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NEW YORK --The mother of a 24-year-old graduate student from Boston who was found raped and strangled in February, allegedly at the hands of a Manhattan bar bouncer, has filed notice of her intent to sue New York State for $100 million. Maureen St. Guillen, of Boston, filed the "notice of claim" with the state attorney general's office Thursday in connection with the slaying of her daughter Imette. The notice must be filed at least 90 days prior to a lawsuit against the city or state. The mother's notice cites three state agencies: the Division of Parole, the Board of...

According to broadcast reports, an indictment will be handed down in the Imette St Guillen case. Until this week, 41-year-old Darryl Littlejohn was just a "person of interest" in the brutal slaying of Imette St. Guillen, 24, who was raped, strangled and suffocated by someone who stuffed a sock in her mouth and wrapped her face like a mummy in clear plastic packaging tape, suggesting that her killer wanted to freeze the pained expression on her face. Also, the killer chopped off her signature long, black hair before disposing of her body along a road in Brooklyn on Feb. 25....

New York -- A graduate student who was raped and strangled and then dumped along a desolate road was seen arguing with the bouncer now being questioned in her brutal killing, a law enforcement official said Tuesday. Imette St. Guillen's killer had also stuffed a sock in the 24-year-old's mouth and wrapped her head with packaging tape before dumping the body, the official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because no one had been charged in the case. St. Guillen, a student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, was last seen alive early Feb....

Police Investigate Whether Fake Cabbie Is a Suspect By ADRIENNE MAND LEWIN March 3, 2006 — - She was brutally raped, suffocated and mutilated, then dumped in a Brooklyn lot wrapped in a blanket. Now experts believe whoever killed graduate student Imette St. Guillen probably did it before -- and may strike again. "This is one of the unusual kind of Hollywood-type cases that we don't see too often, which is why it's so extremely frightening to us," said Pat Brown, a criminal profiler and CEO of The Sexual Homicide Exchange. "Most serial killers -- and I do believe this...

NEW YORK -- She was a bright, photogenic graduate student who died in an unimaginable way: raped, strangled and left on the side of a remote service road in Brooklyn within sight of a "No Dumping" sign. Beige-colored packing tape masked her entire face. A sock had been stuffed inside her mouth.