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Unsolved cases  The smoking gun is made of plastic. An unnamed witness who claims to know what happened that night is afraid to talk. And the physical evidence is long gone. The question of who killed Bonnie Huffman, a pretty young schoolteacher whose body was discovered 55 years ago in an overgrown drainage ditch in Cape Girardeau County, has been hailed as one of Missouri's most baffling unsolved murder mysteries...  Scherer, a 19-year-old whose family lived on a farm in old Illmo, Mo., was abducted 30 years ago during an apparent robbery of the Rhodes Pump-Ur-Own-Service station where she worked on Main Street in Scott City. It was late morning on April 17, 1979, when Scherer was working, and had just called her mother, Olevia Scherer, to chat, inquiring about what was for dinner... Case files  Name: Timothy W. Krajcir Age: 64 Current location: Stateville Correctional Center, Stateville, Ill. Born: Eastern Pennsylvania Crimes: Arrested: Dec. 10, 2008 Convicted: April 4, 2008 Sentence: 13 life sentences Prior criminal history: Rape, child molestation...  Russell Earl Bucklew Age: 41 Location: Missouri Department of Corrections: Potosi Correctional Center Sentence: Death plus 60 years Charges: first-degree murder, forcible rape, burglary, kidnapping, armed criminal action Victim: Michael L. Sanders, killed March 21, 1996...
Fallen officers Donald Henry Crittendon: Patrol officer Age: 24 Date of death: March 21, 1961 Badge number: 23 Crittendon died of wounds he sustained during a gun battle that occurred less than two hours before his resignation as a Cape Girardeau officer would have become effective... |
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Deputies investigate 'satanic' graffiti in Altenburg
(06/17/13)
ALTENBURG, Mo. -- Perry County deputies are looking for the vandal who spray-painted 'satanic' messages on the back of a concession stand and a sidewalk in Altenburg. A member of the Altenburg Athletic Association called a deputy who lives in the area the morning of June 7 to report the vandalism, Perry County Sheriff Gary Schaaf said...
Police await forensic test results in Perry County fatal shooting
(06/17/13)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Authorities are interviewing witnesses and awaiting results of forensic tests to determine whether a shooting that claimed the lives of a Perryville couple was a murder-suicide or a double suicide. The bodies of Shawn J. Galeski, 36, and his girlfriend, Jamie L. Cole, 29, both of Perryville, were found about 2:15 p.m. Friday in a locked upstairs room at Galeski's residence on Route E, Perry County Sheriff Gary Schaaf reported Saturday...
No injuries reported in Sunday evening shooting
(06/17/13)
No injuries were reported Sunday evening in the wake of a shooting that left two bullet holes in a residence in the 400 block of South Benton Street. Sgt. Rick Schmidt of the Cape Girardeau Police Department said officers received several calls, beginning at 6:07 p.m., about shots being fired at Bloomfield and Hanover streets...
Police seek suspect in Amerimart robbery
(06/17/13)
Police are looking for the man who robbed a Cape Girardeau gas station Sunday evening. About 6:35 p.m., officers received a call about a robbery in progress at Amerimart, 1320 W. Cape Rock Drive, said Sgt. Rick Schmidt of the Cape Girardeau Police Department...
Shooting victim charged with assault, property damage
(06/17/13)
A Cape Girardeau man injured in a June 7 shooting has been charged with second-degree assault and first-degree property damage in connection with the altercation that led to his injuries, police said. Andrew McClendon, 29, who police said was shot in the chest during an altercation on Kingsway Drive, is in the Cape Girardeau County Jail on $50,000 bond, Sgt. Rick Schmidt of the Cape Girardeau Police Department confirmed Sunday...
