Colo. killer case draws 100s of calls
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Robert Charles Browne's claims that he killed 49 people have generated a flood of more than 100 anguished calls from families and friends of people missing around the nation, some for years.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Lisa Montgomery whispered her answers to a federal judge Thursday as a packed courtroom collectively focused on the woman accused of kidnapping resulting in death.
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A University of North Dakota student fought for her life when a convicted sex offender abducted her in a parking lot, raped her and killed her, a federal prosecutor told jurors before they began deliberations Tuesday.
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A Washington state teenager is facing 18 years in prison on charges that he used his PC to access Orange County, Calif.&#39;s 911 emergency response system and convinced the sheriff&#39;s department into storming an area couple&#39;s home with a heavily armed SWAT team.Randall Ellis, 19, of Mulkiteo, Wash., is not only facing charges of unauthorized computer access, but he&#39;s also facing assault charges by proxy, meaning that authorities want Ellis to be convicted as if he, and not the SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) team, pointed weapons at the victims.The incident took place late in the evening of March 29, when Ellis allegedly used his computer to call the Orange County 911 dispatch and, during the course of a 38-minute telephone conversation, convinced dispatchers that he had murdered someone on the premises and was about to do it again.Within minutes, fire, police. and a helicopter team had been dispatched to the home of the Lake Forest, Calif., couple, whom authorities declined to identify.&quot;They surrounded the home, inside were a husband and wife and their two toddlers,&quot; said Farrah Emami, a spokeswoman with the Orange County District Attorney&#39;s office. &quot;The husband heard rustling outside of his home and believed it to be a prowler. He took a knife and went into the backyard. Instead of finding a prowler, he found a SWAT team pointing assault rifles at him.&quot;&quot;It really easily could have escalated into an innocent person being killed,&quot; she added. &quot;We&#39;re lucky that they didn&#39;t shoot him.&quot;Emami characterized Ellis as a &quot;computer hacker,&quot; but declined to explain exactly how the attack was carried out. &quot;One of the reasons that we&#39;re not disclosing exactly how he did it is because we don&#39;t want to teach other computer hackers how to do it,&quot; she said.Still, it&#39;s not clear that Ellis&#39;s alleged hack involved anything more complicated than tricking the 911 system into thinking he was calling from the Lake Forest couple&#39;s number. County officials said Wednesday that he did not exploit a technical flaw in the 911 system&#39;s software.The technique that Ellis used &quot;doesn&#39;t require any special skills,&quot; said Jim Amormino, a spokesman with the Orange County Sheriff&#39;s Department. &quot;The way he did it: I am not computer savvy, but I can do it.&quot;The March 29 incident cost the county an estimated $18,000, Amormino said.Low-cost calling card services such as SpoofCard have been available for years, allowing customers to make it appear that their calls are coming from any number they wish.In June, four people were charged in Texas with operating a chat line where they taught people how to make false 911 calls, sending emergency response teams to targeted victims, a practice known as &quot;swatting.&quot; In a June 12 swatting incident, a swatter called up Cleburne, Texas&#39;s 911 dispatch using a commercially available spoof card and Skype, then &quot;stated that he had shot and killed members of the family, that he was holding hostages, that he was using hallucinogenic drugs, that he was armed with an AK-47, and he demanded $50,00 and transportation across the U.S. border to Mexico,&quot; according to court filings.Authorities said that Ellis had made nearly 200 fake 911 calls to dispatch systems in California, Arizona, Washington, and Pennsylvania.He is set to be arraigned Monday in Santa Ana, Calif.
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Detectives follow up new leads in the hunt for a  man thought to be responsible for up to 100 attacks on elderly men and women.
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Action on a jury&#39;s recommendation to kill Scott Peterson by lethal injection for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, could be decades away in the state that has more than 600 people on death row.
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FTC says $100,000-250,000 bounty would provide incentive for citizens to identify perpetrators of in-box overload.
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By Robert Boczkiewicz, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 3--DENVER -- The Pueblo County district attorney and the Sierra Club on Friday asked a judge to hear arguments "as soon as practicable" to winnow issues in their Fountain Creek lawsuits against Colorado Springs.
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Police probing the murders of five prostitutes said they had received nearly 10,000 calls from the public offering tips in one of the country's biggest murder hunts.
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Police swooped in on a suspect, tying him to one in a string of assaults linked to Phoenix's "Baseline Killer." However, Police Chief Jack Harris warned today that the case against 41-year-old Mark Goudeau has not been linked to 22 other crimes blamed on the sexual predator and killer who has terrorized Arizona's largest city for more than a year.
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Lawyers for five death row inmates are pressing Missouri to identify members of its execution team after a newspaper revealed that a nurse on the team was once accused of stalking.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The gunman believed to have killed four people at a megachurch and a missionary training school had been thrown out of the school a few years ago and had been sending it hate mail, police said in court papers Monday.
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By Greg Avery, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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Hundreds of women have enrolled in crash courses on personal safety as a community struggles to come to grips with the apparently random murder of a 24-year-old hiker.
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LAFAYETTE, Ga. Prosecutors say several dozen relatives of people whose bodies were among more than 300 found at a northwest Georgia crematory have asked to make statements at a sentencing hearing for the crematory&#39;s former operator.
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A man accused of murdering Pc Sharon Beshenivsky tells a court he should get Â£100,000 for helping police catch her killers.
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A plea agreement for the owners of a Rhode Island nightclub that burned in 2003 has drawn criticism from many relatives of the 100 people who were killed.