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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....

Littlejohn: No DNA But Fiber Match In Imette St. Guillen Caseby Jim Brogan Mar 9, 2006 He has a criminal career that has spanned more than two decades and featured colorful aliases, such as John Handsome, Darryl Banks, and John Blaze. He once reportedly robbed a bank of more than $60,000 as Blaze -- during a blizzard. "It's tough enough in good weather, and you're doing it in a blizzard," one parole commissioner marveled at a 2004 hearing,according to one account. A parole board allegedly labeled him a menace to society. But until this week, 41-year-old Darryl Littlejohn was just...

A racially tinged comment, uttered by an apparently inebriated Imette St. Guillen, may have sent bouncer Darryl Littlejohn into a murderous rage, detectives now believe, according to police sources. Just before Littlejohn was ordered to escort St. Guillen out of The Falls, a SoHo bar, on the night she was raped and killed, she told him: "That's why all you black people are in jail," witnesses told police. The remark came after a brief, contentious discussion with Littlejohn, police sources said..

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 — Investigators seeking witnesses and suspects in the brutal slaying of a graduate honors student have been studying security videotape from the neighborhood where she spent her last night out with friends, police said Tuesday. One tape shows the victim, Imette St. Guillen, talking to a female friend at about 3 a.m. Saturday outside Pioneer, a bar in the Bowery section of Manhattan. The two can be seen parting ways, with the friend leaving by cab, police said. The friend later told police St. Guillen sounded fine when she checked on her by cell phone about 30 minutes...

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.