Man, woman ID'd in apparent murder-suicide in Perry County
(06/16/13)
The Perry County Sheriff's Department has identified a couple found shot in the head Friday in Perry County. Perry County Sheriff Gary Schaaf in a news release Saturday said the bodies of Shawn J. Galeski, 36, of Perryville, Mo., and his girlfriend, Jamie L. Cole, 29, of Perryville were discovered about 2:15 p.m. at Galeski's residence on Route E. The deaths appeared to be the result of a murder-suicide, but Schaaf said it's too early to rule out the possibility of a double-suicide...
Three arrested for part in Monday shooting in Sikeston
(06/16/13)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Three men were arrested in connection with a Monday shooting that left a Sikeston man paralyzed. About 1:15 a.m., the Sikeston Department of Public Safety received a call that someone was shot in the 800 block of Mary Street. The 35-year-old victim, who had a gunshot wound to his back, told officers someone kicked in his back door and shot him while he was standing near the door...
St. Louis gunman who killed three was Somali immigrant
(06/16/13)
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis businessman who killed three employees before turning the gun on himself was a Somali immigrant, described by friends as an intelligent man who was quick to reach out to other new-arriving Somalis, but who had lingering anger years after the divorce from his first wife... 
St. Louis police: 4 dead in murder-suicide
(06/14/13)
ST. LOUIS -- An argument inside a St. Louis home health-care business escalated into gun violence Thursday when a man shot three other people before turning the gun on himself, police said. The shooting occurred at AK Home Health Care LLC, one of several small businesses inside the Cherokee Place Business Incubator south of downtown St. Louis. The shooter gunned down another man and two women before turning his semi-automatic handgun on himself, Police Capt. Michael Sack said... 
Barberis pleads not guilty to sex-crime charge
(06/13/13)
A Cape Girardeau man waived arraignment and pleaded not guilty Thursday on a sex-crime charge related to a nursing home. David H. Barberis, 55, was arrested in February for deviate sexual intercourse. His next court date is July 11. Watch for more later at www.semissourian.com and in Friday's Southeast Missourian... 
Pipe bomb device the source of explosion Sunday
(06/13/13)
The device that prompted the evacuation of a Cape Girardeau neighborhood Sunday morning was a pipe bomb, a federal agent said Wednesday. David Salzmann, 44, of Jackson was jailed Tuesday on charges of second-degree assault of a law enforcement officer, unlawful possession of a weapon and violation of an order of protection after what police described as a failed suicide attempt outside the house where his wife was staying...
Man arrested, charged after switching mother's medicine with marijuana
(06/13/13)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- An Advance man was arrested and charged Wednesday with two counts of the Class C felony of distribution of a controlled substance and elder abuse after admitting he switched his 85-year-old mother's medications with marijuana. According to a news release issued by Stoddard County Prosecuting Attorney Russell D. ...
Judge says $2 million doesn't meet bond conditions for Saudi man
(06/13/13)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A 24-year-old Saudi man accused of hiring his roommate to kill a central Missouri bar owner didn't meet bond conditions when the Saudi government posted $2 million to get him out of jail, a Warrensburg, Mo., judge told the Missouri Court of Appeals... 
Suspect jailed on charges related to explosion
(06/12/13)
A Jackson man was in custody on $75,000 bond Tuesday in connection with a Sunday morning explosion on North Spanish Street in Cape Girardeau. David Salzmann, 44, was taken into the Cape Girardeau County Jail at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, according to sheriff's department records...
Man robs drugs from Illinois nursing home
(06/12/13)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- The Union County Sheriff's Office is investigating an early morning armed robbery that occurred at the Jonesboro Nursing & Rehab Center. According to a news release issued by the sheriff's department, about 4 a.m. Tuesday, an unidentified man believed to be in his early 20s entered the business at 995 State Route 127 South through the front door displaying a knife. ... |
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Cape Girardeau Police Department makes many changes in 150 years since creationToday marks the 150th anniversary of the formation of Cape Girardeau Police Department in 1859, when it consisted of a captain, a lieutenant and six officers. Since then, the department, now made up of 75 officers, has gone through a number of changes, including in its staff size, headquarters and role in the community... National crime news
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