One of the nation’s most baffling cold cases remains unresolved after a jury yesterday acquitted a New Jersey man of locking five teenagers in a vacant home in 1978 and burning them alive in retaliation for stealing his marijuana. No bodies were ever found, and Lee Evans, who represented himself against 10 murder-related charges, was able to poke holes in the testimony of the star prosecution witness.
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"Murder charge filed in N.J. girl’s drowning" Associated Press / November 24, 2011
The fugitive father of a 2-year-old girl found dead in a car seat in a creek was charged with murder yesterday after an autopsy showed she had drowned. Arthur Morgan III remained at large despite a dragnet involving 13 law enforcement agencies including the FBI....
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"N.J. takes custody of couple’s newborn" November 19, 2011|Associated Press
NEWARK - Child welfare officials have taken custody of a baby born to a couple whose other three children with Nazi-inspired names were removed nearly two years ago.
Heath and Deborah Campbell made headlines in 2009 when a supermarket refused to decorate a birthday cake for their son Adolf Hitler Campbell.
For some reason I get this article in full, and does that guy ever make it into my newspaper a lot.
An attorney for the couple, Pasquale Giannetta, said a child named Hons was born Thursday at Hunterdon Medical Center.
Giannetta said state child services representatives took custody of the baby at the hospital.
Giannetta says a court hearing has been scheduled for Monday to determine whether the agency will keep custody. Agency officials declined to comment.
In court filings, the agency says the children were in danger because previous violence in the Campbell home.
Meaning if you give your kid the wrong name the state can come and snatch 'em up.
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And speaking of that devil:
"Dog that survived gassing finds home in N.J." November 17, 2011|By Associated Press
NUTLEY, N.J. - The dog that survived an Alabama dog pound’s gas chamber has found a permanent home in New Jersey.
Daniel, a beagle mix named by animal control workers in Alabama after the biblical figure who survived the lion’s den, joined four other rescued dogs last Thursday at the home of Joe Dwyer and his family in Nutley, about 10 miles west of New York City.
“He’s in extremely good shape, especially in light of what he went through,’’ Dwyer said yesterday after returning from a trip to the veterinarian. “His attitude is just incredible.’’
Daniel surprised workers at the Animal Control facility in Florence, Ala., Oct. 3, the day he was supposed to be put down with several other animals in a stainless-steel box roughly the size of a pickup truck bed that was filled with carbon monoxide.
The dog emerged frightened but unscathed.
He was eventually flown to New Jersey by Eleventh Hour Rescue, a nonprofit that saves dogs slated for euthanasia.
The organization received more than 100 requests to adopt Daniel, its president said last month.
Dwyer said he and his family had two “meet-and-greets’’ with Daniel before being approved for adoption.
Dwyer said Daniel has become fast friends with the Nutley family’s other four pooches - two dachshunds, a beagle mix, and a pit bull mix.
“By Thursday evening they were all lying down together,’’ he said. “It was wonderful to see.’’
Reminds me of the Wall Street protests.
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I've already lost my appetite for the Globe today.
