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begins for Black "ATM' kidnapping, raping and killing of White woman Andre Edwards is accused of kidnapping, raping and killing Ginger Lynn Hayes. If convicted of first-degree murder, Edwards could face the death penalty. Authorities contend that Edwards carjacked Hayes and Nicholas, drove to Rocky Mount and forced the woman to withdraw cash from an ATM. Hayes and her husband, who was stationed at Langley Air Force, were driving home from a trip. Her husband and brother were inside the pharmacy when the kidnapping occurred. Afterward, Edwards took Hayes and the then 11-month-old baby to a remote spot in Nash County, raped and beat the woman to death with a tire rim and left the boy for dead, authorities said. The boy survived 90-degree heat in just a diaper but suffered a severe sunburn. - (Tyrone N. Butts) |
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Faces Life Prison Sentence For ATM Kidnap-Rape-Murder Plea Deal Allows Man To Escape Death Penalty LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles man was sentenced today to life in prison without parole for carjacking, kidnapping, raping and murdering a 23-year-old Glendale woman whose body was dumped in a Culver City park. Jason Thompson, now 26, pleaded guilty Jan. 13 to the Feb. 22, 2001, slaying of Roberta Happe sparing himself a possible death sentence if the case had gone to trial. In a courtroom brimming with emotion, the young woman's father said he had intended to help his daughter plan her upcoming wedding. To help identify her assailant, police used surveillance camera footage from a bank ATM where Happe was taken to withdraw money. Her body was found in Culver City Park less than two hours after she was abducted, authorities said. She had been raped, beaten, strangled and stabbed. |
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- ATM ROBBERY - ATTEMPTED RAPE - but NOT murdered Man Arrested In Attack On Durham Woman; Duke Raises Reward In Campus Attack - DURHAM, N.C. -- Durham police are trying to determine if a man arrested Thursday in an attack on a Durham woman is connected to a string of violent attacks on the campus of Duke University. Police said Sankie Allen Lennon, 53, broke into a woman's apartment Wednesday night. They said Lennon forced the 22-year-old woman to drive him to several ATMs where he withdrew money from her account. Police said that Lennon tried to rape her, but the woman was able to ward off his attempt. Lennon was arrested after a scuffle with police and was charged with attempted rape and burglary. - (NNN-ATM-rape-murders) |
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In Brutal Carjack ATM Rape Murder Captured Tip Leads Police To The Black Man CULVER CITY, Calif. -- The man who Culver City police believe brutalized and murdered a 23-year-old Glendale woman after carjacking her last week has been arrested, more than 2,000 miles from the scene of the crime. Authorities located Jason Thompson at an apartment in Saginaw, Michigan, Friday. He's the prime suspect in the kidnapping, rape and murder of Roberta Louise Happe, whose body was found late last week in a Culver City park. The USC graduate apparently had been carjacked, then forced to drive her assailant to an ATM machine, from which she withdrew the maximum allowable amount of money. Less than two hours later, she was found dead. (reader) Ref: Search continues for man accused of kidnap and murder From real audio clip: "Their only child - the Happe family now becomes extinct" |
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continues for man accused of kidnap and murder CULVER CITY, Feb. 25 He wore glasses and a blue bomber-style jacket with Los Angeles written on it, and Culver City police say he is a suspect in the kidnapping and murder of a 23-year-old woman. The body of Glendale resident Roberta Happe was found about 8:15 p.m. on Thursday near a baseball field parking lot in a park at Jefferson Boulevard and Duquesne Avenue in Culver City, police Sgt. Ron Perkins said. About two hours earlier, the victim was carjacked and kidnapped near Wilshire Boulevard and Berendo Street in Los Angeles and taken to an ATM at the Washington Mutual branch at 4401 Crenshaw Blvd., The suspect was described as a black man, 5 feet 10 to 6 feet tall and weighing about 210 pounds. He had brown eyes and had a 1-inch, Afro-style haircut, according to Culver City police. (reader-link) Ref: similar black kidnap ATM robbery murder Bloody Wichita Ref: similar black kidnap ATM robbery murder Shreveport |
Suspect In Brutal Culver City Murder CapturedTip Leads Police To Their ManPaul J. Young, Staff WriterMarch 3, 2001, 2:57 a.m. PST CULVER CITY, Calif. -- The man who Culver City police believe brutalized and murdered a 23-year-old Glendale woman after carjacking her last week has been arrested, more than 2,000 miles from the scene of the crime. Authorities located Jason Thompson at an apartment in Saginaw, Michigan, Friday. He's the prime suspect in the kidnapping, rape and murder of Roberta Louise Happe, whose body was found late last week in a Culver City park. The USC graduate apparently had been carjacked, then forced to drive her assailant to an ATM machine, from which she withdrew the maximum allowable amount of money. Less than two hours later, she was found dead. Detectives were immediately on the trail of Thompson, a reputed gang member, whose face matched that of the man photographed by the automatic teller. Initially, investigators thought their man was still in the local area, but learned otherwise thanks to a tip early Friday afternoon. "We received information this afternoon that he was in Saginaw, Michigan," Culver City Police Department spokesman Ed Henneberque told CBS 2 News Friday. "After confirming that, we contacted the Saginaw Police Department. They went to the location, and after a brief struggle, took the suspect into custody." Word of the capture provided some consolation to the grieving parents of the dead young woman. "Now, of course, we have the long haul here that we will be going through," Edie Happe, the victim's mother, told CBS 2 News. "But the good news is just fantastic." Happe said that the pain of her family's loss is tempered somewhat by the realization that the person allegedly responsible is no longer on the street. But there's a long way to go before the healing can begin. "It hasn't hit us yet," Happe told CBS 2 News. "My husband is very, very angry - and that's a good thing for him, because that's the way that we all feel. I'm angry also. "But the way that I cope with a lot of things is that I always try to look at the positive side." One way of doing that, she said, is refusing to lose faith. "I'm being helped because I talk to her. I will always be in communication with my daughter." Los Angeles County prosecutors are concentrating on having Thompson extradited back to California. "He will have to go to court in Michigan for an extradition hearing," Henneberque told CBS 2 News. Barring any unforeseen problems, the suspect should be turned over to Culver City police within days, according to Henneberque. CBS 2 News reported that the district attorney's office may seek the death penalty in this case. Anyone interested in making a charitable contribution in memory of Roberta Happe, click here.
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