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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. A grand jury will decide if a Gurley woman will stand trial for allegedly trying to hire a hit man to kill her neighbors to avenge her dead cat. 38-year-old Alisha Grantham is charged with four counts of conspiracy to commit murder. District Judge Lynn Sherrod sent the case to the jury and set Grantham's bail Wednesday at $200,000. She was arrested on May 20th. Sheriff's deputy Marcus Adams says Grantham tried to hire George Nayman of Gurley to kill the family next door. She suspected the family of three adults and a 13-year-old child of killing her...

It’s Hard to Believe, But… Tokyo: An indignant Japanese woman summoned the police after a man she met online cheated her out of 1 million Yen. The man was “supposed to” track down and murder the wife of a man, with whom the woman was having an affair. The hitman had promised to chase the victim down on a motorcycle,pull alongside her in a tunnel, and spray her with a lethal bio-agent…but then he realized it was a lot simpler to cheat the woman who had hired him. (It’s so hard to find reliable help these days !) New Jersey:...

Pat Robertson? No....George Stephanopoulos, in the December 1, 1997 Newsweek, explaining why Bill Clinton should have Saddam Hussein offed: But what's unlawful -- and unpopular with the allies -- is not necessarily immoral. So now that I'm not in the White House, I can say what I couldn't say then: we should seriously explore the assassination option. Even though the current crisis may be subsiding temporarily, we don't know what the future holds. A direct attack on Saddam would no doubt be politically risky -- the president, concerned about his place in history, would be torn between the desire to...

Hockey Pro Charged With Trying to Hire Hit Man Issues Statement Denouncing Family The Associated Press May 8, 2004 ST. LOUIS (AP) - The St. Louis Blues pro hockey player arrested on federal murder-for-hire charges claims in his first public statement that he was emotionally and physically abused during his childhood, a newspaper reported Saturday. Mike Danton called the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from jail Friday night and read a statement that focused on his relationship with his estranged parents, outlining allegations of "constant physical and emotional abuse" and saying he was raised in squalid conditions. His parents and family friends...

Center for St. Louis Blues Charged in Alleged Murder-for-Hire Scheme Apr 16, 2004 By Betsy Taylor/ Associated Press Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) - A center for the St. Louis Blues was arrested Friday in an alleged murder-for-hire scheme, the FBI said. Mike Danton, 23, was arrested at the airport in San Jose, Calif., after the Blues were knocked out of the NHL playoffs in a loss to the San Jose Sharks on Thursday. According to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Illinois, Danton told a female friend that a hitman from Canada was coming to kill him and...

Italy: Sicilians are hit-men of choice NEW YORK, March 8 (UPI) -- Organized crime families have given up on U.S. hitmen as unreliable, and now rely on Sicilian-bred killers, The Times of London said Monday. Dozens of young Sicilians are believed to have been sent from towns in the Palermo area to the United States to help shore up the ranks of clans such as the DeCavalcante family in New Jersey and the Bonanno family in New York, said Roberto Centaro, the head of the Italian parliament's anti-Mafia commission. "'Soldiers' from Sicily are considered less likely to end up collaborating...

A Texas man got 10 years' probation for offering to strangle a suicidal Wisconsin woman whom he met over the Internet, lawyers said on Friday. Frank Manuel, 55, pleaded guilty to attempted murder, and was ordered by State District Judge Carol Davies on Thursday to submit to a psychiatric evaluation and stay away from the Internet. Houston police arrested Manuel in January, after a woman he met in a suicide chat group reported his offer to strangle her during sex, then bury her in a grave in a state forest with a rose on her chest. The woman, with investigators...

Doctor still at work after hiring hitman State takes slow steps to revoke license Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle Medical Writer A Houston doctor sentenced in a murder-for-hire plot earlier this year is continuing to practice medicine while state regulators fight to revoke his license. May 2003 -- more than a year after his trial -- is the earliest that Dr. Armando Sanchez could lose his license under the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners' much-criticized disciplinary process. Sanchez practices general and occupational medicine at Clinica Azteca at 900 Wayside. Sanchez, 47, was arrested and charged in October 2000 with solicitation...

$12 Million in Fake Checks Are Seized U.S. Customs agents have arrested a Jordanian-born man who was allegedly carrying $12 million in false cashier's checks, alarming counterterrorism officials who said the suspect may have been trained in al Qaeda terrorist camps in Afghanistan.U.S. officials said the name of Omar Shishani, 47, who was detained Wednesday as he arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport from Indonesia, appears on a watch list of people trained in Afghanistan by al Qaeda. Shishani's name turned up in documents captured in Afghanistan, sources said."It has really alarmed a lot of people that al Qaeda may be...

<p>MURFREESBORO — A Rutherford County grand jury has indicted a woman on charges of using poisonous spiders and a hit man to try to kill her husband, police said. Teresa L. Rivera, 37, was indicted on charges of solicitation of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder. She is to be arraigned today.</p>

The two deaths of Mary Morris Days apart, killings linked by names leave families pondering connection By ROMA KHANNA Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle Over the course of five days in October 2000, two women, both mothers, both named Mary Morris, were reported missing and later found slain. One was burned so severely that tooth fragments were the only remains that confirmed her identity. The other was beaten and shot once in the head. Both women were left dead in their cars and found by strangers. More than a year and a half later, both killings remain unsolved. Authorities are skeptical...