he worked in the state attorney general's office.
Thompson apparently had concealed the clothes and changed after the lawyer -- who was not his attorney of record -- left, Martin said. Authorities don't know how Thompson got out of the room, which had been locked.
Thompson went to a control center where he told a guard he was conducting an investigation for the state and said he didn't have a security badge because he had entered the jail through an adjoining building, Martin said.
When he was last seen, Thompson was wearing khaki pants, a dark blue shirt and white tennis shoes.
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Texas man executed for 1997 murder Thu Nov 3, 2005 9:36 PM ET
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas man who sexually assaulted and killed a 9-year-old girl in 1997, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday.
Melvin Wayne White, 55, was the 16th person put to death this year in Texas, which leads the nation in capital punishment.
White was condemned for kidnapping Beth Gravell, his young neighbor in the west Texas town of Ozona, and taking her to a remote area where he bound her hands with electrical tape, sexually assaulted her, then beat her to death with a tire iron.
He later confessed to the crime and told police where to find the body.
In his final statement while strapped to a gurney in the Texas death chamber, White apologized to the girl's family and recited the 23rd Psalm and "The Lord's Prayer."
"All right, warden," he said upon finishing. "Let's give them what they want."
For his last meal, White requested four Spanish omelets with gravy and hash brown potatoes on the side, six pieces of buttered toast, a gallon of milk, sliced peppers, onion rings, french fries, a cheeseburger, a pork chop and gravy, fried chicken, six slices of bread, a pitcher of ice, two Cokes, peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream.
He was the 352nd person put to death in Texas since the state resumed executions in 1982.
Four more executions are scheduled this year in Texas.
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Oct. 12 - A woman who claims she killed her husband in self defense initially denied knowing anything about his death and showed no emotion the night his body was discovered, deputies testified Wednesday at the woman's murder trial.
On the first day of testimony, Deputy Shannon Kelly of the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department told jurors that Susan Polk "seemed very calm" as she sat handcuffed in the back of his patrol car.
Authorities responded to Polk's home the evening of Oct. 14, 2002, after receiving a call from her then 15-year-old son Gabriel who found his father's bloodied body in a pool house on their property.
Polk, 47, is accused of stabbing to death her husband, Felix, 70, a day earlier at the couple's home in the upscale San Francisco suburb of Orinda. She claims that Felix attacked her with a knife, and that she defended herself, but she never called police and left the body for her son to find 24 hours later.
Prosecutors allege she killed him for his multimillion dollar estate.
"She asked, 'Are you sure it's my husband ... because his car isn't here?"' Kelly testified Susan Polk asked him after she was informed that her husband was dead.
She now claims she was in shock.
Defense attorney Daniel Horowitz insists his client was the victim, not Felix Polk.
"If somebody is a crime victim, are they sometimes very calm?" Horowitz asked on cross-examination.
"Yes," Kelly replied.
Sheriff's Sgt. Kenneth Hansen testified Susan Polk was "unemotional" and said, "Oh well, we were getting a divorce anyway."
Susan Polk first met the then 42-year-old -- and married -- Felix Polk when she started seeing him as a therapist as a teenager. He was a well-known Berkeley psychologist. She says they started having sex when she was 16, after he drugged and raped her.
The couple eventually married and had three sons -- Gabriel is now 18, Eli is 20, and Adam, 22.
Gabriel and Adam will testify for the prosecution, and have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against their mother. Eli will be his mother's main defender.
Defense attorneys claim Susan Polk was abused physically and emotionally for years by her husband, and that he snapped on the night of the killing as the realization of their pending divorce set in.
The trial is expected to last six weeks.
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Do you see a lot of older people (60+ years old) with drooping eyes?
OJ Simpson was born on July 9, 1947 (currently 58 years old - not that old yet). The photo with the "Afro" hairstyle and drooping eyes was probably taken in the 1970's or 1980's because "Afro" hairstyle went out of style after the 1980's. At most, he was in his mid-30s when that "drooping eyes" photo was taken.
The mugshot with "drooping eyes", "big and small eyes" was taken on June 1994. He was 47 years old, hardly an old man.