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• Officials: Financial crisis can lead to violence
Oct. 13: A South Carolina girl uses the Heimlich maneuver to save a friend's life. WIS-TV's Jordan Sandler reports. An out-of-work money manager in California loses a fortune and wipes out his family in a murder-suicide. A 90-year-old Ohio widow ...
• Japanese Man Facing Murder Charges In LA Hangs Himself
LOS ANGELES - A 61-year-old Japanese businessman, acquitted in his own country of murdering his wife, committed suicide in a Los Angeles jail cell, according to sources at the Los Angeles police headquarters. Kazuyoshi Miura hanged himself sometime ...
• Man guilty of murder in 'Precious Doe' case
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A man has been convicted in Missouri of killing a 3-year-old girl who became known as "Precious Doe" after her decapitated body was found in 2001. A jury convicted 29-year-old Harrell Johnson of first-degree murder Wednesday in the ...
• Placid exterior hid Los Angeles murder-suicide
LOS ANGELES - The only hints of trouble in the big beige house on Como Lane were the newspapers in the driveway and the lack of any activity behind the front door. But when police summoned by worried friends of the residents got inside Monday, they ...
• Businessman in wife's death plot hangs himself
Miura arrived in Los Angeles on Friday after a trip from the U.S. commonwealth of Saipan, where he had been held since his February arrest on a 1988 Los Angeles County warrant alleging murder and conspiracy. He was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on ...