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POLICE believe they have found the body of longtime fugitive and Melbourne mass murderer Elmer Crawford. He had been on the run since slaughtering his pregnant wife and their three young children almost four decades ago. Crawford became one of Victoria's most wanted men after electrocuting and bashing his family before pushing their bodies over a cliff in a car at Port Campbell's Loch Ard Gorge. Victorian police now believe they have tracked Crawford's body to the Texan city of San Angelo in the US. Police now believe they have found one of Australia's most wanted men Facial recognition experts...

A “soccer mom” from Pennsylvania who was thrust into the national gun-rights debate after taking a loaded pistol to youth sports events was killed by her husband in a shooting witnessed online by her video chat partner. Scott Hain used his own gun to fire several shots into his wife, Meleanie, 30, while her video chat was active and perhaps as she washed dishes in their kitchen, police said. Mr Hain, 33, later killed himself in an upstairs bedroom. Mrs Hain’s loaded pistol — with a bullet ready in the chamber — was in a backpack hanging from the front...

A 49-year-old Melbourne woman has pleaded guilty to stabbing her mother in the stomach because the elderly woman complained about the way her chops were cooked. Thomastown woman Julie Smith pleaded guilty in the Victorian Supreme Court to stabbing her 70-year-old mother 48 times in the stomach with a butter knife. The court heard the mother, an invalid, who was confined to her bed most of the time, was unhappy because the lamb chops her daughter prepared for her were not cooked enough. The court heard Smith cooked the chops further for her mother before saying: "Here's your tea is...

Town reels after family deaths Couple's divorce: One last meeting, one unexpected tragedy 07/18/2002 By LAURIE FOX and CHRIS FRATES / The Dallas Morning News HUDSON OAKS - After months spent dissolving a 13-year marriage, Manuel Perez and his estranged wife faced one last meeting. Mr. Perez was to see Dee Etta Perez at the couple's Parker County home at 10 a.m. Tuesday, just after attorneys tied up most of the loose ends in their divorce. Even the list of things he was to gather there had been set by the court. Among them some household items, a family...