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COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho — The person of interest in a criminal investigation of a triple homicide and a related search for two young children in northern Idaho has apparently vanished, a Kootenai County (search) sheriff's officer said Wednesday. Robert Roy Lutner (search), 33, "seems to have just disappeared," Capt. Ben Wolfinger told reporters. At 6-feet-2 and 240 pounds, Lutner's "a big guy to hide," Wolfinger said. The Hayden man, believed to have been known by the family, was last seen Sunday near the home of Brenda Kay Groene, 40, and her three youngest children in Coeur d'Alene (search). Groene, her...

May 17, 8:12 PM EDT Three Dead in House in Idaho; 2 Missing By JOHN K. WILEY Associated Press Writer COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- Three people were found slain in a home, and an Amber Alert was issued Tuesday for two missing children who live there, authorities said. Police used a helicopter and dogs to scour a forested area near the home for any signs of Shasta Groene, 8, and her brother, Dylan, 9. Authorities said they had no clues as to their whereabouts. The FBI was also assisting in the search. "Our main concern right now is the...

LONDON (AFP) - Police and social workers sifted through public responses to an appeal to identify a mystery piano player who was found wandering, soaked and confused on an English beach last month. Orchestras across Europe have been contacted as part of a broad effort to identify the young blond-haired man who is now being held in a secure mental health unit in the southeastern Kent region. The Medway Maritime Hospital, where he first received care, said the man had not spoken since being found soaking wet on the beach of the coastal town of Sheerness dressed in a chic...

Riddle of the Piano Man By Robert Mendick, Evening Standard 16 May 2005 New clues emerged today to help identify a mystery pianist. The man has not spoken since he was found wandering on a road near a beach in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey on 8 April. He was smartly dressed in a dark suit and was soaking wet. When he was given a pen and paper he drew a picture of a grand piano. He was shown a hospital piano and to the amazement of staff gave a two-hour performance of classical music. Other stories: Abigail's amazing...

HE WAS found soaking wet in the middle of the night, unable to speak and dressed in an expensive dinner suit. The only real clue to his identity is an astonishing talent for the piano. The 6ft musician — dubbed The Piano Man — is believed to have suffered a nervous breakdown which has deprived him of his memory and left him unable to communicate except through drawings and a remarkable ability for music. Two police officers discovered him stumbling along a road near a beach in Sheerness, Kent, during a storm last month. Police said that he was soaked...

Does this man strike a chord with you? By David Sapsted (Filed: 16/05/2005) The identity of a man found wandering on a beach in an evening suit and who will not talk but who expertly plays piano concertos for hours is baffling police. The six-foot tall man, believed to be in his 20s or 30s, has been dubbed the 'Piano Man' since being found, soaked to the skin, on a beach on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, five weeks ago. Now in a psychiatric unit at Medway Maritime Hospital, in Gillingham, he will not speak but, when left a pen...

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Four Americans from the Laredo area, including an eight-year Navy veteran, have been missing since Saturday, when they headed for Nuevo Laredo together in the wee hours, officials and family members say. Benito Garcia, 28; Reyes Aguirre Castillo, 25; Manuel Alfaro, 27; and Gerardo Ruiz, 24, partied Friday at various places in Laredo before driving to Mexico in a gold 1993 Lincoln shortly before 4 a.m. Saturday, officials said. "We know when they crossed and they were headed to" the red light district, said Roberto Maldonado Siller, the chief prosecutor here for the state of Tamaulipas....

Anyone who listens to KVI know Kiel Mortgage is a HUGE sponsor. Laura Kiel was just on the air with John Carlson and said her nephew was missing. He left her business 25 hours ago, taking a package from Kent, WA to Sultan, WA. He never showed up. He was last heard from when the office called in at 2:58 p.m. yesterday and he answered his cellphone. Completely uneventful conversation. His name is JefWhitiger (sp?). He is described as 41-years-old, 5'11", bald and over 300 pounds. He was driving a white 1998 Cadillac Caterra (sp?) with a license plate of...

From The Kansas City Star: WASHINGTON — Nearly $100 million in Iraqi reconstruction cash — intended to be handed out by U.S. workers in shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills — can't be accounted for, federal auditors reported Wednesday. A criminal investigation into possible fraud in a handful of cases is under way to determine what happened to some of the $96.6 million earmarked to rebuild south-central Iraq, according to a report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. The money came from Iraqi oil sales and other local revenue, not from U.S. taxpayers, and it was to be distributed...

