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The article did say she was seen leaving the station with the kids in tow. That is the one thing that might eliminate Social Services.

Who knows, maybe she does a a real friend or two from "the good side."

But that thing about the parents not knowing anythiing (if true) about the kids is telling.

Of course, the mother said Nifong was protecting her sometimes out of state, so who knows?

Crunch, crunch (Sound of me putting on the tinfoil hat)

Given his background in Social Services and his wife's job, what are the chances Nifong, as compassionate as he his (PUKE), made arrangements for the kids to 'help her out.'

Shouldn't they be starting school soon?

Arrests made in 2 'cold cases'
Durham police use autopsy data

Matt Dees, Staff Writer, N&O Published: Aug 19, 2006 12:30 AM

DURHAM - Police made arrests in two old cases Friday, using autopsy results in both to bring murder charges.

Rodney Thomas Melvin, 30, of 2129 Chapel Hill Road, was arrested and charged with murder after a woman shot in 1998 died of her injuries this summer.

Justin Jaquane Hope, 26, was arrested and charged with murder in the death of a 22-month-old boy last summer.

Melvin is accused of shooting Christina Maria Cozart in the head, chest and arm inside a Durham apartment nearly eight years ago. She died in June at age 30.

An autopsy revealed that the fatal seizure she suffered was the result of the gunshot wound, and the cause of death was listed as a homicide by the state medical examiner's office.

Durham police spokeswoman Kammie Michael said investigators consulted with Assistant District Attorney David Saacks to determine whether murder charges were appropriate.

In late 1999, Melvin was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon in the incident and served a prison sentence until 2004.

Michael said it's not clear why Melvin shot Cozart while she sat at Melvin's sister's apartment.

"It was not a domestic incident," Michael said.

Saacks could not be reached for comment.

Hope was baby-sitting 22-month-old Deshaun Williamson on Aug. 18, 2005,when authorities responded to a call that the child wasn't breathing.

He was taken to Duke Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

No trauma was detected on the child during an initial examination, but an autopsy revealed a fractured skull and showed the cause of death to be blunt force trauma to the head. Hope was arrested one year after the child died.

Michael said authorities weren't sure how the injury to Deshaun occurred. Psychologists who specialize in dealing with children who've suffered trauma spoke with two of the child's siblings who were present when their brother died. Those sessions led to the arrest, Michael said.

Hope also is one of three men charged with murder in the 1997 shooting death of Michael Stevon Hunter. He is awaiting trial on that charge.

He was taken into custody by Durham police at the Lanesboro Correctional Institute in Polkton, where he is serving a sentence for possession of a firearm by a felon.

The arrest of Hope marks the sixth "cold case" Durham police think they've solved this year.*

http://www.newsobserver.com/145/story/476868.html

* There have been a number of recently solved cold cases involving DNA also. Local wags speculate the multiple specimens found on the FA /AV /CGM have set off alarm bells in the computers of the SBI laboratories.