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Elderly women's deaths baffle N.C. police By Paul Nowell, Associated Press Writer, 2/6/2004 SHELBY, N.C. -- Police Chief Charlie VanHoy isn't quite sure what he has on his hands, but he's worried. From August to November last year, three elderly women were found dead in their beds, dressed in their nightclothes, with no sign of forced entry into their homes. Phone lines were severed, yet medical examiners found no foul play. Further confusing matters, jewelry, pocket books -- even loaded guns -- were not taken. "This is just baffling and very frustrating," VanHoy said Thursday. Lottie Mae Ledford, 85, was...

For sheer goofiness, it's hard to beat the pronouncement of the Brit lawyer for Dr. Harold Shipman. The aforesaid physician had killed at least 215 (sic) patients. He was convicted four years ago of killing 15 and sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms. (With what wizardry this was to be accomplished, the sentencing judge did not say.) Dr. Shipman had been sojourning at public expense in Her Majesty's prison at Wakefield, when, just the other day, he hanged himself in his cell with a noose fashioned from his bed sheets. The aforesaid Brit lawyer, one Giovanni di Stefano, told a...