41 year old murder of 15 year old John McCabe solved

3 men two who were friends of John's have been arrested and charged with his 1969 Lowell,MA murder after the case was recently reopened and one of the men confessed and cooperated with police. They are Michael Ferreira, now 57, Walter Shelley,60 and Allan Edward Brown, 59 who confessed. Ferreira and Shelley are in jail on half a million dollars bond. Brown is out because he cooperated with police. John's elderly parents are happy that there will finally be justice for their son who was killed for flirting with Shelley's girlfriend. He was beaten and hog tied. When the boys returned to him hours later they found him dead. He had been strangled by the hog tie rope when he tried to escape. They kept their deadly secret for 41 and 1/2 years. His parents found that both brown and Ferreira had signed the book at John's wake. http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979238787

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"Cropsey" Andre Rand

Only one of Rands multiple suspected victims has ever been found. She was Jennifer Schweiger a 12 year old with downs syndrome that he buried at his campsite in the woods near the mental hospital he was janitor at. He got 25 years to life for her kidnapping and murder. Here is a list of other possible victims who's bodies have yet to be found: Alice Pereia, Holly Ann Hughes, Tiahease Tiawanna Jackson & Henry Gafforio. Audrey Lyn Nergenberg, an eighteen-year-old who disappeared in 1977 is also believed to be linked to Rand. Let's help Staten Island police solve these cases and brings these kids home for their families to bury. He spree of terror lasted from at least 1977 to 1987 when he killed Jennifer. At right is a picture of Jennifer, an innocent young life needlessly lost. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5625256/the_legend_of_cropsey.html?cat=37

Rhiannon Smith

Rhiannon is just 16 and has been missing from her Winsted/Winchester,CT home that she shared with her grandmother. E mails and chats found on her computer indicate 3 boys named Jake,Nick and Sanji wanted to harm her. She,However stated in her note that they were going to help her run to Canada. Her friend posted on Websleuths that he felt she may have gone to with her father and twin brother somewhere in the south and her brother may be hiding her. This in unlikely as I'm sure even as inept as police were in this case they contacted her dad. Police to a break from looking for her for a week because the lead investigator was on VACATION . Yes you read that correctly vacation. That is inexcusable!! A whitness came forward to say say a girl fitting Rhiannon's description was sleeping in a dug out at a local ball field. Why did police not go there right away? Police have also made statements they believe she is dead. She said in her note she was in danger. h...

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