"Indiana ‘sextortionist’ gets 40-year sentence" by CHARLES WILSON | Associated Press, June 27, 2013
INDIANAPOLIS — A self-confessed ‘‘sextortionist’’ from Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Wednesday for coercing more than a dozen teenagers into performing sex acts online.
Richard Finkbiner admitted that he tricked the young people into stripping or performing sexual acts while on a webcam, recorded those sessions, and then threatened to post the videos online unless the teens made more explicit videos for his personal use. Prosecutors allege that the 40-year-old targeted hundreds of minors across the country, some as young as 12 years old.
‘‘For nearly two years, this man sat in front of his home computer and orchestrated a scheme that terrorized hundreds of young people across this country,’’ US Attorney Joe Hogsett said in a prepared statement.
Finkbiner, who lives in Brazil, Ind., agreed in January to plead guilty to child exploitation, extortion, and possession of child pornography in exchange for a recommended sentence of 30 to 50 years in prison. He also was ordered to pay $70,000....
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"Ind. doctor arrested in 4 Neb. killings" by Margery A. Beck | Associated Press, July 17, 2013
OMAHA — An Indiana doctor accused of killing four people with ties to a Nebraska medical school that fired him was denied medical licenses in at least two states after being dismissed from Creighton University more than a decade ago.
Anthony Garcia was fired from his residency in 2001 for erratic behavior. He appeared before an Illinois judge Tuesday to face charges in the slayings, which took place in two separate attacks five years apart.
Garcia stands accused in the killing of a pathology professor and his wife this year, as well as the 2008 stabbings of another professor’s son and housekeeper in a neighborhood near the home of billionaire Warren Buffett.
The 40-year-old physician, who lives in Terre Haute, Ind., was arrested by Illinois State Police on Monday during a traffic stop in Union County, in southern Illinois....
He's been on the lam for over 10 years?
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"Two held in Ind. campus stabbing" Associated Press, October 28, 2013
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Two Indiana University students were charged Sunday morning in connection with a stabbing that injured another student at a campus apartment building, school officials said.
University police arrested 18-year-old Zesen Shen and 21-year-old Kaiyu Lao, university spokesman Mark Land said in a news release. Shen has been charged with intimidation and battery and Lao was charged with intimidation, Land said.
Police said Shen, Lao, and the victim, a 20-year-old student, were in the Tulip Tree apartment’s parking lot around 3:30 a.m., Land said. Witnesses told campus police the three were there ‘‘to resolve a dispute,’’ Land said.
University police Lieutenant Craig Munroe told the Indianapolis Star the student was stabbed in the back. The 20-year-old was taken to IU Health hospital in Bloomington with an injury that is not life-threatening, Land said.
The incident prompted university officials earlier Sunday to tell students to seek shelter behind locked doors. The school gave students the all clear around 7 a.m.
Police said that while a lock-down was not ordered, all on campus were urged to heed the call to stay inside as a safety measure.
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"Ex-Ind. trooper cleared in his family’s deaths after 13 years, several appeals" by TOM LoBIANCO | Associated Press, October 25, 2013d
LEBANON, Ind. — A former Indiana state trooper who has maintained his innocence in the slayings of his wife and two young children for 13 years has found a jury that agrees with him.
Jurors in Boone County on Thursday cleared David Camm in the Sept. 28, 2000, deaths of 35-year-old Kimberly Camm and their children, Brad, 7, and Jill, 5. All three were found shot in the garage of the family’s home in the southern Indiana community of Georgetown.
The deaths occurred about four months after Camm had resigned from the Indiana State Police force to take a job with his uncle.
David Camm, 49, has said he was playing basketball at a church at the time of the slayings, but juries had convicted him twice before. Both convictions were overturned on appeal over issues with evidence.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Police in AmeriKa shall be absolved at all co$ts.
‘‘The verdict is pretty clear,’’ Special Prosecutor Stan Levco said Thursday afternoon.
Camm’s third trial was moved about 100 miles north of the crime scene to the central Indiana community of Lebanon to find an impartial jury.
Much of the testimony during the eight-week trial focused on blood spatter evidence and Camm’s whereabouts at the time of the slayings.
Prosecutor Todd Meyer challenged Camm’s alibi, saying other players couldn’t say definitively that Camm never left the church gymnasium the night of the killings. Levco said in opening statements that Camm wanted to end his marriage and stood to benefit from insurance proceeds.
He's like that Peterson guy.
Camm’s attorneys have blamed a second man for the killings. That man, Charles Boney, is serving a 225-year sentence for murder and conspiracy.
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"Camp bus crash kills three people
INDIANAPOLIS — A bus carrying teens coming home from a church camp crashed Saturday on a busy Indianapolis highway, killing three people and sending others to hospitals. The bus overturned near an Interstate 465 overpass (AP)."
Related: Indianapolis church mourns bus crash victims
"Home-built plane crashes into house in central Indiana" by Rick Callahan | Associated Press, July 26, 2013
COLUMBUS, Ind. — A small, home-built plane piloted by an 81-year-old man crashed into a house Thursday in central Indiana, injuring the pilot and his passenger while a woman inside the home escaped unscathed before the wreckage burst into flames, authorities said.
The plane, piloted by Gerald H. Clayton of Columbus, crashed shortly after takeoff and plowed into the back of a house in a subdivision just south of Columbus Municipal Airport, said Columbus police Lieutenant Matt Myers....
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