YORK, Pa. (AP) - College student Patrick M. Welsh hopped on a midday train to New York City on April 15, relaxed and in good spirits and carrying a backpack. He reached his destination that day, but police know nothing more about his whereabouts since then. Family and friends have not heard from him, and all authorities have to go on is a call made from Welsh's cell phone by a homeless man April 18. Those who know the 22-year-old professional writing major are completely baffled by his disappearance. His close friend said Tuesday that Welsh wasn't the type to...

Jennifer Wilbanks, the bride-to-be from Duluth, Ga., who disappeared Tuesday night has been found alive in New Mexico after apparently being kidnapped by a man and woman and driven across the country.

Hundreds Search for Missing Bride-To-Be April 28, 2005 10:40 AM EDT DULUTH, Ga. - A 32-year-old woman disappeared just days before she was to be married, and authorities said Thursday they were expanding their search for her. Jennifer Wilbanks' fiance told authorities she left home Tuesday night to go jogging. When she did not return in a couple of hours, he began looking for her, then notified police. On Wednesday, more than 250 people searched for Wilbanks, including volunteers and police using helicopters and tracking dogs. Authorities called off the volunteer search but continued canvassing door-to-door for clues in this...

The two-day search for a missing bride-to-be that turned up empty is now a criminal investigation, Duluth police Major Don Woodruff announced Thursday morning. Speaking at a 6 a.m. news conference, Major Woodruff said police would continue talking to the people who knew 32-year-old Jennifer Wilbanks’, in hopes of composing a timeline leading up to her disappearance last Tuesday night. Authorities say that's when she left her home to go jogging and never returned. “Based on the circumstances as we understand it, we are now classifying this as criminal investigation,” the major said. In response to inquiries about signs of...

A 15-year search for fossils in Africa has led to the discovery of eight fish specimens that are 450 million years old – 50 million years older than any previous fish fossil on the continent and amongst the oldest in the world.Professor Richard Aldridge, of the Department of Geology at the University of Leicester, who co-led the scientific expedition, says the fossil discovery is among the most remarkable and exciting ever to be found on the continent. He said: ‘These exciting fossils help to fill in a ‘missing link’ in the evolutionary history of the very early fishes. They are...

DULUTH, Ga. — Local police are investigating the disappearance of a Georgia woman who is supposed to get married on Saturday. Jennifer Wilbanks has not been seen since she went jogging in Duluth, Ga., Tuesday night, Gwinnett County police said. Wilbanks, 32, described as 5-foot-8, 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, was last seen in the downtown Duluth area at 8:30 p.m. She was wearing a gray sweatshirt, blue sweatpants and blue New Balance running shoes. Her fiancé, John Mason, said Wilbanks left the house around 8:30 p.m. for her jog "in good spirits" and said she would...

This is a friend of mine in my Sunday School Class. We are/were very excited for her and her upcoming wedding. Her and her fiance are both great friends and great people. All prayers are needed and appreciated. If you live in the Duluth area, we could use your help in the search. Thanks and God Bless. DULUTH, Ga. — Local police are investigating the disappearance of a Georgia woman who is supposed to get married on Saturday. Jennifer Wilbanks has not been seen since she went jogging in Duluth, Ga., Tuesday night, Gwinnett County police said. Wilbanks, 32, described...

Story just breaking: Amber Alert is for: Margarita Lopez, 12 yrs. old. Suspect is an acquaintance of the guardian of the girl. Family are not US citizens and are from Mexico. Florida police have a description of the car. Suspect is a man named "Perez" who might be trying to return to Mexico, also not a US citizen. Feeling is that she might be in danger; authorities do not believe the child left willingly as she did not know the suspect.

Motley Crue is joining efforts to find a Baltimore area woman missing since March 6, when she failed to meet friends for the band's concert in Washington. Tracey Gardner-Tetso, 32, of Rosedale, was reported missing by her husband after she did not meet friends at Motley Crue's "Red, White & Crue Tour 2005" show at the MCI Center. The band will match an earlier reward of up to $10,000 to increase publicity about the woman's disappearance, said Katie McNeil of 10th Street Entertainment, Motley Crue's management company. "We hope our involvement helps bring more attention to this case, and anyone...

New eyewitnesses are helping to piece together a crime that still awaits justice. By IWPR reporters in Surdulica and Belgrade Eyewitness accounts obtained by IWPR contain dramatic new evidence of how police working for Slobodan Milosevic burned truckloads of ethnic Albanian corpses in a factory in southern Serbia during the 1999 NATO conflict. Natasa Kandic, director of the Humanitarian Law Centre, HLC, first revealed the grisly secrets of the Mackatica aluminum complex, near Surdulica, in the Pcinj district of southern Serbia, last December. In an article in daily Danas newspaper on December 24, 2004, she said the factory's blast furnaces...